Chris Hedges Honors Humanists Combating the ‘Culture of War’
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges channeled his solemn, sermonic style at Stony Point, N.Y., on Saturday at a dinner inaugurating the Anne Barstow and Tom Driver Award for Excellence in Nonviolent Direct Action in Retirement.Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges channeled his solemn, sermonic style at Stony Point, N.Y., on Saturday at a dinner inaugurating the Anne Barstow and Tom Driver Award for Excellence in Nonviolent Direct Action in Retirement.
The couple — she an author and retired professor of history at State University of New York; he an emeritus professor of theology and culture at Union Theological Seminary and a minister in the United Methodist Church — created the Colombia Accompaniment Program, a volunteer operation aimed at supporting “communities of Colombians who have been displaced by the violence of the forty-year war in their country,” according to the program’s website.
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