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Right Livelihood wins Alternative Nobel Prize for Advancing Digital Democracy and Bringing Human Dignity to the Heart of AI
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s civic hacker and cyber ambassador, will receive the 2025 Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm on 2 December. She is being honoured for pioneering the
social use of frontier technologies to strengthen democracy, counter polarisation and put human dignity at the centre of innovation.
The 2025 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” is being given to four Laureates: Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon
(Pacific Islands and Guam), Justice For Myanmar (Myanmar), Audrey Tang (Taiwan), and Emergency Response Rooms (Sudan).
Since 1980, the Right Livelihood Award has recognised 203 Laureates from 81 countries, celebrating their courage to solve global problems
| Studies have shown that international economic aid can be an important component of a developing country’s economy, but that too much aid can actually be harmful, undermining local enterprise and other indicators of independence. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Shannon Fernando, the founder and CEO of Alabaster International, a small nonprofit with some big plans to make a significant impact in the Global South. We look at her organization’s model, learn about the promising African staple crop enset, and discuss the challenges of trying to provide short-term assistance to vulnerable populations while also setting the table for long-term economic health. | |
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| This episode is NO TO WAR AGAINST HUMANITY! – From Venezuela to Nicaragua to Cuba to Palestine!, a meeting held at the historic Riverside Church in New York City on September 25, 2025.
Sponsored by the United National AntiWar Coalition in association with the Simon Bolivar Institute, the participants sought to build a solidarity movement between the US and Venezuela, and to fight for oppressed people everywhere. |
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