Let's help Norm Solomon to get Manning the Nobel Peace prize.

[Gregorian]

This is a big deal. If Bradley Manning gets the Nobel Peace prize, then it would put huge pressure on our military to alter their ways. That's my take on it at any rate.

Five bucks. If we all give a little, then Norm Solomon can get this petition to Oslo.


https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=8807



UPDATE: Thanks to you and other signers of our petition for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning, the USA Today newspaper printed my article under the headline "Manning deserves Nobel Peace Prize."

Now, you can help me get to Oslo soon -- to formally present our petition to the Nobel Committee. Please read the message below.

Thank you!

-- Norman Solomon, for the RootsAction Team

PS To read the USA Today article, please click on the Donate button (under Bradley Manning's picture).

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The Nobel Committee -- and the entire world -- should know that you and nearly 100,000 other people have signed the petition for Bradley Manning to win the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

That’s why RootsAction is now getting ready to fly me to Oslo, Norway, so I can present our petition directly to the Nobel Committee.

But for this to happen, we need to pass the hat to you. Please click here to help deliver the petition you signed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

We hope to make this a big global deal and send a clear message to people everywhere that the whistleblowing courage of Bradley Manning deserves our support … and the world’s most important prize for peace.

RootsAction will continue our work in support of Bradley Manning -- and Edward Snowden and other brave whistleblowers -- propelled by our belief that democracy cannot exist without the informed consent of the governed.

If you click here and donate $5 to RootsAction, you’ll be sending me -- with our huge petition in my arms -- to the doorstep of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

As a signer of our petition, you’re telling the Nobel Committee: “I urge you to award the Peace Prize to Bradley Manning.” That message may be anathema to the Obama White House, but it must be said loudly and clearly to the world.

Especially exciting is the fact that our petition isn’t only a list of names and home towns. It also includes many thousands of heartfelt and insightful comments from individual signers. I will ask the Nobel Committee to read all of those comments before making a decision on awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

To strengthen the impact of the Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize petition -- so it can be presented in Oslo with enough fanfare to reach media the world over -- please click here and donate what you can.

With appreciation,
Norman Solomon
Co-Founder, RootsAction.org

[Gregorian]

1. Tough crowd.

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

[MineralMan]

3. The chance that the Nobel Committee will award the prize

to Manning approaches zero by several significant figures.

A trip to Norway, though, to present the petition would be fun. Norway's beautiful.

[xchrom]

4. du rec.

[davidpdx]

5. Norwegian Nobel Committee's response

"The Nobel Peace Prize is not a popularity contest and a large number of signatures will neither help nor hinder his (Manning's) candidacy," Asle Toje, the Norwegian Nobel Committee's Research Director said.

"It will be reviewed on its merit, based on the principles laid out in the will of Alfred Nobel. It's not unprecedented that we receive a large volume of supporting material for a candidate ... but these do not influence the committee."

http://news.yahoo.com/u-rights-group-urges-nobel-peace-prize-wikileaks-143943786.html