Mandy Patinkin's Ongoing Human Rights Education

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 26, 2016

Mandy Patinkin, stage, screen and television actor (Che Guevara, Inigo Montoya, Saul Berenson), and Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service and democratic mayoral challenger to Rudy Giuliani in 1997, talk about their recent trip to Cambodia to meet with human rights and labor activists.

A beardless Mandy Patinkin and @ajws @ruth_messinger discuss their recent trip to Cambodia and human rights issues. pic.twitter.com/OPz3LnY8XA
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 26, 2016

Once you travel/hear stories, "you cannot wake up in the morning +not do something for your neighbor" Mandy Patinkin pic.twitter.com/CKNmWequmg
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 26, 2016

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