Tag: Chelsea Manning
The bust of Edward Snowden in Fort Greene Park seems to have inspired a trend: artists and activists erected statues of Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz Square on Friday as part of May Day celebrations, Newsweek reports. The sculptures were created by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino […]
Chelsea Manning, the U.S. army whistleblower serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, has released a handwritten letter to her Twitter account to prove that she is the true identity behind Twitter handle @xychelsea. As part of her sentence, Manning is not allowed to access the internet. However, she has found a […]
Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, is not allowed to speak to reporters on the phone or in person, and is forbidden from using the internet as part of her 35-year sentence. But she’s managed a way around all of the restrictions, having given her first […]
Here’s the latest piece in Banksy’s Better Out Than In series. It’s a lot bigger than what we’ve seen before, spanning the sides of both a car and what looks like the back of a box truck, and depicts three horses wearing night vision goggles along with warplanes, crosshairs, and anguished-looking people. It’s somewhere on the Lower East […]
From artists Elizabeth Veldon and Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt comes For Chelsea Manning, a tribute in drone to the recently-convicted Army leaker. “Chelsea Manning is a queer hero,” reads the description of the album by Veldon’s record label, Queering the Black Circle. “She is a role model for socially and politically engaged queer people.” The two-track album […]
