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10May 2019 by peacepeople

Peace People member Louise Mc Gowan shares on her recent trip to Liberia #HerPlace

#HerPlace

Just last week, the Nobel Women’s Initiative along with the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa brought 50 women from over 20 countries together in Monrovia, Liberia to discuss feminism, power, activism and peace. The title of the conference was “Claiming Our Space: Emerging Feminist Voices for Peace” and over three days of multigenerational talking, engaging and sharing, women from North, South, East and West learned from and inspired one another. On day one of three, the five Nobel Peace Laureates present (Leymah Gbowee, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Wiliams, Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Tawakkol Karman) shared some of their experience and offered advice for young, ‘emerging’ feminist leaders. The overarching theme to kick off the convening was that we (women) are powerful and worthy; that we must claim our space, we must use…

02May 2019 by peacepeople

“Thoughts On Peace” By Neil Mc Cann

Thoughts on Peace

Tribes No More You thought that you were tribes. Who taught you that? You are not. Then what are you? You are folk of here. You are the people of this land. This land of unspeakable beauty. Wherever your ancestors left To come here, and all of us came Here from somewhere Other than here, Wherever you came from You came to learn love You came to experience Separateness and tribes Temporarily Now is the moment. Now is time To step beyond tribe Beyond class And above all beyond Senseless dying and shouts That you call threats, To step beyond separateness And claim the oneness To which we all belong If you sense a force beyond The world you see That force is one That force is love, That mothers…

17Apr 2019 by peacepeople

NI Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire collects journalism award on behalf of Julian Assange.

Julian Assange

Julian Assange has been awarded the 2019 European United Left-Nordic Green Left Award for Journalists, Whistleblowers and Defenders of the Right to Information, WikiLeaks informed Tuesday. The award is given to individuals “uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public” and to honor “individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted” for such actions. Thus recognizing Assange’s work through WikiLeaks. The prize is sponsored by European left-wing parliamentarians, who devised it in 2018 in honor of assassinated Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia. Nobel Peace prize winner (1976), Mairead Maguireh, received it on Assange’s behalf at an event in the European Parliament in France. Assange is a multi-award winning journalist, with more than 15 international recognitions for his work. The most outstanding awards are the 2008 New Media Award from The Economist, 2010 Time Person of the Year…

12Apr 2019 by peacepeople

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAGUIRE REQUESTS UK HOME OFFICE FOR PERMISSION TO VISIT HER FRIEND NOBEL PEACE NOMINEE JULIAN ASSANGE IN PRISON IN LONDON

Press Release

`Mairead Maguire has requested UK Home Office for permission to visit her friend Julian Assange whom this year she has nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize’ ‘I want to visit Julian to see he is receiving medical care and to let him know that there are many people around the world who admire him and are grateful for his courage in trying to stop the wars and end the suffering of others’ ‘Thursday 11th April, will go down in history as a dark day for the Rights of humanity, when Julian Assange, a brave and good man, was arrested, by British Metropolitan Police, forcibly removed without prior warning, in a style befitting of a war criminal, from the Ecuadorian Embassy, and bundled into a Police Van. It is…

11Apr 2019 by peacepeople

Julian Assange was dramatically arrested by British police today and dragged screaming from the Ecuadorian Embassy after seven years hiding inside.

Julian Assange

Julian Assange was dramatically arrested by British police today and dragged screaming from the Ecuadorian Embassy after seven years hiding inside.The pale and bearded WikiLeaks founder, 47, was pulled out in handcuffs as Ecuador withdrew its asylum status - ending Assange's 2,487 days holed up since 2012.As he was hauled from the building - looking grey and clutching Gore Vidal's History of the National Security State - he appeared to shout... "The UK has no civility" and "the UK must resist"