Truth To Power
Truth to Power may refer to: * "Truth to Power" (song), a song by OneRepublic * Truth to Power (book), a book by South African power company executive André de Ruyter * '' An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'', a 2017 film documentary about Al Gore * Speaking truth to power, a non-violent political tactic ** ''Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence'' a 1955 American Friends Service Committee pamphlet ** ''Speak Truth To Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World'' (2003), a book by Kerry Kennedy Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American lawyer, author and human rights activist. She is the seventh child and third daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. During her 15-year marriage to former New York Gove ...

Truth To Power (song)
"Truth to Power" is a song by American band OneRepublic as the promotional single and title song for the documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, ''An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'' about Al Gore's continuing mission to fight climate change. The song was nominated for Satellite Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song at the 22nd Satellite Awards and for Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Documentary, Original Song in a Documentary at the 8th Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Background and composition "Truth to Power" was written and produced by lead singer Ryan Tedder and T Bone Burnett. The lyrics are written from the perspective of Mother Nature speaking to her inhabitants as a call to action against climate change. Gore described the song as capturing Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha. Tedder described the background for the original composition of the song: Promotion In promotion of the song, OneRepublic performed the song ...
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Truth To Power (book)
''Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom'' is a 2023 book by ex-Eskom CEO, André de Ruyter. It chronicles his three years at South Africa's state energy provider, Eskom. Fearing political forces might prevent its sale, the book was released ahead of schedule, and without warning, on the 14th of May, 2023. The book details Eskom's systematic downfall through political meddling of the ruling ANC party, to organised syndicates who looted, pillaged and stole from the state utility. The book comes on the heels of a series of explosive television interviews, in which de Ruyter openly accused the ANC of being the cause of almost all the issues at Eskom that were causing the country to suffer significant loadshedding. The book received wide media coverage in the days following its release, with several newspapers publishing extracts online. Eskom power crisis Primarily, the book outlines the systemic and often-politically supported wholesale looting of Eskom, from its ...
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Truth To Power
Truth to Power may refer to: * "Truth to Power" (song), a song by OneRepublic * '' An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'', a 2017 film documentary * Speaking truth to power, a non-violent political tactic ** ''Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence'' a 1955 American Friends Service Committee pamphlet ** ''Speak Truth To Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World'' (2003), a book by Kerry Kennedy Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American lawyer, author and human rights activist. She is the seventh child and third daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. During her 15-year marriage to former New York Gove ...

Speaking Truth To Power
Speaking truth to power is a non-violent political tactic, employed by dissidents against the received wisdom or propaganda of governments they regard as oppressive, authoritarian or an ideocracy. The phrase originated with a pamphlet, '' Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence'', published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1955. Speak Truth To Power is also the title of a global Human Rights initiative under the auspices of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Practitioners who have campaigned for a more just and truthful world have included Apollonius of Tyana, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and Elie Wiesel. History of the concept In classical Greece, "speaking truth to power" was known as ''parrhesia''. The tactic is similar to ''satyagraha'' (literally, "truth-force") which Mahatma Gandhi used in seeking independence from British India. Historian Clayborne Carson attributes the popul ...
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American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (''Quaker'') founded organization working for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. AFSC was founded in 1917 as a combined effort by American members of the Religious Society of Friends to assist civilian victims of World War I. It continued to engage in relief action in Europe and the Soviet Union after the Armistice of 1918. By the mid-1920s it focused on improving racial relations in the U.S., as well as exploring ways to prevent the outbreak of another conflict before and after World War II. As the Cold War developed, it moved to employ more professionals rather than Quaker volunteers, over time attempting to broaden its appeal and respond more forcefully to racial injustice, women's issues, and demands of sexual minorities for equal treatment. They also work for world peace. Background Quakers traditionally oppose violence in all of its forms and therefore many refus ...
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