Chelsea Manning

Scores Sign-Up To Go To Jail For Bradley Manning

August 3, 2013 Staff, PopularResistance.org Organize! Chelsea Manning, Solidarity

The goals of the petition are to let Bradley Manning know how much we appreciate his work as a whistleblower for human rights. The petitioners also want to let the sentencing judge, the convening authority and anyone else who reviews the case see that many Americans strongly support Manning to the point where they are willing to go to prison for him. And,we want the media that covers this case to understand that even though spokespersons for the security state attack Manning, the people who he leaked the documents for -- the American people -- see him as a patriotic hero who sought to improve the United States.

Sign Up, Volunteer To Serve Part Of Manning’s Sentence

August 1, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Petitions and Online Actions Chelsea Manning

Join this campaign created by by Charlotte Scot to tell the Convening Authority in the prosecution of Bradley Manning, Major General Jeffrey S. Buchanan, that you will volunteer to serve part of Bradley Manning's sentence. Major General Buchanan has the power to reduce any sentence given to Manning. We will tell to Major General Buchanan how many have signed up to serve part of Manning's sentence so he knows that people feel strongly about the important role Manning has played for the people of the United States.

The Bradley Manning Truth Battalion

August 1, 2013 Molly Crabapple, www.creativetimereports.org Educate! Chelsea Manning

Manning’s supporters recognize why the trial deserves so much more attention. They wear black t-shirts that read “truth.” In the trial’s early days, supporters were banned for wearing clothing with Manning’s face (courts forbid any apparel that conveys an opinion). But the “truth” t-shirts were ambiguous enough to make it past censors. On one occasion, the judge forced supporters to turn their shirts inside out. But the irony felt too heavy. The next day, she allowed the word “truth” to remain legible, undistorted, to the small but devoted public witnessing a trial where the very ability to share the truth about America’s wars was at stake.

Popular Resistance Newsletter: A Smarter, Stronger Movement

August 1, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Environment, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Guantanamo Bay, Tar Sands

As one would expect, the opponents of change have developed strategies to undermine social movements. Steve Horn reports, based on leaked documents from the private security firm StratFor, that their strategy is to divide activists into four groups: Radicals, Idealists, Realists and Opportunists. Opportunists are in the movement for themselves and can be pulled away for their own self-interest. Realists can be convinced that transformative change is not possible and settle for what is possible. Idealists can be convinced they have the facts wrong and pulled to the Realist camp. And finally, Radicals who see a corrupt system as corrupt that requires transformation. They work to isolate and discredit this last group. Using false charges to assassinate their character is a common tactic. They divide and weaken movements to protect the status quo.

Manning Verdict Risks Freedom of the Press if the People Do Not Act

August 1, 2013 Kevin B. Zeese, , PopularResistance.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Freedom of Speech and Assembly

The revelations made in Manning's leaked documents show the importance of press freedom, ironically the verdict threatens press freedom. Manning's courage shows all of us we must act with courage to challenge US militarism and fight for our disappearing freedoms. Manning’s convictions for espionage are the first time a whistleblower has been convicted under the Espionage Act. This 1917 law passed during the propaganda effort to support World War I was designed to criminalize spying against the United States. For a whistleblower to be turned into a spy is a great risk to the First Amendment. Julian Assange described the verdict as “calling journalism ’espionage’” Reporters Without Borders sees the verdict as a threat to investigative journalists and their sources. The Center for Constitutional Rights writes in reaction to the verdict: “What is the future of journalism in this country? What is the future of the First Amendment?”

Cornel West, Chris Hedges To Speak Out For Whistleblower Bradley Manning

July 31, 2013 Staff, www.BradleyManning.org Educate! Chelsea Manning

Sunday, August 4, 2013, from 3 to 5:30 PM for a matinee discussion and trial update for Bradley Manning. Widely renowned scholar Dr. Cornel West and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges will join members of the Bradley Manning Support Network for a special presentation on the legal, journalistic and ethical implications of this historic trial.

Bradley Manning Protest In DC Night Of The Verdict

July 31, 2013 Staff, http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/22973210/protesters-in-support-of-bradley-manning-march-from-dupont-circle-to-white-house#ixzz2aeG64s71" target="_blank" >www.myfoxdc.com Organize! Chelsea Manning

A group of Bradley Manning supporters gathered in Dupont Circle Tuesday night to protest the conviction of the Army Private. Manning was found not guilty of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, but convicted by a judge of espionage, theft and computer fraud for leaking classified documents to the website "Wikileaks." The protesters marched from Dupont Circle to the White House calling Manning a hero for being a whistleblower.

Bradley Manning Is A Prisoner of Conscience

July 31, 2013 Chip Gibbons, www.exitingemerald.blogspot.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Media

One of the most disgraceful elements of the corporate media’s campaign against whistleblower Bradley Manning has been the constant attempts at character assassination. The corporate media, when they cover Manning, constantly need to obsesses over gossipy details of Manning’s personal life. While that may be the grade of material tabloids thrive on it has nothing to do with Manning’s extraordinary act of conscience that will land him in prison for possibly the rest of his life. Bradley Manning is a prisoner of conscience. But we must not rest. We must not only continue to demand his freedom, to demand that those who commit war crimes be prosecuted, not those who blow the whistle on them, but we must also demand an end the senseless dehumanization of foreign people that allows our government to murder and exploit them.

Manning Trial And Verdict Expose Empire

July 31, 2013 Jeremy Zentner, www.english.ruvr.ru Educate! Chelsea Manning, Media, Wars and Militarism

You know, they’ve done their best in the military to keep Manning’s story out of the media and they’ve been very intimidating at the media. Just the first day of closing argument the media room had camouflage troops with weapons walking up and down the looking over the shoulders of reporters. They were intensely searched when they went in and out of the room. The media has not been given access to the documents so that they can understand the case. The military did a great job by keeping it out of the press. But the impact is much bigger than that, even with that, because there is a lot of discussion online, on the social networks – on Facebook, on Twitter. People who care about these issues know about that. And someone like Edward Snowden, for example, - the NSA whistleblower – says he was inspired by Bradley Manning and mistreatment of Manning actually encouraged him to leak the NSA spying documents.

What Does the Manning Verdict Mean for Edward Snowden?

July 31, 2013 Elias Groll, www.foreignpolicy.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

Though the military court acquitted Manning of the most serious charge -- aiding the enemy -- it convicted him on five charges of espionage under a legal rationale similar to the one presented by prosecutors in indicting Snowden under the 1917 Espionage Act. In past cases in which the government pressed espionage charges against members of the intelligence community who provided classified information to the media, the government had to prove "bad faith" -- that the accused intended to harm U.S. interests. If there was ever to be a legal reprieve for men like Manning and Snowden, it lay in the "bad faith" provision and the argument that these whistleblowers had in fact acted in the best interests of the nation. But that provision has been jettisoned in more recent rulings, a precedent continued by Lind.

Center for Constitution Rights On Manning Verdict

July 31, 2013 Staff, ccrjustice.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Freedom of Speech and Assembly

The Espionage Act itself is a discredited relic of the WWI era, created as a tool to suppress political dissent and antiwar activism, and it is outrageous that the government chose to invoke it in the first place against Manning. Government employees who blow the whistle on war crimes, other abuses and government incompetence should be protected under the First Amendment. We now live in a country where someone who exposes war crimes can be sentenced to life even if not found guilty of aiding the enemy, while those responsible for the war crimes remain free. If the government equates being a whistleblower with espionage or aiding the enemy, what is the future of journalism in this country? What is the future of the First Amendment?

Assange: Journalism Is Now Espionage

July 30, 2013 B y Julian Assange, www.wikileaks.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Bradley Manning’s alleged disclosures have exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions, and induced democratic reform. He is the quintessential whistleblower. This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short sighted judgment that can not be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is ’espionage’. In 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama ran on a platform that praised whistleblowing as an act of courage and patriotism. That platform has been comprehensively betrayed. His campaign document described whistleblowers as watchdogs when government abuses its authority. It was removed from the internet last week.

Amnesty International: Manning Prosecution Shows Misplaced Priorities

July 30, 2013 Carol Gregory, www.amnestyusa.org Educate! Chelsea Manning

"The government’s pursuit of the 'aiding the enemy' charge was a serious overreach of the law, not least because there was no credible evidence of Manning’s intent to harm the United States by releasing classified information to Wikileaks," said Widney Brown, senior director of international law and policy at Amnesty International. "The government’s priorities are upside down. The U.S. government has refused to investigate credible allegations of torture and other crimes under international law despite overwhelming evidence. "Yet they decided to prosecute Manning who it seems was trying to do the right thing - reveal credible evidence of unlawful behavior by the government. You investigate and prosecute those who destroy the credibility of the government by engaging in acts such as torture which are prohibited under the U.S. Constitution and in international law."

Manning Verdict Blow For Investigative Journalism And Its Sources

July 30, 2013 Staff, en.rsf.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Media

Reporters Without Borders regards today’s verdict in U.S. Army private Bradley Manning’s trial as dangerous. Although acquitted of “aiding the enemy,” he was found guilty of five counts of espionage and five counts of theft, for which he could receive a combined sentence of more than 100 years in prison. “The conditions in which Manning has been held, his unfair trial and the lack of transparencyduring the hearings speak volumes about the fate reserved for whistle-blowers and the way the rule of law is being flouted. Edward Snowden would have every reason to fear persecution, as defined by the Geneva Conventions, if he were to return to the United States.”

Video-Noam Chomsky: The State Fears Its Own People

July 30, 2013 Staff, www.alternet.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Democracy, Edward Snowden, Government, NSA, Surveillance, Video

Noam Chomsky said that whistleblower Edward Snowden, who remains in Russia after releasing a trove of documents about secret NSA surveillance, should be honored. "He was doing what every citizen ought to do," Chomsky says in the video below. "He was telling Americans what the government is doing." Chomsky goes on to explain that governments always claim security as their justification for civil liberties abuses, but that overwhelmingly the security in question is that of the state ... from its own population. To smatterings of applause, Chomsky goes on to explain how America's drone campaign abroad is a far bigger threat to our security than leaked information about surveillance.

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