Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Sat Feb 8 15:45:59 UTC 2020

Being nominated means absolutely nothing. It's not like getting on the
shortlist of the Man Booker or something like that. Anyone with a couple
thousand dollars to spare can nominate whoever the heck they want to
nominate.

I sincerely doubt these three will ever get it, and I'm also relatively
certain that they don't deserve it (especially not Assange).

J

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 10:11 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> They all deserve it.
>
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 6:21 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden nominated for the 2020
> > Nobel Peace Prize
> >
> > Żaklin Nastić (MdB)<
> >
> http://www.zaklinnastic.de/julian-assange-chelsea-manning-und-edward-snowden-fuer-friedensnobelpreis-2020-nominiert/
> > >:
> >
> > I am one of a total of 17 members of our parliamentary group who have
> > nominated Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for the 2020
> > Nobel Peace Prize. These brave people should not be criminalized, but
> > should be recognized and honored. The war criminals and their henchmen
> must
> > be held accountable.
> >
> > We feel that Assange, Manning and Snowden have to be recognized for their
> > “unprecedented contributions to the pursuit of peace and their immense
> > personal sacrifices to promote peace for all”. With the unveiling of US
> war
> > crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the global surveillance program of the
> > US secret services, the three have “exposed the architecture of war and
> > strengthened the architecture of peace”
> >
> > Here you can find our complete letter to the Nobel Committee in Oslo:
> > Nobel Prize nomination Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden<
> >
> https://defend.wikileaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-01-31-Nobel_Nomination_Julian-Assange_Chelsea-Manning_Edward-Snowden.pdf
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > Full text of the letter:
> >
> > Dear Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
> >
> > We wish to nominate Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden
> for
> > the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in honour of their unparalleled contributions
> > to the pursuit of peace, and their immense personal sacrifices to promote
> > peace for all.
> >
> > The year 2020 began with Julian Assange arbitrarily detained and
> tortured,
> > at risk of death according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and
> over
> > 100 medical doctors, for revealing the extent of harm and illegality
> behind
> > the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. 2020 began with Chelsea Manning in her
> > secound year of renewed imprisonment for resisting to testify to a Grand
> > Jury empaneled against Wikileaks, after having also been imprisoned seven
> > years previously and tortured, following her disclosures that were
> > published by Julian Assange. 2020 began with Edward Snowden in his 7th
> year
> > of asylum for revealing illegal mass surveillance, in defence of the
> > liberties underpinning revelations such as those made by Chelsea Manning
> > and Julian Assange.
> >
> > The Collateral Murder video, provided by Chelsea Manning in 2010 and
> > published by Wikileaks, honoured the dignity of those slain needlessly in
> > war. It gave names and identities to victims whose humanity had been kept
> > from public view, capturing the last moments of life for a young Reuters
> > photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen. Namir, who was killed in cold blood
> > while on assignment in Baghdad, was described by his colleagues as among
> > “the pre-eminent war photographers in Iraq” with “a tender eye that
> brought
> > humanity via quiet moments to a vicious war”.
> >
> > For humanising Namir and his driver Saeed Chmagh, a father of four, slain
> > in front of two children who sat strafed with bullets in a van, Julian
> > Assange faces 175 years in a US prison under the 1917 Espionage Act, and
> > Chelsea Manning is currently detained without charge.
> >
> > As well as humanising innocent victims of war, in 2010 Julian Assange and
> > Wikileaks exposed the means by which public abhorrence of killing is
> > overcome, and peace subverted, by psychological manipulation and
> strategic
> > messaging.
> >
> > In March 2010 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) produced a
> memorandum,
> > subsequently published by Wikileaks, entitled, Afghanistan: Sustaining
> West
> > European Support for the NATO-led Mission-Why Counting on Apathy Might
> Not
> > Be Enough.
> >
> > At the time of the memorandum, 80 percent of French and German publics
> > opposed greater troop deployment to Afghanistan. The memo expressed
> concern
> > that public “indifference might turn into active hostility if spring and
> > summer fighting results in an upsurge in military or Afghan civilian
> > casualties.” To overcome public opposition to the “bloody summer” ahead,
> > the memorandum advised tailoring messages for French audiences that
> “could
> > tap into acute French concern for civilians and refugees,” given that
> > French “opponents most commonly argued that the mission hurts civilians.”
> >
> > “Appeals by President Obama and Afghan women might gain traction” the
> > memorandum added.
> >
> > With respect to the legalities of peace, Julian Assange and Wikileaks
> have
> > contributed to the historical record on the International Criminal Court
> > (ICC), established in 2002 under the Rome Statute of 1998, to promote the
> > “peace, security and well-being of the world.” The ICC’s mission was to
> end
> > impunity by prosecuting “the worst atrocities known to mankind”: war
> > crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide.
> >
> > When the ICC’s enforcement capabilities were taking shape in the years
> > following its inception, cables published by WikiLeaks exposed bilateral
> > deals between nations under Article 98 of the Rome Statute, in which
> states
> > placed themselves outside the ICC’s jurisdiction. The Article 98 deals
> > undercut the ICC’s power to prosecute war crimes and other
> internationally
> > illegal obstacles to a peaceful world order.
> >
> > Later, in 2013, when Edward Snowden revealed the warrantless
> > masssurveillance of citizens and officials worldwide, he exposed an
> immense
> > global network with the capability to intercept and obstruct peace
> > proponents such as Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. Edward Snowden’s
> > revelations have contributed to international investigations,
> transparency
> > initiatives and legislative reforms around the globe.
> >
> > These are but a selection of the contributions that Julian Assange,
> > Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have made towards pursuing and
> defending
> > lasting peace.
> >
> > Together, their actions have exposed the architecture of abuse and war,
> > and fortified the architecture of peace. In return, all three individuals
> > have been forced to sacrifice the very liberties, rights and human
> welfare
> > that they worked so hard to defend.
> >
> > A Nobel Peace Prize for Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward
> Snowden
> > would do more than honour their actions as individuals. It would ennoble
> > the risks and sacrifices that those pursuing peace so often undertake, to
> > secure the peace and freedom for all.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Sevim Dağdelen Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Doris Achelwilm Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Diether Dehm Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Sylvia Gabelmann Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Heike Hänsel Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Andrej Hunko Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Ulla Jelpke Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Jutta Krellmann Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Fabio De Masi Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Żaklin Nastić Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Dr. Alexander S. Neu Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Eva-Maria Schreiber Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Alexander Ulrich Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Kathrin Vogler Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Andreas Wagner Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Pia Zimmermann Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Sabine Zimmermann Member of the German Bundestag
> >
> > Appendices
> >
> > Julian Assange’s Prizes and Awards
> >
> >   *   The Economist New Media Award (2008)
> >   *   The Amnesty New Media Award (2009)
> >   *   TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People’s Choice (highest global
> > vote) (2010)
> >   *   The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010)
> >   *   The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year
> (Hrafnsson)
> > (2011)
> >   *   The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011)
> >   *   The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)
> >   *   The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011)
> >   *   The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism
> > (2011)
> >   *   The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011)
> >   *   The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National
> > Union of Italian Journalists (2011)
> >   *   The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011)
> >   *   The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012)
> >   *   The Global Exchange Human Rights People’s Choice Award (2013)
> >   *   The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013)
> >   *   The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013)
> >   *   The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)
> >   *   The Willy Brandt Award for Political Courage (Harrison) (2015)
> >   *   The Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistleblower and Defenders of
> > the Right to Information (2019)
> >   *   The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism & Activism
> > (2019)
> >   *   The Compassion in Care’s Gavin MacFadyen Award for Whistleblowers
> > (2019)
> >
> > Chelsea Manning’s Prizes and Awards
> >
> >   *   The Army Service Ribbon (2008)
> >   *   The National Defense Service Medal (2008)
> >   *   The Global War on Terrorism Service Medal (2009)
> >   *   The Overseas Service Medal (2009)
> >   *   The Iraq Campaign Medal (2009)
> >   *   The Whistleblowerpreis (2011)
> >   *   The Global Exchange People’s Choice Award (2012)
> >   *   The US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation (2013)
> >   *   The Sean McBride Peace Prize, International Peace Bureau (2013)
> >   *   The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2014)
> >   *   The EFF Pioneer Award for whistleblowing (2017)
> >
> > Edward Snowden’s Prizes and Awards
> >
> >   *   The German Whistleblower Prize (2013)
> >   *   The Sam Adams Award (2013)
> >   *   The Rector of the University of Glasgow (2014)
> >   *   The German Big Brother Award (2014)
> >   *   The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize (2014)
> >   *   The Right Livelihood Award (2014)
> >   *   The Carl Von Ossietzky Medal (2014)
> >   *   The IQ Award (2014)
> >   *   The Norsk PEN Ossietzky Prize (2016)
> >
> > Other Examples of Julian Assange’s work
> >
> > Julian Assange has published over 10 million documents with a perfect
> > verification record. One of his first major releases was the a copy of
> the
> > Guantanamo Bay prison camp’s 2003 Standard Operating Procedures for the
> US
> > Army.
> >
> > In 2010, WikiLeaks came to global attention by publishing tens of
> > thousands of classified documents from the United States, including the
> > Afghan War Diaries and the Iraq War Logs, which documented more than
> > 100,000 occupation related civilian killings.
> >
> > Wikileaks also published “Cablegate” in 2010, the State Department
> > diplomatic cables.
> >
> > In 2011 Wikileaks published the “Gitmo Files”, documents on 767 of the
> 779
> > prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
> >
> > WikiLeaks has published the “Global Intelligence Files” (5 million emails
> > from intelligence contractor Stratfor), “Spy Files: Russia”, two million
> > files from Syrian political elites, the “Saudi Cables” (hundreds of
> > thousands of files from the Saudi Foreign Ministry)
> >
> > WikiLeaks publications have revealed extensive information on the
> > disastrous war on Libya and proof of US knowledge of Saudi and Qatari
> > government backing of ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria.
> >
> > One of WikiLeaks recent investigations, in collaboration with major
> > European media, revealed a corrupt arms deal between French state-owned
> > company and the United Arab Emirates.
> >
> > In the European context, Julian Assange revealed that the US’s National
> > Security Agency and the CIA targeted:
> >
> >   *   German Chancellor Angela Merkel
> >   *   French Presidents Hollande, Sarkozy, and Chirac, as well as French
> > cabinet ministers and the French Ambassador to the United States.
> >   *   the French Finance Minister and US orders of the interception of
> > every French company contract or negotiation valued at more than $200
> > million
> >   *   communications of Foreign Minister Steinmeier, in the context of
> > moves to end extraordinary rendition flights through Germany
> >   *   the Swiss phone of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
> > Chief of Staff for long term interception
> >   *   a meeting between then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel and
> > Berlusconi
> >
> > Julian Assange also published original US intercepts from French senior
> > officials concerning:
> >
> >   *   the leadership and future of the European Union
> >   *   the relationship between the Hollande administration and the German
> > government of Angela Merkel
> >   *   French efforts to determine the make-up of the executive staff of
> > the United Nations
> >   *   French officials’ communications concerning US spying on France
> >   *   French involvement in the conflict in Palestine
> >
> > Contact: Sevim Dagdelen | Deutscher Bundestag | Platz der Republik 1 |
> > 11011 Berlin | Germany E-Mail: sevim.dagdelen at bundestag.de<mailto:
> > sevim.dagdelen at bundestag.de>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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