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\nformer AFL-CIO President John Sweeney with
\nthe delegation from the World Peace Prize Awarding Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
On February 14, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Powell was awarded the 2016 World Peace Prize, \u201cRoving Ambassador for Peace,\u201d presented by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC), headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Secretary-Treasurer Powell was honored alongside former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at the award ceremony at the AFL-CIO Headquarter building in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
Secretary-Treasurer Powell received the award because she \u201cpersonifies the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.,\u201d said Fr. Sean Mc Manus, president of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus and chief judge of the WPPAC. \u201cShe blazes the trail for justice, equality and peace, thereby building up the \u2018Beloved Community\u2019 \u2013 the term Dr. King made famous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI once read that social justice is the belief that every individual and group is entitled to fair and equal rights and participation in social, education and economic advantages,\u201d said Secretary-Treasurer Powell in her acceptance speech. \u201cI am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world because I believe that the measure of a person\u2019s life is the affect they have on others.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs Dr. King would say, the time is always right to do what is right,\u201d she continued. \u201cTherefore I would ask that each of you reach out and take somebody\u2019s hand, keeping in mind that it is not necessary to put out anyone else\u2019s light in order for yours to shine. The more light we have, the brighter and clearer the path for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n Reverend Dr. Han Min Su, a Presbyterian Minister, started The World Peace Prize in 1989. Su has given his life to promoting world peace through uniting the East and West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Web News Article #: 19-2017 Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Powell with former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney with the delegation from the World Peace Prize Awarding Council. On February 14, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Powell was awarded the 2016 World Peace Prize, \u201cRoving Ambassador for Peace,\u201d presented by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC), headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Secretary-Treasurer Powell was honored alongside former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at the award ceremony at the AFL-CIO Headquarter building in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/Powell%20Peace%20Prize%20021417%20group%20adj.jpg\")