{"id":401,"date":"2007-04-04T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/04\/04\/human-rights-celebration-award\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:25:18","slug":"human-rights-celebration-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/human-rights-celebration-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Celebration Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=348&amp;Itemid=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-400\" title=\"vincethomas\" src=\"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/vincethomas.jpg\" alt=\"vincethomas\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Church Women United held a service for Vince Thomas who was presented with the human rights award for his service on Saturday March 31, 2007.\u00a0 The event featured songs and readings as well as a breakfast for those who attended.\u00a0 Church Women United<br \/>\n<!--more--> is a national organization founded in 1941 that works toward world peace and justice.<br \/>\nThomas has been a resident of the Quad Cities for 48 years, been involved with numerous community agencies and was selected by a unanimous choice. He also thanked his wife Margaret and daughter Rachel. Thomas spoke on prison reform and housing for low-income families distinguishing between the poor, very poor and the extremely very poor.<br \/>\nJewell Perkins, who presented him with the award, said that her son would say, \u201cGo see Vince and he\u2019ll get it done.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI was a little embarrassed,\u201d Thomas said, \u201cother people in the community are held in high esteem. I\u2019m very much honored.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.\u201d Thomas mentioned some of his defeats with the City of Rock Island in his acceptance speech.<br \/>\nTo end his speech, Thomas sang, \u201cI\u2019m going to let in shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-3547019148\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Women United held a service for Vince Thomas who was presented with the human rights award for his service on Saturday March 31, 2007.\u00a0 The event featured songs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}