Birgitta Jónsdóttir

Jun 202012
 
BirgittaJonsdottir

Ask your MP to nominate Bradley Manning for revelatory data.

 

from Birgitta Jónsdóttir MP (Iceland)

[Editor’s note: Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir is circulating a request to legislators and parliamentarians to nominate Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize, for his part in obtaining and releasing the Top Secret files that have been and are being reviewed and released by Wikileaks. Others go one step further, and ask the public to forward Jónsdóttir’s request to their own MPs and MPPs and MLAs, and ask them to write to the Nobel Prize committee with the same request.]

Dear fellow parliamentarians,
Whistleblowers are under siege across our world. The incredible story of Private Bradley Manning's historic deeds of courage — to inform and transform the world with such a simple thing as the truth — inspired us to nominate him for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Many parliamentarians are not aware of the fact they are on the short list of eligible nominators for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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