Bradley Manning’s trial finally got its start on Monday, June 3rd (after a mere four years of pre-trial detention). Transcripts from the first day of trial have been released and they are nothing if not a shameful and despicable look at our government’s calculated plan to silence truth-tellers and whistleblowers in all areas of government and …
Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin speaks about Bradley Manning: Col. Ann Wright speaks about Bradley Manning: Lt. Dan Choi speaks about Bradley Manning: Free Bradley Manning! From Tunisia to Palestine… Protest Songs: Protest Sing-along: WE ARE ALL BRADLEY MANNING:
“Where you die matters.” We know the names of the children killed in Newtown, CT. We know the names of those killed in the Boston Bombing. The lives and deaths of those killed in these tragedies are important because journalists did their jobs and covered the stories. But if you die in a drone strike …
On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA had ”thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen …
The media is ablaze right now with discussions about Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Bomber, and whether or not he should receive a fair trial as an American citizen. A few politicians and general lunatics have called for torture, military tribunals, and even “a July 4 celebration of stringing this son-of-a-b-tch up in the Boston Common …
The Justice Party of PA hosted a fantastic event this past Saturday, June 15th: Free Bradley Manning Music and Activism. The event was at the Independent Space in Kutztown, PA and featured an amazing band, Real West (Crime Jazz, Latin Lounge, A Jazzadelic Freakout!). Guests of all ages showed up to discuss Bradley Manning’s leak of thousands of classified documents … Continue reading »
Justice Party of Pennsylvania * Lehigh Valley Coffee Party * Bradley Manning Support Network MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Alyssa Rohricht, Justice Party of PA, 610-763-6159 A FREE BRADLEY MANNING CALL TO ACTION: AN EVENING OF ACTIVISM AND MUSIC What: The Justice Party of PA along with the Lehigh Valley Coffee Party and the Bradley Manning Support … Continue reading »
Rebecca Louis, another reader of Crash, was kind enough to send along this infographic detailing the issues surrounding military suicide. The statistics are staggering: about one active-duty service member commits suicide per day. In veterans the numbers are much worse: one every hour. To read more about this topic, check out this piece I wrote … Continue reading »
This Saturday, mass demonstrations will be happening all over the country and the world to protest Bradley Manning‘s imprisonment. I’ve written enough about Manning here (on Obama’s legacy of secrecy, drones, prisons, and kill lists), here (on why whistleblowing is NOT a crime), here (on the Obama administration’s attack on whistleblowers) and here (on what Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston … Continue reading »
This amazing infographic was shared with me by a regular reader of Crash, Frida Jackson. Something to ponder, most certainly. http://www.bestmastersincounseling.com/suicide/ Continue reading »
On Tuesday afternoon in Mississippi, Willie Jerome Manning was granted a last-minute stay of execution by the Supreme Court of Mississippi, just hours before his lethal injection was scheduled to go through. Manning, an African-American man, was convicted of murdering Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, two white college students, in 1992. The case can be read … Continue reading »
Reblogged from CNN Photos: On May 3, 1963, escalating racial tensions came to a violent head when black activists clashed with city authorities in Birmingham, Alabama. Bruce Davidson of Magnum Photos was among the photographers on the scene. The demonstrations produced some of the most iconic images of the civil rights movement. “It was important … Continue reading »
