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Black Lives Matter Movement Founders to Receive Sydney Peace Prize for 2017

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Black Lives Matter Movement Founders to Receive Sydney Peace Prize for 2017

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The Black Lives Matter movement will be awarded this year’s Sydney Peace Prize. The award, which Australia’s Sydney University has offered since 1998, normally goes to an individual peacemaker who promotes human rights and using nonviolence as a means of combating injustice, making the University’s choice of the Black Lives Matter movement as the award recipient unprecedented.

“This movement resonates around the globe and here in Australia, where we have become inured to the high incarceration rates and deaths in custody of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Pat Dodson, the West Australian Laborer senator and the 2008 recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize, said in an interview. “It’s as if their lives do…

Please read original article Black Lives Matter Movement Founders to Receive Sydney Peace Prize for 2017 posted on Healthy Black Girls on 5 June 2017 | 6:00 pm —

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