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Bradley Manning: Solidarity in Cardiff 16-24 April

WISE Up for Bradley Manning | 23.04.2012 22:46 | Repression | Terror War

Here are some photos of what we've been doing in Cardiff over the past week in connection with Bradley Manning. Solidarity events continue tomorrow in Cardiff on the first day of Bradley's next court hearing:  https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495137.html


















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from Pembrokeshire and first night in Cardiff with Craig Murray:  https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495095.html

THIS PAST WEEK...

LIBRARY EXHIBITION

We've been hanging out at the library talking with folk about Guy Smallman's photos of Afghanistan. The exhibition looks great - powerful images, lovely light, in a great location in the library and attracting lots of interest from library users, including many of middle eastern origin.

We've had a lot of conversations about Bradley Manning too, with people who already know his story and want to discuss his mistreatment to those who've never heard his name before. The exhibition includes a tape recording of Bradley Manning 'in his own words' containing extracts from the chat logs released by Adrian Lamo. For example:

"hypothetical question: if you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time… say, 8-9 months… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?"

CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE STALL

We spent a morning at Chapter Arts in Canton, although their enthusiasm for our presence was apparently a mistake - they thought we were promoting NTW's performances of 'The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning' and weren't nearly so keen on us promoting our solidarity events (which include the sort of arts events we'd have thought Chapter would be happy to promote) alongside the play. It was at the point that we spread our tablecloth decorated with 'War kills children and other precious living things' that they decided we weren't welcome, although they graciously allowed us to stay in the foyer all morning and only occasionally queried when we were leaving. It was still school holidays, so we had a lot of children passing by. People wrote letters of solidarity to Bradley, others tried their hand at the quiz, took flyers and stopped to talk.

THE PLAY

We've been at the play 'The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning' after every public performance, handing out flyers and stickers and talking with anyone who feels inclined to stop and share their thoughts. Reactions to the play have been overwhelmingly positive. We've been handing out CND Cymru's bilingual briefing paper on Bradley Manning to anyone who's asked for more information. We hope that some of the concern translates into support and solidarity in the coming weeks and months of the court martial.

CAAT REGIONAL MEETING

On Saturday, two of us spent the day at the Campaign Against Arms Trade regional meeting where we had a stall for Bradley Manning. People took information, signed up for the WISE Up email list  https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/wiseupforbradleymanning and wrote solidarity letters to Bradley.

LIVE STREAM SCREENING OF THE PLAY

On Saturday night, the Red and Black Umbrella squatted social centre hosted a screening of the live streamed play followed by a bit of a discussion. Fantastic big screen experience and surround sound... once the technical issues had been resolved. See this review which mentions the screening:  http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/the-radicalisation-of-bradley-manning/

BANNER HANG

Sunday afternoon, we took advantage of a break in the otherwise persistent rain to do a multiple banner hang at the major road junction of North Road and Boulevard de Nantes at the pedestrian entrance to Bute Park, extra busy on account of the Royal Horticultural Show. Lots of flower show visitors asking 'Who's Bradley Manning?'

COMEDY NIGHT

Lovely venue and a shame more people didn't turn up, but great music from Jack Omer on Sunday night in spite of the dodgy sound system. A learning experience...

WHAT'S NEXT?

On Tuesday 24th, we'll be in Cardiff city centre outside Central Market from midday with a 'Free Food, Free Bradley Manning!' stall on the day that Bradley's next pre-trial 'motions' hearing begins at Fort Meade, Maryland. In the evening, there will be a screening of Jim Spione's Oscar nominated short documentary film based on the 'Collateral Murder' attack: 'Incident in New Baghdad' at the University followed by discussion.
 https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495137.html

The final leg of our solidarity tour starts Wednesday when we head up to north Wales as the play opens in Connah's Quay.

 http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/27-april-meeting-for-and-about-whistleblowers-denbigh/
 http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/29-april-gig-for-bradley-manning-wrexham/

WISE Up for Bradley Manning
- e-mail: wiseupforbm@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com

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