Friday October 7, 2011
Rick and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize along with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman, spoke with Rick while making Dispatches's The Paradox Of Democracy. That program won the Amnesty Int. Canada broadcast media award in 2007.
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