Two Country Awards for the Philippines

Nobel Peace Prize Award and Global Non-Violence Award

Nobel Peace Prize Award, the first of its kind given to a nation.
By: Nobel Foundation

Global Nonviolence Award, the 70 million Filipinos is the
first recipient of this award.
By: Center for Global Nonviolence

Pierre March and of France, head of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Foundation, said:

"The world salutes the Filipinos for their courage in overthrowing two
undesirable presidents? You have given the gift in a world that only
knows force and violence? of effecting radical change without firing a
shot? The legacy of people power would be the Filipino people's gift to
other peoples of the world? You were given a national gift. Do not keep it to
yourselves? The world will never be the same again? if the spirit of EDSA
prevails beyond the shores of this tiny archipelago.

The 15th anniversary of People Power 1 was significant as it came 18
years after the death of Ninoy Aquino, 30 years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., 50 years after the death of Mahatma Gandhi, 2000 years
after the death of Christ."

The Nobel Foundation is composed of peace advocates such as the late
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, the Dalai
Lama of Tibet, Carlos Felipe Jimenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor, Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, Henry Kissenger of the United
States, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina.

Lou Ann Guanson, vice president of the Center for Global Nonviolence,
said:

"We agreed to grant the award in recognition of the non-violent struggle
of the Filipino people as exemplified in EDSA People Power which was
done twice in this country."

Guanson, claimed to have a mixed blood of Hawaiian, Japanese, Spanish,
Swedish, and Filipino, is also vice chairman of the Martin Luther King
Foundation.

Adrian Sison
3rd District Quezon City
asison@asison.ph