Report from J8 Bradley Manning solidarity at U.S. embassy.Updates from Ft. Meade
Free Brad! | 08.01.2013 20:52
Photos from Jan. 8th. Bradley Manning solidarity at U.S. embassy/ London. The pretrial will run from Jan 8-11th at Ft. Meade, Maryland USA
http://tinyurl.com/bb9couz
British veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars, former anti-war prisoners, an activist recently returned from Afghanistan joined other anti-war activists outside London's U.S. embassy as Bradley Manning was brought to a military tribunal in Ft. Meade Maryland today. The international grouping included folks from Australia, England, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and the U.S. The grouping initially lined up silently facing the U.S. embassy demanding the immediate release of Bradley Manning as the audio of the http://collateralmurder.com/ rang out.
Video (15 secs) of vigil http://tinyurl.com/bcvgcdk
Video (15 secs) of British veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq wars standing in solidarity with U.S. veteran Bradley Manning
http://tinyurl.com/b4opcmh
The anti-war activists then formed a circle to hear speeches regarding the nature of Bradley's pre-trial hearing underway at Ft. Meade/ USA and reflections on the ongoing wars on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for solidarity for Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Following networking, activists then proceeded to the Ecuadoran embassy where they joined the daily (2pm-5pm) vigil in solidarity with Julian Assange surrounded by Met Police for the past 6 months.
Briefing on the nature of this week's Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing http://tinyurl.com/ags57mr
Twitter feed from 17 Free Brad journos at the Ft. Meade hearing
https://twitter.com/JLLLOW/freebrad-journos
Information on further Bradley Manning solidarity in London
http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/
http://collateralmurder.com/ rang out. Video (15 secs) of vigil
http://tinyurl.com/bcvgcdk Video (15 secs) of British veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq wars standing in solidarity with U.S. veteran Bradley Manning
http://tinyurl.com/b4opcmh The anti-war activists then formed a circle to hear speeches regarding the nature of Bradley's pre-trial hearing underway at Ft. Meade/ USA and reflections on the ongoing wars on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for solidarity for Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Following networking, activists then proceeded to the Ecuadoran embassy where they joined the daily (2pm-5pm) vigil in solidarity with Julian Assange surrounded by Met Police for the past 6 months.
Briefing on the nature of this week's Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing
http://tinyurl.com/ags57mr Twitter feed from 17 Free Brad journos at the Ft. Meade hearing
https://twitter.com/JLLLOW/freebrad-journos Information on further Bradley Manning solidarity in London
http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/
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Meanwhile in Iraq, the British/ U.S.legacy keeps on killing
09.01.2013 12:46
Back in Iraq
Even a military judge recognizes what many progressives denied: Bradley Manning
09.01.2013 18:36
"With respect to Private Manning, I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are." - Barack Obama, White House Press Conference, March 10, 2011.
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Few if any articles that I've written produced as much backlash as my 15 December 2010 column reporting on the oppressive and inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, the first time that story was reported. The anger at my article primarily came not from right-wing venues but from the hardest-core Obama supporters, who (as they always do since 20 January 2009) reflexively defended the US government. Led by former Obama campaign press aide and now MSNBC contributor (the ultimate redundancy)Joy Reid, these particularly fanatical Democratic partisans literally adopted the anti-Manning rhetoric from the further right-wing precincts and repudiated the liberal tradition of defending whistleblowers and opposing oppressive detention conditions - all in order to insist that Manning was being treated exactly how he should be (this warped reaction was far from unanimous, as many progressives protested Manning's treatment).
Since then, an internal investigation by the Marine Corps - which operates the brig in which he was held - found that Manning's jailers violated their own policies in imposing oppressive conditions. The Obama administration's own State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, denounced the detention conditions as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid" and was then fired as a result. Amnesty International called for protests over Manning's treatment. The UN's highest torture official formally concludedafter an investigation that the US government was guilty "of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning" and "that the US military was at least culpable of cruel and inhumane treatment in keeping Manning locked up alone for 23 hours a day over an 11-month period in conditions that he also found might have constituted torture" - exactly what I reported at the end of 2010.
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