Congratulations and Reflections
admin December 6th, 2007
(Mark, Media Marketing Director) Today and tomorrow, the 2007 Recipients of the Right Livelihood Award are being honored in Stockholm. Often called the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” the Right Livelihood Prize “celebrates and supports people of vision. People who have ideas and apply them in concrete initiatives for the public good. They give hope for tomorrow, for a world in peace and balance. They demonstrate how we can overcome oppression, war, poverty, the destruction of our environment, and a widespread sense of meaninglessness and fear.”
This years laureates are: Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka), and Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Kenya), both engaged in promoting understanding between Islam and Christianity; Percy Schmeiser (Canada), who together with his wife Louise fights against Monsanto’s abusive marketing practices; and Dipal Barua (Bangladesh), Managing Director of Grameen Shakti, which has installed more than 120,000 solar home systems in rural Bangladesh.
Our congratulations to this year’s recipients also spur reflection, as today marks the 20th anniversary of Frances’ selection for the Right Livelihood Award. In 1987, only the fourth American to win the prize, Frances was given the award for her “vision and work healing our planet and uplifting humanity.”
Peace, Mark
