Interesting People mailing list archives
Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia | US news | The Guardian
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 11:17:14 +0900
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/chelsea-manning-on-the-far-right-state-surveillance-and-their-lessons-for-australia Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia Manning says Donald Trump is not an aberration but the inevitable conclusion of the US political system Wed 8 Aug 2018 aThough she is best known for her role in leaking state secrets, Chelsea Manning is more engaged in what she calls “regular activism” at the moment, which in today’s America means fighting neo-Nazis. Manning – who is about to make her first trip to Australia in September on a speaking tour – will come to our shores with warnings about the rise of white nationalism in the United States, the police state and what citizens should do to fight back. Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the trip, Manning said she is organising against the second Unite the Right rally in Washington DC “where neo-Nazis – they’re barely hiding their affiliation – folks are coming here for a white civil rights rally, which is the most ridiculous thing in the entire world in my opinion. “They stand as a legitimate threat and they have power.” It is a warning that has resonance in Australia, days after Sky News hosted an interview with the far-right extremist Blair Cottrell, which they later apologised for and took down. The former US military analyst, who served seven years of a 35-year sentence in military prison after leaking a vast trove of 700,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks, has already upended the world once and it sounds like, through activism, she is determined to do it again.
------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=18849915 Unsubscribe Now: https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=18849915&id_secret=18849915-a538de84&post_id=20180808221725:5906807A-9B7A-11E8-9BBE-833464E249F1 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
Current thread:
- Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia | US news | The Guardian Dave Farber (Aug 08)