New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof calls on Americans to act at Montana State University Leadership Institute Event – He inspires MSU students to save the world

If ending slavery was the great moral challenge of the 19th century and defeating totalitarianism was the central issue of the 20th century, then the great moral challenge of this century must be achieving equality for oppressed women and girls, says New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_D._Kristof .

“We truly want to recruit you,” Kristof told 1,000 people Monday night at Montana State University, to a grassroots movement helping women, especially in developing countries, to overcome repression and violence.

Kristof, 50, and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, have written the new book “Half the Sky n Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” A best-seller, it has been compared to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” for its call to action to solve a worldwide problem.

Kristof won his first Pulitzer Prize for reporting on pro-democracy Chinese student demonstrators massacred in Tiananmen Square in 1989. His second Pulitzer came in 2006 for almost single-handedly making the world aware of genocide in Darfur.

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Montana State University Leadership Institute http://www.montana.edu/wwwlead1/

Montana State University

PO Box 174200

Bozeman, MT 59717-4200

Tel: (406) 994-7275

Fax: (406) 994-6911

Location: SUB Room 187

Director:
Carmen McSpadden [email protected]

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By GAIL SCHONTZLER

Chronicle Staff Writer

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Kristof inspires MSU students to save the world

By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer

Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times reporter and columnist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for shining a light on human rights abuses, said Monday in Bozeman that sending 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan would be “a mistake.”

What’s needed are more projects like the schools built in remote villages of Afghanistan and Pakistan by Bozeman’s Greg Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of Tea,” http://matr.net/news.phtml?cat_id=106&catlabel=Three+Cups+of+Tea+-+The+Central+Asia+Institute Kristof said.

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