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#FREEBRAD - #FreeAnons - We Are All Bradley Manning: New...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:08:13 -0700

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We Are All Bradley Manning: New Video Explains Why

June 7, 2013 |

Private First Class Bradley Manning is on trial now after releasing information to the public. He has already spent 1,108 days in confinement awaiting trial. The information he shared exposed the unjust detainment of innocent people in Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and served as a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the Arab world. Instead of the cold, clean images of drone planes soaring and American flags waving that mainstream news outlets project, the information Manning helped release displayed the disturbing, human truth about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Among other crimes, the whistleblower is accused of “aiding the enemy”—a capital offense and his most serious charge. A conviction on this charge would mean life in prison, and a possible death sentence.

Since it’s the public who benefited from this information, does that make us the enemy? What price will future whistleblowers pay? These are the questions posed on the Manning support network website, I Am Bradley Manning [3]. The site is set up in part to promote a new PSA film created by the eponymous group.

The site’s tagline reads, “I am Bradley Manning because I believe the public deserves the truth and whistleblowers deserve a fair trial.”

The video I Am Bradley Manning features big-names including actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Russell Brand and Peter Sarsgaard; filmmaker Oliver Stone; musicians Tom Morello and Moby; journalists Chris Hedges, Phil Donahue and Matt Taibbi; and author Alice Walker among others, carrying signs to declare they, too, are Bradley Manning. Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg tells the camera, “I was Bradley Manning.” The video’s participants call the “aiding the enemy” charge absurd.

The dialogue opens with the question, “When you join the military are you asked to keep any war crimes you might see secret?”

The video proceeds to pose important points that pertain to Manning’s case, including facts like:

The cables Manning released were not “top secret” [4] documents.

The whole concept of the whistleblower protection laws [5] in place is that you cannot get in trouble for reporting illegal or improper activity.

Manning exposed real war crimes.

The most stark example of war crimes Manning exposed is the video from Iraq titled Collateral Murder. [6] (None of the people associated with the murder of unarmed civilians and journalists, as shown in Collateral Murder, have been arrested or tried for their crimes.  )

Shortly after passing the military information to WikiLeaks, Manning asked former hacker Adrian Lamo this question: “If 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 D.C….what would you do?”

The video echoes this question in a call-to-action statement at its close. Thousands of people in solidarity have posted photos of themselves holding “I am Bradley Manning” signs to iam.bradleymanning.org.

Manning has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and almost 65,000 people have already signed a Roots Action petition [7] asking that he receive the prize.

“I want people to see the truth, because without it you cannot make informed decisions as a public,” Manning says in a chat [8] logs with journalist Adrian Lamo prior to his arrest. He also said he hoped the publication of the diplomatic cables would ignite “worldwide discussion, debates, and reform.”

Now it is for the public to influence the future of one whistleblower, and whistleblowers at large.

See more stories tagged with:

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Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/we-are-bradley-manning

Links:
[1] http://www.alternet.org
[2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/april-m-short
[3] http://iam.bradleymanning.org/
[4] http://www.thenation.com/blog/174622/seven-myths-about-bradley-manning
[5] http://www.dni.gov/index.php/about-this-site/no-fear-act/whistleblower-protection-laws
[6] http://collateralmurder.com/
[7] http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7612
[8] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/
[9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/bradley-manning-0
[10] http://www.alternet.org/tags/video
[11] http://www.alternet.org/tags/i-am-bradley-manning
[12] http://www.alternet.org/tags/trial-0
[13] http://www.alternet.org/tags/whistleblower
[14] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:41:54 -0700

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:58:00 -0700

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:55:22 -0700

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:49:21 -0700

#DGR - Do not take our land for your dam: Stunning stand-off between Amazon Indian tribe and government in Brazil over hydroelectric water scheme

The Brazilian government is to send 110 soldiers to intervene in a land dispute between indigenous tribes claiming their ancestral territory and a local politician who owns the cattle ranch.

One member of the Terena tribe was killed in the row as police tried to evict the 200-strong group last week. The group reoccupied the farm on Friday and the dead man’s cousin was injured on Tuesday when he was shot by an unidentified attacker.

Two other tribe members are missing.

Troops are to arrive in the farm state of Mato Grosso do Sul to try to prevent more violence, officials said. Protests have now erupted across Brazil as tensions rise over farmland and the sites of hydroelectric dams in the Amazon.

Justice minister Jose Cardozo told reporters: ‘We must avoid radicalizing a situation that goes back a long way in Brazilian history.

‘We’re not going to put out the flames by throwing alcohol on the bonfire.’

About 2,000 Kaingang and Guarani Indians were blocking roads in Rio Grande do Sul state to protest the government’s decision to halt the handover of ancestral lands to indigenous communities, a concession to Brazil’s powerful farm lobby.

‘The government has abandoned us. [President Dilma Rousseff] isn’t supporting indigenous peoples,’ Indian chief Deoclides de Paula told Reuters by telephone from a blocked highway.

In Curitiba, the Parana state capital, 30 Kaingang Indians invaded the offices of the ruling Workers’ Party on Monday and only agreed to leave ten hours later when they were promised a meeting with Rousseff’s chief of staff, Gleisi Hoffmann.

Hoffmann, who will run for governor of Parana next year, said last month that the role of the government’s Indian affairs office, Funai, in land decisions would be restricted.

Cardozo stressed that Funai would continue to play a central role as the main institution that defends Indian rights, though others will be brought in to improve the process of deciding ancestral lands.

Brazil’s indigenous land policy, established in the country’s constitution, is considered one of the most progressive in the world, with about 13 per cent of the huge South American nation’s territory already set aside for Indians.

Farmers say Funai is trying to create reservations on land that has belonged to European-descended settlers for 150 years.

In another move to ease tensions with Brazil’s indigenous population, minister Gilberto Carvalho met Munduruku Indians flown to Brasilia on air force planes from the Tapajos, the only major river in the Amazon basin with no dams.

They want the government to shelve plans to build a dozen dams there, while the government hopes to finish work on the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River, a huge project aimed at feeding Brazil’s fast-growing demand for electricity. Talks were suspended after a day.

Last week Indians paralyzed work at one of three building sites at Belo Monte, which is slated to become the world’s third-largest dam, capable of producing 11,233 megawatts of electricity - equivalent to about 10 per cent of Brazil’s total current generating capacity.

Belo Monte is a pet project of the president but has become the target of international criticism by environmental groups.

It has also become a stage for Indians from other parts of the Amazon.

‘We went to see for ourselves what a hydroelectric dam is and we saw that it has nothing good in store for us,’ a Munduruku leader told Carvalho, adding that promised development had not benefited the Indians of the Xingu.

‘We saw Indians being humiliated and we do not want that for our region.’

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:46:00 -0700

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Sat, 25 May 2013 14:49:02 -0700

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Sat, 25 May 2013 13:16:59 -0700

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There are now more Americans in jail than were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
May 9, 2013

There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”

And it’s not just a relative population thing.

The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries?

It’s 7-10X as high:

Japan has 63 per 100,000,

Germany has 90 per 100,000

France has 96 per 100,000

South Korea has 97 per 100,000

Britain has 153 per 100,000

And it’s a rapidly exaggerating trend: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. More than half of America’s 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”

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