Brian Dooley — Defiant — at the Wharf

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Eleven stories of people across Europe who became unlikely Human Rights Defenders. Across Europe, rising repression is reshaping daily life. Local people helping others are targeted and criminalized for exposing corruption, helping refugees and acting out of kindness. In today’s climate of increasing fear and intimidation, some refuse to look away. Award winning activist Brian Dooley presents eleven true stories of people who chose courage over safety: a former violinist in Ukraine driving an ambulance at the eastern front of the war on Ukraine; a family in eastern Poland secretly sheltering migrants hunted in the border forest; and a Turkish scientist risking prison to expose toxic contamination threatening children’s health. In the Czech Republic, a woman transformin…

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