A beefed up City of London police presence and deployed armed police greeted approx 15 activists demanding the freedom of Bradley Manning on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on "U.S. Thanksgiving Day" The U.S. Ambassador was attending the annual Thanbksgiving service at the cathedral along with a sizeable number of U.S. ex-pats. Those demanding the freedom of Bradley Manning also included U.S. ex-pats living in London.
Bradley Manning, who went through Shannon Airport to Iraq, has been imprisoned for the last 18
months in Baghdad, Kuwait, Quantico and Levenworth. For the ten months
he was kept in Quantico he was systematically physically and
psychologically tortured in the hope he would break and implicate Julian
Assange for the U.S. Grand Jury sitting on WikiLeaks. Bradley refused
to be broken and an escalated solidarity campaign including nonviolent
civil disobedience contributed to his move to Leavenworth, the end of
the systematic torture and improved prison conditions.
Bradley
has been charged with 23 offences in relation to the release of video
footage of a U.S. war crime in Baghdad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 and U.S. embassy cables.
Julian Assange remains detained without charge in Britain facing
extradtion to Sweden (his next High Court date Dec 5th.) and
eventual rendition to the U.S.
Bradley's military trubunal
befgins at Ft. Meade. Marland, U.S.A. on Dec 16th. There are calls for
international solidarity action to accompany a large demonstration
ooutside of Ft. Meade on on Bradley's 24th. birthday Saturday Dec 17th.
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/army-sets-pre-trial-...dwide
Former
U.S. political prisoner Ciaron O'Reilly stated from the steps of St.
Paul's, "Bradley Manning and Julian Assange look like spending the rest
of their lives in U.S. gulags for telling us about the true nature of
these wars we are waging on Iraq and Afghanistan. Those of us who
marched and acted against these wars need to be in proactive solidarity
for both Bradley and Julian right now. This period is critical. From my
own experience the more solidarity the resister gets the easier it is
to sustain the anti-war
resistance. We need to end these wars and free those who exposed and
resisted them. They're in the docks for us, we're on the streets for
them!"
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Ambassador Susman's Thanksgiving Remarks at St Paul's Cathedral
25 November 2010
http://london.usembassy.gov/amb-speeches/susman024.html
"A Malaysian tribunal has just found former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war, Press TV reported."
More at: http://presstv.com/detail/211548.html
The information at the above www address includes a brief video interview with Dr Francis A. Boyle (United States Constitutional and International Lawyer): who appears very determined to carry on with his efforts to have the "criminals Bush and Blair" put in jail.
Photos from demonstration for Bradley Manning at St. Paul's Thanksgiving Day service
* http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/24/9001989...ation
**http://cryptome.org/manning-protest-17.jpg
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