Maybe the peacemakers - 3

 As of 2025, there have been 20 women who were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The heroines of peace – the 16 women awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize before 2014 (1901-2014)

These are women who received their prizes after the above photo collage.

• Narges Mohammadi (2023)
• Maria Ressa (2021)
• Nadia Murad (2018)

And in 2025 Maria Cordoba Machado of Venezuela won... (see my blog, Maybe the Angry Women - 4)

I plan to give you brief (yes an intention) biographies of these other Laureates. 

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"Please join me and many others in making the six compassionate vows of: environmental sustainability, gender equality, socioeconomic justice, participatory governance, cultural tolerance, and nonviolence and peace."

(Thanks, Robertson Work, for this invitation.)

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I've clipped a lot of information on Baroness Bertha von Suttner, available on Open Yesterday's Pages. I had no idea she had been instrumental in Peace movements before WW I. See Open Yesterday's Pages for a lot of information (just half of what's available!) As an early peace activist she may have influenced Nobel to make a Peace Prize! 

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Last week, Bruce Springsteen wrote: “I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.” You can read the lyrics below.

Through the winter’s ice and cold
Down Nicollet Avenue
A city aflame fought fire and ice
‘Neath an occupier’s boots
King Trump’s private army from the DHS
Guns belted to their coats
Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law
Or so their story goes
Against smoke and rubber bullets
By the dawn’s early light
Citizens stood for justice
Their voices ringing through the night
And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

Trump’s federal thugs beat up on
His face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots
And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Crying through the bloody mist
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

Now they say they’re here to uphold the law
But they trample on our rights
If your skin is black or brown my friend
You can be questioned or deported on sight

In chants of ICE out now
Our city’s heart and soul persists
Through broken glass and bloody tears
On the streets of Minneapolis

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

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The song as he sang it was included on my post earlier. But sometimes people want to read the lyrics too. 

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My son in Columbus OH sent me a text while he and his wife were protesting ICE on Saturday afternoon. My son in Tampa FL was a security guard for the Gasparilla Parade that day...in very cold and windy conditions for his Mustang Sallie's Krew on their float, throwing out beads. I posted some snow photos before the day was over of Black Mountain's snow.