Click through and sign now! Justice for Bradley Manning petition In a few weeks, depending on what the response trend is, this will be sent to the DoD and major media outlets covering the story, plus a paper copy to Brad Manning himself. Your comments are welcome here, but don’t forget to sign over there! [...]

Open http://facebook.com/savebradley in Google Chrome (claimed to work in Firefox also but I can’t confirm) Click “suggest to friends” at left Paste this code into your address bar: javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}} Press ENTER Click “send invitations”

Via Howie in Seattle: Democracy Now! with video, audio: Pentagon investigators are reportedly still searching for Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who helped release a classified US military video showing a US helicopter gunship indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. The US military recently arrested Army Specialist Bradley Manning, who may have passed on the video to [...]

Called the brig back just now, confirmed and clarified the address for sending postal communication to Bradley Manning provided earlier in a comment here by John Boy: Inmate: Bradley Manning TFCF (Theater Field Confinement Facility) APO AE 09366 USA If you’re based in the US and want to send Bradley some words of encouragement, please [...]

I just got finished with 3 phone calls to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, and confirmed from the officer who answered the phone at the brig that Manning is being held at that facility. Call path: Camp Arifjan emergency: +965 6682 2120 MPs: +965 2389 1343 (“‘brig’ is old school, we don’t call it that anymore”) [...]

Friends, In the interest of putting first things first, I’ve just forwarded the $50 I received from three generous donors on to WikiLeaks, with an earmark request to use it to defray all expenses related to “Collateral Murder”, Bradley Manning’s defense and any other material they may release based on Manning’s leak. Thank you to [...]

From the World Socialist Web Site comes an excellent summary of the Bradley Manning case. For those that are not familiar with this cause or wonder why it is so important for ordinary people like us to help some soldier awaiting trial, this is a great introduction: Hands off WikiLeaks! 14 June 2010 Pentagon officials [...]

Via WikiLeaks on Twitter, an excellent comment from “defendwikileaks” on Boing Boing’s article “Video: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg at Personal Democracy Forum“: How sad it is to see the climate in the United States today — the majority is still lock-step in line with the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us [...]

Just sent to the Maryland and DC chapters of the ACLU: Dear ACLU Maryland and DC, I’m trying to organize a campaign (via bradleymanning.org) to support (and hopefully free) Bradley Manning, the US Army intelligence specialist now imprisoned in Kuwait for leaking the “Collateral Murder” video and other material. I would like to inquire, on [...]

Just sent to Amnesty International via their main website: Dear Amnesty, I’m trying to organize a campaign (via bradleymanning.org) to support (and hopefully free) Bradley Manning, the US Army intelligence specialist now imprisoned in Kuwait for leaking the “Collateral Murder” video and other material. If you are organizing a campaign of any sort around this [...]