Abstract Film Screening and DialogueSit under the stars on the Rothko Chapel plaza and meet the most important man you never heard of thanks to Ruaridh Arrow’s award-winning documentary How to Start a Revolution. Arrow’s film explores the life and ideas of Dr. Gene Sharp, a thinker and writer responsible for toppling dictatorships across the globe because of the power of his pen. His seminal work From Dictatorship to Democracy has formed the blueprint for non-violent revolutions in Latin...

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Riffat Hassan

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Speak Truth to Power Series. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA discussed the role of the US in achieving global human rights. Sponsored by Houston World Affairs Council.

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A reading of Don Helder Camara’s speech given on Dec. 10, 1973 (the first Human Rights Day celebration)

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To celebrate the Bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains all information about public programs held during the first decade of the chapel.

Does not include Awards or Colloquia/Symposia (see those categories)

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Song from Our Souls -- Unied Nations Association International Choir

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Program of recorded music from different musical traditions selected by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, and the reading of thirty articles of the United Nations of Declaration of Human Rights by Houstonians of thirteen different countries representing thirteen different religions

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Houston Independent School District and the Houston chapter of the United Nations sponsored poster contest expressing ideas of freedom. Exhibition of Lithographs and Posters by artist in support of Amnesty International