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Interview Audio: Van Jones, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Submitted by kentbye on Thu, 2006-02-16 07:09. accountability | cooperation | HumanRights | InterviewAudio | jones | MediaCriticism | restorativejustice
Listen to the Interview with Van Jones, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights(Length: 19:26)
More interviews from the Consciousness & Healing Conference.
Transcript Coming Soon...
July 9th, 2005
Reed Brody Transcript Now Posted
Submitted by kentbye on Wed, 2004-12-08 02:00. Brody | HumanRights | Status | WebsiteThe Echo Chamber documentary interview with Reed Brody is now posted online here.
Brody is a lawyer with Human Rights Watch and has an interesting take on the human rights justification that is not heard very often within the mainstream media discourse.
I based this interview upon an article called "War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention" written by HRW's executive director Ken Roth. It was released on January 26th 2004 with little fanfare.
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"If you're going to upset the rules of international law, and go in -- invade a country without United Nations authorization in apparent violation of the traditional rules because you say, 'There's a humanitarian emergency. We've got to get in there.' Then you do it when the humanitarian emergency is real. You don't do it because a country is engaged in a lot of torture -- as bad -- as condemnable as that may be. You do it when you're actually going in to save tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives."
