"Stéphane Hessel, writer and inspiration behind Occupy movement, dies at 95

Dcdrac · 27th February 2013, 09:57 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...l-dies-aged-95

"Stéphane Hessel, writer and inspiration behind Occupy movement, dies at 95

Hessel, resistance fighter, diplomat, writer of Time for Outrage! and co-author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, dies

The story of the French author Stéphane Hessel's long and extraordinary life reads like a Boy's Own adventure.

From his childhood in Berlin and then Paris, where he was brought up by his writer and translator father, journalist mother and her lover in an unusual ménage à trois, to his worldwide celebrity at the age of 93, when a political pamphlet he wrote became a bestselling publishing sensation and inspired global protest and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

And then there was everything in between: his escape from two Nazi concentration camps where he had been tortured and sentenced to death, his escapades with the French resistance and his hand in drawing up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948."

theprestige · 27th February 2013, 10:41 AM

Wow, a guy with credentials like that, and they lead the story by tying him to the Occupy movement?

27th February 2013, 09:57 AM	#1
Dcdrac Illuminator Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,678	"Stéphane Hessel, writer and inspiration behind Occupy movement, dies at 95 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...l-dies-aged-95 "Stéphane Hessel, writer and inspiration behind Occupy movement, dies at 95 Hessel, resistance fighter, diplomat, writer of Time for Outrage! and co-author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, dies The story of the French author Stéphane Hessel's long and extraordinary life reads like a Boy's Own adventure. From his childhood in Berlin and then Paris, where he was brought up by his writer and translator father, journalist mother and her lover in an unusual ménage à trois, to his worldwide celebrity at the age of 93, when a political pamphlet he wrote became a bestselling publishing sensation and inspired global protest and the Occupy Wall Street movement. And then there was everything in between: his escape from two Nazi concentration camps where he had been tortured and sentenced to death, his escapades with the French resistance and his hand in drawing up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948."
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theprestige Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 8,600	Wow, a guy with credentials like that, and they lead the story by tying him to the Occupy movement?
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