Please explain the Nobel Peace Prizwe lie Medea uses...
It's just another one of their damn "projects".
In June of 2005, Medea was one of 1,000 women picked to be part of the project "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005." The project has picked 1,000 exceptional women from around the globe to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize collectively.
http://www.1000peacewomen.org.
Another of the "nominees" is Congresswoman Barbara Lee
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee Among Nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
1000 Nominees from Around the Globe Highlight Women’s Work for Peace
(Washington, DC) – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland, CA) was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize today as part of an international effort to recognize the work of women around the world who promote peace.
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Though the local nominees were chosen collectively for the Peace Prize, they are a pretty diverse group, reflecting what organizers conceded was "a broad definition of peace.''
Ellen Barry, for instance, is a prison rights activist and lawyer who speaks out for women in U.S. jails and prisons. Candi Smucker co-founded fair- trade stores to help workers of the world earn a living wage. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, was the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the post-Sept. 11 resolution giving military force powers to President Bush.
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The idea behind the project, organizers said, was to find 1,000 exemplary women to collectively receive the Nobel Peace Prize, representing the millions of nameless women all over the world who work for justice, education, political rights and security.
The project originated in Switzerland in March 2003, when Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, a member of the Swiss Parliament and the Council of Europe, visited refugee camps in Bosnia, Chechnya and other war-torn countries.
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The $3.8 million project is funded through foundations, institutes and individuals, mainly in Switzerland.
From across the United States, 114 candidates were proposed, and 40 women made the final cut, including 14 from the Bay Area.
"We tried very hard to get candidates from most regions of the U.S., but none were as active as in the Bay Area -- typical of activism and the kind of women living here," Okazawa-Rey said.
The Bay Area nominees are a multiracial group of philanthropists, artists, grass-roots activists, academics and political figures.
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The project's team is putting together a book about the lives, strategies and visions of all the nominees and a 1,000 postcards exhibition, with photos, short biographies and testimonies.
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14 women
Bay Area nominees on the "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize" list:
Ellen Barry, 51, founder and former director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, in San Francisco.
Medea Benjamin, 52, of San Francisco, co-founder of Global Exchange, an international human rights organization, and Code Pink, a women's peace group.
Linda Burnham, 57, executive director of the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland.
Marta Drury, 63, of Half Moon Bay, director of the Heart and Hand Fund, an organization that assists women in the Balkans.
Terry Greenblatt, 52, of Berkeley, founder of Jerusalem Link and former director of Bat Shalom, women's groups working for an end to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Roma Pauline Guy, 63, member of the San Francisco Health Commission and lecturer in San Francisco State University's Department of Health Education.
Aileen Hernandez, 79, of San Francisco, director of California Women's Agenda, representing 500 women's and girls' organizations, and a past president of the National Organization for Women.
Yuri Kochiyama, 84, of Oakland, longtime civil rights activist.
Rep. Barbara Lee, 59, of Oakland, Democratic House member.
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, 79, founder of the Institute for Multiracial Justice, in San Francisco.
Anne Firth Murray, 70, consulting professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University and founder of the Global Fund for Women, in San Francisco.
Holly Near, 56, of Oakland, singer, producer, actor and activist.
Jane Roberts, 63, of Palo Alto, co-founder with Lois Abraham of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA (the U.N. Fund for Population Activities), founded to support international family planning after the Bush administration blocked $34 million in aid for the UNFPA.
Candi Smucker, 50, of Santa Rosa, co-owner of Baksheesh fair-trade stores in Sonoma and Healdsburg, and former management trainer with Ten Thousand Villages, a job-creation program for artisans in developing countries.