Nominate Sibel Edmonds for 2006 Profile in Courage award !

Profile in Courage Award
Honoring bold stands

Each May since 1989, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation has presented the Profile in Courage Award. It is named for the Pulitzer-Prize winning book Profiles in Courage, written in 1957 when Kennedy was a senator from Massachusetts.

It is intended for those “who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents.” It recognizes “a public official or officials at the federal, state or local level whose actions best demonstrate the qualities of political courage.”
Read on for my 2006 recommendations;

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■ Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds was the FBI language specialist and whistleblower in the Washington field office. She alleges she was fired in March 2002 for informing about cover-ups, intelligence snafus and disagreement over the need for more interpreters after the Sept. 11 attacks led to the war on terror. She is currently director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, a critic of the 9-11 Commission.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha is also on the list.

Send your nominations for the 2006 Profile in Courage award to www.Profile incourage@JFKLFoundation.org , or write to The Profile in Courage Award Committee, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/13432201.htm

Just didn't want this to disappear just yet. Damn, this GD section moves fast!

Yes it does move fast, especially when there are 10 nearly duplicate threads going on.

-Hoot

... when I made this very recommendation in a thread that recommended Cindy Sheehan be nominated for this award. That would be SO appropriate for perhaps THE most courageous American the last year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4444241#4451699

It's probably not so coincidental that this publication is one of Knight Ridder's (note that it is in their Real Cities network). We MUST help keep Knight Ridder free from the Carlyle group or some other RW takeover! In addition to making this recommendation, also tell someone like George Soros or Ted Turner to ante up to keep Knight Ridder outside of the wingnuts' claws!

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It got a little munged in the top post I think...

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