From The Boston Bradley Manning Support Committee Archives (November, 2012)

 

 

 

Dorchester (Ma.) People For Peace To Honor Bradley-December 10th

Dorchester People For Peace Annual Awards Dinner- December 10, 2012 -6:00-9:00 PM Vietnamese –American Center, 42 Charles Street (Fields Corner Station on Red Line), Dorchester (Boston), Massachusetts  

Over the past several months as the Private Bradley Manning case has gained more publicity as a trial date has approached (scheduled now for mid-winter 2013) his cause has been aided immensely by an open declaration of support for his freedom by three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. In one of those ironies of history they are asking a fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, U.S. President Barack Obama, to release current Nobel Peace Prize nominee Private Manning from his jails.

That is the high political profile end of the support for Private Manning. But down in the anti-war trenches, down where the questions of war and peace are matters of personal, and life or death, interest there is also growing support for Private Manning’s cause. An example of this is Private Manning ‘s selection this year as a recipient of a Peace Prize from the Dorchester People for Peace, a grassroots organization with long time and long worked at roots in that multi-cultural working class neighborhood of Boston. This may not have the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize but Private Manning should cherish it just as much. Join DPP in honoring Private Manning on December 10th.  A representative of the local Bradley Manning Support Group (and member of Veterans for Peace, a strong supporter of his defense) in Boston will accept and pass on the award to Private Manning.