Right Livelihood Award
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The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in
Hassan Fathy in Cairo
Stephen Gaskin at the Nambassa 3 day Music & Alternatives festival, New Zealand 1981. Photographer Michael Bennetts
Bill Mollison, 2008
Erik Dammann 2011
Edward Snowden
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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American whistleblower who, as a National Security Agency intelligence contractor, disclosed classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
Right Livelihood Award
…Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Leopold Kohr, Arna Mer-Khamis, Felicia Langer, Petra Kelly, Survival International, Amy Goodman, Catherine Hamlin, Memorial, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg, and Greta Thunberg. Since 1985, the ceremony has taken place in Stockholm's old Parliament building, in the days before the traditional…
Snowden in 2013
Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation" from its MUSCULAR program; the sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data resides.
PRISM: a clandestine surveillance program under which the NSA collects user data from companies including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube
Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013