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Courage Comes from Prison

NewsCourage Comes from PrisonVHLFDecember 13, 2018Source: China Change / www.chinachange.org / Liao Yiwu, December 10, 2018, International Human Rights Day, Berlin I’ve so often said that my courage and everything about me comes from prison. This is how I differ from other Chinese writers. In prison, I was tortured ‘til I could no longer bear it, …Read more...

Russia’s Lyudmila Alekseyeva Remembered As A ‘Force Of Nature’ And ‘Giant’ Of Human Rights

NewsRussia’s Lyudmila Alekseyeva Remembered As A ‘Force Of Nature’ And ‘Giant’ Of Human RightsVHLFDecember 13, 2018Source: Radio Free Europe / www.rferl.org / By RFE/RL / Human rights defenders and diplomats are praising Lyudmila Alekseyeva and her lifetime commitment to the struggle for justice in the Soviet Union and Russia as an inspirational example. Alekseyeva, a veteran defender of human rights who challenged the Soviet government …Read more...

The Plastic People of the Universe to play at Palác Akropolis

EventsThe Plastic People of the Universe to play at Palác AkropolisVHLFDecember 3, 2018Source: Prague TV / https://prague.tv / By Michaela Dehning / “It is better not to play at all than to play what the establishment demands,” once said Ivan Martin Jirous, the Czech dissident, poet and the artistic director of The Plastic People of the Universe. It would be difficult to …Read more...

US Capitol celebrates 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

Havel in the MediaUS Capitol celebrates 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma GandhiVHLFDecember 2, 2018Source: Business Standard / www.business-standard.com / By ANI / Eminent lawmakers of the United States lawmakers and Indian-Americans on Tuesday came forward to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi at Capitol Hill. Addressing an illustrious gathering comprising US lawmakers and Indian diaspora at the Indian Embassy here, Ambassador …Read more...

Lessons: We need compassionate and caring leadership

Havel in the MediaLessons: We need compassionate and caring leadershipVHLFNovember 21, 2018Source: Livingston County News / www.thelcn.com / By Bill Cook / Tonight I walked again through Wenceslas Square in Prague. It is not a particularly beautiful square, certainly no match for the nearby Old Town Square. It is hardly a square at all, but rather a half-mile long street that …Read more...

Gail Papp on Václav Havel among New York’s hippies – and under house arrest in communist Czechoslovakia

Havel ConversationsGail Papp on Václav Havel among New York’s hippies – and under house arrest in communist CzechoslovakiaVHLFNovember 21, 2018Source: Radio Praha / www.radio.cz / By Ian Willoughby / Taking advantage of relative liberalisation at home, the young Václav Havel visited New York in the spring of 1968 for the US premiere of his second major play, The Memorandum. It was staged by the Public Theater, which had just …Read more...

Velvet Revolution: Czechs and Slovaks celebrate anniversary of fall of communism and triumph of Vaclav Havel

Havel in the MediaVelvet Revolution: Czechs and Slovaks celebrate anniversary of fall of communism and triumph of Vaclav HavelVHLFNovember 18, 2018Source: Independent / www.independent.co.uk / By Joe Sommerlad / Peaceful student uprising brought oppressive rule to end, swept dissident playwright to power and spelled doom for Soviet Union in 1989. Citizens of the former Czechoslovakia will honour the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution this weekend. The uprising, entirely peaceful in spirit, …Read more...

Why the Berlin Wall fell

Havel in the MediaWhy the Berlin Wall fellVHLFNovember 12, 2018Source: The Courier-Tribune / www.courier-tribune.com / By Lee Edwards / The fall of the Berlin Wall 29 years ago was one of the most consequential events of the 20th century, exposing the Soviet Union as a corrupt weak “empire” and effectively ending the Cold War. But it did not happen …Read more...

The core values that once illuminated the ANC now provide the moral backbone of Gordhan’s Zondo submission

Havel in the MediaThe core values that once illuminated the ANC now provide the moral backbone of Gordhan’s Zondo submissionVHLFNovember 12, 2018Source: Daily Maverick / www.dailymaverick.co.za / By Marianne Thamm / One has felt the loss. The slow erosion of the moral high ground that once belonged and still belongs to a unique and visionary generation of ANC leaders and activists who are celebrated across the world. There are streets, libraries, …Read more...

The Strange Journey of Aung San Suu Kyi

Havel in the MediaThe Strange Journey of Aung San Suu KyiVHLFNovember 2, 2018Source: The Scarlet / www.thescarlet.org / By Andrew Rose, Scarlet Staff / The 2016 election of Aung San Suu Kyi was supposed to usher in a new era in Myanmar. For decades, the people of this small, Southeast Asian nation had labored under the oppressive rule of a secretive, and …Read more...

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