[pp.int.general] Who forgot Bradley Manning?

[Erik Lönroth]

More info on this.

The 25:th has now been set as the date on when the interview will be performed.

The participants is yet "secret", but the leader of "The Bradley
Manning Support Network" is one of the persons.

The interview will be around 30 minutes and will be broadcasted over
internet in english.

/Erik

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Erik Lönroth <erik.lonroth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I just got words from "The Bradley Manning Support Network", this is what I got:
>
> ------- mail from The Bradley Manning Support Network ----------
> Well, Erik, there are a few possible dates of significance that you
> can bear in mind.
>
> May 26, 2010 was the date of Bradley's arrest.
>
> July 29, 2010 was the date that Bradley was moved to Quantico.
>
> The Bradley Manning Support Network is also hoping to organize
> worldwide protests on the dates of Bradley's pre-trial hearing, which
> have not yet been announced but are expected to take place in May or
> June.
>
> If you'd like to interview someone from our staff, you'd be welcome.
> Jeff, our project director, said he'd be interested in doing an
> interview.
>
> Thanks for your inquiry.
> In solidarity,
> -Emma
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> To me, it means that the 26:th of may is the "official" date.
>
> I will be performing an interview with them as the mail indicates and
> I would love to get suggestions on good questions. I hope to be able
> to ask questions maybe directly to Bradley, even if it seems unlikely.
>
> Anyway, I'm setting the 26:th of May as the "Free Bradley Manning Day"
> and we are releasing our announcement and interview on this date
> together with any other manifestation we can come up with.
>
> I hope you all are interested in helping.
>
> Regarding the seminar, I will broadcast the event via the web, but the
> translation is perhaps difficult as it will be in Swedish. Maybe we
> can have some kind of "live" translation, but I don't know the
> techniques required.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dirk Poot - Secretaris Piratenpartij
> <bestuur at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
>> Seeing how it's at the end of a week reserved for getting attemntion for Bradley's case, the timing seems better and better. Would be great if this would become a worldwide day of protest.
>>
>> Please keep us informed on your september event btw, it's a topic that has my keen interest, so I'd like to be able to attend the seminar.
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> Dirk Poot
>>
>>
>> On 20 Apr, 2011, at 13:25 , Erik Lönroth wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome!
>>>
>>> I hope that we can collaborate on this. If this date should be
>>> recognized, we can organize a series of events in conjunction.
>>>
>>> Even if we can't make it until the 28:th of may, we are hosting a
>>> "seminar" here locally at the Södertälje city library on the 19:th of
>>> september 2011 on the subject of "Wikileaks and information politics".
>>> We hope to be able to invite some interesting lecturer for this.
>>>
>>> One of the issues we will cover is Bradley Manning.
>>>
>>> /Erik Lönroth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Dirk Poot - Secretaris Piratenpartij
>>> <bestuur at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
>>>> Hi Erik,
>>>>
>>>> Not to my knowledge; I have contacted the organizers for the German event to tell them about our plans, and they may have passed on the information. I will look for a contact  at the Support network and bring them up to spoeed as well.
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the suggestion!
>>>>
>>>> kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Dirkl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20 Apr, 2011, at 12:26 , Erik Lönroth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The 28:th of may seems like a date that might be a good day to settle
>>>>> about... Did you get in contact with the Support Network for Bradley
>>>>> Manning about this date and the events that are planned?
>>>>>
>>>>> /Erik
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Dirk Poot - Secretaris Piratenpartij
>>>>> <bestuur at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> For what it's worth:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We from the Dutch Pirate Party also realized this when we ran across the announcement of a demonstration planned for may 28 in Berlin: http://www.freebradleymanning.de/?p=51
>>>>>> We have just released a press release calling for a demonstration in Amsterdam, Holland on the 28 of may as well. https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/aankondiging-demonstratie-en-tweetup-bradley-manning-vrij/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dirk Poot
>>>>>> secretary a.i.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 19 Apr, 2011, at 21:11 , Erik Lönroth wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear Pirates!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In december 2010, we managed to create a common voice in support for
>>>>>>> the people behind Wikileaks. By that time, threathened to their lives
>>>>>>> due to their involvement in the publication of diplomatic documents.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The announcement was translated into many different languages and
>>>>>>> every Pirate Party that wanted to participate did so with their own
>>>>>>> versions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Our version was:
>>>>>>> http://sodertalje.piratpartiet.se/2010/12/07/piratpartiet-i-sodertalje-stodjer-reservationslost-wikileaks/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now its time to do this again. This time, focusing on the real
>>>>>>> hero(es) - the whistle-blowers, and more explicitly "Bradley Manning".
>>>>>>> He has by end of MAY been imprisoned without a trial for a full year.
>>>>>>> Parallells can be drawn to the journalist, Dawit Isaak, who is
>>>>>>> imprisoned in Eritrea under similar circumstances.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have tried to get in contact "Bradley Manning Support Network" to
>>>>>>> get a "date" to organize the "One year of illegal imprisonment" day
>>>>>>> and in conjunction with that - I hope - to formulate a common protest
>>>>>>> together with the international Pirate Party.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are some stuff we can do, apart form the "announcement".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * A "counter" that shows how long he has been imprisoned without a
>>>>>>> trial that anyone can put on their blog/website.
>>>>>>> * Poster/graphics for this.
>>>>>>> * Make donations to the www.bradleymanning.org
>>>>>>> * A "draft" on the announcement in text.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anything to mark this day. Whenever it is.
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