Tuesday, December 10, 6:00 pm
Amherst Town Common
Come celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. You can participate by joining in a community reading of the United Nations Proclamation in our candlelight ceremony.
Copies of the Declaration will be distributed to all who attend.
Please bring a candle or flashlight.
This is a powerful and meaningful event!
Everyone is welcome.
In observance of International Human Rights Day we present this 1991 Moyers Moment from Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel. In it, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill Moyers about his own childhood experiences at Auschwitz and addresses our capacity for humanity, inhumanity, violence and retribution.
Watch the full conversation between Bill Moyers and Elie Wiesel.
The Most Powerful Anti-Racism Commercial You’ll Ever See
This Portuguese ad, created 15 years ago in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations, is still powerful as ever. Its 55-second message is timeless, demanding that we stand up for injustice when we see it.
The ad begins with a Caucasian woman sitting down on an airplane next to an African American man. She is clearly disgruntled.
Elie Wiesel on Humanity, Violence and Retribution
http://billmoyers.com/2012/04/19/moyers-moment-1991-elie-wiesel-on-if-humanity-is-good-or-evil/In observance of International Human Rights Day we present this 1991 Moyers Moment from Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel. In it, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill Moyers about his own childhood experiences at Auschwitz and addresses our capacity for humanity, inhumanity, violence and retribution.
Watch the full conversation between Bill Moyers and Elie Wiesel.