Manifesto for another world : voices from beyond the dark : words of witness from the Dalai Lama, Juliana Dogbadzi, Marian Wright Edelman, Baltasar Garzón, Vaclav Havel, Ka Hsaw Wa, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Bobby Muller, Digna Ochoa, Marina Pisklakova, Sister Helen Prejean, José Ramos-Horta, Oscar Arias Sánchez, Kailash Satyarthi, Desmond Tutu, Koigi wa Wamwere, Elie Wiesel, José Zalaquett, and many others / in a play by Ariel Dorfman ; with an introductory essay and afterword by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorfman, Ariel.

Contributor:

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

Kennedy, Kerry.

Series:

Open Media book

Open media book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights advocacy--Drama.

Human rights advocacy.

Human rights workers--Drama.

Human rights workers.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 18 cm.

Other Title:

Voices from beyond the dark.

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2004]

Summary:

In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. "Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzon, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Jose Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. Equally moving are the stories of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries: Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime working to free tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native India: Juliana Dogbadzi, who was sold into sexual slavery by her parents at age twelve, escaped after seventeen degrading years and now is devoted to the liberation of African girls bound in the same terror. From their ranging voices Dorfman culls the message: freedom from persecution, and freedom of opportunity, for all. "Manifesto for Another World is both a political testament and a work of art. When "Manifesto for Another World was adapted for the stage in September 2000 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (with the title "Voices From Beyond the Dark," based on the book "Speak Truth to Power by prominent American human rights lawyer Kerry Kennedy Cuomo), the reception was electric. A packed house gave a fifteen-minute ovation for the all-star cast: Alec Baldwin, Hector Elizondo, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Kline, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Malkovich, Rita Moreno, Sigourney Weaver, and Alfre Woodard.

Contents:

What We Know 9

Voices from Beyond the Dark: The Speak Truth to Power play 25

Afterword: Some Suggestions for Helping These Voices Live 75.

Notes:

Based upon Speak truth to power, a book by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo.

ISBN:

1583225633

OCLC:

56203810