Friday, October 10, 2014

Pakistani Education Activist Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Winner of Nobel Peace Prize | Democracy Now!

Pakistani Education Activist Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Winner of Nobel Peace Prize | Democracy Now!
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Tim Nolan said...

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 17, Yousafzai is the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. In 2012, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman who boarded her school bus. She survived and continued to campaign for the rights of girls to go to school. Satyarthi, age 60, has been a leader for decades in the international movement against child slavery and the exploitation of child workers. In a statement, the Nobel committee said it "regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism." Last year on July 12, her 16th birthday, Yousafzai appeared at the United Nations and delivered her first speech since she underwent surgery, saying she was undeterred by the Taliban’s efforts to silence her voice. The event marked a global day in her honor. We broadcast an excerpt from her address. "Let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are the most powerful weapons," Yousafzai says. "One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution."

October 10, 2014 at 12:23 PM
Tim Nolan said...

The corporate media is CENSORING the fact that MALALA YOUSAFZAI is also OPPOSING U.S. DRONE WAR---sjhe even told Pres.Obama in WH meeting to STOP DRONE WAR AGAINST PAKISTAN

October 11, 2014 at 1:43 PM
Tim Nolan said...

Allan Greene shared The Nation Magazine's

10-12-2014: I watched repeatedly on 10-10-2014 news of many different media outlets reporting on the awarding of the Nobel Prize to this worthy, brave, honorable young woman, Malala Yousafzai. Nowhere - nowhere, nowhere, nowhere - did any of the news media tell us she said this statement, which reads: "I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation." Good for her! But nowhere did any capitalist media tell me she said this.

This capitalist media disappearing this statement she made sort of reminds me of the "disappearing" of the long-time political endorsement of socialism by the American democratic rights activist, social justice activist, and activist on behalf of blind and other handicapped people, and other worthy causes, famous early 20th Century American blind woman, Helen Keller. She was also a long-time endorser of socialism. Nowhere does anybody tell us these things. And now, I heard nothing about this current contemporary brave young woman, Malala Yousafzai's, view that "socialism" is, to her, the "only answer" to, in her words, "free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation."

Hmmmmm.... To quote the famous character played by Dana Carvey on previous old Saturday Night Live episodes, the "Church Lady," "Isn't that interesting.":

October 12, 2014 at 5:15 PM

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