#Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

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What A Real 'Patriot' Looks Like

We’ve all heard Donald Trump praise Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.  Just last week, Trump said “how very smart” Putin was. Dictators seem to do well within the Republican Party of today. Dinesh D’Souza said, in a series of tweets, that he “respects Putin because he tenaciously defends his country’s interests and understands the use of power.” I guess that for some it’s easy to think living in…

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Not Me Episode 4 Music

Flares - Life in Colour

We immediately jump in with Flares as Sean is experiencing a nightmare. Stretch time but I guess if you wanted you could read this as Sean subconsciously sending up a signal flare for help.

Last Night, Last Night, Last Night - Well Then, Goodbye

This kicks in as Black is leaving Sean in the flashback; this could be a tie in with the 'Last Night' title as in it's a memory Sean is recalling that might feel like they just happened OR there could be a tie with the band name being 'Well Then, Goodbye' as Black very unceremoniously leaves Sean to his fate. (Either way, my ears don't particularly like this song, the reverb gives me ickies. Thank you misophonia.)

To Whom It May Concern - Rap Against Dictatorship (ft. Liberate P, Nazesus, and GSUS2)

The first time I saw the dance scene I got goosebumps and I could tell the show had done something big here. Allow me to infodump a bit. Rap Against Dictatorship uses their platform and their music to bring attention to the ongoing state of Thailand under military rule, especially during election time. They were founded in 2017 and released their first single in 2018. After the release of their single the members were threatened with arrest by police who later backpedaled after the music went viral and the group gained the support of the public. In 2019 they were awarded with the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent* at the Oslo Freedom Forum. During the 2020-2021 Thai protests one member was arrested with other pro-democracy activists and later charged with sedition. Their music is often censored in Thailand due to it's anti-goverment and anti-monarchy message. (I love them so much, your honor.)

*Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent is an award established in 2012 by the New York City-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF). According to HRF President Thor Halvorssen, the prize recognizes individuals "who engage in creative dissent, exhibiting courage and creativity to challenge injustice and live in truth"

Downloaded Truth - Marten Moses

As White and Todd are discussing Eugene and Todd is persuading White to reach out to her this song comes in. It could be just a neat song, it could be that White found this downloaded little piece of truth in the video on Black's phone.

Crushed by A P O L L O

I'm fairly certain this, or a remix of it, is what is playing as White is on his phone texting Eugene? I know I've heard the song before and I have it stashed somewhere, Crushed sounds very close but I can't tell if it's quite right? Sometimes they put a little filter over the song or play an arrangement that's midway through the song and it trips me up a bit. If it isn't Crushed then it's very likely another Apollo piece (though none of the ones on that album, I checked.)

As Gram and White discuss the aftermath of the fire we get a little more Downloaded Truth.

As Nuch, Gram, and White all meet in the garage a bit more of Crushed's beat plays in the background.

3 (Instrumental Version) - Bambi Haze (ft. Lu Ni)

Just as White is hugging Eugene and trying to placate her this song comes in. There are truly no connections to be made here, no leaps or stretches to be found. (Though both this and several of Marc Torch's songs are on Epidemic Sound, a host for a lot of royalty free music, so this could be where GMMTV sources a good chunk of their music.)

Closer - Morphlexis

As Eugene climbs in White's lap this song plays and it could be a nod to Eugene wanting to be closer to Black or that she is physically closer to White, again, if we want to make some big stretchies.

When Eugene wakes up we're gifted with another appearance from Tripping over Danger which also wraps up the episode.

thank you so much to everyone who reads these! i recommend checking back at some older posts as i have made some updates (sometimes i miss songs and realize it later.) i promise to make a masterpost of these once we're done and i'll put together a little list of my favorites!

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Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

From Václav Havel to Ai Weiwei, writers and artists have led the way in the fight for human rights

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Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

From Václav Havel to Ai Weiwei, writers and artists have led the way in the fight for human rights

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I know a poem can’t stop a tank. But the reverse is also true. As I’m writing this, the streets of China and Iran have been alive with infuriated, chanting crowds, so tired of being institutionally deceived and robbed of any personal agency or independence of mind that they are prepared to risk arrest and imprisonment rather than be silenced by regimes demanding obedience to lies. “Culture wars” ought not to be confused with the laborious woke-baiting that has become the default position of populist media in the west. The women’s revolt in Iran is a culture war; Ukrainian resistance to the militarised fantasies of Russian imperialism is at root also a culture war, a refusal to accept Vladimir Putin’s contention that their nation’s language and history are a delusion. It is not accidental that one of the most powerful weapons that the actor-writer President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leading Ukraine has at his command is the gift of candid human communication.

Growing up in the 1950s, my baby-boomer generation assumed that the screamers of hate, the destroyers of culture, had gone with the war. “Well, boys,” our school history teacher confidently proclaimed around 1958, “we don’t really know what the rest of the 20th century has in store for us, but you can at least be sure of this: religious oppression and rabid nationalism are things of the past.” When, in that same year, Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Dr Zhivago, we thought that even the adamantine rock face of Soviet authoritarianism could somehow be cracked open just far enough for truth, memory and a faint breeze of freedom to be admitted. Even if Pasternak was demonised as an enemy of the Soviet people and forced to decline the prize, we believed that, sooner or later, light would return, as for a while, 30 years later, it did.

Becoming a historian was, we thought, a vote of confidence in the victory of the Enlightenment. When the civil rights movement in the US flowered in the 1960s, we bought into Martin Luther King Jr’s conviction that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”. Often enough, though, it snaps. Four days after he spoke those words in 1968 at the National Cathedral, Washington DC, he was murdered in Memphis.

My new BBC2 television series is the fruit of sombre, late-life reflection that the History of Now was prefigured in the History of Then; that what we had imagined to be things of the past have returned to shadow the present and future. Shrieking, whether online or on platforms, is back; hate is sexy and stalks the world as “disruption”. So those old battles need to be refought, and with the help of the unlikely weapons that once opened eyes and changed minds: the soft power of culture — poetically charged words, images, music, all of which can, in some circumstances, exert a force beyond the workaday stuff of politics. Culture can do this because it can connect with human habits, needs and intuitions in ways that expose the inhuman hollowness of official propaganda.

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What Václav Havel, in his most original and penetrating text, called “the power of the powerless” is capable of putting despotisms on the back foot, simply by being in sync with the simplest and most natural human instincts. Authoritarians can mobilise their heavy artillery of terror, torture, imprisonment and persecution; but in the end, Havel argued, they are not that well equipped to fight the asymmetric battle between lies and truth. Havel believed that the vast majority of people are not content to be forever walled within a prison of falsehood, where the price of material security and domestic safety is the unconditional surrender of personal freedom.

For a while — perhaps many decades — punitive disincentives against disruptive truth-speaking can prevail, especially when reinforced by visceral appeals to tribal loyalty: the demonisation of hate figures (such as George Soros) said to personify foreign manipulation. In the end what Havel calls the “trapped air”— a natural human wish to be able to speak one’s mind in a café, dress as one wishes (including visible hair), listen to unauthorised music, all the innumerable small acts of social defiance — can build into a rising tide of disgust. When Czech police infiltrated the underground concerts of the Plastic People of the Universe in the 1970s — concerned, as their saxophonist Vratislav Brabanec remembered, that the music was some sort of “black illness” that would grow and generate disaffection — they only guaranteed more risible contempt. But there was a price. In 1976 the band was jailed for months, a wound Brabanec says you carry for ever. Why the wound? “Because I was innocent,” he says over his morning beer. “I was jailed for playing the saxophone.”

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#Free Toomaj!

Iranian Rapper on Death Row Among Winners of Václav Havel Prize | Iran International https://www.iranintl.com/en/202406037777

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Russia: Vladimir Kara-Murza, jailed prisoner of conscience, awarded Václav Havel Prize

Russia: Vladimir Kara-Murza, jailed prisoner of conscience, awarded Václav Havel Prize

Responding to the news that Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Russian political activist and journalist who has been detained since April 2022 for his anti-war views, has been awarded the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Europe and Central Asia, said: “Vladimir Kara-Murza is a man of…

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Mr Liu Xiaobo ( December 28, 1955 - July 13, 2017)

China's most prominent human rights and democracy advocate

Mr. Liu had been in custody since late 2008 for his role in drafting and promoting a manifesto calling for peaceful political change. 

Censors have scrubbed any mention of him from China’s media and internet since, and while his 2010 Nobel brought Mr. Liu international acclaim, he was virtually unknown in his own country. 

China’s Dictatorship described Mr. Liu as a criminal, and said international calls for his release amounted to interference in the country’s judicial affairs.

He wrote prolifically about the value of individual freedom and nonviolent resistance, despite being banned from publishing inside China. He was an effective organizer and a serial hatcher of petitions and open letters. 

He spent most of his last 28 years in prison or another form of detention.

Over time, many in Chinese pro-democracy circles came to see Mr. Liu as a potentially transformative leader, likening him to South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and Czech dissident-turned-president Václav Havel. Mr. Havel supported Mr. Liu’s Nobel Prize nomination.

At the award ceremony in Oslo, Mr. Liu was represented by an empty chair.

Until the revelation in June that Mr. Liu was diagnosed with late-stage cancer, there had been little news of the dissident. 

He was the first Nobel Peace laureate to die in custody since Carl von Ossietzky, a journalist and critic of Adolf Hitler, succumbed to tuberculosis in a prison hospital in Nazi Germany in 1938.

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#Thailand -- ...but don't expect to be getting a letter of congratulations from the Thai PM. The anti Junta rapper group 'Rap Against Dictatorship' has won the 2019 Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent, awarded by the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, the band has announced on its website. Václav Havel Prize for Creative

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Nadia Murad este laureata Premiului Nobel pentru Pace 2018

Nadia Murad este laureata Premiului Nobel pentru Pace 2018

Nadia Murad a mai primit Václav Havel Human Rights Prize şi Sakharov Prize şi este primul Ambasador ONU al Bunăvoinţei pentru demnitatea supravieţuitorilor traficului de fiinţe umane.

Nadia Murad, autoarea volumului Eu voi fi ultima. Povestea captivităţii mele şi lupta mea împotriva Statului Islamic (Polirom, 2018)  – scris în colaborare cu jurnalista Jenna Krajeski, cuvînt-înainte de Amal…

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Honoring Peace Heroes

This list of world peace heroes includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world’s attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various irrational, violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.

Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman Woman’s Peace Party, president Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34–1999) – Pakistani political scientist, activist

Martti Ahtisaari (1937) – former president of Finland, active in conflict resolution

Stew Albert (1939–2006) – anti-Vietnam war activist, organizer

Widad Akrawi (1969) – Danish-Kurdish peace advocate, organizer

Suzanne Arms (1945) – anti-Vietnam war activist, draft counselor

Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) – French peace campaigner, coined the word “Pacifism”

Vittorio Arrigoni (1975–2011) – Italian reporter, anti-war activist

Pat Arrowsmith (1930) – British author and peace campaigner

Joan Baez (1941) – prominent American anti-war protester, inspirational singer

Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) – American, a leader of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Ernesto Balducci (1922–1992) – Italian priest

Archibald Baxter (1881–1970) – New Zealand pacifist, socialist, and anti-war activist

Harry Belafonte (1927) – American anti-war protester, performer

Medea Benjamin (1952) – co-founder Code Pink, author, organizer

Meg Beresford (1937) – British activist, European Nuclear Disarmament movement

Daniel Berrigan (1921) – prominent anti-Vietnam war protester

Philip Berrigan (1923–2002) – prominent anti-Vietnam war protester

James Bevel (1936–2008) – prominent American anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer

Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982) – Indian, Gandhian, teacher, author, organizer

Janet Bloomfield (1953–2007) – peace and disarmament campaigner, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Vera Brittain (1893–1970) – British writer, pacifist

Elihu Burritt (1810–1879) – American diplomat, social activist

Helen Caldicott (1938) – physician, anti-nuclear weapon, initiator

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) – American industrialist and founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Jimmy Carter (1924) – American negotiator and former US President, organizer, international conflict resolution

Pierre Cérésole (1879–1945) - Swiss engineer, founder of Service Civil International (SCI) or International Voluntary Service for Peace (IVSP)

Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) - American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist

Noam Chomsky - American linguist, philosopher, and activist

Ramsey Clark (1927) – American anti-war and anti-nuclear lawyer, activist

William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006) – American cleric, anti-war activist

James F. Colaianni (1922) – author, publisher, first anti-Napalm organizer

Judy Collins (1939) – inspirational American anti-war singer/songwriter, protester

Tom Cornell – American anti-war activist, initiated first anti-Vietnam War protest

Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) – American activist for Palestinian human rights[1][2]

David Cortright – American anti-nuclear weapon leader

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) – journalist, author, organizer, initiator

Frances Crowe (1919) – anti-war and anti-nuclear power, draft counselor

Rennie Davis (1941) – American anti-Vietnam war leader, organizer

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) – American journalist, social activist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker

David Dellinger (1915–2004) – American pacifist, organizer, prominent anti-war leader

Lanza del Vasto (1901-1981) - Catholic philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist

Michael Denborough AM (1929-2014) - Australian medical researcher who founded the Nuclear Disarmament Party

Alma Dolens (1876–?) – Italian pacifist and suffragist

Phil Donahue - Former talk show host, former television host

Élie Ducommun (1833–1906) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Mel Duncan(1950) – founding Executive Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce

Shirin Ebadi (1947) – Iranian lawyer, human rights activist

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – Scientist, Nobel Prize laureate

Daniel Ellsberg (1931) – American anti-war whistleblower, protester

James Gareth Endicott (1898–1993) – initiator, organizer, protester

Amy Goodman - journalist, host of Democracy Now!

Jodie Evans (1954) – co-founder Code Pink, initiator, organizer, filmmaker

Jane Fonda (1937) – American anti-war protester, actress

Tom Fox (1951–2006) – American Quaker

Comfort Freeman – Liberian anti-war activist

Alfred Fried (1864–1921) – co-founder German peace movement, called for world peace organization

Arun Gandhi (1934) – Indian, organizer, educator, grandson of Mohandas

Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) – Indian, writer, organizer, protester, lawyer, inspiration to movement leaders

Leymah Gbowee (1972) - organizer of women’s peace movement in Liberia, awarded 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Everett Gendler (1928) - Conservative rabbi, peace activist, writer

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) – American anti-war protester, writer

Arthur Gish (1939–2010) – American public speaker

Danny Glover (1946) – American actor and anti-war activist

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency

Dick Gregory (1932) – American comedian, anti-war protester

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – American anti-war protester and musician, inspiration

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) – current Dalai Lama, peace advocate

Otto Hahn (1879–1968) – nuclear chemist, Nobel Laureate, pacifist, anti-nuclear weapons and testing advocate

Judith Hand (1940) – anti-war writer, academian

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) – Vietnamese monk

G. Simon Harak (1948) – American academian

Keir Hardie (1856–1915) – Scottish socialist, co-founder of Independent Labour Party and Labour Party

Václav Havel – Czech nonviolent writer, poet, and politician

Brian Haw – British activist, initiated and long time participant of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign

Abraham Joshua Heschel - (1907-1972) rabbi, professor at Jewish Theological Seminary, civil rights and peace activist

Sidney Hinkes (1925–2006) – pacifist, priest in the Church of England

Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) – British welfare campaigner

Abbie Hoffman – American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of Yippies

Margaret Holmes, AM, (1909–2009) – Australian activist during the Vietnam War, member Anglican Pacifist Fellowship

Julia Ward Howe – writer, advocate, organizer

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) – anti-war and anti-conflict writer

Khawaja Zafar Iqbal – Pakistani

Wilhelm Jerusalem – pacifist, philosopher, progressive educationalist, worked at Vienna (Austria)

Jean Jaurès (1859-1914) – French anti-war activist, socialist leader

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) – Pakistani, founder of Pakistan, lawyer, organizer, inspiration to movement leaders

Pope Saint John Paul II – Polish Catholic Pope, inspiration, advocate

Helen John – first full-time member of the Greenham Common peace camp

Helen Keller – deafblind writer, speech “Strike Against The War” Carnegie Hall, New York 1916

Kathy Kelly (1952) – American peace and anti-war activist, arrested over 60 times during protests. Member and organizer of international peace teams.

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan- Pakistani, called “Frontier Gandhi” by the Indians

Steve Killelea – initiated Global Peace Index and Institute for Economics and Peace

Adam Kokesh (1982) – American activist, Iraq Veterans Against the War

Martin Luther King Jr. – prominent anti-Vietnam war protester, speaker, inspiration

Ron Kovic – American Vietnam war veteran, war protestor

Paul Krassner – American anti-Vietnam war organizer, writer, Yippie co-founder

Henri La Fontaine – initiator, organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner

William Ladd (1778–1841) – early American activist, initiator, first president of the American Peace Society

Bernard Lafayette – American organizer, educator, initiator

Grigoris Lambrakis – Greek athlete, physician, politician, activist

George Lansbury

André Larivi��re – ecologist and anti-nuclear activist

Bryan Law – Australian non-violent activist.

John Lennon – British singer/songwriter, anti-war protestor

Sidney Lens – American anti-Vietnam war leader

Bertie Lewis (1920–2010) – RAF airman who went on to become a U.K. peace campaigner

Thomas Lewis (1940–2008) – American artist, anti-war activist with (Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine)

James Loney – peace worker, kidnap victim

Staughton Lynd – American anti-Vietnam war leader

Bradford Lyttle (1927) – prominent American pacifist, writer, presidential candidate, and organizer with the Committee for Non-Violent Action

Norman Mailer – American anti-war writer, war protestor

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) – South African statesman, leader in anti-apartheid movement and post-apartheid reconciliation, founder of The Elders, inspiration

Mairead Corrigan Maguire – Northern Ireland peace movement, Nobel Prize winner

Bob Marley – Jamaican, inspirational anti-war singer/songwriter, inspiration

Eugene McCarthy – U.S. presidential candidate, ran on an anti-Vietnam war agenda

John McConnell (1915–2012) – founder Earth Day, and U.N peace proclamation

George McGovern – U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, anti-Vietnam war agenda

David McTaggart (1932–2001) – Canadian anti-nuclear testing activist, co-founder Greenpeace International

Rigoberta Menchú (1959) – Guatemalan indigenous rights, anti-war, co-founder Nobel Women’s Initiative

Chico Mendes (1944–1988) – Brazilian environmentalist and human rights advocate of peasants and indigenous peoples

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) – monk and poet, inspirational writer, philosopher

Barry Mitcalfe (1930–1986) – a leader of the New Zealand movement against the Vietnam War and the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement

A.J. Muste – American pacifist, organizer, anti-Vietnam War leader

Abie Nathan (1927–2008) – Israeli humanitarian, founded Voice of Peace radio,[3] met with all sides of a conflict

Paul Newman – American anti-war protestor, inspiration

Georg Friedrich Nicolai – German professor, famous or the book “The Biology of War”

Sari Nusseibeh – Palestinian activist

Phil Ochs – American anti-Vietnam war singer/songwriter, initiated protest events

Yoko Ono – Japanese anti-Vietnam war campaigner in America and Europe

Laurence Overmire – poet, author, theorist

Olof Palme – Swedish prime minister, diplomat

Frédéric Passy (1822-1912) - French economist, peace activist and joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901)

Linus Pauling – American anti-nuclear testing advocate and leader

Concepcion Picciotto – anti-nuclear and anti-war protestor, White House Peace Vigil

Peace Pilgrim – walked the highways and streets of America promoting peace

Lindis Percy

Jeannette Rankin

Marcus Raskin

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Henry Richard (1812–1888) – English minister known as “the Apostle of Peace”, was secretary of the Peace Society for forty years (1848–84).

Romain Rolland (1866–1944) - French dramatist, novelist, essayist, anti-war activist

Oscar Romero (1917-1980) – Venerable Archbishop of San Salvador

Arundhati Roy (1961–) – Indian writer, social critic and peace activist

Jerry Rubin – American anti-Vietnam war leader, co-founder of the Yippies

Bertrand Russell – British anti-nuclear bomb activist, philosopher

Carl Sagan

Ed Sanders (1939) – American poet, organizer, singer, co-founder of anti-war band The Fugs

Mohamed Sahnoun (1931) - Algerian diplomat, peace activist, UN envoy to Somalia and to the Great Lakes region

Mark Satin – anti-war proponent, draft-resistance organizer, writer, philosopher

Jonathan Schell (1943–2014) – American writer and campaigner against nuclear weapons, antiwar activist

Sophie Scholl

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) – German/French activist against nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon testing whose speeches were published as Peace or Atomic War. Co-founder of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) – anti-war protestor, inspirational singer/songwriter

Jeff Sharlet – anti-Vietnam war soldier, journalist

Gene Sharp – nonviolent writer and academian

Cindy Sheehan – American anti-Iraq and anti-Afghanistan war leader

Martin Sheen – anti-war and anti-nuclear bomb protestor, inspirational American actor

Nancy Shelley, OAM, Quaker who represented the Australian peace movement at the UN in 1982.

Percy Shelley – writer, poet, nonviolent philosopher and inspiration

Dick Sheppard

Toma Sik

Jeanmarie Simpson

Ramjee Singh – Indian activist, philosopher and Gandhian

Samantha Smith – young advocate of peace between Soviets and Americans

Benjamin Spock – anti-Vietnam war protestor, writer, inspiration

Olaf Stapledon

Cat Stevens

Bertha von Suttner – writer, organizer, Nobel’s inspiration for Nobel Peace Prize

Kathleen Tacchi-Morris – founder of Women for World Disarmament

Tank Man – Stood in front of tank during 1989 China protest

Eve Tetaz

Thomas (1947–2009) – initiated, long-time participant, White House peace vigil

Ellen Thomas – long-time participant, White House peace vigil

Henry David Thoreau – American writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders

Leo Tolstoy – Russian writer on nonviolence, inspiration to Gandhi, Bevel, and other movement leaders

Benjamin Franklin Trueblood – 19th century writer, editor, organizer, initiator

Barbara Grace Tucker – Australian born peace activist, long time participant of the Parliament Square Peace Campaign

Desmond Tutu – South African cleric, initiator, anti-apartheid, inspiration

Jo Vallentine

Mordechai Vanunu

Lanza del Vasto – Gandhian, anti-war, anti-nuclear

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Stellan Vinthagen (1964) Swedish anti-war and nonviolent resistance scholar-activist

Kurt Vonnegut – American anti-war and anti-nuclear writer and protestor

John Wallach

Alyn Ware (1962) – New Zealand peace educator and campaigner, Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament since 2002

Owen Wilkes – New Zealand peace researcher and activist

Jody Williams – American anti-landmine advocate and organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner

S. Brian Willson – American veteran, peace activist and lawyer

Lawrence S. Wittner – peace historian, researcher, and movement activist

Walter Wolfgang (1923) – German-born British activist

Peter Yarrow (1938) – American singer/songwriter, anti-war activist

Adam Yauch – Musician, Buddhist, advocate for peace

John Howard Yoder

Neil Young – singer/songwriter, anti-war advocate, other causes

Edip Yuksel – Kurdish-Turkish-American lawyer/author, Islamic peace proponent

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Howard Zinn – historian, writer, peace advocate

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RT @coe: Who will succeed #Turkey's Murat Arslan as #CoE Assembly Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2018 winner? Nominations are open now - Deadline 30/4/18. https://t.co/On3JXKYBIu https://t.co/g2W3Qa9ofM

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Imprisoned HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş Nominated for Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

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