“If the public, particularly the American public, had access to this information, it could spark a debate on the military and our foreign policy in general as it applied to Iraq and Afghanistan, it might cause society to reconsider the need to engage in counter-terrorism while ignoring the human situation of the people we engaged with every day … I felt I accomplished something that would allow me to have a clear conscience.”     Bradley Manning

In a statement he read in court on 28 February 2013, gay US Army PFC Bradley Manning proudly admitted having leaked information to Wikileaks in order to inform the public of US war crimes and government skulduggery that was being kept from us.

1 - 8 June: International Actions to Free Bradley Manning

So far actions in Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, UK, USA, Wales…

Bradley Manning’s court-martial begins 3 June

The Bradley Manning Support Network is calling for a week of actions across the US and around the world from Saturday 1 June to 8 June.

On 23 February, an unprecedented groundswell of international support for Bradley emerged when 70 communities in 19 countries took action.

Some actions already planned:

Canada: 1 June, Rally at US Consulate in Toronto  Germany: 31 May, Meeting at Clearing Barrel GI Café, Kaiserslautern. 1 June Solidarity Rally in Berlin, Brandenburg Gate. South Korea, 3-8 June Press conference and demonstration at US Embassy in Seoul. UK: 1 June, 2 pm Picket outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London US: 1 June Rally at Fort Meade, Maryland, where the court-martial will take place.

Information on latest actions here.

Join your nearest protest or organize a solidarity event in your area, register it on the BMSN website, and let us know about it so we can help publicise

Other ways to support Bradley

·         Write your local press why you support Bradley’s courageous whistleblowing.

·         Translate this message and/or send to your networks.

·        Demand media access to the trial, and that court records be released. See BMSN Action Alert.

·        Show the Collateral Murder video at meetings / put on websites / local TV programs.

·        Demand San Francisco Pride reinstate Bradley Manning as Grand Marshal 

·         Send messages of support to BMSN. (cc payday@paydaynet.org  and we’ll publish on our website.)

·         Sign Daniel Ellsberg’s petition (Pentagon Papers whistle-blower).

·         Write to Bradley

"Let us follow the example of Bradley, let’s battle for peace, let’s battle against wars, without fear of reprisals, let’s learn from Bradley to be truly human."

Hugo Blanco, Director of Lucha Indigena,  Perú

“This material [passed to Wikileaks] has contributed to ending dictatorships in the Middle East, it has exposed torture and wrongdoing in all the corners of the world”.

Julian Assange Wikileaks founder, who remains in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, protected from extradition to Sweden and to the US

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