Maria Ressa tells Harvard graduates: ‘Our world is on fire. Welcome to the battlefield.’

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The anti-war ‘historic’ protests in campuses are ‘testing everyone in America,’ says the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO. But ‘protests give voice; they shouldn’t be silenced.’

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“We live in a dystopian science fiction world, where everything changes in the blink of an eye, when you have been forced to turn crisis into an opportunity,” Ressa told an estimated 30,000 graduates gathered at the entire stretch of the Harvard Yard, which, until May 14, was the Ressa said she herself has not been spared. “Because I accepted your invitation to be here today, I was attacked online and called anti-semitic. By power and money,” she said. “While the other side was already attacking me because I had been onstage with Hillary Clinton.”.

“Being good can take many forms… demanding a ceasefire in Gaza,” said Robert Clinton IV, who delivered the graduate English address. But things can get better like they did in Rappler, noted the veteran journalist, as she shared three lessons from her own crisis years: choose your best self, turn crisis into an opportunity, and be vulnerable.“Too often, we let ourselves off the hook, refusing to look at our own difficult or ugly truths,” she said. “We rationalize bad behavior.”

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