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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Maria Ressa, the founder and head of the Philippine news website Rappler, for her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. Ressa was a guest on HPR's The Conversation two years ago — not long after she was named one of Time Magazine’s “Persons of the Year."

Today on The Conversation, we find out how the Hawaiʻi National Guard plans to get its troops vaccinated, we revisit a conversation with a journalist who's just been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, and walk through Waikīkī with a former May Day king who now heads up the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.

Today on The Conversation, we find out how the Hawaiʻi National Guard plans to get its troops vaccinated, we revisit a conversation with a journalist who's just been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, and walk through Waikīkī with a former May Day king who now heads up the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.

NEW YORK — New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the…