Civic sparks

Citizens are left with one option: to commit to defending their freedom, because no one will do it for them.

"A democratic activist cannot afford to be only reactive: it has to be proactive year-round."

At the time, I was a foreign correspondent in Paris for a pro-Putin Russian TV channel. I openly spoke out...

I have always wanted a job that would give me a purpose. Before the coup, I was teaching in Burma....

"My father was a member of the Karen Resistance Army, he died when I was 8. When my father joined...

"My mother took me to Gambia when I was 14, and I was struck by to poverty and how unfair...

"One boy, not yet twenty, asked me if he would make it. I told him yes. But his injuries were...