Nobel Prize for Indian activist!!!

New Delhi: India’s Ruth Manorama, a prominent women’s rights activist, has been named the joint winner of the Right Livelihood Awards, alternative Nobels’, for her crusade to achieve equality for Dalit women.

The jury honoured Manorama, a Dalit herself, ”for her commitment over decades to achieving equality for Dalit women, building effective and committed women’s organisations and working for their rights at national and international levels,” the official website of the Sweden-based awards said.

Manorama will share the prize money of $270,000 US with two other recipients – Daniel Ellsberg (USA) and the Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin (Colombia).

While Daniel Ellsberg’s ‘whistle blowing’ helped end the Vietnam War, the Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin, a unique poetry festival, helped build peace in one of the most violent cities in the world.

Founded in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Awards are presented in the Swedish Parliament and this year, the ceremony will be held on December 8.

Jakob von Uexkull, a Swedish-German professional philatelist, sold his business to provide the original funding for the award. Since then the Award has been supported by individual donors.

They were introduced ”to honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”.

SOURCE : CNN IBN BLOG

    The BlogForPeace crew congratulates Ruth Manorama on her outstanding achievement! Way to go Manorama! And keep at it :)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Technorati Tags: , , ,

powered by performancing firefox

September 28, 2006 | Filed Under General World | 2 Comments 

PayPerPost ROCKS NBC

Hey all,
    Ok. Let me start off. Over the few weeks, you’ve been hearing a lot on PayPerPost (PPP) from me. Today, they did, what I would call, a bloody clever step to get more viewership! I wouldnt be posting this here, but this one was SO hilarious, that I should be taking my hat off to the person who dreamt it up! (BTW, I DONT wear a hat :P )

    PPP did a brilliant Guerilla Marketing today! What they did was, they stormed, and rocked NBC tv. i.e. In a show called “Today Show” many people (OK! Gals!) wearing PPP t-shirts and sporting PPP banners stormed the show! They got free airtime to over a million viewers!!! Yes dear readers! Thet actually did! I say that it was cool, and brilliant! I’ve asked them for a t-shirt too ;) I didnt catch the show, but I heard from a few people who DID! They said it was cool!

    Anyway, I’m going to try that out for BlogForPeace… Maybe I’ll try some other tv channel :P By the way, if any of you are interested in viewing a video released by PPP, check out http://blog.payperpost.com/2006/09/we-storm-today-show.html . I dont know about the Today Show, but they HAVE shown a lot of the pre-show procedures :P Shopping, creating banners and sorts… I didn’t see the full video, since my bandwidth was at the limit, and I’ll have to wait till the end of this month to get more BWD :)
    Aloha for now :)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , ,


powered by performancing firefox

September 28, 2006 | Filed Under Net News | Leave a Comment 

Close
E-mail It
Socialized through Gregarious 41