April 19, 2011, by David Coombs, attorney for Bradley Manning. “Although the news of the move came as a surprise to the defense, the timing did not… the defense was in the process of filing a writ of habeas corpus seeking a court ruling that the Quantico Brig violated PFC Manning’s constitutional right to due process.”
Read More »April 11, 2011, by FireDogLake.org. Sign the petition: “We call on you to stop obstructing official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning at Quantico Marine Base. Marine confinement rules clearly state that people “conducting official government business… Rep. Dennis Kucinich is clearly conducting official government business in the interest of justice. He should be allowed to official visits with PFC. Manning, along with officials from the United Nations and Amnesty International.”
Read More »April, 11th, 2011. Nearly 300 of the top law scholars in the United States have just called on the Obama administration to end the torturous treatment of Bradley Manning.
The strongly worded open letter, published in the New York Times Review of Books on Monday, called the condition’s of Manning’s detention a violation Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee against punishment without trial.
Read More »April 8, 2011. Sign the Avaaz petition. The online action site whose subscribers number over 7 million, has joined us in calling for President Obama to end Bradley’s inhumane treatment at Quantico. Their online petition has already collected a half million signatures in less than a week.
Read More »April 7, 2011. Disregarding its on rules, the Quantico brig has formally blocked an official visit for Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Mr. Juan Mendez (the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture), and a representative from Amnesty International, to investigate Bradley Manning’s situation.
Read More »April 6, 2011, by Micaela Ward, Revolution Truth. When I saw the Collateral Murder video, taken from an Apache helicopter manned by US troops in Iraq, in which innocent journalists and Iraqi civilians were killed, clearly without cause, I was appalled but hardly surprised. In light of what we saw from Abu Ghraib, it was further proof that some members of our armed forces have no business wearing the uniform…
Read More »April 5, 2011. As we lead up to the Bradley Manning Solidarity Weekend for artists and organizers, here are some images from C.T. Brown. These paintings depict the human cost of the Iraq war, a reality that was brought first-hand to the public by the release of the Collateral Murder video.
Read More »March 23, 2011. Activists from San Francisco anti-war groups took to the streets over the weekend to perform creative actions to educate the public about Bradley Manning’s plight.
Read More »March 22, 2011. Hundreds joined Daniel Ellsberg, Army Colonel Ann Wright (ret.), David House, Jeff Paterson, and dozens of organizations at Quantico, Virginia on March 20, 2011 to rally for Bradley Manning. Speakers rallied the crowd against Bradley’s extreme pre-trial punishment and the wars the US is waging in the Middle East. Dozens were arrested in an act of civil disobedience at the base entrance.
Read More »March 22, 2011. Great videos are available from the “Rally for Bradley!” held at the gates of Quantico, Virginia. Videos by: Imaging America / Instant Films, CNN, Glass Bead Collective, and Taytaba.
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