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When Will US Government Stop Persecuting Whistleblowers?

March 22, 2016 Chelsea E Manning, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Chelsea E Manning for The Guardian - The US government is heavily invested in an internal surveillance program that is unsustainable, ineffective, morally reprehensible, inherently dangerous and ultimately counterproductive. In the months following the US government’s initial charges against me over the release of government records in 2010, the current administration formed theNational Insider Threat Task Force under the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several other US government agencies.

Listen To Chelsea’s Story: In Her Own Words

March 19, 2016 Staff, www.chelseamanning.org ,
By Staff of the Chelsea Manning Support Network - One of the most trying aspects of Chelsea’s imprisonment has been the inability for the public to hear or see her; prison restrictions do not allow any kind of photographs, visual or audio recordings. The most recent photo we even have of Chelsea was taken by the prison in February of last year, and Chelsea had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to even receive it! And yet, our voices and our image have always been an integral part of our identity. Our humanity. Chelsea has said, “I feel like I’ve been stored away all this time without a voice.”

Anti-War Activist Ciaron O’Reilly: Conventional Protests Are ‘A Dead End’

January 12, 2016 Joshua Robertson, www.theguardian.com , , , ,
By Joshua Robertson for The Guardian - A quarter of a century has passed since Ciaron O’Reilly, with a sledgehammer and a bottle of his own blood, took his first tilt at the US war machine. The Brisbane-born man served what is believed to be the longest jail stint for a civilian protester on US soil during the first Gulf war, over a New Year’s Day sortie by a band of Catholic peace activists into Griffiss air force base in New York in 1991. He poured blood on a runway from a bottle bearing pictures of Iraqi children and smashed up the tarmac till his hands were blistered, while his cohorts did the same to the engine of a B-52 bomber on standby for raids in the Gulf. O’Reilly served 13 months in jail, which nearly broke him at first.

In Prison, The Holiday Season Is Grim

December 26, 2015 Chelsea Manning, www.theguardian.com ,
By Chelsea Manning for The Guardian - Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought. But now, Decembers are becoming the hardest month of the year to endure. The most obvious reasons are physical: the temperature drops; here in Kansas, it rains and snows a lot more; the colors outside my window turn from the greens, yellows and blues of summer to the browns, grays and tans of winter, with the occasional white on the rare days that it snows.

ACLU Brief: Military Continues To Harm Chelsea Manning’s Health

December 23, 2015 Jos Truitt, www.feministing.com ,
By Jos Truitt for Feministing - Last night, the ACLU filed an opposition brief in the case of Chelsea Manning’s medical care. The military finally began providing Manning hormones at the beginning of this year, but they are still requiring her to follow male grooming standards. ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio explained to me, “Chelsea has been fighting since she arrived at the [United States Disciplinary Barracks] more than two years ago to receive treatment for her gender dysphoria and to be treated like the woman that she is.

Manning Calls For Abolition Of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

November 4, 2015 Chelsea Manning, www.medium.com , ,
By Chelsea Manning for Medium - Taking on the Most Difficult Undertaking in Prison (So Far), Not shooting from the hip — writing opinions and a bill in prison is hard work. I recently published an op-ed in The Guardian and a bill to abolish the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and to transfer the controversial surveillance authority from the secretive court to a good ol’ fashioned U.S. District Court. I’m way ahead of your question — What the hell did I get myself into? The answer is: the most difficult undertaking since arriving here after mycourt-martial in 2013.

Act Out! [26] – Whistleblowers, Secret Societies & Diplomacy

August 29, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com , ,
By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - It’s our six-month anniversary! And we’re celebrating with whistleblowers – because everyone loves a whistleblower! From Chelsea Manning to John Kiriakou, we’re breaking down the lunacy of charging them as spies, and giving you the tools to help support those who speak out against injustices in our government. Next up, let’s take a trip to England, where the world’s most disappointing theme park has just opened. Believe me, you’ll wanna see it! Then Silent Bill gives us a rundown of the Secret Society of Super Villain Artists – doing good and having fun while doing it. And finally, here’s how you can join the fight to stop fighting and let diplomacy prevail over war. #NoWarWithIran. But first, we gotta go to the emergency room.

Chelsea Found Guilty Of Infractions, Spared Solitary Confinement

August 20, 2015 Chelsea Manning Support Network, www.chelseamanning.org , , ,
By Chelsea Manning Support Network - We are only $15,000 short on paying for Chelsea’s appeal! Please donate today. After 100k petitions were delivered to the Army yesterday, the secret disciplinary panel at Fort Leavenworth military prison sentenced Chelsea to 21 days of restrictions on her recreational activities, including no access to the gym, library or outdoors. Supporters delivering 100,000 petitions to Army officials the morning of Chelsea’s hearing. Chelsea Twitter Chelsea’s reactions, over the last 24 hours, to being found guilty of prison infractions. Chelsea doesn’t have Internet access in prison, so she tells us what to post during our regular phone calls with her. We won an important victory by keeping Chelsea out of “indefinite solitary confinement;” however, this ruling of guilty on all four absurd charges is not without significant ramifications. “Now these convictions will follow me through to any parole and clemency hearings, forever. "

Chelsea Manning Faces Indefinite Solitary Confinement

August 19, 2015 Courage, www.couragefound.org ,
By Courage - Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, serving 35 years in prison for releasing hundreds of thousands of US Army and diplomatic cables, exposing scores of human rights abuses, has a hearing today, 18 August, in which she faces indefinite solitary confinement as punishment for appallingly trivial charges. Manning, who already endured torturous pretrial conditions for which military judge Denise Lind took 112 days off of her sentence, is being penalised for possessing magazines like Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, the Senate Torture Report and “expired” toothpaste, as well as brushing food crumbs onto the floor and “being disrespectful” to a prison official. The websiteFreeChelsea.com documents the charges and hosts a petition supporting Manning with more than 100,000 signers.

Crackdown On Manning Intensifies Before Confinement Hearing

August 17, 2015 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Deirdre Fulton in Common Dreams - Military prison authorities are allegedly denying whistleblower Chelsea Manning access to the facility's legal library, just two days before a disciplinary board hearing that will decide whether she is placed in solitary confinement for what her supporters and lawyers say are innocuous offenses—like possession of a tube of expired toothpaste. As Common Dreams reported, the Chelsea Manning Support Network revealed last week that prison authorities are using trumped up charges—including "medicine misuse" and "prohibited property"—to silence Manning, who has become a Guardiancolumnist and outspoken advocate for transgender, privacy, and prisoners' rights during her incarceration. The disciplinary board hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, will take place behind closed doors, despite Manning's request that the proceedings be made public.

Chelsea Manning Facing Solitary Confinement For Books & Toothpaste

August 14, 2015 Chelsea Manning Support Network, www.chelseamanning.org ,
By Chelsea Manning Support Network - Aside from her 35-year prison sentence, Chelsea Manning is now facing indefinite solitary confinement to be determined in a closed hearing August 18th. Donate today to Chelsea’s legal defense fund, to beat back this attack and to help her challenge her unjust 35-year prison sentence. Chelsea faces this incomprehensibly severe punishment as a result of ridiculously innocuous institutional offenses, including the possession of books and magazines related to politics and LBGTQ issues (which she received openly via the prison mail system), and having a tube of toothpaste that was past its expiration date–deemed “medical mis-use”. The catalyst for this attack on Chelsea seems to have been an incident in the mess hall where she may have brushed, or accidentally knocked, a tiny amount of food off of her table. When aggressively confronted by a guard, she asked to speak to her lawyer.

Chelsea Manning Legal Defense: First Look Media Matching Funds

July 16, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
By Staff for Popular Resistance - First Look Media’s Press Freedom Litigation Fund and the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) are announcing the launch of a matching fund campaign to support the legal defense of U.S. Army intelligence analyst turned whistleblower Chelsea Manning. First Look Media’s Press Freedom Litigation Fund will match $50,000 in donations to the campaign along with Glenn Greenwald, Intercept co-founder and journalist, who will personally match $10,000 for the initiative. Said Chelsea Manning: “Being in prison while trying to figure out how I will pay for my legal appeal has been a great source of stress and anxiety. I’m so honored that a new campaign is supporting me in my effort to vindicate my legal rights, and I am truly grateful to anyone who is helping.”

Global Support For Chelsea Manning At Pride 2015

July 9, 2015 Chelsea Manning Support Network, www.chelseamanning.org ,
By Chelsea Manning Support Network - This summer, Chelsea Manning supporters came out to Pride events globally to march and stand by for our heroic Wikileaks whistleblower. New York City, London, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Salina, Philadelphia, St. Petersburg, Los Angeles and Seattle all featured Chelsea contingents. Participants marched and carried banners, performed in street theatre & flash-mob dance groups, passed out stickers & buttons to the crowd, and raised awareness of Chelsea and her upcoming legal appeals to crowds of thousands. In the SF Pride parade, a synchronized dance group performed a routine to Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don’t Care About Us’. Former military strategist Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, marched alongside supporters.

The Campaign To Free Chelsea Manning Continues

June 7, 2015 Charles Davis, www.fpif.org , ,
By Charles Davis for Foreign Policy In Focus. In 2013, a military court sentenced Manning to 35 years behind bars for leaking that evidence, including thousands upon thousands of diplomatic cables, to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. The guilty verdict came after Manning was subjected to 11 months of what the UN special rapporteur on torture called “cruel and inhuman” solitary confinement. If she serves her full sentence, Manning, now 27, will be 60 years old when released, though she will reportedly become eligible for parole in 2020. But supporters want her out now — and believe that the way she was treated before she went to trial could be the key. “We have to appeal this on Chelsea’s behalf,” said criminal defense attorney Nancy Hollander, one of a team of lawyers looking to do just that. “We have to appeal this for all of our sake…And we really have to stop this because it is illegal for the government of the United States to classify info that embarrasses the government.” But justice is expensive. In 2014 alone, the Chelsea Manning Defense Fund spent $149,000 out of a total of $247,000 in donations on Manning’s legal team. As of March 31, 2015, that team was owed close to $100,000.

Two Years Ago Today, Snowden Was In Hong Kong

June 5, 2015 Edward Snowden, www.ACLU.org , , , , ,
By Edward Snowden for ACLU Action. Two years ago today, in a Hong Kong hotel room, three journalists and I waited nervously to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been collecting records of nearly every phone call in the United States. Though we have come a long way, the right to privacy remains under attack. Last month, the NSA’s invasive call-tracking program was declared unlawful by a federal appeals court in ACLU v. Clapper, and it was disowned by Congress. And, after a White House investigation found that the program never stopped a single terrorist attack, even President Obama ordered it terminated. This is because of you. This is the power of an informed public.
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