Chelsea Manning

Bradley Manning: “I Will Recover From This”

August 21, 2013 Alexa O'Brien, www.thedailybeast.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

Just after receiving a sentence of 35 years in prison for transmitting hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and U.S. Army reports to WikiLeaks in 2010, Bradley Manning was in a surprisingly “cheerful mood,” according to his attorney. “He said, 'Hey It's OK. It's alright. I know you did everything you could for me. Don't cry. Be happy. It's fine. This is just a stage in my life. I am moving forward. I will recover from this,’” his defense lawyer David Coombs said in an interview conducted immediately after the sentencing. Presiding military judge Col. Dense Lind, sternly handed down the sentence to a packed courtroom, stating only, “Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, this Court sentences you to be reduced to the grade of Private E-1, to forfeit all pay and allowances, to be confined for 35 years, and to be dishonorably discharged from the service.”

Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years, Supporters Continue Efforts

August 21, 2013 the Bradley Manning Support Network, www.bradleymanning.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Criminal Justice and Prisons

WikiLeaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today, an outrage that flies in the face of America’s essential ideals of accountability in government, and which seeks to instill a chilling effect on those who’d dare to expose the United States’ illegality. A heroic soldier of conscience, Manning witnessed war crimes, rampant corruption, and covert abuse while stationed in Baghdad in 2009-10, and exposed what he saw by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic files to the transparency website WikiLeaks. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three years in a row. Earlier this month, more than 100,000 signatures in support of his 2013 nomination were delivered to the Nobel committee in Norway. Military judge Col. Denise Lind’s sentence is an outright injustice that we cannot accept.

Show Your Support For Bradley Manning When He Is Sentenced

August 20, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Chelsea Manning

Get ready to show your support for Bradley Manning. His sentence will probably be announced on Wednesday, but could come as early as late Tuesday or as late as Thursday. Please join in local protests demanding that the US government Free Bradley Manning, and help build a sustained movement to make sure that happens.

The Whistleblower’s Mad Moral Courage

August 20, 2013 Christopher Yates, www.theguardian.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

The whistleblower is arguably more mindful of an organisation's stated values and standards than the vast majority of its members and affiliates – so much so that keeping quiet or going along with it or walking away is not an option. The final irony lies in the whistleblower's faith in normal people, the assumption that they will welcome being less deceived, and use the revelations to press for reform in their governments and institutions. For these delusions, whistleblowers have been punished, again and again, throughout history. But for whatever reasons, still they do it.

See Livestream: THE RADICALISATION OF BRADLEY MANNING

August 20, 2013 Educate! Chelsea Manning

The Edinburgh Festival is providing livestream of the award winning film about Bradley Manning from August 6th to 25thy, 2013 "The Radicalization of Bradley Manning" is written by Tim Price and directed by John McGrath Bradley Manning is the 25-year old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret embassy cables and military logs from the Iraq and Afghan wars. After more than three years in prison without charge, Manning is now awaiting his sentence, having been found guilty of crimes that could mean life in prison. But just a few years ago, he was a teenager in west Wales. How did this happen? And who is responsible for his radicalisation?

Prosecution Asks For Minimum 60 Years In Manning Case

August 19, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

As a military judge prepares to sentence Army Private first class Bradley Manning over the largest intelligence leak in United States history, prosecutors asked Monday for the WikiLeaks source to receive no fewer than 60 years behind bars. Before closing arguments in the sentencing phase of Pfc. Manning’s court-martial came to a close Monday afternoon, US prosecutors asked Col. Denise Lind to send the convicted soldier to prison for “no less than 60 years.” David Coombs, the lead civilian attorney for Pfc. Manning, asked Lind for "a sentence that allows him to have a life." Manning would be able to apply for parole once one-third of that time is served.

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 004

August 17, 2013 Acronym TV, www.youtube.com Resistance Report Chelsea Manning, Egypt, Nuclear Energy, Police abuse, Racism

Stories covered in the Resistance Report: Egypt: What Role Did The U.S. Play in the Military Coup? Wherein I ask ret. Col. Ann Wright if the U.S. is behind the Military Coup in Egypt. Dream Defenders Declare Victory 31 Days and 30 nights, and the work have just begun. Moral Monday's Power Change something is happening here. And here. And here, and.... Stop and Frisk Declared Unconstitutional! Sorry Bloomberberg, but you suck! Fukushima: Japan's Apocalypse Continues Armageddon NOW! Bradley Manning Apology: An Interview with Alexa O'Brien. What does Manning's Apology really mean?

Under Obama, Tyranny Is the New Transparency

August 17, 2013 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends, www.blackagendareport Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Racism, Whistleblowers

Jesselyn Radack in a recent August 2nd Washington Post article titled, Bradley Manning’s Conviction Sends a Chilling Message writes: "With the guilty verdict against Pfc. Bradley Manning, President Obama has won what Nixon could not: an Espionage Act conviction against a government employee accused of mishandling classified information. Obama’s administration has relied heavily on the draconian World War I-era law—meant for prosecuting spies, not whistleblowers—in its ruthless, unprecedented war on 'leaks,' invoking it seven times (more than all other U.S. presidents combined) to go after people who reveal information embarrassing to the United States or worse that exposes its crimes.”

Manning: Nothing To Apologize For

August 16, 2013 the Bradley Manning Support Network, www.bradleymanning.org Organize! Chelsea Manning

As the defense closed its sentencing case yesterday, whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning – facing 90 years in prison on six Espionage Act convictions – apologized to military judge Colonel Denise Lind for the way in which he exposed the horrific crimes and abuses he witnessed in America’s wars and diplomacy abroad. “I should have worked more aggressively inside the system,” noted Manning on the stand. The defense’s cross-examination of prosecution witnesses in open court revealed that no deaths or casualties have been connected to WikiLeaks releases, despite soaring government rhetoric since 2010. The defense tried a number of times to get the judge to consider overclassification and other big picture issues affecting the case, but her ruling in the merits portion showed she was not willing to do so. In closed court, prosecution witnesses were allowed to talk about indirect harm—primarily the money and Government resources expended reacting to the release of the documents. Meanwhile, the Defense was barred from addressing the many positive outcomes of the releases. In that context, Manning stated, “I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I’m sorry I hurt the United States.”

Repeal The Espionage Act To Protect Journalists & Whistleblowers

August 15, 2013 Robert Naiman, www.truth-out.org Organize! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, NSA, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

"You don't have to think that Edward Snowden or Bradley Manning or John Kiriakou are heroes (for the record, I do think that they are heroes - and patriots, Mr. President - but if you don't, I still want to recruit you for reform) to say that these men should not have been, and should not be, charged as foreign spies, nor threatened with being so charged. To treat government employees - or government contractors - who leak classified information to the media in the public interest as foreign spies is a deep stain on our democracy."

Robert Meeropol, Son Of Rosenbergs, On Manning’s Act of Conscience

August 15, 2013 Rober Meeropol, www.timesunion.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

"Manning also wrote: "I can't separate myself from others," and he continued, "I feel connected to everybody, like they were distant family." Isn't that how we all should be thinking? Manning believed that everyone in this messy human family we've created deserved to know the truth, and he was so appalled by what he considered U.S. war crimes in Iraq that he felt compelled to act. He will go to prison for that."

Manning Statement At Sentencing, Difficult Childhood

August 14, 2013 Alexa O'Brien, www.alexaobrien.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Video

It was a very emotional day at the Bradley Manning sentencing hearing. After hearing from two expert witnesses on Manning's psychiatric history, his sister, Casey Major, testified describing a very difficult childhood for Manning with two alcoholic parents she raised Manning (she is 11 years older than he is). Manning's sister, Casey Major, provided the court with an insight of their difficult upbringing with two alcoholic parents. Major, 36, said that while her father, Brian, was a "functional alcoholic", who could get up to work after drinking, her mother, Susan, had a more serious problem. She said her mother drank hard liquor from around lunchtime, and would often continue through the night until she had passed out. Asked how often she was drunk, Major replied: "At least every day."

The Whistleblowers At The Frontier Of Digital Liberation

August 14, 2013 Nozomi Hayase, www.http://roarmag.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Government, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Computer scientist Nadia Heninger has argued that leaking information is now becoming the “civil disobedience of our age”. The late historian and activist Howard Zinn described the act of civil disobedience as “the deliberate, discriminate, violation of law for a vital social purpose”. He advocated it saying that such an act “becomes not only justifiable but necessary when a fundamental human right is at stake and when legal channels are inadequate for securing that right”. Snowden’s act was clearly one of civil disobedience. John Lewis, US Representative and veteran civil rights leader recently noted that Snowden was “continuing the tradition of civil disobedience by revealing details of classified US surveillance programs”.

Bradley Manning, The Nuremberg Charter And Refusing To Collaborate

August 13, 2013 Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Video, Wars and Militarism

Sixty-eight years ago on August 8 was the signing of the Nuremberg Charter, which established the crime of wars against humanity and the whole concept of war crimes. It was signed by all the major Western countries and the Soviet Union. It was signed by the United States. And let me read you a couple of clauses from that charter. Principle IV of the Nuremberg Charter: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." Or Principle VII: "Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principles VI is a crime under international law."

Bradley Manning To Testify At His Sentencing Hearing

August 11, 2013 Staff, www.ap.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Wars and Militarism

Bradley Manning will make a rare statement before his defense finishes arguments in his sentencing hearing next week, his lawyers said Friday. The 25-year-old faces up to 90 years in prison for the largest leak of classified government information in US history. Manning did not make a statement at his trial. Defense attorney David Coombs said Manning will give a statement Wednesday. The defense team is set to begin presenting evidence Monday. Manning says he leaked the material to expose wrongdoing and provoke discussion about US military and diplomatic affairs, while the prosecution's case has tried to show what damage the leaks may have caused.

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