The Best of the Week’s News:

• Thousands of Ukrainian steelworkers oust pro-Kremlin separatists from their city. 

• A kickstarter campaign is underway to fund “Can’t Take It No More!,” a documentary about workers resisting WalMart.

• Super-size it: The battle for fast food fairness goes global, sparking demonstrations as far away as Brazil and Japan.

• Samsung to workers: Sorry about the leukemia. Our bad. 

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]

As promised, all the videos from last week’s Hillman Prize ceremony at the Times Center are now available on YouTube. Check them out. 

The Best of the Week’s News

• A moving tribute to Heather “Digby” Parton on the occasion of her Hillman Prize win by Kathleen Geier of the Washington Monthly. Hillman judge Katrina vanden Heuvel thought the post was so apt she quoted it when she presented Digby’s award at Tuesday’s Hillman Prize ceremony. 

• Fast food organizers are planning an international wave of protests next week to push for a living wage in the industry.

• The Next Christian Sex Abuse Scandal.

• Kidnapped Nigerian school girls are more than just a hashtag.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]

Congratulations to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bud Bultman, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman, Carl Graf, and Saundra Young on their Hillman 2014 win for the groundbreaking documentary, “Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports.” Watch it in full online.  

Gupta is the chief medical correspondent for CNN and host of the cable network’s weekend medical affairs program “Sanjay Gupta, M.D.” A practicing neurosurgeon, he reports on health and medical news on various CNN programs and documentaries.

For more than a year, Dr. Gupta and his team travelled the world taking a critical look at the science and research surrounding the use of cannabis. Obtaining numerous exclusive television interviews with experts and families, “Weed” changed the national dialogue on this subject and fostered an unprecedented intersection between world-class science, tremendously needy patients and the ethics surrounding the use of this plant as a medicine.

This is another in a series of profiles of the winners of the 2014 Hillman Prizes. These prizes honor journalism in service of the common good. Follow us on twitter at @sidneyhillman. Use the twitter hashtag #Hillman2014 to find out the latest buzz on the Hillman Prizes, including our upcoming awards ceremony on May 6 at the New York Times Center. Use #Hillman2014 to tag your tweets about the Hillman Prizes. We want to hear from you!