Thursday, October 14, 2021

Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa Wins Nobel Peace Prize After Facing Years of Threats & Arrests

Such an excellent and deeply important interview with an amazing, courageous woman. May courage and truth and fierce commitment to the struggle for a more just, kind, sustainable, compassionate, and peaceful world inspire us all! ― Molly

From Democracy Now!

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday morning to Filipina journalist Maria Ressa and Russian newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov for their work to “safeguard freedom of expression.” Ressa has repeatedly been arrested by the government of Rodrigo Duterte for the groundbreaking work of her news site Rappler, which has exposed Duterte’s deadly war on drugs that has killed tens of thousands. “The Nobel Peace Prize committee realized a world without facts means a world without truth,” said Ressa today after winning the prize. We reair a 2019 interview when Ressa came into the Democracy Now! studio.

Please go here for the original program and transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/8/peace_prize

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