Posts Tagged bradley manning

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 11 years ago

Manning announces she is transitioning

Early this morning, Chelsea Manning – who was recently sentenced to 35 years for leaking classified documents – announced to the world that she would be transitioning:

As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look ...

Early this morning, Chelsea Manning – who was recently sentenced to 35 years for leaking classified documents – announced to the world that she would be transitioning:

As I transition into this next phase of my life, ...
By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

More on Bradley Manning and the “transgender defense”.

“The ‘Baby Veronica’ case currently before the Supreme Court is many things…What it’s not is a case that feminists have been on the right side of.”

Another Onion #fail, this time with regards to statutory rape and incest.

Oh, goody. The Archbishop won’t deny communion to Irish Catholic politicians and Parliament members who voted for a controversial law that allows abortion under certain circumstances.

Yes, this Merrill Lynch intern’s death is tragic. No, he was not performing “slavery in the city”.

Two young journos are highlighting longform journalism written by women.

“Tweeting as research” is the new “intern was tweeting.”

Second wave Disney Princesses for ...

More on Bradley Manning and the “transgender defense”.

“The ‘Baby Veronica’ case currently before the Supreme Court is many things…What it’s not is a case that feminists have been on the right side of.”

Another Onion ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 11 years ago

Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU condemn Manning’s sentence

Earlier today a military judged sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison, the longest sentence for a public leak of government information in U.S. history. Manning, who provided nearly a quarter-million files to Wikileaks, will be eligible for parole in eight years. The prosecution sought a considerably longer 60-year sentence, but, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, Manning never should have been prosecuted at all. The non-profit released the following statement today:

We are outraged that a whistleblower and a patriot has been sentenced on a conviction under the Espionage Act. The government has stretched this archaic and discredited law to send an unmistakable warning to potential whistleblowers and journalists willing to publish their ...

Earlier today a military judged sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison, the longest sentence for a public leak of government information in U.S. history. Manning, who provided nearly a quarter-million files to ...
By Katie Halper • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

The Californian City of Glendale dedicates an 1,100 pound metal statue memorializing “comfort women.” the Asian women and girls, mostly from Korea, China, Indonesia, who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. There is an identical statue in Seoul.

Don’t worry, guys. Homosexuality is still a sin.

Bradley Manning is acquitted of Aiding the Enemy but found guilty of violating The Espionage Act and could face 100 years in jail.

Jeremy Scahill on the #MediaFail coverage of the Bradly Manning trial.

Ye ole’ Camp Gyno

The REAL Anthony Weiner scandal: Huma’s ISLAMISM!!!

British clubs ban Russian vodka ...

The Californian City of Glendale dedicates an 1,100 pound metal statue memorializing “comfort women.” the Asian women and girls, mostly from Korea, China, Indonesia, who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese ...
By Lori Adelman • 13 years ago

The Wednesday Weigh In: Nobel peace prize edition

WikiLeaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange, pictured above holding an Australian peace award he received in May of this year.

The Nobel Peace Prize nominees for 2011 were recently announced, and there were a few surprises in the bunch. 

241 candidates, have been nominated for this year’s award, which, in addition to Arab Spring superstars such as Wael Ghonim, Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, and Egyptian Israa Abdel Fattah, includes Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. You’ll also remember him as having been extradited to Sweden for sexual assault allegations.

Recent winners of the award include President Barack Obama and Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

Which brings me to this week’s Wednesday Weigh-In:

What ...

WikiLeaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange, pictured above holding an Australian peace award he received in May of this year.

The Nobel Peace Prize nominees for 2011 were recently announced, and there were a ...