TheNewView The Significance of UN Human Rights Leader's Resignation

Marilyn Langlois leads our New View discussion about the recent resignation of human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber, who served for 32 years as Director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, over the ongoing atrocities being committed against the people of Gaza and the UN's inability to address the situation.

His letter, dated 28 October, 2023 includes a 10-point plan for pathways to solutions in the future.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24103463-craig-mokhiber-resignation-letter

Mokhiber was interviewed by Vijay Prasad about his letter and the situation in Israel-Palestine in the context of his many years of experience doing human rights advocacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvm0HYvPJu4

New View Team Bios:

Marilyn Langlois is a member of TRANSCEND, an international network for peaceful conflict transformation, and guest editorialist for TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE. A community organizer and international solidarity activist based in Richmond, California, her key interests are reigning in the super-rich and uplifting the poor by shedding light on suppressed truths to counter toxic propaganda that serves the unjust status quo. Her writings can be found at www.transcend.org/tms (search on Marilyn Langlois)

Carol Brouillet is co-founder of many non-profit organizations, including the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance, publisher of the Deception and Perception Dollars, hyperactivist for three decades. Her website is http://www.communitycurrency.org.

Alanna Hartzok is an Earth Rights visionary, twice US Congressional Candidate (Democrat and Green Parties), and author of The Earth Belongs to Everyone (Radical Middle Book Award). She initiated and was instrumental in the passage of tax reform legislation in Pennsylvania. She has given lectures and seminars in 38 countries and is an NGO (Non-Gov) Consultant for United Nations ECOSOC. https://alannahartzok.substack.com and here: https://theiu.org

Diane Perlman PhD is a political psychologist, the US Convener for Transcend International and Editorialist for Transcend Media Service. She created a deck of cards of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which evolved into Living Rights: Making Human Rights Come Alive Activity Book and Journal. She is co-author of Reconciliation with Joanna Santa Barbara and Johan Galtung and has a chapter in The Psychology of Terrorism. Her websites:www.consciouspolitics.org,
https://coronawise.substack.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-perlman-4a1b699/

Elizabeth Gould began working with her husband Paul Fitzgerald as journalists in 1981 when they acquired the first visas to enter Soviet occupied Afghanistan for CBS News, produced a PBS film (Afghanistan Between Three Worlds) and returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline. They published The Voice (2000), Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story (2009), Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (2011), Valediction Three Nights of Desmond (2021) and Valediction Resurrection (2022). Their website is at valediction.net