Solidarity with Bradley Manning at U.S. Embassy

Icon_article Star Published: December 19, 2011 10:16 by Free Bradley Manning!

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Bradley Manning's Military Tribunal Article 32 (pre-military trial hearing) began a Ft. Meade Maryland on Friday Dec 18th.,continued through the weekend and continues into this week. A callout for solidarity action on Bradley' 24th. birthday - Saturday Dec 17th. was answered in 40+ locations throughout the United States and around the world. In London 60 folks gathered in solidarity with Bradley outside the U.S. embassy.

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The London gathering heard solidarity statements read from human rights and gay activist Peter Tatchell and recently released British military resister Michael Lyons. Keynote speeches were made by Ben Griffin from "Veterans for Peace", Naomi Colvin from "UK Friends of Bradley Manning" and Ciaron O'Reilly from the "London Catholic Worker". An open platform followed which included speeches by folks from Occupy London SX, "Pay Day", "Global Women's Strike", a British Iraq War veteran, "Pirate Party", "Queer Friends of Bradley Manning", "Oxford Catholic Worker", an Iraqi exile among others.

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Solidarity with Bradley Manning

Comment Published: December 20, 2011 13:11 by Ciaron O'Reilly

Peter Thatchell is a human rights and anti-war activist. Bradley Manning is a human. Bradley is in chains. He need your support not your attempts at nit picking.

I'm a radical Catholic, Bradley is an athiest (check his dog tag). In my exepreince when your imprisoned for resisting the war...you need all the help and solidarity you can get from wherever it flows.

Ciaron O'Reilly
http://www.catholicworker.org
http://www.wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com
http://www.bradleymanning.org

she has my support

Comment Published: December 20, 2011 14:59 by queerasinfuckyou

but not at support is actually helpful. the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and people like tatchell are often about as helpful as a slap in the face.

have you read the transcripts between manning and lamo?

the thing she feared most, more even than imprisonment or execution, was being labelled a boy. having her photo published around the world with the pronoun "he".

tatchell is latching on to this campaign for his own reasons, not for the benefit of manning. he has a history of intervening where he is not wanted, and in ways that cause more harm than good. african lgbt organisations were forced to beg him to stop speaking for them, not that he did, because he kept putting their lives at risk.

be careful who you choose as an ally. for the sake of manning, be careful.