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The Thomas Merton Award has been awarded since 1972 by the
Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in
Pittsburgh, United States.
[1] It is named after
Thomas Merton and is given annually to "national and international individuals struggling for justice."
Award recipients
- 1972:
James P. Carroll
- 1973:
Dorothy Day
- 1974:
Dick Gregory
- 1975:
Joan Baez
- 1976: Dom
Hélder Câmara
- 1977: Dick Hughes
- 1978: Bishop
John Harris Burt & Bishop
James Malone
- 1979:
Helen Caldicott
- 1980:
William Winpisinger
- 1981: The people of
Poland
- 1982: Archbishop
Raymond Hunthausen
- 1983: Not awarded
- 1984:
Bernice Johnson Reagon
- 1985:
Henri Nouwen
- 1986:
Allan Boesak
- 1987:
Miguel D'Escoto
- 1988:
Daniel Berrigan
- 1989: Comrades of El Salvador &
Elizabeth Linder
- 1990:
Marian Wright Edelman
- 1991:
Howard Zinn
- 1992:
Molly Rush
- 1993: Reverend
Lucius Walker
- 1994:
Richard Rohr OFM
- 1995:
Marian Kramer
- 1996:
Winona LaDuke
- 1997:
Ron Chisom
- 1998:
Studs Terkel
- 1999:
Wendell Berry
- 2000:
Ronald V. Dellums
- 2001: Sister
Joan Chittister
- 2002: Bishop
Leontine T. Kelly
- 2003:
Voices in the Wilderness
- 2004:
Amy Goodman and Stephen Bluestone for poetry category
[2]
- 2005: Reverend
Roy Bourgeois
- 2006:
Angela Davis
- 2007:
Cindy Sheehan
- 2008:
Malik Rahim
- 2009:
Dennis Kucinich
- 2010:
Noam Chomsky
- 2011:
Vandana Shiva
- 2012:
Martin Sheen
- 2013:
Bill McKibben
[3]
[4]
- 2014:
Jeremy Scahill
[5]
- 2015:
Barbara Lee
[6]
- 2016:
Frida Berrigan
- 2017: The
Center for Constitutional Rights
- 2018: The ArchCity Defenders
[7]
- 2019:
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
References
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