Fagburn: Apropos Of Nothing 2 - Bradley Manning

I said I'd review this when I got a copy, and now I have.
It's no great shakes in the literary stakes, but it's a pretty good primer on Bradley Manning and why we must defend him.
Like anything about Bradley, it's a bit hamstrung by the "allegedly" thing, and there's not much more about the (gay) man you won't have read in other profiles - though Mitchell does make various connections about how Bradley's sexuality is instrumental in all this.
ie He's a queer hero (allegedly).
Buy it here.

• Oh, and thanks to Naomi and everyone behind UK Friends Of Bradley Manning for keeping up the heat that helped get Bradley moved.
Protest works!

Bradley Manning: Brave Little Monster

This is NOT an April Fool's joke: There's an online campaign underway to get Lady Gaga to speak up for Bradley Manning due to the "special role" she played in helping him allegedly leak all those documents to WikiLeaks. If you've forgotten, he claimed, in the chat logs, that he used a thumb drive that supposedly held Lady Gaga songs as his "cover." See report on that here. Group at Brave Little Monster is getting people to send her tweets or Facebook message imploring her to act...

From The Nation blog of Gregg Mitchell, author of the newly published Bradley Manning: Truth And Consequences.
Lady Gaga won the SLDN's Randy Shilts Award last month for her work in support of lesbians and gay men in the US military - let's hope she stands by and speaks up for this particular great gay man, Private Bradley Manning.

• By happenchance April 9th-10th is Bradley Manning Support Weekend - "a call to socially conscious artists and organizers across the country and world to propel Bradley Manning to pop-culture status through artistic expression before he goes to trial".
Get creative and that!