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How Daniel Ellsberg Changed a War with a Photocopier
Washington D.C.ยท 1971
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, exposing two decades of government deception about the Vietnam War and reshaping press freedom in America.
The Innocence Project and the DNA Revolution in American Courts
New York Cityยท 1992
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992, used DNA evidence to exonerate over 375 wrongfully convicted people and transformed the American criminal justice system.
Christine Caine and the A21 Campaign Against Human Trafficking
Thessalonikiยท 2008
Christine Caine founded the A21 Campaign after seeing missing persons posters in a Greek airport, growing it into a global anti-trafficking organisation...
The Pastor Who Went to Court for Feeding People
United Statesยท 2024
Fined for feeding homeless residents, a pastor fought the city and won โ but the real victory was that opposition multiplied the ministry from one church to seven, reaching five times more people.
Esther's Three-Day Fast: When a Queen Risked Everything
Susaยท 5th century BC
Facing the annihilation of her people, Queen Esther called a three-day communal fast before risking her life to approach the king.
Rachael Denhollander: Breaking Cycles of Abuse and Silence
Michiganยท 2016-2018
Rachael Denhollander, the first to publicly accuse Larry Nassar, broke a generational institutional pattern of silence around abuse, drawing on her...
Mordechai Vanunu: The Whistleblower Who Exposed Israel's Nuclear Program
Israel / Londonยท 1986-2004
Former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in 1986.
Erin Brockovich and the Hinkley Groundwater Case
Hinkleyยท 1993-1996
A filing clerk with no legal degree, Erin Brockovich uncovered PG&E's contamination of groundwater in Hinkley, California that was causing cancer in...
Walter McMillian: The Case That Inspired "Just Mercy"
Monroevilleยท 1988-1993
Convicted on fabricated evidence in the town that produced To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter McMillian spent six years on Alabama's death row before Bryan...
Twenty-Two Years in a Wheelchair, Then Someone Said Stand Up
Mobileยท August 2010
Delia Knox, a gospel singer paralysed from the waist down since a 1987 car accident, stood and walked for the first time in twenty-two years during a...
Three Hundred Orphans, Empty Plates, and the Man Who Set the Table Anyway
Bristolยท 1840s-1890s
George Muller, who ran orphanages in Bristol without ever asking for money, instructed his staff to set tables with empty plates for 300 orphans when...
The Prisoner Who Walked Out of a Maximum Security Prison on Broken Legs
Zhengzhouยท May 1997
Brother Yun, imprisoned in China's Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison with documented broken legs, walked out of the prison on May 5, 1997, passing through...