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Winners and Finalists - 2003
PRESS RELEASE: September 5, 2003 New York – Former US diplomat to Iraq Joseph Wilson, who has publicly challenged the Bush Administration’s claim that Iraq was shopping for uranium in Africa, is one of three inaugural winners of the Ron Ridenhour Awards, created this year by the Fertel Foundation and The Nation Institute in honor of My Lai Massacre whistleblower, Ron Ridenhour. The two other winners are Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and investigative journalist Deborah Scroggins, whose 2002 book Emma’s War is an in-depth look at Sudan’s long-running civil conflicts. read more . . . About the recipients: The Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling, to an individual or organization that has brought an important issue to light. Winner Joseph Wilson, a specialist in sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Middle East, was recognized for going public with the CIA’s Feb. 2002 request that he investigate whether Iraq was seeking uranium from sources in Africa and his finding that such a scenario was highly unlikely read more . . . Randy Fertel's Comments of Appreciation : Joseph Wilson The Ron Ridenhour Book Prize to a work that best reflects Ridenhour’s values of truth telling and social justice. Winner Deborah Scroggins is author of Emma’s War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil – A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan (Pantheon, 2002). read more . . . Randy Fertel's Comments of Appreciation : Deborah Scroggins The Ron Ridenhour Courage Award to an individual in recognition of his or her courageous and life-long defense of the public interest and passionate commitment to social justice. Winner Daniel Ellsberg is best known for leaking a 7,000-page document, which became known as The Pentagon Papers, read more . . . Randy Fertel's Comments of Appreciation : Daniel Ellsberg |
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