The Parkland students who created an international movement to raise awareness for gun violence after a deadly school shooting were awarded the International Children's Peace Prize on Tuesday. During a ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented the award, calling the student organization March For Our Lives one of the most significant youth-led mass movements in living memory and its founders "true change-makers." "I am in awe of these children, whose powerful message is amplified by their youthful energy and an unshakable belief that children can — no, must — improve their own futures," Tutu said. In the moments after 17 of their classmates and teachers were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Delaney Tarr, Ryan Deitsch and Jaclyn Corin and more than a dozen others sprang to action, doing countless media interviews, grilling lawmakers about gun reform during town halls, and sparking massive walkouts and … [Read more...] about Parkland Shooting Survivors Win Children’s Peace Prize
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Parkland shooting survivors receive peace prize from Desmond Tutu
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland students who created an international movement to raise awareness for gun violence after a deadly school shooting were awarded the International Children's Peace Prize on Tuesday. During a ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented the award, calling the student organization March For Our Lives one of the most significant youth-led mass movements in living memory and its founders "true change-makers." … [Read more...] about Parkland shooting survivors receive peace prize from Desmond Tutu
Parkland shooting survivors awarded Children’s Peace Prize
David Hogg, center, a student who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting walks with volunteers to a polling place on campus during a Vote for Our Lives event at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/John Raoux) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland students who created an international movement to raise awareness for gun violence after a deadly school shooting were awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize on Tuesday. During a ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented the award, calling the student organization March For Our Lives one of the most significant youth-led mass movements in living memory and its founders “true change-makers.” “I am in awe of these children, whose powerful message is amplified by their youthful energy and an unshakable belief that children can — no, must — improve their own futures,” Tutu said. In the moments … [Read more...] about Parkland shooting survivors awarded Children’s Peace Prize
Trump Says ‘They Probably Will Never’ Give Him The Nobel Peace Prize
POLITICS 10/28/2018 02:29 pm ET Despite rhetoric that potentially drives supporters to send bombs in the mail, the president insists "they" just don't want him to have one. By Andy McDonald While speaking to the Future Farmers of America in Indianapolis Saturday, President Donald Trump praised the efforts of Dr. Norman Borlaug, a scientist who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in developing a high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat. But the president couldn’t keep the focus on anyone else for too long, and naturally proceeded to put himself into the Nobel Prize conversation. “They probably will never give it to me, even what I’m doing in Korea and Idlib province and all of these places,” Trump said. “They probably will never give it to me. You know why? Because they don’t want to.” Yeah. Yeah, that’s probably the reason. Check out Trump being Trump in the C-SPAN video above. The video begins at the relevant Nobel … [Read more...] about Trump Says ‘They Probably Will Never’ Give Him The Nobel Peace Prize
SDLP praises John Hume and David Trimble on 20th anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize award
THE SDLP has praised the "pivotal role" of its former leader John Hume and Ulster Unionist David Trimble on the 20th anniversary of the two men being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On October 16 1998, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the two men "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland". In its explanation of the decision to select Mr Hume as one of the joint winners, the committee described him as being ''the clearest and most consistent of Northern Ireland's political leaders in his work for a peaceful solution". The committee also said: "The foundations of the peace agreement signed on Good Friday 1998 reflect principles which he has stood for". David Trimble, Tony Blair and John Hume, pictured in May 1998. Picture by Alan Lewis, Photopress His political counterpart, now Lord Trimble, was honoured for having demonstrated ''great political courage when, at a critical stage in the process, … [Read more...] about SDLP praises John Hume and David Trimble on 20th anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize award