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December 2, 2014

Snowden, McKibben Among Recipients of Right Livelihood Award 
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In Stockholm, Sweden, the Right Livelihood Award, known as the
alternative Nobel Prize, has been awarded to five people, including
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden accepted
by video link from Russia.

Edward Snowden: "All the prices we've paid, all the sacrifices we made,
I believe we would do again — I know I would do again, because it
was never about me ... (inaudible) this is about us, this is about our
rights, this is about what kind of societies that we want to live in,
the kind of government that we want to have."

Snowden was honored along with Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian
newspaper, which published reports using Snowden's leaks to expose
sweeping NSA surveillance. The other Right Livelihood honorees were
Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir, Basil Fernando of the
Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong and U.S.
environmentalist"Bill Mc
Kibben":http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/bill_mckibben, founder
of 350.org and a leading voice against climate change.

 

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