Malala Interview

[Rommie]

She was on the Daily Show and I was blinking really hard towards the end to fight off tearing up-link

What're the odds of the Nobel Prize guys giving the peace prize to someone we all agree deserves it for a change?

[SciFiFisher]

I believe in a different thread I stated that I don't bet against stupid. But, she does deserve it.

[Swift]

Amend my last sig quote with: Or one very brave young woman.

[Sigma_Orionis]

FWIW she's got my vote

[geonuc]

I don't know who else is up for the award, but she's got a great chance, I'd say. Very courageous and smart young woman.

[FZR1KG]

But can she beat the warm charismatic charm and dignity of, The Putin?

[Swift]

The UN's anti-chemical weapons people apparently won.

[SciFiFisher]

The UN's anti-chemical weapons people apparently won.

Of course they did.

[Rommie]

Another bureaucracy. They seem to be favoring those lately.

[geonuc]

Another bureaucracy. They seem to be favoring those lately.

Yeah, I'm not real good with that. Perhaps I don't know, but I thought the peace prize was more for individuals who make a difference. Think Gandhi.

Not that anti-chemical weapons groups aren't doing good work.

[FZR1KG]

Another bureaucracy. They seem to be favoring those lately.

Yeah, I'm not real good with that. Perhaps I don't know, but I thought the peace prize was more for individuals who make a difference. Think Gandhi.

Not that anti-chemical weapons groups aren't doing good work.

I'm with you on that.

One of these days I'm sure Exon or Dupont will get the peace prize, or maybe union carbide for their generous work in India.

In a world without meaning, what does it mean if you are selected for being exceptional?

That's what I think every time I see once meaningful awards reduced to sewer fishing.

Is it me getting older and more cynical?
From my POV it isn't but what do I know?

[Swift]

Amend my last sig quote with: Or one very brave young woman.

It is about time!

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/10/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people's rights, including the right to education

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is the U.N. special envoy for global education, described the two winners as "the world's greatest children's champions."

They "deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for their courage, determination and for their vision that no child should ever be left behind and that every child should have the best of chances," he said.

"Kailash's life-long work in India fighting child labour -- which I have had the privilege to see at first hand -- complements Malala's work standing up for girls' rights to education from Pakistan to the rest of the world."

[Rommie]

Yep. I was just a year off is all.

[Swift]

I keep thinking of the lines from the old union song "Bread and Roses" (the history of which is fascinating)

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler -- ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

Judy Collins does a fabulous version of the song (I can't search Youtube at work) and I have one of Utah Phillips' albums with his version.