July 29, 2013. By the Bradley Manning Support Network. 17 MEPs have written a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to free WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. The MEPs laud Manning for exposing “evidence of human rights abuses and apparent war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan” in accordance with international law.
Read More ...July 27, 2013. By the Bradley Manning Support Network. Supporters in more than 40 cities are taking action for Bradley Manning today, while yesterday, immediately following the defense team’s closing arguments, a mass rally was held in front of Maj. Gen. Buchanan’s office – the convening authority in the trial who can lower any possible sentence Manning might receive.
Read More ...July 22, 2013. Bradley Manning Support Network press release. Supporters of WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning are demonstrating outside the office of Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan at Ft. McNair in Washington D.C., on July 26, 3-5:30pm. Maj. Gen. Buchanan is the new Convening Authority in Manning’s case and courts martial in the D.C. area, so he’ll have the power to reduce any jail sentence Manning receives.
Read More ...In an extremely rare, last-minute move weeks after the government rested its case, military judge Col. Denise Lind allowed prosecutors to expand their rebuttal case, making way for unsupported accusations against Pfc Bradley Manning. The late addition exceeded the usual limits of a simple rebuttal, once again raising supporters’ and journalists’ suspicions about the validity and fairness of the proceedings.
Read More ...June 19, 2013. By the Bradley Manning Support Network. While Pfc. Bradley Manning stands trial at Ft. Meade, MD, pop-culture celebrities declare their support for the Army whistleblower, in a five-minute advocacy video released late yesterday. More than 20 Hollywood actors, musicians, and other well-known leaders released statements of supper in the new video, titled “I am Bradley Manning.”
Read More ...November 9, 2012. “I’ve backed Bradley Manning on the belief that he was the heroic whistle-blower in question,” explained Jeff Paterson of the Support Network. “Now that Bradley appears to have acknowledged this in court, its reason to redouble efforts to support him.” This trial may now pose a simple question to Judge Lind, “Bradley Manning–idealistic and patriotic whistle-blower or enemy of the state?” This is a question welcomed by Bradley’s supporters.
Read More ...September 7, 2012. By the Bradley Manning Support Network. On the day of President Obama’s DNC nomination acceptance speech, protesters in 34 cities acoss the United States targeted local Obama campaign headquarters to demand the President free accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower and Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning. International supporters, in Australia and the U.K., also protested at U.S. embassies.
Read More ...September 7, 2012. By the Bradley Manning Support Network. Yesterday, following speeches from Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, 100 protesters marched to the location of President Obama’s Official San Francisco Democratic Acceptance Speech Watch Party. In a room full of local Democratic officials, Obama activists and donors, they delivered a message demanding that the President free accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower and Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning.
Read More ...June 26, 2012. Bradley Manning Support Network. In a legal victory for PFC Bradley Manning’s defense, Military Judge Denise Lind ordered prosecutors to explain their misleading statements in court and to account for discovery mishandling thus far.
Read More ...March 12, 2012. Bradley Manning Support Network. A broad coalition of media outlets sent a letter of protest to top Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson today, complaining that “the overwhelming majority of court records filed in [PFC Bradley] Manning’s court-martial have remained shielded from public view.” They say that the U.S. military’s “unnecessary degree of secrecy” has prevented journalists from adequately covering issues of considerable public interest.
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