[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Court Martial Verdict Los Angeles Solidarity Rally ~ Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ~ At The Westwood Federal Building ~ Join with CODEPINK, Out Against War, LA LGBT Gr
Bradley Manning Court Martial Verdict Los Angeles Solidarity Rally Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM At The Westwood Federal Building Located at the Corner of Wilshire Veteran www.bradleymanning.org http://www.codepinkalert.org/img/original/C_07_E_head2.jpg http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=du17EjL%2BkxqQWySIrUrR3g8 n8Qxv0c8S PM http://codepinkalert.org/img/original/arrow_22.gif Today, Tuesday, July 30th at 10:00 AM military Judge Col. Denise Lind will announce the verdict of the Bradley Manning court martial at Fort Meade. Join CODEPINK, Out Against War, LA LGBT Greens Veterans for Peace in showing your support for this heroic whistleblower at a Solidarity Rally - Today, Tuesday July 30th, from 6:00 PM to 800 PM in front of the http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=VbCVz0d3uCZqnlj2/AyByg8n8 Qxv0c8S Westwood Federal Building. Bring your friends, noisemakers, signs, banners and literature! RSVP to Amanda mailto:amanda.codep...@gmail.com?subject=RSVP%20Bradley%20Manning%20Verdict %20Solidarity%20Rally%2C%20July%2030%20 . http://i39.tinypic.com/eai2rl.png http://codepinkalert.org/img/original/arrow_22.gif Also on Wednesday, July 31, Jodie Evans reports back from our peace delegation to Yemen along with Attorney Steven Rohde speaking on Drones Abroad Spying at Home: What's Happening to Our Democracy?The discussion will be held at the Levantine Cultural Center http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Ct895jy5kSz1XrxRAt44Zwxsy kU3heme 6:30 - 8pm. Email Amanda mailto:amanda.codep...@gmail.com?subject=RSVP%20Yemen%20Report%20Back%20at% 20the%20Levantine%20Cultural%20Center%2C%20July%2031 to RSVP. Onward to Peace! Amanda, Emerson, Holly, Jodie, Patricia Susan http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=lMBHlpttEy9HAv%2BMzFeizgx sykU3heme http://i39.tinypic.com/v74aia.jpg Join our Arms are for Hugging Flash Mob Saturday August 3, 12 -2PM at the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=19JNmuFH9GcxvgnLIp2Thgxsy kU3heme ! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=n/w5TpyKFC6eqWAtQeslXw8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=uxyJdhzHZz6lKnSs0KTs9w8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=nM6%2BZq1Ksp2qJS3COjAtxQ8 n8Qxv0c8S Join us on Facebook! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=dCha8UUsqrD1HUu6qyI5XA8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1854893651 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Lobbying: how politicians are bought and sold
http://www.marxist.com/lobbying-selling-and-biying-politicians.htm Lobbying: how politicians are bought and soldhttp://www.marxist.com/lobbying-selling-and-biying-politicians.htm Written by John PickardTuesday, 30 July 2013 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/lobbying-selling-and-biying-politicians/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,34fb72f70b360c175fa0b3f26c36f7a9e666c788/tmpl,component/ - - - In his masterpiece called * Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State*, Engels pointed out that even in a democratic republic, wealth still wields power indirectly, but all the more surely. It does this in two ways, he explains, by plain corruption of officials, of which America is the classic example, and by an alliance between the government and the stock exchange. In a later work, *State and Revolution*, Lenin took up the same theme, examining the completely fraudulent character of parliamentary democracy. At the present time, he wrote, Imperialism and the domination of the banks have developed both these methods of defending and asserting the omnipotence of wealth in democratic republics of all descriptions. Writing in 1917, Lenin went on to quote the example of a minister in the Provisional Government, Palchinsky, who resigned his office and was promptly rewarded with a cosy job by the capitalists, on a salary of 120,000 roubles a year. What would you call this, Lenin asked, direct or indirect corruption? These arguments of Engels and Lenin, which are fundamental to a Marxist understanding of politics and the parliamentary process, have been completely vindicated over and over again down the years. Recent revelations of parliamentary sleaze have once again laid bare the thousands of threads that big business has woven into the fabric of so-called representative government. It is well-known that, in Britain, Tory ministers have an open-door policy when it comes to meeting lobbyists and the representatives of capitalism, but it was revealed recently that the Government has an organised system to buddy multi-national firms with Tory ministers and moreover, there were plans to expand it. In July 2011, the trade minister Lord Green announced the original initiative to give 38 firms, including telecoms, pharmaceutical and oil companies, a direct line to ministers and officials. In 2013, it was announced, a further 12 firms were being added to the list and 30 more are under consideration. The original 38 firms, it was announced, had nearly 700 cosy face-to-face meetings with ministers in the first two years of the scheme. The oil company Shell alone has had 56 face-to-face meetings with ministers. Before the election, David Cameron said that the £2bn British lobbying industry was out of control but now that hes in Downing Street, it is clear that the Tories have no intention to limit the access of their business pals to ministers and officials. The latest Government proposal to register lobbyists is no more than a fig-leaf that would only require the registration of professional lobbying firms. As the campaign group *Lobbying Transparency* explained, there are fundamental flaws with this approach. Lobbyists-for-hire in agencies, they explain, account for only a small proportion of Britain's influence industry. They are outnumbered by in-house lobbyists by at least six to one. *Lobbying Transparency* go on to explain how the system would be nonsensical: a supermarket, say, with a team of six in-house, full-time lobbyists would not have to declare its lobbying, but if it temporarily took on an agency to increase its influence, only the agency would have to register its lobbyists. Secondly, the government are proposing that lobbyists who are registered reveal only *minimal* information, that is, their names and their clients. This completely undermines any attempt to increase government accountability because it misses out completely any lobbyists' interaction with officials and ministers. It is clear that the Lobbying Bill is not intended to in any way shape or form to curtail the official or unofficial links between business and Parliament. The only firm measure it does offer is against the trade unions, in that it aims to put a limit on donations from the trade unions to the Labour Party so the interests of thousands of working people are equated with the profits of big companies. While the howls of rage from ordinary people about endless austerity will continue to be met with blanket indifference, the representatives of big companies will still be feted and Government policies will be shaped and moulded to best suit the profits of the corporations. Tory policy on food labelling will continue to be made by the food companies; cigarette packaging policy by the Tobacco industry; policy on minimum alcohol pricing by the brewers and distillers; and health policies by the private health sector. What also ties
[LAAMN] 7/30: Sign Petition: NO U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA!
(http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=+5Aeqz1Sd1EFGLcSdlSYrj9pZehdu1B8) 7/30: Sign Petition: NO U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA! TO: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS We urge you to reject any military intervention in Syria, including arming the rebels or creating a no-fly zone, and instead to focus on increasing humanitarian assistance through the United Nations and building active multi-lateral diplomacy without preconditions with all involved parties for an immediate ceasefire, a full arms embargo, and negotiations to end Syria’s civil war.. _This is how our petition starts to President Obama on stopping intervention in Syria, Can you sign it? _ (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=RELUEnKnZ2vEj8kgSAVhoD9pZehdu1B8) (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=UXS+InyevvnDcQZr9H215z9pZehdu1B8) And Why is this important? You can’t put out a raging fire by pouring gasoline on one side of it. There is no military solution to the crisis in Syria, and more arms to any side mean more civilians will be killed. Any U.S. military intervention holds the threat of unplanned escalation, and ultimately a quagmire. It is much easier to send planes, bombs and missiles than it is to get out – especially if a plane is shot down or a pilot captured. There is no exit strategy for Syria and even a “no-fly zone” could easily become a costly quagmire. The situation in Syria today is full-scale civil war, which denies the people of Syria their right to choose their own government and leaders. Other governments arming and financing the two sides does not restore that right, it only makes things worse. The U.S.-Russian initiative known as Geneva II talks should be pushed forward, involving all the relevant outside actors, especially those providing weapons and military or economic support to any side. The U.S. should stop trying to prevent Iran’s participation in the talks – any serious diplomacy requires everyone to be at the table. On the Syrian side, negotiations must include not only the Syrian government and the armed rebels, but organizations representing Syrian civil society including unarmed opposition forces, Syria's minority communities, women, and youth. _Follow this link to sign the petition._ (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=sU3b2U+u87DQyFJKMd5laT9pZehdu1B8) Sponsored by: Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Just Foreign Policy (IFP) Peace Action (P-A) Peace and Justice Resource Center (PJRC) United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) Women's Actions for New Directions (WAND) United for Peace Justice (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=Dfxg6plwd5jclCXLu7DbKD9pZehdu1B8) _Click Here to Donate!_ (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=jNogaU7XNeCEBEnK1sQVYD9pZehdu1B8) Donations to United for Peace and Justice are tax exempt to the extent permitted by law. The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is UFPJ's 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor. If you would like to make a donation by check, please make it payable to FOR and write UFPJ in the memo line. Mail to: P.O. Box 607, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108. == Peace NO War Network_ http://www.PeaceNOWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate Not in our Name! And another world is possible! Information for antiwar movements, news across the World, please visit:_ http://www.PeaceNoWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) e-mail: _Info@PeaceNoWar.net_ (mailto:pe...@actionla.org) Tel: (213)403-0131 Please Join PeaceNoWar Listserv, send e-mail to: _peacenowar-subscribe@lists.riseup.net_ (mailto:peacenowar-subscr...@lists.riseup.net) Please Donate to Peace No War Network! On-line Donation: https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7315/donate_page/actionla-nisn Send check to: ActionLA/AFGJ ActionLA P.O. Box 751 South Pasadena, CA 91031-0751 (All donations are tax deductible) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post:
[LAAMN] Citizen Diplomacy: A Forum On Yemen, Guantánamo, Drones Spying ~ With Guest Speakers Jodie Evans Steve Rohde ~ Wednesday, July 31st, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM ~ At The Levantine Cultural Center -
Citizen Diplomacy: A Forum On Yemen, Guantánamo, Drones Spying With Guest Speakers Jodie Evans Steve Rohde Wednesday, July 31st - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM At The Levantine Cultural Center 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 90035 Between La Cienega Blvd Fairfax Ave. Ample Street Parking Free to The Public. Donations Gratefully Accepted. Questions or to RSVP: Contact Amanda at: amanda.codep...@gmail.com Jodie Evans reports back from a peace mission to Yemen, along with attorney Steve Rohde speaking on Drones Abroad Spying at Home: What's Happening to Our Democracy? Evans traveled to Yemen in June on a peace mission with CODEPINK http://codepinkalert.org/ : Women for Peace, with Medea Benjamin (author most recently of Drone Warfare, Killing By Remote Control), Ann Wright and others. These American activists went to discover Yemen for themselves; they wanted to meet the families of Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo, many of whom have already been cleared for release after more than 10 years under lock-down. They went to meet as well the families of drone victims. Jodie Evans will share eyewitness accounts and personal stories. Jodie Evans is co-founder and co-director of CODEPINK and has been a peace, environmental, women's rights and social justice activist for forty years. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolution to conflict. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential campaign. She has published two books, Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire, and has produced several documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America and Howard Zinn's The People Speak. Jodie is the board chair of Women's Media Center and sits on many other boards, including Rainforest Action Network, Drug Policy Alliance, Institute of Policy Studies, Women Moving Millions and Sisterhood is Global Institute. She is the mother of three. Steve Rohde will speak on Drones Abroad and Spying at Home: What's Happening to Our Democracy? With the stunning revelations in recent weeks of widespread NSA spying on Americans, Steve Rohde, a constitutional lawyer and the current head of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, will elaborate further on the use of drones and will take audience questions on what's happening to our democracy at a time when we are learning that every major phone carrier has evidently complied with government orders to turn over logs of all phone calls made to, from, and within the country over the past seven years, and that vast, comprehensive troves of information about internet activity have also been monitored by the government. Stephen Rohde is a constitutional lawyer, lecturer, writer and political activist. He is the Chair the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, a founder and current Vice-Chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Vice Chair of Bend the Arc, a Jewish Partnership for Justice and a Vice President of Death Penalty Focus. Mr. Rohde is the author of American Words of Freedom, which explores the origins, history and meaning of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. His most recent book is Freedom of Assembly, which is part of the American Rights Series. He is also co-author of Foundations of Freedom published by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and has written numerous articles and book reviews on civil liberties and constitutional history. www.levantinecenter.org/arts/cultures/central-asia/afghan/citizen-diplomacy- forum-yemen-guant%C3%A1namo-drones-spying [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to:
[LAAMN] Not in our name! Statement from Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists
We must use the downfall of the Brothethood to deepen the revolution, not to support the regime... http://enpassant.com.au/2013/07/30/not-in-our-name/ Not in our name! Statement from Egypts Revolutionary Socialists *Posted* by John http://enpassant.com.au/author/john/, July 30th, 2013 - under Egypt http://enpassant.com.au/category/egypt/, Egyptian revolutionhttp://enpassant.com.au/category/egyptian-revolution/, Revolutionary Socialists of Egypthttp://enpassant.com.au/category/revolutionary-socialists-of-egypt/ . The Muslim Brotherhood was overthrown to deepen the revolution, not to support the regime say the Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt in a statement reproduced from Socialist Worker UK.http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art/33983/Statement+from+Egypt%E2%80%99s+Revolutionary+Socialists%3A+Not+in+our+name%21 Whatever crimes the Brotherhood has committed against the people and against the Copts in defence of its power in the name of religion, we do not give army chief Al-Sisi our authority. We will not go into the streets on Friday offering a blank cheque to commit massacres. If Al-Sisi has the legal means to do what he wants, why is he calling people into the streets? What he wants is a popular referendum on assuming the role of Caesar and the law will not deter him. Yes, the Brotherhood caused the masses to suffer during the period of their rule, and today we see the return of terrorist acts in Sinai, Al-Arish, and attacks against the people living in Maniyal and al-Nahda. Yet the army does not need permission to deal with terrorist acts, it has the legal means to do that and more. But it does want more, it wants a popular mobilisation behind it in order to increase the cohesion of the state and the ruling class behind its leadership. It wants to wipe out one of the most important features of the revolution so far, which is the masses consciousness of the repressive role of the state apparatus and its intense hostility to towards them. It wants to make true the lie that the army, the police and the people are one hand. The army wants the people to follow it into the streets, just a year after the masses were screaming down, down with military rule. They want finally to restore stability that is to say the return of order, the return of the regime. They want to finish off the revolution, and they will use the Brotherhood to do it. The Brotherhood in only one year of office alienated everyone: the old state, its army and police; the ruling class; the working class and the poor; the Copts; the revolutionary and political parties. The fall of the Brotherhood was inevitable, and people were celebrating the downfall of Morsi even before they went into the streets on 30 June. The military establishment, which had allied itself with the Islamists over the previous two years, decided to break this alliance after the Islamists failed to contain the social mobilisation and rising anger in the streets. So it seized the opportunity to get rid of Morsi and cut off the development of a revolutionary movement and prevent it deepening. They want tolead this movement in a safer direction by getting rid of the Brotherhood to restore the old order. This strategy has seen the old regimes cronies, police and army being cleared in the courts, while their crimes are added to the charge sheet against the Brotherhood. On top of this, they claim that they were responsible for the 25 January Revolution as well. We do not want to find Morsi on trial for the murder of the martyrs of Port Said, and others. It was Mubarak/Morsis police which was responsible. The most important thing is to open the door which was closed with Morsis agreement: justice for the martyrs. The crimes that Morsi committed, he committed with the military, the police and Mubaraks state. They should all be tried together. Giving the old state a mandate for its repressive institutions to do what they want to their partners-in-crime of yesterday will only give them a free hand to repress all opposition thereafter. They will repress all protest movements, workers strikes, sit-ins and demonstrations. We cannot forget that the crimes which the Brotherhood committed around the country, took place under the noses of the police and army without them intervening at all to protect protesters or the people. The masses going into the street on Friday is damaging to the revolution, whatever the participants in the protests might think. Giving the army a popular mandate to finish off the Muslim Brotherhood will inevitably lead to the consolidation of the regime which the revolution arose to overthrow. We must use the downfall of the Brotherhood to deepen the revolution, not to support the regime. We have to deal with the Brotherhood at a popular and political level, responding to their acts of violence with the utmost firmness. We must build popular committees to defend ourselves against attacks by the Brotherhood and to protect our
[LAAMN] Judge: Bradley Manning is innocent,of aiding the enemy-but Faces 136 years in Prison
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/30/manning-faces-up-to-136-years-in-prison-for-alerting-you-to-what-your-government-does-in-your-name/ Manning Faces Up to 136 Years in Prison for Alerting You to What Your Government Does in Your Namehttp://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/30/manning-faces-up-to-136-years-in-prison-for-alerting-you-to-what-your-government-does-in-your-name/ By: emptywheel http://www.emptywheel.net/author/emptywheel/ Tuesday July 30, 2013 1:30 pm *Bradley Manning is innocent, according to Judge Colonel Denise Lind, of aiding the enemy.* *With this verdict, truly horrible consequences for freedom of speech are averted.* *Nevertheless, according to the invaluable Alexa OBrienhttps://twitter.com/carwinb/status/362261885736845312, Manning still faces a maximum 136 years for the 19 (out of 21) charges on which he was found guilty.* *When Manning plead guiltyhttp://www.bradleymanning.org/news/bradley-mannings-statement-taking-responsibility-for-releasing-documents-to-wikileaksin February to 10 lesser charges (Lind accepted 4 of those pleas), he said he hoped his leaks could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan. For that, the government accused him of being a traitor.* *Lind agreed with the government on almost every other issue but that one. And for his efforts, Manning may well spend the rest of his life in prison.* *Update: Heres my longer take at Salonhttp://www.salon.com/2013/07/30/manning_verdict_what_you_need_to_know/. Note this bit:* *There is one more significant detail in Linds ruling today. In addition to aiding the enemy, the one other charge she found Manning innocent of involved leaking a video of a civilian massacre in Garani, Afghanstan. While Manning admitted accessing the video, the government insisted he had leaked it months before Manning admitted to accessing the video (and before forensic evidence showed he had). This claim one Lind said they did not prove was key to their claims that Manning had planned to leak to WikiLeaks from the start of his deployment to Iraq.* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Not Guilty of Aiding The Enemy ~ But Guilty of Most Other Charges
The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us - July 30th, 2013 - www.bradleymanning.org Bradley Manning Cleared of Aiding The Enemy - But Guilty of Most Other Charges • Manning Convicted of Multiple Espionage Act Violations • Acquitted of Most Serious 'Aiding The Enemy' Charge • Army Private Faces Maximum Jail Sentence of 130 Years Bradley Manning at Fort Meade Bradley Manning has already spent 1,157 days in detention since his arrest in May 2010. Bradley Manning http://www.theguardian.com/world/bradley-manning , the source of the massive WikiLeaks http://www.theguardian.com/media/wikileaks trove of secret disclosures, faces a possible maximum sentence of more than 130 years in military jail after he was convicted of most charges on which he stood trial. Colonel Denise Lind, the military judge presiding over the court martial of the US soldier, delivered her verdict in curt and pointed language. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, she repeated over and over, as the reality of a prolonged prison sentence for Manning – on top of the three years he has already spent in detention – dawned. The one ray of light in an otherwise bleak outcome for Manning was that he was found not guilty of the single most serious charge against him – that he knowingly aided the enemy, in practice al-Qaida, by disclosing information to the WikiLeaks website that in turn made it accessible to all users including enemy groups. Lind's decision to avoid setting a precedent by applying the swingeing aiding the enemy charge to an official leaker will invoke a sigh of relief from news organisations and civil liberties groups who had feared a guilty verdict would send a chill across public interest journalism. The judge also found Manning not guilty of having leaked an encrypted copy of a video of a US air strike in the Farah province of Aghanistan in which many civilians died. Manning's defence team had argued vociferously that he was not the source of this video, though the soldier did admit to later disclosure of an unencrypted version of the video and related documents. Lind also accepted Manning's version of several of the key dates in the WikiLeaks disclosures, and took some of the edge from other less serious charges. But the overriding toughness of the verdict remains: the soldier was found guilty in their entirety of 17 out of the 22 counts against him, and of an amended version of four others. Manning was also found guilty of wrongfully and wantonly causing to be published on the internet intelligence belonging to the US, having knowledge that intelligence published on the internet is accesible to the enemy. That guilty ruling could still have widest ramifications for news organisations working on investigations relating to US national security. The verdict was condemned by human rights campaigners. Amnesty International's senior director of international law and policy, Widney Brown, said: The government's priorities are upside down. The US government has refused to investigate credible allegations of torture and other crimes under international law despite overwhelming evidence. Yet they decided to prosecute Manning who it seems was trying to do the right thing – reveal credible evidence of unlawful behaviour by the government. You investigate and prosecute those who destroy the credibility of the government by engaging in acts such as torture which are prohibited under the US Constitution and in international law. Ben Wizner, of the American Civil LIberties Union, said: While we're relieved that Mr Manning was acquitted of the most dangerous charge, the ACLU has long held the view that leaks to the press in the public interest should not be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. Since he already pleaded guilty to charges of leaking information – which carry significant punishment – it seems clear that the government was seeking to intimidate anyone who might consider revealing valuable information in the future. In a statement to the Guardian, Manning's family expressed deep thanks to his civilian lawyer, David Coombs, who has worked on the case for three years. They added: While we are obviously disappointed in today's verdicts, we are happy that Judge Lind agreed with us that Brad never intended to help America's enemies in any way. Brad loves his country and was proud to wear its uniform. Once the counts are added up, the prospects for the Manning are bleak. Barring reduction of sentence for mitigation, which becomes the subject of another mini-trial dedicated to sentencing that starts tomorrow, Manning will face a substantial chunk of his adult life in military custody. He has already spent 1,157 days in detention since his arrest in May 2010 – most recently in Fort Leavenworth in Kansas – which will be deducted from his eventual sentence. A further 112 days will be taken off the sentence
[LAAMN] Bradley Manning Solidarity Rally Today ~ Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ~ At The Westwood Federal Building ~ Bradley Manning Cleared of Aiding The Enemy - But Guilty of Most Other Char
Bradley Manning Solidarity Rally Today Tuesday, July 30th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM At The Westwood Federal Building Located at the Corner of Wilshire Veteran Bradley Manning Cleared of Aiding The Enemy - But Guilty of Most Other Charges The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us - July 30th, 2013 - www.bradleymanning.org http://www.codepinkalert.org/img/original/C_07_E_head2.jpg http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=du17EjL%2BkxqQWySIrUrR3g8 n8Qxv0c8S PM http://codepinkalert.org/img/original/arrow_22.gif Today, Tuesday, July 30th at 10:00 AM military Judge Col. Denise Lind will announce the verdict of the Bradley Manning court martial at Fort Meade. Join CODEPINK, Out Against War, LA LGBT Greens Veterans for Peace in showing your support for this heroic whistleblower at a Solidarity Rally - Today, Tuesday July 30th, from 6:00 PM to 800 PM in front of the http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=VbCVz0d3uCZqnlj2/AyByg8n8 Qxv0c8S Westwood Federal Building. Bring your friends, noisemakers, signs, banners and literature! RSVP to Amanda mailto:amanda.codep...@gmail.com?subject=RSVP%20Bradley%20Manning%20Verdict %20Solidarity%20Rally%2C%20July%2030%20 . http://i39.tinypic.com/eai2rl.png http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=lMBHlpttEy9HAv%2BMzFeizgx sykU3heme http://i39.tinypic.com/v74aia.jpg Join our Arms are for Hugging Flash Mob Saturday August 3, 12 -2PM at the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=19JNmuFH9GcxvgnLIp2Thgxsy kU3heme ! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=n/w5TpyKFC6eqWAtQeslXw8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=uxyJdhzHZz6lKnSs0KTs9w8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=nM6%2BZq1Ksp2qJS3COjAtxQ8 n8Qxv0c8S Join us on Facebook! http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=dCha8UUsqrD1HUu6qyI5XA8n8 Qxv0c8S http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1854893651 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] American helicopters fire on Iraqis. Collateral Murder (Video)
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[LAAMN] 2 dont-miss actions Wed 7-31; 8:30 Inglewood, 12 dwntwn Fed Bldg
Please forward: People will pack the Inglewood Courthouse, at One Regent Street in Inglewood (one block south of Florence between La Brea and Fir) on Wednesday, July 31 at 8:30 AM, in courtroom 02A, to demand Justice for Etana and Mecca Shakur, two Black Riders Liberation Party comrade sisters, who defended themselves against a racist assault by the Inglewood PD while doing community work, and are falsely charged with alleged assault and Battery on a police officer. The Hands Off Africa Movement, initiated by the BRLP, is demanding Hands Off Etana and Mecca Shakur, drop all charges! The campaign, which is on-going, is organizing for Justice for Trayvon, support for the prison hunger strikers, to free all political prisoners, and to withdraw all racist US/NATO forces from Africa. They also demand Hands Off Assata Shakur and Cuba. For more information, contact the BRLP at 323-289-4457, or blackriders1...@gmail.com. Endorsed by the Council of Ujima and the Inter-communal Solidarity Committee. HUNGER FOR JUSTICE Join family members, Danny Glover, Mike Farrell religious leaders at a Solidarity Fast Rally Press Conference Wednesday, July 31st 12 noon 2pm Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building 300 N. Los Angeles Street, LA 90012 On Wednesday July 31st, people around the world will fast and take other peaceful non-violent action in solidarity with the California Prisoner Hunger Strikers. Join family members of hunger strikers along with James Cromwell, Angela Davis, Mike Farrell, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, and Cornel West. We fast knowing that the criminalization that killed Trayvon Martin, and the criminalization that justifies the torture of prisoners in solitary confinement, are one and the same.We fast in solidarity with the demands of the hunger strikers. And we fast to get justice for Trayvon and for people of every gender, race and religion who have been killed by state and vigilante violence. Support efforts everywhere for Justice for Trayvon Martin. “We have taken up this hunger strike and work stoppage... not only to improve our own conditions but also an act of solidarity with all prisoners and oppressed people around the world.” Hunger Strikers in the Short Corridor Collective at Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Actions so far in: England, Germany, the US (Jackson MI, Los Angeles, Oakland CA, Philadelphia PA, Santa Cruz CA). For more information, contact: 323 646-1269; 424 744-1156 WE ARE ALL PRISONERS OF INJUSTICE! “Hunger for Justice” convened by members of: Alexandria House; Alliance for Global Justice; Anti-Racist Action-LA; Brandywine Peace Community; California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; California Prisoner Solidarity Coalition; Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB); Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails; Critical Resistance; DCFS/DHS-Give Us Back Our Children; Ecosocialist Horizons, Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; FACTS Education Fund; Fair Chance Project; Flying Over Walls; Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement/ Nat’l; Freedom Archives; Global Women’s Strike; Hank Jones - San Francisco 8; Homies Unidos; Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; LA Laborfest; LACAN; Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater LA; National Hood Alliance; Ordinary People's Society/ Alabama; Palestinian Youth Movement; Payday men’s network; Peter Laarman/Progressive Christians Uniting and Justice not Jails; Prodigal Child Project, Alabama; Project South; Queer Strike; Rev. Louis Logan; Ruckus Society, Scientific Soul Sessions; Sin Barras; Theresa Shoatz - Maroon Philly Committee; Transgender, Gender-Variant, Intersex Justice; US PROStitutes Collective; White Noise Collective; Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike; Youth Justice Coalition. Follow-up: Sunday, August 4 at 1:00 PM, the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee (including Break the Lock, Turning the Tide, Hood Health and George Jackson Freedom School programs) will have its monthly meeting at the Left Side Lounge, 1905 Rodeo Rd. between Arlington and Western (just south of the Metro Expo Line); followed at 4:00 PM by a Jericho Amnesty Movement chapter meeting with letter-writing to political prisoners. For more info, call 323-636-7388. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com
[LAAMN] Universal Principles for a Progressively Healthy Society
What are some of the Universal Principles possible for a lastingly healthy society, in every realm of life? These concepts indeed stir conversations concerning our mutual wellbeing, tell us about yours. https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/emlink?emr=05566779099131943025emid=CKjLyMXlqLgCFWZSTAodbFMAAApath=%2F112281196488479320705%2Fposts%2FjTHnkt69Xcadt=1373592158883ub=21Progressive Reform: Universal Principles for a Healthy Society Todayhttp://progressivevanguard.blogspot.com/2013/06/universal-principles-for-healthy.html Some relatively universal principles and concerns for making a more progressively evolving human society for the well... view this post »https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/emlink?emr=05566779099131943025emid=CKjLyMXlqLgCFWZSTAodbFMAAApath=%2F112281196488479320705%2Fposts%2FjTHnkt69Xcadt=1373592158883ub=21 http://twitter.com/PROUTNews * * *Can* *Spirituality**, Social Justice, and Economic and Political ** Democracy* * * * find synergy** and **synthesis** in a fair and equitable manner? * http://economicdemocracy.shows.it/http://EconomicDemocracy.Shows.it/http://economicdemocracy.shows.it/ *Find out how!* *Human society is at a vital new juncture, the decrepit skeleton of things tried and proven false is rapidly being rent asunder. Today we are on the precipice of a glorious new dawn in human evolution. Embrace this crimson dawn of the glorious new day.* *http://gotoplus.me/ProgressiveSustainability* *What are essential ingredients assuring progressive sustainability bereft of the vicissitudes of economic or political predation, privation or disparity? Learn more HERE http://bit.ly/SustainableEconomics* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Fw: 'Blow the Whistle, Face Life in Jail': Progressives Slam Verdict in Manning Case
'Blow the Whistle, Face Life in Jail': Progressives Slam Verdict in Manning Case Jon Queally July 30, 2013 Common Dreams 'The US government will come after you, no holds barred, if you're thinking of revealing evidence of its unlawful behavior', says Amnesty - Jon Queally, staff writer Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland, on Monday 29 July 2013, Patrick Semansky/AP, [Democracy Now carried in depth coverage which is available here - moderator] Reactions to the verdict in the Bradley Manning trial were swift on Tuesday. Though some found solace in the fact that the 25-year-old US Army whistleblower was found not guilty on the most outrageous charge of aiding the enemy, voices across the progressive community were expressing mixtures of outrage and sadness after Judge Col. Denise Lind found Manning guilty on 19 other counts that could lead to a sentence of more than 100 years in prison. The Center for Constitutional Rights put out a statement, which read in part: While the aiding the enemy charges (on which Manning was rightly acquitted) received the most attention from the mainstream media, the Espionage Act itself is a discredited relic of the WWI era, created as a tool to suppress political dissent and antiwar activism, and it is outrageous that the government chose to invoke it in the first place against Manning. Government employees who blow the whistle on war crimes, other abuses and government incompetence should be protected under the First Amendment. We now live in a country where someone who exposes war crimes can be sentenced to life even if not found guilty of aiding the enemy, while those responsible for the war crimes remain free. If the government equates being a whistleblower with espionage or aiding the enemy, what is the future of journalism in this country? What is the future of the First Amendment? Manning’s treatment, prosecution, and sentencing have one purpose: to silence potential whistleblowers and the media as well. Wikileaks founder Julian Assangeissued a long response which included this assessment of the case: This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short sighted judgment that can not be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is ’espionage’. President Obama has initiated more espionage proceedings against whistleblowers and publishers than all previous presidents combined. In 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama ran on a platform that praised whistleblowing as an act of courage and patriotism. That platform has been comprehensively betrayed. His campaign document described whistleblowers as watchdogs when government abuses its authority. It was removed from the internet last week. Throughout the proceedings there has been a conspicuous absence: the absence of any victim. The prosecution did not present evidence that - or even claim that - a single person came to harm as a result of Bradley Manning’s disclosures. The government never claimed Mr. Manning was working for a foreign power. The only ’victim’ was the US government’s wounded pride, but the abuse of this fine young man was never the way to restore it. Rather, the abuse of Bradley Manning has left the world with a sense of disgust at how low the Obama administration has fallen. It is not a sign of strength, but of weakness. Journalist Marcy Wheeler writes at Salon: That Lind found Manning guilty of 20 charges is not a surprise. Manning himself had pled guilty to 10 lesser offenses the day he read his statement, pleading to “unauthorized possession” and “willful communication” of most, but not all of the items he was accused of leaking. On several of the charges — notably, Manning’s leak of a video of Americans shooting a Reuters journalist — Lind accepted Manning’s lesser pleas. [...] But the big news — and very good news — is that Manning is innocent of the aiding the enemy charge. That ruling averted a potentially catastrophic effect on freedom of speech in this country. Freelance journalist Nathan Fuller, who has covered the trial extensively on behalf of the Bradley Manning Support Network, tweeted: Nathan Fuller @nathanLfuller Relieved that he was acquitted of aiding the enemy, and totally outraged that Bradley Manning was convicted of Espionage. Nathan Fuller @nathanLfuller Bradley Manning still faces more than 100 years in a cage or exposing war crimes, abuse, and corruption Reporter Without Borders highlighted the important role leaks provided Manning played in exposing war crimes by the US government: The verdict is warning to all whistleblowers, against whom the Obama administration has been waging an unprecedented offensive that has ignored the public interest in their revelations. It also threatens the
[LAAMN] Support Prison Hunger Strikers ~ Rally at Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building ~ Wednesday, July 31st, Noon to 2:00 PM ~ Demand An End to U.S. Torture from Guantanamo to California ~ HUNGER F
From Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice: socialjusticecente...@gmail.com Please Join The International Action Center in Supporting this Important Action Demand An End to U.S. Torture from Guantanamo to California HUNGER FOR JUSTICE! Join Family Members, Danny Glover, Mike Farrell Religious Leaders at a Rally Press Conference Wednesday, July 31st Noon to 2:00 PM Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles 90012 On Wednesday July 31st, people around the world will fast and take other peaceful non-violent action in solidarity with the California Prisoner Hunger Strikers. Those who are supporting this effort include: James Cromwell, Angela Davis, Mike Farrell, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, and Cornel West. We fast knowing that the criminalization that killed Trayvon Martin and the criminalization that justifies the torture of prisoners in solitary confinement are one and the same. We fast in solidarity with the demands of the hunger strikers. And we fast to get justice for Trayvon and for people of every gender, race and religion who have been killed by state and vigilante violence. Support efforts everywhere for Justice for Trayvon Martin. We have taken up this hunger strike and work stoppage... not only to improve our own conditions but also an act of solidarity with all prisoners and oppressed people around the world. Hunger Strikers in the Short Corridor Collective at Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Actions so far in: England, Germany, the US (Jackson MI, Los Angeles, Oakland CA, Philadelphia PA, Santa Cruz CA). For More Information Contact: 323 646 1269 - 424 744 1156 - socialjusticecente...@gmail.com rally at federal building http://www.organizerweb.org/lists/uploadimages/image/prison%20hunger%20stri ke%20action.jpg WE ARE ALL PRISONERS OF INJUSTICE! Hunger For Justice convened by members of: Alexandria House; Alliance for Global Justice; Anti-Racist Action-LA; American Muslims for Palestine; Anti-Racist Action-LA; Arab Resource Organizing Center; Black Organizing Project Brandywine Peace Community; California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; California Justice for Youth Network California Prisoner Solidarity Coalition; Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB); Critical Resistance; DCFS/DHS-Give Us Back Our Children; Ecosocialist Horizons; Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; FACTS Education Fund; Fair Chance Project; Flying Over Walls; Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement/ Nat'l; Freedom Archives; Friends of Deir Ibzi'a; Global Women's Strike; Haiti Action Committee; Hank Jones - San Francisco 8; Homies Unidos; Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Justice NOW!; LA Laborfest; LACAN; Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater LA; Mass Incarceration; National Hood Alliance; Ordinary People's Society/ Alabama; Palestinian Youth Movement; Payday men's network; Peter Laarman/Progressive Christians Uniting and Justice not Jails; POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE; Prodigal Child Project, Alabama; Project South; Queer Strike; Rev. Louis Logan; Ruckus Society, Scientific Soul Sessions; Sin Barras; Theresa Shoatz - Maroon Philly Committee; Transgender, Gender-Variant, Intersex Justice; US PROStitutes Collective; White Noise Collective; Women of Color/Global Women's Strike; Youth Justice Coalition. Endorsers to date: Asian Prisoner Support Committee; Imam Hatem Bazian; Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizations; Rabbi Leonard Beerman; Causa Justa - Just Cause; Mike Davis; Erotic Service Providers Union; F*WORD of RCNB; Stuart Hanlon-partner Hanlon Reif; International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; the MOVE organization; Peacehome Campaigns; Philadelphia Innocence Project; Pier 5 Law offices; Rev. Edward Dorothy Pinkney; Rev. Kelvin Sauls; Southern California Library; UPWARD (Uniting Peace With Actions Respect and Dignity) Stay updated on all the events at the Harriet Tubman Social Justice Center on Twitter @HTSocial Justice [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn
