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Video of Daniel Ellsberg accepting award on behalf of Bradley Manning
As previously reported on Darker Net, Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking files to Wikileaks, was recently awarded the Global Exchange Humanitarian award. Manning, already a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and recipient of the 2012 Human Rights Award, is currently in custody and was not able to accept the award in person. The award was accepted on his behalf by Daniel Ellsberg. Here are the details of the award.
Here is the video of Ellsberg accepting the award.
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Bradley Manning awarded the Global Exchange Humanitarian Award
Daniel Ellsberg accepted the award on behalf of Bradley Manning.
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Quotes about Bradley Manning
A selection of quotes about Bradley Manning – see under photo
One picture worth... Bradley Manning - a face of absolute honesty
* Alan Moore: “When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we… become complicit.”
* Noam Chomsky: “It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.”
* Daniel Ellsberg: “If Bradley Manning did what he’s accused of, then he’s a hero of mine and I think he did a great service to this country.”
* Michael Moore: “To suggest that lives were put in danger by the release of the WikiLeaks documents is the most cynical of statements. Lives were put in danger the night we invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq, an act that had nothing to do with what the Bradley Mannings of this country signed up for: to defend our people from attack. It was a war based on a complete lie and lives were not only put in danger, hundreds of thousands of them were exterminated. For those who organised this massacre to point a finger at Bradley Manning is the ultimate example of Orwellian hypocrisy.”
* John Pilger: “Private Manning is the world’s pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to ‘a moral choice.’ His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.”.
* Martin Luther King (on whistleblowing): “An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over it’s injustice, is in fact expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Secrets, Lies, and Leaks: From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks – video interview with Daniel Ellsberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q3wJzWSGbY
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