Update 8/21/12: Chase Madar talk in Cape Cod, Veterans for Peace UK action, video from Portland
Cape Cod. Tonight! Chase Madar, author of “The Passion of Bradley Manning”, will be speaking about the national security benefits of Bradley Manning’s alleged acts. The Cape Cod Times provides an excellent write up of Madar’s book and Bradley’s trial, “‘The Passion of Bradley Manning,’ makes a powerful case that Manning is the “last great Enlightenment martyr” whose shoot-the-messenger predicament teaches an uncomfortable truth about our post-9/11 national security state.” Finally, “the true story of Pfc. Manning isn’t simply that “he deserves not prison, but a Presidential Medal of Freedom,” as the first chapter concludes; it’s that “we need to get rid of this idea that cluelessness makes us safer.” Read more…
Take action! London, UK. On Saturday August 25, 2012 Veterans for Peace UK is organizing a silent vigil for Bradley Manning. Supporters will be gathering at 2pm at the United States embassy, and from there they will be marching to the Ecuadorian embassy. Some signs will be provided but supporters are encouraged to bring their own. Read more…
Last week veterans in Oakland, Portland, and Los Angeles, and at some recruiting centers in Las Vegas and Seattle, demanded that President Obama retract and apologize remarks he made in which he said Bradley Manning “broke the law.” Here is video from Portland showing protesters braving 100 degree heat at five different army recruiting locations. Later in the afternoon protesters from all the recruiting locations marched and converged on the Obama campaign headquarters where several sat peacefully in civil disobedience while waiting to be arrested. In all five were arrested, including 75 year old Nan Wigmore a passionate activist who had also attended recent Nato protests in Chicago. Read more…
You guys Birgitta Jónsdóttir’s petition to the Nobel Committee needs help reaching the goal of 20K signatures Please sign it and post it everywhere you can.Lets help Bradley get the Nobel Peace Prize http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6194