Bradley Manning is a 23 year old soldier who is accused of leaking classified military information to WikiLeaks including a video showing an Apache helicopter killing civilians and two Reuter's journalists in Iraq as well as "embarassing" diplomatic cables. His heroic actions have shed light on the true nature of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. For his efforts he has been kept in solitary confinement since May 2010 while he awaits trial. In protest of the deplorable treatment of this heroic young man by the U.S. military, WRL will be holding a protest on August 1st and 2nd leading up to the Veterans for Peace National convention at Portland Statue University August 4-7. For more information on the August 1st event click here, and for the August 2nd event click here. For more information and ways to get involved, please visit the Bradley Manning Support Network and sign one of their petitions, or write letters to your congressman demanding his release. Below is an article from the Bradley Manning Support Network with more information about Bradley and his plight.
Bradley Manning
“If you had free reign over classified networks… and 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 DC… what would you do?”
“God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms… I want people to see the truth… because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.“
-Quotes from an online chat attributed to Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of leaking a video showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also charged with sharing the documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and embarrassing US diplomatic cables, with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The video and documents have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy.
