Bradley Manning, Photo courtesey of The Telegraph Berkeley won’t be offering a home any time soon to former Guantanamo Bay detainees. And it won’t be calling Private Bradley Manning a hero, either. The City Council on Tuesday night rejected a proposal to invite two former Gitmo prisoners to come and live in Berkeley. However, the […]
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Berkeley’s Bradley Manning resolution is watered down
Bradley Manning, Photo courtesy of The Telegraph The Berkeley City Council on Tuesday will consider a watered-down version of a bill regarding Bradley Manning, the army private suspected of leaking the WikiLeaks documents. Instead of declaring Manning a hero, the revised bill calls for Manning to be treated “humanely” in prison. The switch in emphasis […]
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Berkeley City Council tables WikiLeaks resolution
A resolution to brand Pfc. Bradley Manning a hero brought out both supporters and critics. Photo: John C. Osborn By John C. Osborn The Berkeley City Council voted last night to table a controversial resolution calling for the release of alleged military whistle blower Private Bradley Manning from military prison and to honor him as a […]
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Berkeley bashing: A favorite national sport
An angry response to the resolution on Bradley Manning from MoveAmericaForward.org The proposal of the Peace and Justice Commission to name Private Bradley Manning a hero for leaking sensitive U.S. government documents has provided much of the world an opportunity to bash Berkeley. In the six days since word came out that the City Council […]
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As if by magic: Commission agendas appear
When we wrote about the Peace & Justice Commission resolution to honor Pfc. Bradley Manning yesterday, there was a grand total of a single minutes from a commission meeting this year available on the city’s website. It looks like attention produces action. All the minutes agendas from this year’s meetings are now on the commission’s […]
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Council resolution on WikiLeaks private ‘premature’
Pfc. Bradley Manning, charged with leaking classified information At the moment, there are 308 stories on Google News about Berkeley’s Peace & Justice Commission’s proposal to “support and free Pfc Bradley Manning and proclaim him a hero”. They range from the outraged (“Berkeley Gives America the Middle Finger” on Fox) to the more measured (“GI’s […]
