Chelsea Manning

The Tasks Of The People-Powered Movement For 2014

January 5, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Strategize! Chelsea Manning, Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Edward Snowden, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Fracking, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Health Care, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, NSA, Occupy, Solidarity, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

In this stage of movement development, which can take many years, the primary task of the people-powered social movement is to build national consensus through broad and deep grassroots organizing. The power holders are currently in a crisis management mode. They continue to defend their policies while shifting positions and taking countermeasures to undermine people power. During this stage public opinion is shifting, majorities oppose the current situation and are beginning to see that new alternative solutions must be put in place. People-powered activists are in a battle with the power holders for the hearts and minds of super-majorities of the people. We ended our last article with a key point that we need to highlight here: our goal is to build a mass movement, which has the support of super-majorities of Americans and has mobilized up to 3.5% of the population. Therefore, the target of our protests is not the government or a corporation, the target is the people: to educate and mobilize them. We want to show that there is an effective movement speaking to the people’s concerns and putting forth views that they support. We protest the power holders to expose their actions but do not expect them to be capable of addressing our concerns adequately in this stage.

WikiLeaks: Defeating The Conspiracy Of Governance

January 3, 2014 Nozomi Hayase, www.roarmag.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Wikileaks

Three years after WikiLeaks came to public prominence, where are we with the equation in Assange’s Conspiracy as Governance? Has it been tested and its solution enacted? As leaked documents continue to shed light on the darkness of the world, illegal wars, drone attacks, bankster heists and corporate dirty deals continue. Yet thanks to Manning, we now have a clearer picture what modern war really looks like and the extent to which the military-industrial complex has morally bankruptcy itself. Thanks to Hammond, we are more aware of the collusion of governments and corporations in a network of spying on activists. Thanks to Snowden’s NSA files, we are now only beginning to see the latent tyranny of an out-of-control surveillance state. 2013 was the year that we saw the courage of individuals who speak truth to power become truly contagious. There is no doubt that in this past year, WikiLeaks and other budding organizations have helped the world move one step closer toward a more humane form of self-governance.

Julian Assange Calls On Hackers To Unite Against NSA Surveillance

December 31, 2013 Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange, NSA, Sarah Harrison, Stratfor, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on Internet freedom and privacy. We play highlights from Assange’s speech, as well as the one given by Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks member who accompanied Edward Snowden to Russia. We also hear from independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum, who reveals a spying tool used by the National Security Agency known as a "portable continuous wave generator." The remote-controlled device works in tandem with tiny electronic implants to bounce invisible waves of energy off keyboards and monitors to see what is being typed. It works even if the target computer is not connected to the Internet.

Private Manning’s Family Finds Their Voice

December 20, 2013 Genny, www.manningfamilyfund.org Educate! Chelsea Manning

Video by Dave Donnellan of the visit by four members of Chelsea Manning’s Welsh-Irish family to Dublin. Afri was proud and delighted to host a series of events and meetings in solidarity with imprisoned Chelsea (Bradley) Manning’s mother Susan, Aunts Mary and Sharon, and Uncle Kevin. The family travelled from their home in Haverfordwest, South Wales, to Dublin, the birthplace of their father. In what is a continuing indictment of the Irish Government’s subservience to US power, Pvt. Manning had transited through Shannon on the way to the war on Iraq… was subsequently tortured in Kuwait and Quantico and is now serving 35 years imprisonment in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, for courageously exposing the horrors of the endless U.S ‘war on terror’.

False Division: Ellsberg A Hero But Today’s Whistleblowers Villians

December 18, 2013 Carey Shenkman, www.truth-out.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Ellsberg, Jeremy Hammond, Whistleblowers

There exists a puzzling yet repeating trend among commentators, politicians, and now federal judges. It is to distinguish Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers (and often-hailed hero), from actors like army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and recently sentenced hacktivist Jeremy Hammond. This is notwithstanding the fact that Ellsberg vocally supports and identifies with all three. The differential treatment was first acknowledged two years ago by journalist Glenn Greenwald, responding to reports on how Manning was contrasted to Ellsberg. He called it “intellectual cowardice.” Today, the persistence of this argument highlights a continuing strategic challenge for opponents of whistleblowers of government misconduct. How can these opponents distinguish Ellsberg, a hero, from those they seek to vilify for engaging in the same character of activity?

Chelsea’s 4th Birthday Behind Bars, Lawyer Speaks

December 17, 2013 Staff, www.privatemanning.org Organize! Chelsea Manning, Criminal Justice and Prisons

Chelsea Manning's fourth birthday behind bars. Chelsea’s lawyer David Coombs addressed the public and a crowd of supporters in three presentations this week. Efforts are currently focused on the clemency application that will be reviewed by Maj. Gen. Buchanan, but regardless of how that turns out Coombs suggested that Manning should be free no later than February 2, 2020. Ed Rampell writes, … Coombs said he’s seeking clemency for his client. “But Chelsea… I don’t hold much hope for that,” he said, “because in my 17 years of military practice I’ve rarely seen a convening authority take a step of disapproving findings and sentences. If that doesn’t actually come to fruition, the date I am circling on my calendar is 2 February, 2020. And there is absolutely no reason why Chelsea should not be a free person [the following day].” A supporter filmed the presentations and has since published the entire talk on Youtube.

Bhopal Disaster Survivors Ask for Apology, Thank Hammond

December 5, 2013 Rashida Bi, Nawab Khan,Balkrishna Namdeo, Satinath Sarangi, and Safreen Khan, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Corporatism, Environment, Health Care, Human Rights

The organizations led a rally of survivors of the disaster and those exposed to contaminated groundwater to the Union Carbide factory at the end of which they set an effigy of Dow Chemical on fire. The marchers carried picture of US hacker activist Jeremy Hammond, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, who exposed Dow Chemical’s snooping on Bhopal activists. The effigy, that of a corporate executive with horns and a forked tail, bore marks of damage caused to Dow Chemicals in India including the criminal case on bribery, the blacklisting of Dursban, the cancellation of the joint venture in Gujarat and the gutting down of its proposed R&D Centre at Chakan near Pune. Rashida Bee, who has lost 6 members of her family to the disaster and is the president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh said “The Presdient of United States must summon the courage to express remorse for the US Government’s financing of the world’s worst industrial disaster through the EXIM bank as revealed through Wikileaks documents.

Students Will March To Stop Huge Trash Incinerator

December 4, 2013 Katharine Cavanaugh, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Climate Change, Environment, Poverty, Racism

December 10 is the Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here is an update from the United Workers Free Your Voice human rights committee: The United Worker's Free Your Voice human rights committee has been working to stop the nation's largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from their school and an elementary. Last year, a group of students at Benjamin Franklin High School, who are members of the United Workers human rights committee, learned about a plan to build the nations' largest trash burning incinerator less than a mile from their school. The students were alarmed and decided to take on the issue as the focus of their group.

Chelsea Manning on “Giving Thanks”

November 25, 2013 Chelsa Manning, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Indigenous Rights, Racism, Solidarity

I’m thankful for people who, even surrounded by millions of Americans eating turkey during regularly scheduled commercial breaks in the Green Bay and Detroit football game; who, despite having been taught, often as early as five and six years old, that the “helpful natives” selflessly assisted the “poor helpless Pilgrims” and lived happily ever after, dare to ask probing, even dangerous, questions. Such people are often nameless and humble, yet no less courageous. Whether carpenters of welders; retail clerks or bank managers; artists or lawyers, they dare to ask tough questions, and seek out the truth, even when the answers they find might not be easy to live with. I’m also grateful for having social and human justice pioneers who lead through action, and by example, as opposed to directing or commanding other people to take action. Often, the achievements of such people transcend political, cultural, and generational boundaries. Unfortunately, such remarkable people often risk their reputations, their livelihood, and, all too often, even their lives. For instance, the man commonly known as Malcolm X began to openly embrace the idea, after an awakening during his travels to the Middle East and Africa, of an international and unifying effort to achieve equality, and was murdered . . .

Kafkaesque World Of Data Mining By The NSA, Search Engines And Social Media

November 1, 2013 Gilbert Mercier, www.newsjunkiepost.com/ Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance, Whistleblowers

"In the surreal world we live in, reality has become stranger than fiction. The information super highway could have produced a completely transparent world, yet the elusive corporate and governmental nexus of Big Brothers has surrounded itself with layers of opacity, secrecy and deception. Meanwhile, ordinary citizens are probed, exposed and have become open books to organizations such as the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and corporations that run search engines and social media. In one case, it is done in the name of security and prevention of terrorist attacks, in the other it is done in the name of commerce. Factual and fictional have become so blurred that many dreams have a more logical structure than current events. It is as if reality is trapped, like a fly in a spider web, in the matrix of a nightmarish and grotesque virtual construct. Perhaps the best way to understand this layered reality — both hyper-connected and paradoxically disconnected — is to look into fiction, especially the work of Franz Kafka."

Message From Mexico To Occupy Wall Street: Stop The TPP!

October 17, 2013 Independent Workers and Peasants Urban and Popular Movement, www.interoccupy.net Resist! Chelsea Manning, Corporatism, Democracy, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

On behalf of all the families and individuals who are members of the Independent Workers and Peasants Urban and Popular Movement (MIOCUP CNPA MN) from the North East Mountains of Puebla State in Mexico, we want to say our Occupy Wall Street comrades in NY how deeply grateful we are with your support and fight to stop the disastrous Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) that is just satisfying the interests of a small group of multi-millionaires who think of themselves as the chosen ones. They think they have been blessed by Heaven to decide on behalf of millions of millions of people who inhabit this planet, condemning the majority of the human race to poverty and death. We aggressively, soundly and totally reject the international ratification of the TPP and its effectiveness in Mexico because it is the most anti-democratic international tool of dispossession and exploitation to the nations that has been designed in the history of humanity, allowing multinational corporations’ rights to supersede the constitutional provisions of all the countries and the peoples’ rights.

4 More Days To Get 75,000 Signatures For Manning

September 16, 2013 Staff, www.PrivateManning.org Resist! Chelsea Manning

We have four days to get 75,000 more signatures for Chelsea Manning. Sign this petition and share it widely. Sign here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-united-states%E2%80%99-human-rights-record-and-grant-clemency-pvt-bradley-manning/L7zHZv4r Restore the United States’ human rights record and grant clemency to Pvt. Bradley Manning! The prosecution of Bradley Manning starkly contrasts to the US govt's repeated failure to deliver justice for serious human rights violations committed during counter-terror operations of the past decade. Manning, who released classified information exposing potential breaches of international humanitarian law by US forces, was sentenced in military court on Aug 21st to 35 yrs in prison.

Pvt Manning Needs You To Write A One Page Letter Now

September 12, 2013 Staff, www.privatemanning.org Resist! Chelsea Manning

There's something you can do right now. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Convening Authorities are granted the power to reduce or eliminate a convicted soldier’s sentence. They use this power when they feel the court martial failed to deliver justice. As Commanding General of the Military District of Washington, Major General Jeffrey S. Buchanan is the only other individual besides President Obama with the power to lessen WikiLeaks whistleblower PVT Manning’s sentence in the immediate future.

Five Things You Can Do To Help PVT Manning

September 11, 2013 Emma Cape, www.privatemanning.org Resist! Chelsea Manning

The fight for PVT Manning’s freedom is far from over. In fact, there are multiple avenues for relief that could result in PVT Manning serving fewer than 10 years behind bars. The outcome of PVT Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning’s trial on August 21st, while better than the 60+ years the government’s prosecutors were calling for, is an outrage to the idea of American justice, and should deeply concern democracy advocates everywhere. PVT Manning’s 35-year sentence was condemned by public figures as wide ranging as Cornel West, Ron Paul, and the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project Director Ben Wizner, who stated, [A] legal system that doesn't distinguish between leaks to the press in the public interest and treason against the nation will not only produce unjust results, but will deprive the public of critical information that is necessary for democratic accountability.

Why I Admire Chelsea (Formerly Known As Bradley) Manning

September 5, 2013 Matthew Johnson, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, LGBTQ, Wars and Militarism

I admire Manning for willingly taking on the role of scapegoat to attempt to hold the government accountable in the court of U.S. public opinion, even though she was blocked from doing so in the court in which she stood trial this past summer. While the national security state’s hegemony remains intact, Manning put a sizable dent in its armor. Lastly, I admire her for a different reason — for holding true not only to her principles (namely the commitment to peace and justice through ending the unjust occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq) but to her identity, which is just as inconvenient to the military as the crimes she exposed. She is an inspiration to everyone unfairly closeted due to gender or sexual identity and is now one of the leading foot soldiers in the struggle for transgender recognition and equality.

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