About Nobel Peace Prize Nominees
From tookie.com:
You may order the autobiography of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Blue Rage, Black Redemption from Damamli Publishing Company....
From Tookie's autobiography you can also learn about his nomination for a Nobel Prize for Peace and Literature.
From Ontario Empoblog (originally from deathpenalty.org):
DECEMBER 4, 2005
Screening of Redemption
Danny Glover invites you to a screening of "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story"
Where: Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street in San Francisco
(next to the 16th Street and Mission BART Station)
When: December 04, 2005 at 5pm
Why: Help STOP THE December 13th EXECUTION of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Stan Tookie Williams....
From Ontario Empoblog (originally from knowgangs.com):
Dear Nobel Peace Prize Committee Members,
I am writing to the committee to protest the nomination of Stanley "Tookie" Williams for the Nobel Peace Prize. By way of introduction, I am Wesley D. McBride, President of the California Gang Investigator’s Association, an association comprised of over 1,600 law enforcement professionals, concerned with the control and management of the street gang problem facing our country. I have nearly 35 years experience in law enforcement and have worked in communities that have experienced the full wrath of the violence that Mr. Williams helped establish....
There are many deserving individuals spanning this globe that deserve this honor and have done glorious deeds in the name of peace. Many of them warriors, statesmen, and common citizen, yet all share in their endeavors to make our world better. I sincerely encourage you not to give any serious consideration to Stanley Williams.
From ba.broadcast (quoted in Ontario Empoblog:
[A]fter much was made by his supporters of convicted murderer and gang founder STANLEY "TOOKIE" WILLIAMS' nomination for the [Nobel Peace] prize for his jailhouse conversion to peace and writing childrens' books, CLEAR CHANNEL Talk KFI-A/LOS ANGELES morning man BILL HANDEL managed to get himself nominated for the same prize....
The host, who was nominated by an unnamed U.S. Congressperson, said in a statement "I am deeply honored to be placed amongst the august company of other Peace Prize nominees such as ADOLF HITLER, JOSEF STALIN, BENITO MUSSOLINI, and STANLEY 'TOOKIE' WILLIAMS.”
From Patterico:
Regular readers know that I am seeking a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, since I believe I am more deserving than murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams.
So, how do you get nominated? Here's what the Nobelites say:
The process of selecting a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize starts in September, about a year before the prize announcement. At this time, the prize-awarder in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, composed of five members selected by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) sends out letters to individuals and organizations qualified to nominate candidates. (Nominators »)
The nominations reach the Nobel Committee between September and February. In recent years, the Committee has received well over 140 nominations.
Nominations are usually kept secret (unless the nominees or their supporters publicize the nominations). However, some of the older nominations are now available in a searchable database. Let's look at some of the more interesting nominees from the 1901-1951 period:
Year: 1939
Number: 9-1
Nominee:
Name: Adolf Hitler
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1889
Year, death: 1945
Profession/Category: Chancellor and Führer of Germany (1933-1945).
City: Berlin
Country: DE (GERMANY)
Motivation: Hitler was the leader of the German Nationalist Socialist Party.
Nominator:
Name: E.G.C. Brandt
Gender: M
Profession/Category: Member of the Swedish parliament
Country: SE (SWEDEN)
Evaluation: No
Comment: The nomination was withdrawn in a letter of February 1, 1939.
Year: 1945
Number: 8-1
Nominee:
Name: Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1879
Year, death: 1953
Profession/Category: Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), Premier of the Soviet state (1941-1953)
City: Moscow
Country: RU (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Motivation: Stalin was nominated for his efforts to end World War II.
Nominator:
Name: Halvdan Koht
Gender: M
Profession/Category: Historian and former foreign minister. Former member of the Nobel Committee (1919-1937, 1940-1942)
University: Oslo
City: Oslo
Country: No (NORWAY)
Evaluation: No
Comment: The nominations made in 1944 and 1945 were valid for both the reserved prize for 1944 and for the 1945 prize.
Koht nominated Cordell Hull for the peace prize, but he also mentioned seven other candidates that were qualified for the peace prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. The persons mentioned were: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill, Anthony Eden, Josef Stalin, Max Litvinov, Edvard Benes, Jan Smuts.
Year: 1948
Number: 17-1
Nominee:
Name: Joseph Stalin
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1879
Year, death: 1953
Profession/Category: Premier of the Soviet Union 1941-53.
City: Moscow
Country: RU (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Motivation:
Nominator:
Name: Wladislav Rieger
Gender: M
Profession/Category: Professor
University: Charles University
City: Prague
Country: CZ (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Evaluation: No
Comment: Stalin's was known as Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, but his real name was Iosif Vissarianovich Dzhugashvili. Stalin was secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1922-53.
Year: 1935
Number: 22-2
Nominee:
Name: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1883
Year, death: 1945
Profession/Category: Prime Minister (1922-43)
City: Rome
Country: IT (ITALY)
Nominator:
Name: Gilbert Gidel
Gender: M
Profession/Category: Professor of Law. Member of the Institute of International Law.
University: Paris
City: Paris
Country: FR (FRANCE)
Evaluation: No
Comment: Gidel nomitated both the Academy of International Law and Benito Mussolini, the former being his primary choice.
Year: 1935
Number: 22-1
Nominee:
Name: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1883
Year, death: 1945
Profession/Category: Prime Minister (1922-43)
City: Rome
Country: IT (ITALY)
Nominator:
Name: Professors at the Faculty of Law at Giessen University
Profession/Category: Professors of Law
University: Giessen
City: Giessen
Country: DE (GERMANY)
Evaluation: No
Comment:
Year: 1939
Number: 5-4
Nominee:
Name: (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1869
Year, death: 1940
Profession/Category: Prime Minister (1937-1940)
City: London
Country: GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Motivation: Chamberlain was nominated for his contribution to the Munich Agreement (September 30, 1938). The agreement accepted Hitler's claim that Czechoslovakia had to cede the Sudetenland to Germany. It was seen as a successful attempt to prevent the outbreak of a general war in Europe.
Nominator:
Name: 12 members of the Swedish parliament
Profession/Category: Members of parliament
City: Stockholm
Country: SE (SWEDEN)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name: Frede Castberg
Gender: M
Comment: Neville Chamberlain was son of the statesman Joseph Chamberlain and younger half brother of Sir Austen Chamberlain. The latter received the Nobel Peace Prize for 1925.
In Munich, Chamberlain and the French Prime Minister Daladier gave in to Hiler's demands. Czechoslovakia was sacrificed, but the British and French ministers hoped that the result would be peace in Europe. One year later World War II started.
Year: 1946
Number: 5-1
Nominee:
Name: Herbert Clark Hoover
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1874
Year, death: 1964
Profession/Category: Former President (1929-33).
City: Washington, DC
Country: US (UNITED STATES)
Nominator:
Name: Cordell Hull
Gender: M
Profession/Category: Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1945.
City: Washington, DC
Country: US (UNITED STATES)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name: Knut Getz Wold
Gender: M
Comment: The nomination was dated January 8, 1946. The Nobel Committee received it February 19, 1946, as it had been submitted by another American person.
Year: 1947
Number: 12-1
Nominee 1:
Name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Gender: F
Year, birth: 1884
Year, death: 1962
Profession/Category: Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1946-1952).
City: New York City
Country: US (UNITED STATES)
Nominee 2:
Name: Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay
Gender: F
Year, birth: 1872
Year, death: 1952
Profession/Category: Former diplomat.
City: Moscow
Country: RU (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Motivation: Roosevelt and Kollontay were nominated for a divided prize as a symbol of the will to peace and cooperation between West and East.
Nominator:
Name: 5 members of the Norwegian parliament (Gustav Natvig Pedersen)
Gender: M
Profession/Category: Members of parliament
City: Oslo
Country: NO (NORWAY)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name: Ole T Røed
Gender: M
Comment: Natvig Pedersen was member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the period 1949-1965.
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