[Peace-discuss] Kathy Kelly and the 04.15.12 drone protest in Missouri

[Stuart Levy]

Yes...  Wikipedia is wonderful, and someone who edited the page for 
Kathy Kelly mentions:

Nomination by 1976 Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire for the 2002 Nobel 
Peace Prize.^[31] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kelly#cite_note-30>
      The citation is to a newsletter of the Society of American 
Archivists (cheers for archivists!),
      reporting that Marquette University had in 2007 acquired the 
records of Voices in the Wilderness.
      The mention that Kelly had been nominated by Maguire, and by two 
other (unnamed) people,
      is said to have appeared in Kelly's personal papers.

The wikipedia page also refers to a 2003 Yahoo.com news article,
http://www.stopcapitalpunishment.org/coverage/151.html
which describes the conditions for nomination, mentions that the nominators
don't have to remain silent even though the committee does, and mentions
Kelly's name as an "unconfirmed" nominee.

Presumably a skeptic could go to Marquette and find the original.

But, why?  Do you want Kathy Kelly's birth certificate, too?  Haven't we 
better things to question than this?


Here's one.  Today Democracy Now interviewed a Norwegian man in 
Minneapolis whose granddaughter survived Anders Brevik's attack.    
Asked what he thought of Breivik, of the trial, etc., he had a lovely 
meta-response.  He pointed out that media descriptions of Breivik 
focused on his psychology, when he did and didn't weep, and so on.

But, said the man, he saw another parallel which "made him unpopular in 
Norway": that the same state of mind that led Breivik, the mass 
murderer, to kill Muslims in Norway, also led the Norwegian government 
to kill civilians in Afghanistan under the NATO occupation.

That's the kind of parallel that Kelly would see, too.  But how many 
times have you heard such a connection made with respect to this 
tragedy?  I haven't.  Amy Goodman didn't seem to have, either -- it put 
her off her stride.
<http://www.stopcapitalpunishment.org/coverage/151.html>
I think that's a 'way better question.

    Stuart


On 4/17/12 9:43 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
> Roger,
>
> That is an interesting question. I have often seen the claim that
> so-and-so has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
>
> Besides the Nobel Committee, I suppose the people who nominate a
> person would know.
>
> So, I went looking to see who can nominate people and I found this
> interesting bit of information:
> Qualified Nominators
> The right to submit proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize shall, by
> statute, be enjoyed by:
>
> 1.	Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
> 2.	Members of international courts;
> 3.	University rectors; professors of social sciences, history,
> philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes
> and foreign policy institutes;
> 4.	Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
> 5.	Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
> 6.	Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee;
> (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than
> at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1) and
> 7.	Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
> The Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded to institutions and associations.
>
> It does not answer your question, but at least we know who besides the
> committee might know -- if they nominated someone.
>
> -karen medina
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Roger Helbig<rwhelbig at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> and how do you know that this woman has been nominated for the Nobel Peace
>> Prize - this can not be verified since the nominations are sealed for 50
>> years.  That kind of means that anyone can make this claim and no one can
>> ever prove or disprove it.  Does anyone reading this have a) copy of the
>> nominations and b) proof of receipt by the Nobel Committee?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Rohn Koester<rohnkoester at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> " The Trifecta Resista drone protest at Whiteman Air Force Base 04-15-12.
>>> The woman speaking on the blowhorn is three time Nobel Peace Prize nominee
>>> Kathy Kelly."
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXkiyGXUF3c
>>>
>>>
>>
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