BREAKING: Bradley Manning Wins Sean MacBride Peace Award! Bam.

[99th_Monkey]

OpEdNews Op Eds * 7/19/2013 at 09:09:34

U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.

A petition supporting Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize has gathered 88,000 sinatures, many of them with comments, and is aiming for 100,000 before delivering it to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. Anyone can sign and add their comments at ManningNobel.org

The International Peace Bureau (IPB) represents 320 organizations in 70 countries. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910. Over the years, 13 of IPB's officers have been Nobel Peace laureates. See ipb.org

The Sean MacBride prize has been awarded each year since 1992 by the International Peace Bureau, founded in 1892. Previous winners include: Lina Ben Mhenni (Tunisian blogger) and Nawal El-Sadaawi (Egyptian author) - 2012, Jackie Cabasso (USA, 2008), Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka, 2007) and the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2006). It is named after Sean MacBride, a distinguished Irish statesman who shared the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize, and is given to individuals or organisations for their outstanding work for peace, disarmament and human rights.

The medal is made of "peace bronze," a material created out of disarmed and recycled nuclear weapons systems, by fromwartopeace.com The prize will be formally awarded on Sept. 14 in Stockholm, at a special evening on whistleblowing, which forms part of the triennial gathering of the International Peace Bureau.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Manning-Wins-Peace-Prize-by-David-Swanson-130719-803.html
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/bradley-manning-wins-peace-prize

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1. Excellent! Nt

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

2. K & R, n/t

[woo me with science]

3. K&R

Beautiful.

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

[forestpath]

5. K&R

[KoKo]

6. Recommend!

[Hydra]

7. Glad to see the tide turning and him getting recognition for his sacrifice

Go Bradley!

[chimpymustgo]

8. K&R. Best wishes to Bradley Manning. May he be honored as a hero.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. People forget one of the things he released...

[99th_Monkey]

10. That is ghastly footage. Would have pushed me over the edge, to expose it.

if I were Bradley Manning seeing it for first time.

[ancianita]

11. A better world might just be trending.

[bigwillq]

12. nice.

K and R

[cpwm17]

13. Congratulations to Bradley Manning!

He's done his part to make war unacceptable. I hope he wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

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14. K&R

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15. K & R n/t

[ReRe]

16. Congratulations, Bradley Manning....

K&R

and I hope he also wins the Nobel Peace Prize. There is probably no one more deserving.

[cantbeserious]

17. Congratulations - Well Deserved

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[KoKo]

18. Best News I've heard in awhile... Good on them..

[NealK]

19. That's great news!

He sure deserves the Nobel Peace Prize but I'm afraid that the U.S will bully the Committee so that he doesn't get it.

[Luminous Animal]

20. K&R

[indepat]

21. So those who award an international peace prize view Manning's actions differently than does big

brother. Why are others so dichotomously out-of-step with big brother, provoking him by not jumping to march every step to the beat of his drum?