Activist Rabbi To Speak In Ocean City For Human Rights Day

OCEAN CITY, NJ — To mark the 25th anniversary of International Human Rights Day, the South Jersey chapter of Amnesty International will host world-renowned peace, and justice activist, Rabbi Arthur Waskow at the Ocean City Free Public Library.

Waskow, who got his PhD in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin in 1963 with a dissertation on "The 1919 Race Riots" will speak in the lecture hall on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m.

Waskow, of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia, was among the founding Fellows of the Institute for Policy Studies. He worked on issues of racism, the nuclear arms race, disarmament, and the Vietnam War. He has written 24 books, and has been arrested over 20 times for actions for peace and justice. The event is free.

National Human Rights Day was first celebrated on Dec. 10, 1948, to honor the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR was one of the United Nations’s first achievements and spells out fundamental human rights to be universally protected.

A protester holds a poster during a demonstration against racism and for human right for all people at the International Human Rights Day in Berlin, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)