Chelsea Manning was imprisoned in 2010 after leaking 750,000 military documents to the website WikiLeaks. Chelsea’s revelations exposed heinous war crimes by the US military. While the perpetrators of the atrocities she exposed have never faced justice, Chelsea herself spent seven years behind bars, including several months in solitary confinement before her trial. README.txt is Chelsea’s first tell-all memoir about what led her to speak out, and her experiences in prison. Chelsea Manning joins Baltimore-based activist and independent journalist Ryan Harvey for a special discussion on her memoir, hosted at Red Emma’s cooperative bookstore and café.
In README.txt, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. Manning details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence as a naive, computer-savvy kid, what drew her to the military, and the fierce pride she has about the work she does.
You can purchase her book here: https://bookshop.org/a/3323/9780374279271
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American transparency activist, politician, and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst. She lives in Brooklyn and works as a security consultant and expert in data science and machine learning.
Ryan Harvey is an activist, independent journalist, and musician based in Baltimore, MD, and the National Field Director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. He has worked extensively in support of active-duty military members and veterans organizing against the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and has co-founded several organizations including the Riot-Folk Collective (2004), the anti-war Civilian-Soldier Alliance (2006), Firebrand Records (2015) and Rebel Lens (2017).
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hmmm, I feel manning had so many options of what she could have done with the videos she had leaked to Wiki Leaks – which I felt was in the spirit of doing the right thing…however, she leaked a range of materials, including the video that would have increased attacks on the Allied soldiers in the region; I sense Manning was a disgruntled worker in the military and this is what it was all about? Alongside Manning having personal struggles…she had to overcome – I think is because Manning's Father turned his back on her, until it was too late sadly…It upsets me to see so many parents behave like this with their children…Manning should never had been in the streets as she was…
I hope she succeeds in politics…
Bravo.
I agree with every word Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese said: Look at the fact that the person Chelsea Manning who released the information is walking freely now having served some time in prison and there is nothing to be served by Julian Assange ongoing incarceration. Imagine how good the world would be [ if more people risked prison to expose the US military?!
I dont see much difference between Manning and Teixeira.
HERO
She should be giving a talk on, "why I decided to turn into a trans woman instead of facing the consequences and probable 40 year prison sentence for deserting my post and getting my fellow soldiers killed while attempting to find and rescue me from harm's way. Disgusting.
A luta continua sim! Grande entrevista! Grande Chelsea!!!
WHY would you give a platform to a convicted TRAITOR just because he claims to be a she?? Manning had no idea what was in the hundreds of thousands of files he violated his Oath to expose. He was a bottom-level junior troop with zero experience but a bunch of dumb excuses for being a failure. If he had any sense of shame at all, he'd leave the country he betrayed as soon as possible. People who support him simply have never dealt with classified information before and don't know what they're talking about. Period.
Much respect for exposing our corrupt govt. The problem is that our system is still totally corrupt BOTH PARTIES PROTECT EACH OTHER.Our system is a farce.
The Problems are Beyond the Human Pay Grade! Devine Intervention is Required!!
Trump never got us involved in foreign wars. Well except the one against the DS going on right now.
And you’re a racist sir
This was excellent. That soldier was right. She is very courageous. Chelsea is the type of person who this world needs more of. People who live for the truth are sorely needed in this world. FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!!!
"Chelsea" LOL
This video is a dumpster fire that is regularly fed new garbage.
FREE ASSANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chelsea you may not feel this way about yourself but I consider you a gem. Thank you for your courage. ðŸ™ðŸ½
I don’t buy this Dude’s BS. Comparing him to Julian Assange is not a fair comparison. Julian Assange was an active journalist. Manning is a traitorous.
who is "bad and crooked" ? â¤â˜
You mean Why I risked Julian's life to expose crimes of the US Military.
Wow that was a good poem
I want to hear more about the 92’ Nissan pickup truck.
I believe Mr. Manning is telling the truth.
Appreciate the info earlier, and standing strong for Assange, but after the massive freakout at Greenwald and other crazy things, I'm not very interested to hear Manning talk about things.
#WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder 2007
holy shit no wonder why they water boarder this wind bag
It is NOT the duty & responsibility of a teenaged child to “parent†an alcoholic “adultâ€.
WISE she realised whatever her personal issues were, she was in NO WAY bound to sacrifice herself & drown in her parent’s dysfunction.
I knew a sassy bitch named Twanda. She was an adorable French Bulldog with truly stinky farts.💨ðŸ¤ðŸ˜³
WOW @KenBrown I had to listen to that twice. Your amazing and that should go Viral.
powerful stuff
No anti military or anti imperialist allowed? Doesn't look like a military imperialist gathering to me, looks the opposite…..
You americans always talk like you are in a movie. You talk as if you will save the world from what you yourself have created. Quite disturbing yet comical in the way you portray yourself
Pathological lier. These stories are grossly exaggerated or completely false.
It's really sad that he left his mother when she needed him most…he turned his back on her for his own selfish desires. Then he trashes his mom, to the world. What low life.
Wow, I can't believe how many people fall for this froud. He's not a hero by any definition. He's starving for attention and will do and say anything to be center stage. He should be locked up for life for his crimes not praised as a "hero" or for being "Brave". He's a lying coward.