Contrary to his campaign rhetoric and to no one’s surprise, President Trump has continued and intensified his predecessor’s attacks on whistleblowers and publishers. In the span of a few weeks, both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, the sources of perhaps the most significant revelations about American warmaking in the last fifty years, have been thrown in jail to the cheers of the mainstream press. Meanwhile, the violent abuses that Manning and Assange revealed continue apace across the globe.
In solidarity with Manning and in preparation for similar events for Assange, Brown War Watch is hosting “Chelsea Solidarity Weeek” from April 22nd to 26th. The week will feature two main events and several smaller events spread across New England. First is a panel discussion on April 24th from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in Smith-Buonanno Rm. 106 entitled Whistleblowing in American Empire. The panel will feature legal and academic experts Naoko Shibusawa, Lida Maxwell and Sonali Chakravarti and will treat Ms. Manning’s centrality to the whistleblower movement.
On the following day, April 25th, from 5:30-6:30 pm, students and activists from across New England will demand Manning’s immediate release during the #StandOutForChelsea protest. Activists near Providence will convene on the Faunce Steps on Brown’s main green.
We hope you will join us for these important events and help us resist the corrosive foreign policy consensus. Please look forward to related updates here on the website.
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