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That a diplomatic team led by Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power advocated military action against Gaddafi may be a footnote in the Libyan conflict—but it is a significant mark of our nation's evolution, argues John Avlon.
The Libyan airstrikes mark the first time in U.S. history that a female-dominated diplomatic team has urged military action.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and the influential Office of Multilateral and Human Rights Director Samantha Power to argue for airstrikes against Libya. Their advice triggered an abrupt shift in U.S. policy, overturning more cautious administrations' counselors.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-20/libya-airstrikes-hillary-clinton-and-the-women-who-called-for-war/That a diplomatic team led by Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power... more
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Samantha Power, award-winning journalist, anti-genocide advocate and Harvard University professor, recently participated in Esquire magazine’s "Portrait of the 21st Century." The project, a creation of sculptor and new-media artist Lincoln Schatz is "an evolving video portrait of the most influential people of the coming decades."
For her Cube portrait, Power and John Prendergast, founder of the Enough Project (enoughproject.org), gathered five genocide survivors: Perouz Kalousdian, a 99-year-old survivor of the Armenian genocide; Bernard Gotfryd, a Holocaust survivor; Sophy Yem, who survived Pol Pot’s “killing fields”; Jacqueline Murekatete, who narrowly survived the Rwandan genocide; and Motasim Adam, who escaped the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The green bracelets, which say, “Not on Our Watch,” represent the growing strength worldwide of the movement to eliminate genocide.
One of the world’s foremost advocates for victims of genocide, Samantha Power began her career in a war zone as a twenty-two-year-old journalist covering the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Convinced she needed to do more than report the injustices she witnessed, she earned a law degree at Harvard, where she founded the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in 1998.
She continued to write. In 2003 she earned a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. A study of modern genocides against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans, the book examines the tragic consequences of the U.S. government’s repeated reluctance to prevent, suppress, or punish mass atrocity. Her most recent book, Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World, is a biography of Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the UN trouble-shooter and peacemaker who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Power worked as an advisor to Senator Barack Obama in 2005 and 2006, and then again for his 2008 campaign, advising the Democratic candidate on foreign policy. She is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a columnist at Time magazine.CLICK LINK TO SEE THE VIDEO!!
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Samantha Power delivers an inspiring and honest speech, one that truly speaks to young people...
"You can be the generation that makes this country energy independent; you can be the generation that wipes out malaria in the developing world; you can be the generation that summons global resources to halt genocide in Darfur and beyond; you can be the generation that deals with the scourge of terrorism and its causes; and you can be the generation that ends extreme poverty. My generation and our predecessors haven't been responsible caretakers. But you can be. In John F. Kennedy's inaugural address he observed that Americans were daunted by the mortal challenges of the Cold War and the nuclear age. But he declared, "I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.""
-Samantha Power Pitzer College Commencement Speech
Huffington Transcript of speech:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samantha-power/message-to-graduates-be-a_b_103886.htmlSamantha Power delivers an inspiring and honest speech, one that truly speaks to young... more
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Samantha Power delivers an inspiring and honest speech, one that truly speaks to young people...
"You can be the generation that makes this country energy independent; you can be the generation that wipes out malaria in the developing world; you can be the generation that summons global resources to halt genocide in Darfur and beyond; you can be the generation that deals with the scourge of terrorism and its causes; and you can be the generation that ends extreme poverty. My generation and our predecessors haven't been responsible caretakers. But you can be. In John F. Kennedy's inaugural address he observed that Americans were daunted by the mortal challenges of the Cold War and the nuclear age. But he declared, "I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.""
-Samantha Power Pitzer College Commencement Speech
Video of Speech:
http://www.pitzer.edu/commencement/#Samantha Power delivers an inspiring and honest speech, one that truly speaks to young... more
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