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PFC Bradley Manning needs your support and we are encouraging everyone to organize events and actions in support of PFC Bradley Manning particularly in the next months leading up to the court martial proceedings. Check our events calendar for actions being held near you, or add your events to share with others!
Nobel Peace Prize nominee, PFC Bradley Manning, has been in prison for almost two years. Eleven of those months have been spent in solitary confinement. While confined, the soldiers responsible for PFC Bradley Manning’s care took it upon themselves to abuse him – and the UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, has since called Bradley Manning’s treatment “cruel and inhuman”. Attempts by the UN to visit with PFC Bradley Manning have been repeatedly blocked.
PFC Bradley Manning is accused of sharing documents that expose US war crimes, in particular the Collateral Murder video and also the Guantanamo files, which exposed civilian murders and prisoner abuse. 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. Regardless of the charges against PFC Bradley Manning, the soldier has been harshly abused while in detention – and the government has ignored the soldiers right to a speedy trial. Two years of incarceration and abuse without reaching the trial is inexcusable.
We have let this go on long enough, and it is time to take action. Our voices cannot be ignored forever. 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 a few ways you can help,
Attend and Host Demonstrations
Attend a rally, or host your own! We are encouraging everyone to host events and actions in support of PFC Bradley Manning. 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. Please help spread the word by listing your events on the events.bradleymanning.org website. We can help provide signs, posters, stickers, and other materials to help promote PFC Bradley Manning’s case. See our organizers toolkit.
Find a rally near you, or host your own!
Make a Donation to the Bradley Manning Support Network
Help us help Bradley. Donate here. All proceeds go to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund, which pay for Bradley Manning’s legal fees as well as ongoing public outreach efforts (like this website!).
Sign a Petition
A number of petitions have been circulated to help pressure the government to support whistleblowers, and to allow the UN special rapporteur on torture access to visit with PFC Bradley Manning – as all of his requests have thus far been blocked by the Obama administration. You can share the petition with others through e-mail, facebook, and printing out copies to take with you to community events.
Stand With Brad! This is the primary petition asking the government to drop all the charges against PFC Bradley Manning, and to release him from pre-trial confinement.
Firedoglake: Stop the Secrecy – Allow Official Visits to Bradley Manning. The Quantico brig has refused official visits by the UN Special Investigator on Torture, Amnesty International, and Congressmember Dennis Kucinich. Sign the petition to allow these people to investigate Bradley’s treatment.
Submit your photo to the “I Am Bradley Manning” campaign
Submit a photo of you holding an “I Am Bradley Manning” sign at iam.bradleymanning.org. We will share the photos to help promote Bradley’s case, and use them throughout this website. We encourage you to use the photo on your Facebook profile, and anywhere else you can.
Veteran Scott Olsen
Volunteer
There are many ways to help Bradley. Consider volunteering your time. We need people who believe in PFC Bradley Manning’s cause to help organize rallies and other events. If you have other ideas as to how we can help PFC Bradley Manning, please share them with us! Also check out our internship opportunities!
Together, we can make a difference.
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/
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?