Chelsea Manning: Soldier/Whistleblower/Political Prisoner/Activist

(Chelsea Manning was formerly known as Bradley Manning.  Some of the resources where from that time)

Websites/Archives/Biographies:

The Guardian: Chelsea Manning

Democracy Now: Chelsea Manning

The New York Times: Chelsea Manning

Resources on Chelsea Manning and the case:

Allyn, Bobby. "Jailing And Fining Chelsea Manning Constitutes Torture, Top U.N. Official Says." Dialogic Cinephilia (December 31, 2019)

Assange, Julian. "Responds to Increasing US Government Attacks on WikiLeaks." Democracy Now (August 3, 2010)

---. "In U.N. Address, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Urges Obama Admin to End 'Regime of Secrecy'" Democracy Now (September 27, 2012)

---. "On WikiLeaks, War and Resisting Government Crackdown." Democracy Now (December 31, 2010)

---. "U.S. Probe of WikiLeaks & 'Show Trial' of Bradley Manning Aims to Scare Whistleblowers." Democracy Now (May 29, 2013)

Benkler, Yochai. "Fear of a Networked Fourth Estate." Media Berkman (April 29, 2011)

Broudy, Oliver. "Has Assange Turned Me Into An Anarchist? WikiLeaks wants to topple the Information State. Bring it on." Mother Jones (December 9, 2010)

Coates, Ta-Nehisi, et al. "On Terror and Bravery." The Guardian (September 2, 2018)

Cogan, James and Kevin Reed. "Chelsea Manning imprisoned without charge for six months for refusing to testify against Julian Assange." WSWS (September 21, 2019)

Crabapple, Molly. "Bradley Manning and us: a soldier for truth on trial." The Guardian (June 3, 2013)

Dewey-Hagborg, Heather and Douglas Rushkoff. "Stranger Visions." Team Human #8 (October 4, 2016) ["... the brilliant and terrifying artist and bio-hacker Heather Dewey- Hagborg. As a transdisciplinary artist, Heather explores the intersection of science, art and biopolitics. Heather recently made the headlines with a project called Stranger Visions, in which she collected random human genetic material left behind in the detritus of public spaces to generate portrait masks of strangers using a process called forensic DNA phenotyping. In another recent project, Radical Love: Chelsea Manning, Heather again used this process of DNA phenotyping to create a series of 3D portraits of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who is not allowed to be photographed while in prison. Radical Love is both subversive and thought-provoking as it calls attention to Manning’s incarceration as well as issues of gender stereotypes and identity."]

Ellsberg, Daniel. "“I Know No One More Patriotic”: Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again." Democracy Now (March 11, 2019) ["U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Manning had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia’s Eastern District to appear for questioning about her 2010 leak to WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was imprisoned from 2010 to 2017 for the leak. President Obama commuted her sentence before he left office. We speak with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the significance of Chelsea Manning’s actions."]

Goodman, Amy. "WikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning." TruthDig (April 10, 2013)

Goodman, Amy and Denis Moynihan. "Chelsea Manning: We Got This." Democracy Now (March 29, 2018)

---.  "Hammond, Manning, Assange and Obama’s Sledgehammer Against Dissent." Democracy Now (May 30, 2013)

Gosztola, Kevin and Chase Madar. "Bradley Manning Trial: After 3 Years, Army Whistleblower Begins Court-Martial Shrouded in Secrecy." Democracy Now (June 3, 2013)

Greenwald, Glenn. "Bradley Manning: The Face of Heroism." The Guardian (February 28, 2013)

---. "Chelsea Manning’s Refusal to Testify Against WikiLeaks Will Help Save Press Freedom." Democracy Now (March 11, 2019)

---. "Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice." The Guardian (March 12, 2013)

---. "Obama’s Comments on Bradley Manning Mark 'Amazing Amount of Improper Influence' in WikiLeaks Case." Democracy Now (April 29, 2011)

"Guardian person of the year: Voters choose Bradley Manning." The Guardian (December 10, 2012)

Hedges, Chris. "The Collapse of Globalization." TruthDig (March 28, 2011)

---. "The Death of Truth." TruthDig (May 5, 2013)

Hrafnsson, Kristinn. "'The Kissinger Cables': Three Years After 'Collateral Murder' Video, WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy." Democracy Now (April 8, 2013)

Johnson, Kirk. "Strong Women on the March at the Seattle Art Fair." The New York Times (August 12, 2018)

Karp, Paul. "Move to ban Chelsea Manning from Australia a 'political stunt' to appease Trump." The Guardian (August 30, 2018)

Kwai, Isabella. "Australia Plans to Deny Chelsea Manning an Entry Visa, Citing ‘Criminal Record.'" The New York Times (August 29, 2018)

Manning, Chelsea. "Chelsea Manning’s Platform for U.S. Senate: Abolish ICE, Dismantle Prisons, Healthcare for All." Democracy Now (March 28, 2018)

---. "On the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia." The Guardian (August 8, 2018)

---. "On Trump’s Mission Accomplished Tweet: 'I Believe I Have Heard Those Words Before.'" Democracy Now (April 16, 2018)

---. "'We Cannot Wait for Change'—Freed Whistleblower Chelsea Manning on Iraq, Prison & Running for Senate." Democracy Now (March 27, 2018)

Mays, Jeffrey. "Adrián Lamo, Hacker Who Reported Chelsea Manning to the F.B.I., Dies at 37." The New York Times (March 17, 2018)

McDermott, Quentin. "WikiLeaks - The Forgotten Man." Four Corners (June 14, 2012)

McGovern, Ray. "In Support of Imprisoned Wikileaks Whistleblower Pvt. Bradley Manning." AlterNet (August 8, 2010)

"The Misplaced US Determination To Indict Assange." The Empty Wheel (December 12, 2012)

Pilkington, Ed. "'I'm a very different person than I was 10 years ago.'" The Guardian (January 19, 2018)

Ratner, Michael. "Exposed: U.S. May Have Designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks an 'Enemy of the State'." Democracy Now (September 27, 2012)

---. "Speech on Bradley Manning in Washington DC." Law and Disorder Radio (The event was held at All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington DC, December 2012)

Robinson, Jennifer. "Julian Assange’s Attorney Decries Espionage Charges as 'Grave Threat to Press Freedom.'" Democracy Now (May 24, 2019) ["In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 17 charges of violating the Espionage Act for his role in publishing U.S. classified military and diplomatic documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The documents were leaked by U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The Espionage Act of 1917 has never been used to prosecute a journalist or media outlet. The new charges come just over a month after British police forcibly removed Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he took asylum in 2012. Initially the Trump administration indicted Assange on a single count of helping Manning hack a government computer, but Assange faces up to 170 additional years in prison under the new charges—10 years for each count of violating the Espionage Act. We speak with Jennifer Robinson, an attorney for Julian Assange. “It is a grave threat to press freedom and should be cause for concern for journalists and publishers everywhere,” Robinson says." Part two: "Daniel Ellsberg: Espionage Charges Against Assange Are Most Significant Attack on Press in Decades." Part three: "Jeremy Scahill: New Indictment of Assange Is Part of a Broader War on Journalism & Whistleblowers." Part four: "Assange Is Indicted for Exposing War Crimes While Trump Considers Pardons for War Criminals."]

Scahill, Jeremy. "The World Is a Battlefield: 'Dirty Wars' and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks." Democracy Now (April 24, 2013)

Shaer, Matthew. "The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning." The New York Times (June 12, 2017)

Wolf, Naomi. "How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses." The Guardian (April 5, 2012)