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Line 56: Maguire supported the Occupy movement and has described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as "very courageous". She has also praised Chelsea Manning. "I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth", she has said, adding that "the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran".<ref name=progressive /> Together with [[Desmond Tutu]] and [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]], Maguire published a letter in support of [[Chelsea Manning]], saying: "The words attributed to Manning reveal that he went through a profound moral struggle between the time he enlisted and when he became a [[whistleblower]]. Through his experience in [[Iraq]], he became disturbed by top-level policy that undervalued human life and caused the suffering of innocent civilians and soldiers. Like other courageous whistleblowers, he was driven foremost by a desire to reveal the truth".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/171272/nobel-laureates-salute-bradley-manning# |title=Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning |magazine=thenation |date=14 November 2012 |access-date=15 February 2013|last1=Tutu |first1=Archbishop Desmond |last2=Maguire |first2=Mairead |last3=Esquivel |first3=Adolfo Pérez }}</ref> Maguire has also earned a degree from the Irish School of Ecumenics at [[Trinity College Dublin]]. She works with various interchurch and interfaith organizations and is a councilor with the International Peace Council. She is also a Patron of the Methodist Theological College, and of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education.<ref name="nobel women">{{cite web|title=Mairead Maguire-Northern Ireland, 1976|url=http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-the-laureates/mairead-maguire/|publisher=Nobel Women's Initiative|access-date=11 November 2013|archive-date=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111062342/http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-the-laureates/mairead-maguire/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Line 72: ====Iraq and Afghanistan==== Maguire voiced strong opposition to the U.N. [[sanctions against Iraq]], which is alleged by some to have resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths,<ref name="Michael Powell 1998">{{cite news|author=Michael Powell |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/408416698 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301082833/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/408416698.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec%2017,%201998&author=Michael%20Powell&pub=The%20Washington%20Post&edition=&startpage=E.01&desc=The%20Deaths%20He%20Cannot%20Sanction;%20Ex-U.N.%20Worker%20Details%20Harm%20to%20Iraqi%20Children |archive-date=1 March 2014 |title=U.N. worker details harm |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=22 July 2010 |url-status=live |date=17 December 1998}} [http://www.public.asu.edu/~wellsda/foreignpolicy/Halliday-criticizes-sanctions.html Alt URL]</ref> calling them "unjust and inhuman", "a new kind of bomb", and "even more cruel than weapons".<ref>Abrams (2003), pp. 94, 99.</ref> During a visit to Baghdad with Argentinian colleague [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]] in March 1999, Maguire urged then-U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] and British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] to end the bombing of Iraq and to permit the lifting of U.N. sanction. "I have seen children dying with their mothers next to them and not being able to do anything", Maguire said. "They are not soldiers".<ref>{{citation |last=Faleh |first=Waiel |title=Nobel Winners: Give Iraq a Break | In the aftermath of [[al-Qaeda]]'s attacks on the U.S. in September 2001, as it became clear that the U.S. would retaliate and deploy troops in Afghanistan, Maguire campaigned against the impending war. In India she claimed to have marched with "hundreds of thousands of Indian people walking for peace".<ref>Abrams (2003) pp. 95–96</ref> In New York, Maguire was reported to have marched with 10,000 protesters, purportedly including families of 9/11 victims, as U.S. war planes were already en route to strike Taliban targets in Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web |title=New York City protest opposes war in Afghanistan |url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/nyc-o12.shtml |work=wsws.org |publisher=World Socialist Web Site |date=12 October 2001 |access-date=30 January 2011|quote=Over 10,000 people turned out in New York City on Sunday, October 7 to oppose the Bush administration's so-called war on terrorism". "Speakers at the rally on Broadway included two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina and Mairead Maguire from Ireland".}}</ref> | |||