Invocation to Tom Paine - 2016 Courageous Spirit Awards
Channel: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE HEART OF BERKELEY
Date: 02/02/2016

Ben Burch delivers his Invocation to Tom Paine titled "Tom Paine: The Spirit of True Democracy". The first 2 of 6 of the 2016 Tom Paine Courageous Spirit Awards were given to Nanci Armstrong-Temple and Kelly Hammargren. Carl Temple with his two daughters came to the stage to receive the award for Nanci. The girls sang "Circle Round For Freedom". Other award recipients follow on other video clips: Toby Blomé, Pierre Labossiere, David "Redd" Welsh, Amanda Weatherspoon. The last of the 7 video clips from this event has Thomas Paine Quotations being read by the audience.

January 29, 2016 in Historic Fellowship Hall 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. Sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists. 

This annual event is where the SJC gives recognition to several social justice activists who we feel show the living spirit, the dedication, and the principles expressed within our precious common heritage represented by the American Revolutionary writings of Thomas Paine. Paine was the author of “Common Sense”, “The Crisis Papers”, The Rights of Man”, and “The Age of Reason”, and "Agrarian Reform".

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