Speakers News: Dec 07

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Sir Bob Geldof Receives Red Cross Award

The Nobel Man of Peace joins only two past recipients, Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela

Sir Bob Geldof has received The British Red Cross Humanity Fellowship Award, for his ongoing efforts to promote humanitarian issues. At the ceremony, Geldof gave a passionate speech, touching on many urgent humanitarian issues, especially those in Africa, the continent he first turned the world's attention to in 1984 with his historic Live Aid concerts. Since then, he has become a successful entrepreneur, and an internationally renowned humanitarian. He has shown the world the undeniable power of citizen advocacy to combat poverty, social inequity and injustice.

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Four to Watch in 2008

Randall Kennedy
America's preeminent commentator on race relations returns this January with Sell-Out: the Politics of Racial Betrayal. Expected to kick-up as much debate as his best-selling book Nigger, Sell-Out deconstructs another volatile term plaguing the black community.
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Ronald Takaki
The country's most influential scholar on multiculturalism will re-release his classic book, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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Augusten Burroughs
"The memoirist of the moment" (Vanity Fair) returns with A Wolf at the Table, the long-awaited sequel of sorts to the million-selling Running with Scissors. The new memoir, his most personal yet, is about his relationship with his father.

Daily-Kos
As America enters its most important Presidential election in decades, millions will be turning to Markos Moulitsas' dailykos.org, which continues to be the most-read and influential political blog in the world.

IN THIS ISSUE:
A Worldchanging Donation
Climate Change, Human Rights
Geldof Wins Red Cross Award
TIME's #1 Book of 2007
Four to Watch in 2008

NEW EXCLUSIVE SPEAKER

A Nobel Peace Prize Nominee on Climate Change and Human Rights

From the Arctic, Sheila Watt-Cloutier has put a human face to discussions on climate change

The Arctic is the planet's health barometer; what happens in the world, happens there first. As an influential advocate for human rights, Sheila Watt-Cloutier has shown the world the devastating impact of climate change, especially in the Arctic, where its effects are felt most acutely. "Until now, there has been no human connection with climate change — just bureaucracies. Few grasp it until they hear the stories," she says. "Climate change affects every facet of Inuit life. We have a right to life, health, security, land use, subsistence and culture. These issues are the real politics of climate change."

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is just one of the speakers perfect for your Women's History Month events. Our roster also includes, among others, Isabel Allende, Susan Faludi and Minnijean Brown Trickey.

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The World Without Us

TIME Names The World Without Us the #1 Book of 2007

Alan Weisman's phenomenal New York Times best-seller rakes in the year-end accolades

What would happen if all humans were to vanish from Earth? In Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, he examines this scenario and opens a conversation about what we can realistically do to live in balance, not conflict, with nature. TIME has just named the book its top non-fiction pick of the year. Salon.com named it one of its Top 5 books, and the amazon.com editors picked it for their Top 100.

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