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2008 Van Jones
Winner of the 2008 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: 26th March 2015 – Washington, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez gives remarks to #Cut50 Conference. Cut50 is a national bipartisan initiative to safely and smartly reduce our incarcerated population. Van Read More
New York, the Global Capital of Protest
Puffin is proud to have commissioned this new work on the history of social activism in New York City Suffragists in New York City promoting a voting rights conference.CreditBettmann, via Getty Images By Sam Roberts May 16, 2018 The aphorism “You can’t fight City Hall” was refuted in New York Read More
Preservation of New Deal Murals at Teaneck Library
March 14, 2008
“Library Murals Restored After 70 Years On Walls” By Howard Prosnitz, Staff Writer, Teaneck Suburbanite, October 15, 2008 Since 1937, four murals illustrating the history of the printed word have inspired and delighted visitors to the Teaneck Public Library. The murals are located in the reference room, which was the Read More
2007 Michael Ratner
Winner of the 2007 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC. 11 January 2006 Attorney, author and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) President Michael Ratner Read More
2006 Amy Goodman
Winner of the 2006 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: by Rachel Banai Amy Goodman is a syndicated columnist, host of the news program Democracy Now! and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back. Goodman’s program Democracy Read More
2005 Jonathan Kozol
Winner of the 2005 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003 photo by BenFrantzDale/ Wikimedia Commons Jonathan Kozol began his career as a fourth-grade teacher in Roxbury, a poor, predominantly black neighborhood of Boston. His first Read More
2004 Barbara Ehrenreich
Winner of the 2004 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Author Barbara Ehrenreich at the Newseum on February 28, 2018. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by In America (Metropolitan Books, 2001), a chronicle of her attempt Read More
2003 David Protess
Winner of the 2003 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). David Protess is the founding director of Medill’s Innocence Project and played a direct role in the release of eight innocent men in Illinois, six of whom had been wrongly convicted of capital crimes. Read More
2002 Dolores Huerta
Winner of the 2002 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Longtime civil rights leaders Dolores Huerta and Andrew Young discuss their social justice efforts at The Summit on Race in America at the LBJ Presidential Library on Monday, April 8, 2019. Huerta, a Read More
2001 Robert Parris Moses
Winner of the 2001 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Robert Moses photo via Bates.edu A lifelong social activist, civil rights pioneer, and visionary educator, Bob Moses uniquely exemplified the values and qualities the Puffin/Nation Prize was created to honor. As a pivotal Read More