Upside Down World is honored to be chosen as the recipient of the 2014 Global Justice & Peace Award from the Denver Justice & Peace Committee. Past award recipients include Frances Moore Lappe and Food First, Father Roy Bourgeois, Walden Bello of Focus on the Global South, Medea Benjamin and Graham Russell of Rights Action.
Upside Down World is honored to be chosen as the recipient of the 2014 Global Justice & Peace Award from the Denver Justice & Peace Committee, which has been working for 35 years “to promote human rights, economic justice, and lasting peace in Latin America through education, solidarity projects and nonviolent activism.” One of the Committee’s main activities currently is organizing in solidarity with activists in Peru resisting the Conga Mine, proposed by the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation.
Upside Down World has been reporting on social movements and politics in Latin America for more than a decade, and is grateful to receive this award thanks to the many journalists and editors that have been a part of our media organization over the years. Past Global Justice & Peace Award recipients include Frances Moore Lappe and Food First, Father Roy Bourgeois and SOA Watch, Walden Bello and Focus on the Global South, Medea Benjamin and Code Pink, and Graham Russell and Rights Action.