U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Gothmog]

Source: Reuters

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday

Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.

“Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament.

King, a Baptist minister who became a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, won the Nobel prize in 1964 and remains among its most famous laureates.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace-usa/u-s-voting-rights-activist-stacey-abrams-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-idUSKBN2A12HY

[abqtommy]

1. Now that's a nomination I can fully support!

[NCjack]

3. +1

[Yeehah]

12. You and me both

This lady saved the USA from fascists.

[Me.]

2. Woohoo

[The Roux Comes First]

4. Yowzah! And This is An Award That the yam-loser Did Not Have the Power to Dilute to Trivia!

Although it is sad, pathetic, and probably wholly to be expected that some white-collar felon in an orange suit has both the yam and his evil in-law in the list of nominees, too.

[electric_blue68]

5. Very nice!!!

[CTyankee]

6. The fight for racial justice is not just for the U.S.A.

This should be a global effort!

[ffr]

7. Get thee to the greatest page. She is the primary reason Americans are smiling today.

And Russians, I mean, republicons are not. I sleep better at night knowing Joe's got this. But Stacy was the motor that drove Americans to the polls.

She deserves congratulations and recognition for perhaps being the most influential person in saving American democracy from fascism.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

8. Well deserved.

She has an enviable determination.

[lordsummerisle]

9. k&r n/t

[Nitram]

10. She definitely deserves the prize. What a woman!

[brooklynite]

11. With all due respect to her accomplishments....

...I don't think they rise to the level of a world-level award.

Needless to say, neither do Kushner's...

[wendyb-NC]

13. Bravo Stacey Abrams

She truly deserves this.