Talk:Freedom Award

Dubious information
The 2009 entry is sourced to, it turns out, an article published on Paquito D'Rivera's own WWW site, which claims to be a reprint of a piece in the Miami Herald. It states that the IRC's 75th Anniversary took place at the Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida on 2009-01-22. The IRC's own WWW site, however, states that the 75th Anniversary was held on 2008-11-12 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where the 2008 award was presented to Kofi Annan. Additionally, the IRC's own WWW site lists no 2009 recipient of the Freedom Award. Uncle G (talk) 12:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * However, the Miami Herald archives seem to confirm he was honored then, see |&p_product=MH&p_theme=realcities2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=miamii&s_trackval=MH&s_dispstring=Paquito%20%20AND%20&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Paquito%20)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=50&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=before%2006/26/2010&xcal_useweights=no "the IRC is marking its 75th anniversary with a fundraising event at Miami's Freedom Tower on Thursday. The gala will honor Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera, who the IRC helped resettle in 1980,". Dougweller (talk) 13:50, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Does it say whether he was awarded the Freedom Award? Uncle G (talk) 18:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You have to buy the article, I'm afraid, but maybe not . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 19:31, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well found! That seems to confirm that whatever D'Rivera was awarded, it wasn't at a Freedom Award dinner, and wasn't a Freedom Award.  D'Rivera's own WWW site says that it was a "Champion of Freedom" award, whatever that is.  Uncle G (talk) 05:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Given that the editor who contributed this information has a page of warnings, appears to be a WP:SPA and hasn't edited for three weeks since appearing for a less than a day, I removed the entry. The Rambling Man (talk)

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Flagging incorrect listing for 2017 Freedom Award
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I am declaring my conflict of interest as a staff member of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), employed as an editor of its website, Rescue.org.

I wanted to flag incorrect information in this article: Leopoldo López is listed as the recipient of the 2017 International Rescue Committee Freedom Award. The Freedom Award was in fact awarded to Michael Bloomberg in 2017.

Sources:

https://variety.com/2017/scene/news/michael-bloomberg-keegan-michael-key-refugee-crisis-irc-rescue-dinner-1202606433/ http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/bloomberg-admits-couldn-stopped-trump-article-1.3609662 https://twitter.com/mikebloomberg/status/926273102878781440?lang=en https://www.looktothestars.org/news/17270-michael-bloomberg-to-be-honored-at-international-rescue-committee-freedom-award-dinner https://www.rescue.org/page/irc-freedom-award https://www.rescue.org/article/highlights-ircs-rescue-dinner-2017

Cheers, Kathleenhs (talk) 15:30, 29 August 2018 (UTC)