â–¶ Mandela standing up to Ted Koppel’s “journalistic” pressure

[youtube=http://youtu.be/mMT36t6BADc]    Published on Jun 13, 2013     Here is a 1990 video from my collections. I got this tape from ABC in a VHS in 1990, I recently transferred it to a DVD format so I can share with all. It is a 1990 Town Hall meeting with Nelson Mandela of South Africa anchored More

Eugene Robinson: Nelson Mandela, the Conscience of the World

South Africa’s apartheid government had been brutally repressive for nearly five decades, and the country’s black majority was justifiably full of anger. Mandela led his people in channeling that anger—not suppressing it but using it in constructive ways. By Eugene Robinson  Posted on Dec 6, 2013  Washington Post via Truthdig.com AP/Theana Calitz-Bilt, Pool “Our nation has lost More

Emmanuel Ortiz: Before I Start This Poem

"A time has come when silence is betrayal. That time is now."  MLK  Before I Start This Poem by Emmanuel Ortiz Before I start this poem, I'd like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honour of those who died in the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon last September 11th. More

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