Take Action!
As the start of PFC Bradley Manning’s military court martial approaches (our current best-guess is February 2013), we are encouraging everyone to organize events and actions in support of this brave whistle-blower. Learn six of the most important ways you can help below.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning has been in prison for over two years. He is accused of sharing documents that expose US war crimes, government corruption, and corporate influence on US foreign policies. (Learn what WikiLeaks revealed.) Whoever did expose these crimes is a hero and a patriot. Yet the government has chosen to persecute the alleged whistle-blower rather than pursue the criminals.
The injustices have continued after Bradley’s arrest. The first eleven months of his imprisonment were spent in solitary confinement in conditions the UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, has since called “cruel and inhuman”. Attempts by the UN to visit with PFC Bradley Manning have been repeatedly blocked. The government has also ignored the soldiers right to a speedy trial, as well as full and timely disclosure of evidence.
It’s time to take action. We want to show the current Administration officials responsible for Bradley’s mistreatment that he has many public supporters. We will not let our voices be ignored. Take to the streets and show your support for PFC Bradley Manning. Support his legal defense. Get your friends involved. Let everyone know PFC Bradley Manning must be freed! Here are six important ways you can help.
Sign our
“Stand with Brad” petition
Click here to join the tens of thousands of people who are publicly taking a stand for Bradley Manning. This is our primary petition asking the government to drop all the charges against Bradley, and to release him from pre-trial confinement. For every person that signs the petition, we mail two letters on their behalf–one to the Secretary of the US Army, and the other to the Chief of Staff of the US Army. Each letter is sent separately with First Class postage so that officials at the Pentagon get bags of mail regularly in support of Bradley!
You can share the petition with others through e-mail, facebook, and printing out copies to take with you to community events.
Donate to the
Bradley Manning Defense Fund
Donate here to help us help PFC Bradley Manning. The Bradley Manning Defense Fund is responsible for 100% of Bradley’s legal fees, which are now expected to reach $250,000. Additionally, the Defense Fund engages in worldwide public education efforts regarding the charges against Bradley, which have so far included: Hundreds of community events; Rallies at Quantico, Leavenworth, and Fort Meade; Distribution of tens of thousands of posters, stickers, and info cards; Daily management of this website and our “Save Bradley” Facebook and Twitter feeds.
The Bradley Manning Defense Fund is hosted by Courage to Resist in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network. Courage to Resist is a program of the Alliance for Global Justice, a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code. Your donation to the Defense Fund is tax-deductible. More information regarding the Defense Fund.
You can also organize a dinner party fundraiser to educate friends and raise more money for Bradley’s defense. Sign up!
Submit your photo to the
“I Am Bradley Manning” campaign
“I stand for due process. I stand for a nation of fair and just laws. I believe the public deserves to know the truth.” Do you agree with this statement? If so, add a human face to the campaign by submitting a photo of you holding an “I Am Bradley Manning” sign at iam.bradleymanning.org. We will share the photos to help promote support for Bradley, and use them throughout this website. We encourage you to use the photo on your Facebook profile, and anywhere else you can.
Attend or host an event
Attend a rally, or host your own! Planning an event is a good way to educate community members, enlist other volunteers to take action, gather signatures for the free Bradley petition, and raise funds for the Defense Fund. We can help provide signs, posters, stickers, and other materials to help promote PFC Bradley Manning’s case.
Right now, we are asking people to do actions at Obama campaign offices. President Obama is one of the officials with the power to free Bradley, and he needs to hear that Americans support this whistle-blower. Learn how to organize an action to influence President Obama to do the right thing.
For additional ideas for possible actions, see our organizers toolkit.
Please help spread the word by listing your events on the events.bradleymanning.org website. Find a rally near you, or host your own!
Attend the proceedings at
Fort Meade, Maryland
Attend the court proceedings. Bradley’s lawyer, David Coombs, recently issued a statement thanking all of Bradley’s supporters for efforts, and especially those who have attended the court proceedings at Fort Meade. In a military trial with little public transparency, the more public supporters who can participate as observers and activists the better. Updated court dates are posted on our main page. We may be able to help a limited number of supporters pay for travel. Check out our application.
Click here for more information about attending the proceedings at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Volunteer
We are looking for volunteers to become campaign organizers on an ongoing basis in their local communities. Also, if you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, we can use assistance with administrative and other work in our Oakland office. Videographers and other artists who can attend events or have ideas for special projects are welcome as well. Contact [email protected] for more information. Finally, if you’re a student or someone else with significant time to spare on a weekly basis, check out our internship opportunities!
so here’s an art idea. i’m blatantly copying amnesty intl, but didn’t someone say that copying someone is the best form of flattery?
anyway, to gain attention regarding the conditions at guantanamo bay, they re-created one of the cells there – i think it was in the back of a truck, and they invited people to come sit in the cell for 5-10 minutes a piece.
since brad is in solitary, why don’t we create a cardboard “cell” – and at future actions, we invite people to sit inside the cardboard walls for a few minutes to simulate being in solitary. we of course don’t have to take people’s clothes, but we can make them precisely aware of the fact that if they were brad, this would happen to them. also, part of this art installation would be a matress on the ground or on a really awful cot.
this “cell” could be portable and go from action to action – it would be easy to make, put up and take down, and the most important part about it would be inviting people, random passerby and everyone, to interact with it. nothing spreads the message of suffering as well as safe, sanitized re-creation of it. people who might not understand why solitary confinement is torture would get a much better idea by sitting in the “cell” for a few minutes.
and of course, all participation would be completely voluntary, and if no volunteers or curious passer-by came foward, then protestors could use the “cell” as a visual protest tool.
so there’s my idea. i hope this helps get our creative juices flowing!
I AM AN ATTORNEY WITH OVER 32V YEARS TRIAL EXPERIENCE AND WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER MY TIME IN HIS DEFENSE
wow sir, that’s great. I wish you luck and your family. Thare is hope for humanity.
Sir you have a heart like no other.Help get him out.I’d like to see about twenty attorneys show up at his court case in his defense.
We created and recorded a song for Bradley. It’s posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWyzQapZqo
and we welcome people to download the song and make videos of their own with it.
This action against one individual who is an American citizen, showsfully how America is acting as a ReAtionary Body aginst there own citizen, shown by The Gov. reaction to this one Issue(guantanamo bay)brought up by one Individual(citizen)concerning a pice of America, where the rules,of America,Constitution, do not apply,
I suggest that the motto for Baradley Manning’s actions shoud be the very words of Mahatma Ghandi: “When injustice becomes a law, disobiedience is a moral obligation”
Transparency
La liberté de tous repose sur le courage de quelques-uns dont le soldat bradley manning !
N.B. Je regrette de n’avoir pu remplir avec succès votre formulaire de donation. Problème à revoir pour les contributions hors USA ?
N.B.bis I am happy to know that you will eventually receive my very modest contribution. Note that I was informed at home this morning by a phone call suggesting that my money account could be in danger asking if I really made a donation ! This imply that your acknowledgment message figures in France on some security control list.
I have made donations with Paypal, and my Visa, but now am cut off! I will try Amex next. This proves that even sending money electronically will never be free from a political agenda.
Reading the scripts of the conversation between manning and lamo (the man who informed on manning to the authorities) as published here http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs it becomes very clear that manning is a SHE not a he. She says so several times. She was planning to start her physical transition as soon as she returned to U.S. soil and at one point explains that although she doesn’t care about the risk of prison or execution, she does care that her picture will be published around the world as a boy, and that she will be referred to as HE. Since this is clearly against her wishes, since she clearly identifies as SHE, can people please please start respecting this?
Bradley is high on our national news in the UK and so he should be, possibly a braver man than any top brass of the US army. He has reported the so called un-reportable to the shame of a very small minority. So times in life we have to make brave decisions and Bradley deserves a medal not a sentence. The stupidity of Bradleys trial is that we already know the outcome. I love America and the people of America are the warmest kindest people on earth, but you must question your politicians are you really the land of the free. God bless you Bradley and good luck, because you need it mate! Love & Freedom Terry Mc
He is a traitor and should be found guilty and actually hung after being found guilty!!
Bradley is a hero our government is the traitors,you should learn to read so you can look at the evidence and see it for yourself that is if you have a backbone not to lie to yourself about the facts.
I’m sure Richard can read pretty well, which makes it even worse for him. But even if he couldn’t, it doesn’t take a rocket science to recognize a crime while watching “Collateral Murder” video leaked by Bradley. If he betray USA by passing to someone tactical positions of US Marines and this would result in loss on side of the soldiers fighting for freedom and democracy, then, DEAR RICHARD, surely Bradley would be seen as traitor, arrested and stand in fair trial. There wouldn’t be millions of people around the world calling for his freedom.
I say, anyone who fail to report a crime is also committing one. Any of those who were aware of the dirty practices in Iraq should stand in trial. But clearly they have to pick one of the 99% to spread the fear amongst the rest. If this trial goes wrong, this would be another big message to us. But how long it can go like this, how long we can step back? Only until we reach the edge. Bradley’s case indicates the edge…
Americans are some worthwhile, and Bradley is one of those.
This quotation was taken from a latin newspaper:
“(…) These files were later found in the public domain site Wikileaks and included a video taken from a U.S. helicopter attacking a group of civilians in Baghdad and hear the laughter of the crew when they are shooting.”
http://www.semana.com/mundo/bradley-manning-heroe-traidor/169230-3.aspx
Bradley Manning you are a hero and South America supports you.
The Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) requires the protection of whistleblowers. It incorporates a legal rule that the informer of a scandal shall be protected.
Now you can say that this idea does not pertain to military affairs which would mean that the military can afford any kind of scandal – an interesting point of view if you consider the idea that the military shall help to establish civilized and democratic structures in the middle east countries. This would be an actual contradiction.
Or you say that the legal point incorprated in the Sarbanes Oxley Act is a universal idea which pertains to every legal area. Then you have to set Bradley Manning free. Tertium non datur.
Evil propogates when honest people stay silent. Although the American government has always has taken the front seat in control freakery it is endemic throughout the western world. What has happened to Bradley is just another example of big corrupt government doing whatever it needs to to keep control. You have to ask yourself who is it that benefits from western goverment policy, it is cetainly not the greater majority. No we are used and abused by the powers that be as cannon fodder to protect big money interests. For the love of humanity we have to wake people up, or we will sleep walk into oblivion.
Bradley Manning did what is right for our country our republican politicians should do the same
Our government has been abusing Bradley Manning by keeping him in solitary confinement for months and is now prosecuting him for revealing government “secrets”, which as far as we know are mostly confidential diplomatic cables. To say nothing of the destruction we subjected Iraq and its people to for more than eight years. Meanwhile, we have carelessly left behind in Iraq “secret” documents in a junkyard in Iraq. Appalling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html?ref=todayspaper
I wish I could tell Mr. Bradley Manning personally that he is one of the few lights in this world, an actual hero. I wish him strength, endurance and the good luck that one needs to see that what he has done was right, is appreciated by many and will hopefully be also good for him personally in the end.
I believe that one of the people most interested in seeing him prosecuted is Hillary Clinton. She stands on the dias next to bush and cheney. She should be so very ashamed as am I, of her.
(For Bradley):
“OPERATION SANTA CLAWS”
Was there really a Santa Claws?
Well, yes indeed, quite true ~
Surprised? You like ‘hard facts’?
Most of us do, too ~
I’d like to ask these men
Who found it so amusing
Did their bellies shake…?
When they decided, “This, we’re using!”
“OPERATION SANTA CLAWS”
Is WAR, to some, a joke? ~
“Find the terrorists!”
“We HAVE” OOPS! (I misspoke…)
They waited til the dark
‘And brought their little toys’
Not quiet as a mouse
But terrorizing noise…
First, we’ll kick your door in,
Then we’ll shout at you
Offer us resistance…?
Go ahead – Please DO!
Women and children crying…
Hooray! Santa Claws is here!!
This WAR (they have) ON TERROR
Well, part of it is fear…
A man is now on trial ~
Right NOW! At Christmas time!
PEACE ON EARTH is all they want
Their message, so sublime ~
“How dare you question US!”
“Our heroes, now in danger!!”
This GOD you TRUST so much…
Is he some lost evil stranger?
Cross-examine YOURSELVES
You’re sick, and full of guile
And ‘out’ the mad, rude elves
Who kill ~ HO HO ~ and smile
“I’ll leave this on the table”
It will give you energy…
Come to the LIGHT you fools
“GOD BLESS” ~ our Dear Bradley…
Shirley Forget
Christmas 2011
I am so enlivened by the comments here and on other sites,there is a growing awareness of what is really going on. The great dragedy is that in the US as in the UK and most of the west there is no real alternative to government of the greedy for the greedy by the greedy. We must forget about party politics and look for honourable voices to support. If you ever get to read these words Bradley you are a true hero , and millions of people support your shout of freedom.
A lawyer for 32 years, only pretends to offer help. All lawyers are liars! I have been in military prison when they served bread & water, so why is Bradley still wearing that uniform, if they are going kill him anyways? Its because his lawyers have lied to him, just as the media has lied to you. These petitions and protests change nothing. So where is the REAL change? When is ANYONE going to take the oath and our constitution seriously? Without a constitution, what do you have? NOT MUCH!
My thoughts go out to you and your family Bradley, what a hell you all are going through, you have my full support and a donation will be sent ASAP!
Best wishes and season greetings from Denmark
If this world were not so mad then Bradley Manning would not be facing life in prison. However, it IS mad and all I can say is thank you Pfc. Manning for your courage and bravery, best of luck and best wishes from Ireland. If only everyone had such courage to face injustice, the world would be a better place. Unfortunately most are greedy and small-minded and for that I have no faith in humanity! But people like Manning provide hope and inspiration and we can only aspire to better things… Here’s to enlightenment, peace and goodwill throughout the world! Keep fighting the good fight!
I support Breanna Manning. There’s lots of info that Bradley Manning is transgender, female-identified, and prefers the name Breanna. Let’s help really support her & call her by her preferred name.
http://feministing.com/2011/12/22/why-does-the-media-and-her-supposed-supporters-continue-to-misgender-breanna-manning/
Regarding the question of “Breanna Manning”, everything we know from Bradley Manning’s friends, family, and legal defense team, is that he wishes to be referred to as Brad or Bradley until he’s able to get to the next stage of his life. Bradley has indicated that he’s not interested in publicly addressing this issue. -Bradley Manning Support Network. July 24, 2012
For more info, check out
Feminist, trans advocates should support Bradley Manning. March 1, 2012
http://bradleymanning.org/news/feminist-trans
I wish the trained stooged running for the GOP nomination had enough back bone to say something about this injustice and prove they love freedom and America as much as they say they do.
Report a crime not a crime.
Denunciar un delito no es un crimen, si se acusa de filtrar datos del gobierno de EU significa que los crimenes son reales y se debiera investigar tambien a los autores de esos crimenes.
Bradley Manning is a traitor and a disgrace to the Army and the country. He deserves everything that’s coming to him.
The traitors and disgraces here are the perpetrator of these heinous acts committed while representing America and not the person who brought these terror creating crimes to light.
Bradley is a hero the government is the traitors the evidence speaks for itself.
@Tony alias Richard alias MrInsecureToHaveOwnOpinion,
see my comment above:)
Au Contraire! Our military leadership is a disgrace.
All the terrible and evil things our government has done, they should be the ones locked up.
Check out my post on Bradley Manning on my blog The Counter Argument
http://thecounterargument.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/bradley-manning/
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I support anything that is against the American. Save Brad!
If everyone with a conscience who works for a corporation or government office & has inside information about its dirty dealings leaked it, we would shortly have a much better world. Incarceration of only one of us will not prevent the manifestation of those truths. Those who truly deserve incarcerating are soon to realize it. Call on those you know within such entities to consider their options, particularly what sort of future, if any, they wish their grandchildren to have.
I have an idea to help get the word out about Bradley and may help get more supporters.I noticed that news channels like NBC,ABC,CBS,and FOX have said nothing about Bradley,I know they censor their news.By censoring the news it keeps people in the dark about Bradley.Bradley wanted everybody to see the light.I found out that NBC had a Facebook wall and no comments about Bradley.The Staff of this website needs to post comments on NBC’s wall and try to get some discussions going and let people know the truth about him.This also needs to be done with the other news channels.You also need to tell the people on your Save Bradley Manning page to go there as well start some discussions.this would help get the word out about Bradley.I can’t help on Facebook anymore,they kicked me off.But I do support Bradley still and I always will.
Good luck Bradley Manning. I signed your petition but I did not receive a confirmation to my email so I don’t think it registered.
We are with you Bradley Manning, and you did a brave thing and I hope there are more like you that will do the same.
i’m totally impressed with his courage and provided my personal info so i can be in the loop. it’s the 21st century , which means stop sending paperwork to my mailbox on this issue. e-mail is OK. stop behaving like it’s the 20th century .
Unfortunately, if we did not engage in direct mail fundraising, we would not reach thousands of folks who still very much rely on such appeals when deciding when and where to donate. These folks are usually older–but older folks give a larger than average portion to Bradley’s defense fund. Of course we honor “remove from postal mailing” requests, and I was able to find your name in our database and removed it. But from the perspective of building the strongest and farthest reaching campaign for Bradley possible, we’d be negligent not to use postal mail–along side “21st century” tools like e-mail and social networking sites.
I think this has something to do with the U.F.O.’s and I’ve posted a comment before and then I got my E-mail account hacked by somebody, but it might be these people who I basically asked to “follow” me. I don’t know if you people know but the U.F.O.’s might hve flown down here and installed some stuff in him and forced/controlled him to do this. There is a huge issue though and it involes the rest of the people and if anybody goes and looks and finds something or he remembers anything odd about his own behavior then many people are at risk of going to prison (eating s#%$) or getting it from the U.F.O.’s, but I’ve got a plan to rid the American gov. and their ways so that this don’t happen (above) to the rest of the people. If you know what I mean. So be cautious about this ’cause the gov. will be after you if you try anything risky. Might be worth the pay-out in 1000 years or so when these people (in the gov) figure out what I’m trying to do now.
From: Peter Whitis
Date: March 17, 2012 7:28:01 PM CDT
To: Tom Giffey
Subject: Bradley Manning letter to the editor
Hello Tom:
PFC Bradley Manning, an alleged whistleblower, is accused of leaking classified materials to WikiLeaks including the video of the killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists. The video of a helicopter shooting at people on the ground and in a car was called ‘Collateral Murder’ and seen by millions of people on YouTube. Manning has been held for almost two years, much of it in solitary confinement. The United Nations special investigator has been prevented from seeing him to investigate reports of his being tortured and receiving inhumane treatment. Our government has been calling Manning a traitor, a terrorist, an aid to al Qaeda and is apparently using his imprisonment and military trial as an object lesson for future potential whistleblowers.
Specialist Ethan McCord, U.S. Army, now retired, is actually seen on the video attempting to rescue two children (who did survive their wounds but lost their father.) McCord reports that this “horrific and wholly unnecessary mass killing” was not exceptional, rather it was the norm. He describes how the Battalion Commander of his unit 2nd battalion, 16th infantry one day announced: “Anytime your convoy gets hit by an IED, I want 360 degree rotational fire. You kill every (expletive) in the street! (original bold)” McCord and others in his outfit who felt this order was morally wrong tried to avoid shooting innocent civilians. But in doing so, they were berated and told to “suck it up” and toughen up. McCord felt he and fellow soldiers had no recourse to take their concerns to higher command. (see the website )
The Leader-Telegram, Saturday March 17, had a column on openness in government and a cartoon captioned, “Time for a little sunshine.”; the point being that citizens have a right to know about their govenment. The eternal quest for the truth versus secrecy will not disappear soon. We can all be grateful to those who have the courage of their conscience and inform the rest of us. In order to change what is wrong, we need information—and whistleblowers.
Peter R. Whitis, M.D.
3131 Pana Circle
Eau Claire, WI 54701
(715) 852-0383
[email protected]
The local paper, Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, WI would not publish this letter.
A correction to my comment of March 17, 2012: the local paper, Leader-Telegram published the letter to the editor with minor corrections on April 7, 2012.
Mr Bradley Manning has been incredibly courageous in exposing horrific abuses of power and war crimes that have been carried by the US government, it’s military, the Bush administration, against ordinary Iraqi and Afghan people; some of the worlds poorest people in fact.
Like David against Goliath he is a inspirational lesson to us all, and his brave action has informed and moved a number of nations and peoples to fight against the oppression they suffer in their own nations; mostly against dreadful despotic governments that have actually been supported by US foreign policy. The recent uprisings in various nations in the middle east, in particular, have been partly inspired by the documents Mr Manning was able to release on the Wikileaks website.
His action, to help expose a US fascist foreign policy, in the age of the internet, maybe the start of a new age of real transparent democracy, likes of which the world has never seen before.
Those who accuse Manning of being a traitor to the US need to study the Constitution of the United States, and realise that George W Bush’s government was not a government “for the people, by the people”. And that in taking action against that government Mr. Bradley Manning is as much a patriot as Mr. John Adams, second President of the United States.
Lastly, Bradley Manning has proved himself an admirable courageous young man, and an true blooded patriot, and an incredibly moral person. He deserves the worlds respect, and it’s support, and he deserves his freedom.
Richard Cooper
I have a question. Can the information released by Bredley Manning be used to prosecute state institutions or persons in public offices?
I would like to know also, if the criminals can be prosecuted. The focus should be on the torturers and the war criminals , not on the begging for mercy for the life of the martyr bradley manning.We are describing the wheels as the steamroller steadily drives right over us. Where is the offenseive team? Manning started the battle by identifying the enemy,(step number one) but, now what? Patriotism to the ideals of freedom and liberty demands all traitors to said ideals be tried, all the way TO,(and especially AT)the top.I dont hear this being even considered.Can someone fill me in on where this is going on?
I perfectly agree with you. Bradley’s work is just the first step. Now people should defend him but also ( very important ) continue what he started.
On the other side, for an organization like Bradley Manning Support Network this maybe a bit too difficult.
In my opinion the continuation of Bradley’s work should be a revolution of consciousness at global scale, each individual and social group becoming a pocket of resistance against any form of oppression and discord.
Best wishes from Romania
It is outrageous that a man who seeks to tell the world the truth is being crucified. Didn’t this happen to someone born in Bethlehen? And to think Americans call themselves Christians! Blah, blah, blah.
I’m not so sure what he was thinking, but I think he might be marytering himself and I would like to know what for ’cause everyone would know that if you stole anything from somebody then you get caught and I know that he knew that and this shows me that he was doing this for some reason wether it be ’cause we (the people) wanted to know and then he told us or it’s ’cause the Gov. is behind something and he wanted to tell us. If it was the second reason then I would like to know that and want to help persue “what you can call justice” and know that this is one of those things that involved natural human behaviors and that shoud be thought of. He was even doing natural human things and there will be some type of thing that will make hem get more time and even death. If there is something I can do to help him I would but this is the Department of Justice and they are rock hard and follow procedures and that’s going to be tuff.
As previous posters have asked also ‘why are those who have committed these war crimes not been brought in to give account of their actions? Those at the top of the steaming pile, who openly revel in ordering the murder of innocents ie. Bush, Blair, Clinton et al. daily advocate such murder! Why are they walking around, still lying, still smirking and raking in blood money? Do they think or feel at all?
I have great respect for Bradley Manning. It takes great courage to act with such honour and if only a few more of us acted with such selfless integrity, the world and humanity would be happier. I cannot be there physically to support Bradley, but I will be in spirit. God bless you Bradley – you are amazing.
I just finished watching a movie about the women’s suffrage movement. I think he’s basically a political prisoner for a civil rights issue. The military is increasingly oppressive in many ways. What I see is similar to tipping the press for a human rights violation on behalf of the principles of democracy. The problem is in a corrupted war right and wrong is incredibly blurred. The shooter in Colorado is getting actual fair trial while a hero is martyred in some ideological witch hunt.. A person acting on behalf of civil rights is treated worse in America than rapists and murderers. We live in a culture of violence. Obama is living up to perpetuation of a militarized aka violent society value system. I’m slowly losing my faith in a just America.
Sent an e-mail to the white house suggesting they might not be getting 12,000 votes for all of us that have signed Daniel Ellsberg’s petition for the immediate release of Bradley Manning.
Yo creo que Manning es inocente, por favor darle su libertad
Freedom for Mannig, thanks
The whole Assange thing brought this story to light for me. I watched the video of the ‘collateral’ murder of civilians and journalists by the US military, a video by the US military in abject horror. The cockiness of an armed force to be inflicting this sort of heinous outrage – flagrant unwarranted murder – on unarmed people whilst actually *recording* the event for immortality beggars belief.
Am I the only one seeing this? Has the entire world gone mad? How can the mere existence of such a document not create moral outrage in a nation that prides itself on so-called Christian beliefs? What am I missing, here? Am I pathetically naive?
I sit here in the north of Spain, fuming about both Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. I have donated money and signed all the relevent petitions. And there seems to be nothing else i can do to try to help Bradley get free. Not being a US citizen I can’t easily tackle North American politicians. I can’t try to raise public awareness here – Wales and the USA are too far away. Spaniards have their own problems. So I, and probably more like me need constructive action, mainly writing letters, filling in more and more petitions to more and more people, things we (and some of us are getting old) in Europe can do to help. Can The Support Network keep us in mind and try to use us more.