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January 11: Day of Action Against Guantanamo
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 6:20pm10 Years of Guantanamo:
We Say No More!
Bradley Manning Support Group
January 11 Day of Action Against Guantanamo
Bradley Manning faces decades in prison for providing WikiLeaks with the Guantanamo detainee assessments. Based on those files, we know that the prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives.
Global BRADLEY MANNING Action Days, March 19-20
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 2:26pm
Individuals and activists plan events around the world to show support for the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower on March 19-20.
[March 19 event in Eureka CA: http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/771 ]
On March 19-20, 2011, activist organizations and individuals will take to the streets to protest the U.S. government's treatment of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Private First Class Bradley Manning. Manning, 23, has been held in isolation for nearly 300 days, charged with releasing classified documents, including a video that shows American troops shooting and killing 11 people, including two Reuters employees, in 2007.
Political Prisoner, Bradley Manning, Faces Possible Death Penalty
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 9:40pmWikileaks: Bradley Manning Faces 22 New Charges, Possible Death Penalty
'Aiding the enemy' is most serious of new counts filed against private in WikiLeaks case
WASHINGTON — Following an intensive seven-month investigation, the Army on Wednesday filed 22 additional charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of illegally downloading tens of thousands of classified U.S. military and State Department documents that were then publicly released by WikiLeaks, military officials tell NBC News.
The most serious of the new charges is "aiding the enemy," a capital offense which carries a potential death sentence.
Tortured Until Proven Guilty: Bradley Manning and the Case Against Solitary Confinement
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 10:19pm[MANY LINKS BELOW ARTICLE]
Lynn Parramore, Editor of New Deal 2.0, Co-founder of Recessionwire Posted: Dec 31, 2010
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the earliest days of our Republic, a group of well-meaning Philadelphia Quakers set out to reform the prison system. The idea was to remove convicts from the mayhem and corruption of overcrowded jails to solitary cells where sinners would return to mental and spiritual health through reflection. In the Walnut Street Jail, no windows would distract the prisoners with street life; no conversation would disturb their penitence. Alone with God, they would be rehabilitated.
There was a small problem. Many of the prisoners went insane. The Walnut Street Jail was shut down in 1835.
The Inhumane Conditions of Bradley Manning's Detention
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 7:25pmBy Glenn Greenwald Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010
Reuters/Jonathon Burch/AP/Salon
(updated below - Update II)
U.S. Soldier Imprisoned for Releasing Video Of U.S. Military Slaying of Iraqi Civilians: VIDEO & PETITION included
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 12:20amBradley Manning is the U.S. soldier now in a US military prison in Kuwait who has been arrested and charged with two violations for releasing classified information (the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video) and facing 54 years in prison. He is being held in isolation from the outside world - with no contact with his civilian attorneys working to defend him.
If the allegations are true, Bradley Manning is a hero for bringing to light the realities of the crimes being committed in the U.S. occupation.
We call for his immediate release and that his attorneys be allowed to talk to him.
Sign-On In Support of Bradley Manning & His Right to Counsel
