Chelsea Manning on the far right, state surveillance and their lessons for Australia | US news | The Guardian

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/chelsea-manning-on-the-far-right-state-surveillance-and-their-lessons-for-australia
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> 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.


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