Seeing Things – Democracy Leads To Peace – Liza Donnelly

Democracy requires a free press, democracy brings peace

I cannot help but think the Nobel Committee is sending a message to the world as it turns more authoritarian and more to radical right ideologies…. and to Trump. Machado built a powerful social movement challenging the country’s authoritarian president, and has been living in hiding since last year. The committee said she received the Peace Prize recognition for…

“her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

Image via USA Today, posted in article…

Democracy Leads To Peace

And my documentary is premiering in NYC!

By Liza Donnelly, Oct 10, 2025

It is thrilling that pro-democracy opposition leader, Marina Corina Machado of Venezuela won the Nobel Peace Prize, for standing up for democracy!

And, she’s a woman.

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a statement it was a reminder that the tools of democracy were the means for peaceful change. “At a time when democracy and the rule of law are under threat globally, today’s prize is a tribute to all those working to safeguard civil and political rights around the world,” Guterres said.

Trump campaigned heavily for the prize, and today he criticized the Nobel Committee for being “political.” He is the polar opposite of Machado: Trump is trying to END democracy in the United States.

We will not let him.

On another, sort of personal note: While the world is in such turmoil, we can — and should— be together and take time to laugh. In my documentary, WOMEN LAUGHING, I talk with ten women cartoonists who are incredibly talented artist and thinkers. We talk, draw and laugh together, discuss our work and the world as it is for women right now. It also includes a look back at previous women cartoonists at The New Yorker, and what we have in common.

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