The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning
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One of the most important political stories of our time - Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking thousands of military cables to Wikileaks - brought to life in this award-winning production by the UK's most exciting new national company.
'A viscerally exciting piece of theatre' (Guardian).
**** (Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, TheArtsDesk.com, Western Mail).
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning was first staged across Wales in April 2012 and will be remounted at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
See the show at:
Pleasance at St Thomas of Aquin's High School,
Chalmers St, Edinburgh EH3 9ES
6th - 25th August 2013
Website: http://nationaltheatrewales.org/ntwbradley
Location: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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This group is here for people interested in, involved in and affected by the play The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning. Join in and contribute as we develop the play further and re-stage our artistic response to his story, and his relationship with Wales.
You can read a blog post by TIm Price on why he wanted to tell this story here.
Click here to see our Storify Story of tweets and other content around the first staging of The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning.
We're updating a Storify Story around the 2013 remounting, and you can see that here.
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This play is a fictional account which has been inspired by a true story. The incidents, characters and time lines have been changed for dramatic purposes. In some cases fictitious characters and incidents have been added to the plot, and the words are those imagined by the author. The play should not be understood as a biography or any other factual account.
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Comment by Tim Price on March 13, 2012 at 10:31
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Some video footage of an interview with Bradley's Dad:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/bradley-manning/b...
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An interview with Bradley's Dad:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/interviews/brian-...
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Comment by Gwawr Loader on March 13, 2012 at 9:34
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Some easy to follow info about hacking and hacker ethics - might help understand some jargon / terms we come across in Bradley's story.
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Comment by Richard Lakos on March 12, 2012 at 22:04
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Some videos mentioned in the rehearsal room, giving a context to the conditions and lives of other soldiers who've served in the Iraq war - Rich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hp8HMstkE&feature=youtube_gdat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ihPGtcHjNk&feature=youtube_gdat...
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A fantastic day for the Bradley campaign, the UN calling America's treatment of Bradley cruel and inhumane, with the suggestion that were it not for the u.s military obstructing access they would be found guilty of torture too. Joan Mendez' statements give legitimacy to the campaign where Western Governments have avoided confronting the U.S. on this issue. Also as a footnote, our little play stared rehearsing today, it was great to hear the pay being read aloud for the first time, and to meet the enormous team behind the project.
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Comment by Lindi Carter on March 12, 2012 at 9:06
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It's all happening today around Bradley!
'Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules -
UN special rapporteur on torture's findings likely to reignite criticism of US government's treatment of WikiLeaks suspect' says the Guardian: -
'The findings of cruel and inhuman treatment are published as an addendum to the special rapporteur's report to the UN general assembly on the promotion and protection of human rights. They are likely to reignite criticism of the US government's harsh treatment of Manning ahead of his court martial later this year.'
'In his opening letter to the US government on December 30 2010, Mendez said that the prolonged period of isolated confinment was believed to have been imposed "in an effort to coerce him into 'cooperation' with the authorities, allegedly for the purpose of persuading him to implicate others."
It is known that the US department of justice is conducting a grand jury in Virginia exploring the possibility of bringing charges against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-cruel-i...
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Meanwhile, in the States..
A letter which could prove v. embarrassing for USG has been signed by a 'broad coalition of media outlets' protesting the 'unnecessary degree of secrecy' surrounding Bradley's trial...
Interesting, because much of the defence case so far apparent draws attention to this very issue.
The letter concludes:
"The prosecution of an American service member for the alleged leak of the
largest amount of classified information in U.S. history is a matter of intense
public interest, particularly where, as here, that person’s liberty is at stake.
Public oversight of the proceeding is of vital importance. Indeed, the interest
in openness in this case is not mere curiosity but rather a concern about the
very integrity of this nation’s military courts — their ability to oversee the
proceedings by which military personnel have their day in court to answer to
and defend against allegations of serious offenses."more:http://www.bradleymanning.org/
and the full letter here:
http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2012-final...
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Comment by Tom Beardshaw on March 12, 2012 at 5:08
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Day one of rehearsals - cast and crew have all met each other, and the cast are getting into their actory exercises - today they selected random lines from the script and strung them together... this is where they'd got to by the time I left at 3.30 :)
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There's a letter here (put together by firedoglake) that we can sign to encourage the Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley.
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/manning-nobel?source=memoty
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Vigil Outside U.S. Embassy
Grosvenor Square London
Friday 5 pm March 16th.
Demanding All Charges be Dropped Against Bradley Manning
- Anti-War Prisoner of the U.S. Government
- Iraq War Veteran
- Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower
http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/
*Bradley Manning is facing 23 charges one carrying the death penalty, accused of exposing war crimes of the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.collateralmurder.com/
Bradley is being brought back to Ft. Meade Maryland on March 15 & 16 for a pre-court martial prosecution motions hearing. Bradley is in jail for us, we're on the streets for him. End the Wars! Free Bradley Manning! Drop the Charges!
*UN invstigator slams US over "cruel" treatment of Bradley Manning
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/u-n-investigator-slams-u-s-over-...
The March 16th. Vigil at London's U.S. Embassy organised by
London Catholic Worker http://londoncatholicworker.org/
and Veterans for Peace UK http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/
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