Thursday, July 14, 2011

CWA UNION: BOTH STREETS and CONGRESS

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In her remarks, Secretary-Treasurer Annie Hill said CWA has a great deal to be proud of despite the union's many challenges. She especially praised CWA's aggressive and growing Legislative Political Action Team (LPAT) led campaigns to fight state and federal attacks on workers' rights and the economic security of working families.

One important way the LPAT program is succeeding is by building new alliances and joining together for major collective action, such as last October's One Nation march in Washington, D.C., Hill said.

More than 1,600 CWA delegates, retirees, family and friends attended the 73rd annual CWA Convention in Las Vegas this week.

"Many natural allies and supporters exist within the human rights communities outside CWA and we have come a long, long way in the last few years to strengthen and add meaning to these relationships," she said. "It is not enough anymore to send dollars, attend conferences and to support their causes. We need them to support us also and understand and work to restore collective bargaining rights in our country. It is the first step to make our country a better place."

In closing remarks to delegates, some of whom supported opposing candidates for various CWA offices, CWA President Larry Cohen said, "We saw what democracy looks like at this convention."

"We march out of here as one union, stronger than ever," Cohen said. "When we work, when we organize, when we fight, CWA is there together. It's what we stand for: That we are one union."

Cohen: 'We Need to Be in the Streets As Well As at the Ballot Box'

Today's tough economy and political attacks demand a "broader, deeper" movement, organizing not just new union members but building alliances that will make it clear where America's true majority stands, CWA President Larry Cohen said Monday in his convention address.

"We need to be in the streets as well as at the ballot box," Cohen told the 1,600-plus delegates, retirees, family and friends at the 73rd CWA convention. "We need the energy and intensity of Madison, Wisconsin, or Cairo, Egypt. We need to unite with non-labor groups who share our vision of restoring the American Dream for working families."

As history proves, collective bargaining rights are essential to that dream, Cohen said. In both the United States and Canada, as bargaining coverage grew from the 1930s to the 1960s, "we negotiated real improvements in living standards — better health care, better pensions, higher wages and expanding organizing rights, and we expected that our children and grandchildren would have a better life," he said.

But as bargaining rights declined, everything changed. Despite still-growing worker productivity, workers' wages have stagnated while "CEOs keep getting richer because they are writing the rules," Cohen said.

"Bargaining rights are critical to any functioning democracy," he said. "And they are critical for a functioning economy."

Drawing rousing cheers from delegates, Cohen unveiled a short new video showing CWA in action with its partners in recent battles. Click here to watch it. "This is movement building. This is what democracy looks like," Cohen said.

Click here to read President Cohen's full speech, which is posted on CWA's website.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

DEFEND the ILWU Local 10 AGAINST PMA MARITIME BOSSES

A message to Teachers and all Public Workers: Labor is under attack from Republican-run Wisconsin and Ohio to Democrat-run Massachusetts and California. And we're beginning to fight back. On April 4th when working people across this country demonstrated in solidarity with Wisconsin and other state workers, the longshore workers of ILWU Local 10 did what they've always done – put into practice their union's slogan, "An injury to one is an injury to all." San Francisco and Oakland ports were shut down for 24 hours in solidarity with Wisconsin.

They did it in 1978 for the workers of Chile under the gun of Pinochet's bloody military dictatorship, refusing to load bombs on a ship bound for Chile.*** They did it in 1984 for the oppressed people of apartheid South Africa and according to Nelson Mandela helped bring down that racist regime. *** They did it in 2008 by shutting down all West Coast ports to demand an end to the imperialist wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. *** And last year they did it in solidarity with the Palestinian people being massacred in Gaza, and protesting against the police killing in Oakland of Oscar Grant, an innocent young black man. ILWU Local 10 has been the moral compass of the American labor movement.

Now the employers' group, Pacific Maritime Association, is trying to put an end to workers' solidarity actions through a court suit. Their bullying tactics must be stopped. ILWU Local 10 and the SF Labor Council are organizing a broad defense campaign. Defend organized labor, civil liberties and immigrant workers' rights!

Please have your organization send its endorsement to Committee to Defend ILWU Local 10. defendilwulocal10@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/defendilwulocal10/

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

WISCONSIN SOLIDARITY in L.A.

"We Are One!"
Union Members and Community Pack First A.M.E Church on April 4

We Are One

On April 4, the National Day of Action for Wisconsin and workers’ rights, more than 2,300 Angelenos rallied at the historic First A.M.E. Church in South L.A. Two of the architects of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, Reverend James Lawson and retired Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME William Lucy, spoke to the packed church on what was also the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination.

“Dr. King’s identification with and in support of the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee is so identical to the struggles of workers in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Maine, and any number of states,” said William Lucy. “The American public clearly is identifying with this struggle. The people are saying [to the governors], ‘You’re wrong. You are fundamentally wrong and you are using political power to achieve philosophical ends.’”

Other speakers included First A.M.E. Pastor John Hunter, the leader of the L.A. labor movement Maria Elena Durazo, SEIU-ULTCW President Laphonza Butler, SEIU 99 member Jackie Brown, and IBEW member Oscar Montelongo.

An authentic Wisconsin bratwurst barbecue was provided by our brothers and sisters in IBEW Local 11. Our event was co-sponsored by California Common Cause.

To see more photos and a full story, click here.

Progressive Democratic Workers for America Prez Bill Floyd
demonstrated the Free Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
poster display outside First AME Church.

SF Labor Slights Longshore Union Local 10

ILWU (Longshore Union) SUPPORTS WISCONSIN STRIKERS
But is denied spot to speak by SF Labor Council

Why were ILWU Local 10 Representatives Banned From Speaking On April 4, 2011 Rallies In Oakland and San Francisco?

By Steve Zeltzer

4/7/2011

One of the most important unions in the country is the ILWU with 60,000 members on the west coast. It has a militant democratic tradition since the days it was formed in 1934 when it threw off the corrupt bureaucracy of the ILA on the east coast. The fact that this union was formed in the midst of general strikes and class struggle and has retained this history has always been an irritation for the bosses and their corporate media. Harry Bridges, who was born in Australia was put on trial starting in 1939 to deport him from the country for not admitting that he was a member of the Communist Party. Despite five trials this failed and the government and bosses attempt failed to break the back of the ILWU as they did to many other unions during the 1950's witch hunts. It remains the only militant democratic union, with substantial power on the job in the United States and a history of direct working class action from stopping steel going to Japan before World War 2, to boycotting cargo from apartheid South Africa, taking work action on all ports against the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, for Mumia Abu Jamal, against the murder of Oscar Grant, a young Black union member and refusing to work a Zim ship from Israel to protest the killing of 9 aid workers by Israeli apartheid troops.

http://blip.tv/file/4796460

Many of these actions have taken place by ILWU Local 10 in San Francisco which was Harry Bridge's home local and still has a very democratic tradition with a two year terms for all officials and a yearly election for all officers. These rules mean that the rank and file is very close to control and power of the local. When the national action on April 4, 2011 of no business as usual was proposed, the Local 10 membership backed it and members refused to work in solidarity with the Wisconsin workers and against the attacks on the working class. It has an active rank and file that makes it democratic and implements democracy in practice. It was the only local in the entire country that had a job action.

This action was the only direct workers action in solidarity with the Wisconsin workers and it was greeted by cheers and when it was announced to thousands of workers in St. Paul, Minnesota who were also rallying. In fact at the rallies in Oakland and San Francisco rallies this was announced from the platforms by Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO but surprisingly no ILWU Local 10 or any representatives from the ILWU were allowed to speak. She later apologized to Clarence Thomas and the ILWU for the failure of the Alameda Labor Council to have them on the platform.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/27429947/detail.html

At the same time, politicians such as Oakland Mayor Jean Quan in Oakland was invited to speak and was roundly booed by the workers present when she told the workers there would be more layoffs. "We will have layoffs, but they will come as part of collective bargaining" said Quan.

Alameda Labor Council executive director Josie Camacho angrily chastised the workers from booing Quan telling them that "I grew up in a family where you treat people with respect and respect them when they're talking." Apparently that did not apply to respecting ILWU Local 10's right to speak who were also actually members of the Alameda Labor Council.

http://www.baycitizen.org/labor/story/labor-boos-quan-unity-demonstrators/1/

At the San Francisco rally and march as well no ILWU Local 10 representatives were invited to speak due to "scheduling" problems. At the same time, the president of the Police Officers Association POA Gary Delagnes was invited to speak by Bob Muscat of IFPTE Local 21 and chair of the Public Workers Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council. The POA is not even a member of the San Francisco Labor Council but apparently they have special speaking rights over unions whose members actually are taking direct action in solidarity with Wisconsin workers. One rule, ILWU Local 10 has is that police are not allowed to be members of the Local. They have first hand experience experience with the role of the San Francisco police when two strikers in San Francisco were murdered by the police in 1934 and even today their members are targeted by police such as members Jason Ruffin and Aaron Harrison in Sacramento who were roughed up and arrested by the police. Additionally in 2003, ILWU Local 10 and Local 34 longshoremen and anti-war protesters were shot at by Oakland riot police at the behest of past Mayor Jerry Brown and the Maritime bosses.

This in fact may have been the reason that the ILWU Local 10 was not welcome to speak at the events. They have organized not only for direct action on the job but for independent worker protests that the Democratic party and their supporters want nothing to do with. These officials do not want any criticism of the Democratic party. This is also not the first time that bay area union officials have tried to silence or control who would speak for the ILWU Local 10. In 2008, past Alameda Labor Council secretary-treasurer who is now on the national staff of Trumka and the AFL-CIO told anti-war organizers that ILWU leaders Jack Heyman, Clarence Thomas and Trent Willis could not speak at the rallies and instead ILWU Local 10 had to get other speakers. This effort to censor and stifle was defeated when a public campaign took place to demand that Sharon Cornu allow the ILWU Local 10 to speak and allow them to decide who would represent the local. ILWU Local 10 as well as all ILWU locals on the west coast shutdown all ports on May Day 2008 against the war in direct worker actions against the imperial wars and more of this kind of action is needed if working people in this country are going to stop this Republicrat war.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7971114554624864182

The rallies on April 4, 2011 in the bay area as well as nationally focused on the slogan "We Are One" and fight for the "Middle Class". At the bay area rallies while calling for more taxes on the banks the word capitalism and class struggle was missing. It is as if there are just bad Republicans and this is not the nature of capitalism and class struggle. The publicity campaign to make the a movement for the "middle class" and not the working class is part of the effort to deny that there is a class divide in this country between the working class and the capitalist class.

Another important element that was left out of the AFL-CIO's day of action was the particular attack on Black and Latino workers in the attack on public workers. Black and Latino workers over decades have won decent paying union jobs with benefits and these jobs are under direct attack by both the Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats in fact along with most public workers union officials are proud of the fact that they have made and continue to make one concession after another to "share the pain". This ideology that the working class should "share the pain" with the billionaires and union busters is of course not the the ideology of fighting the capitalists in the class struggle but agreement that one of the ways to solve the crisis is for more economic concessions by the working class.

Clarence Thomas, former Secretary Treasurer of the ILWU Local 10 and also on the Executive Board raised these and other issues on a revealing and honest interview of KPFA on April 5, 2011. When mentioning the slight by the leadership of the Alameda and San Francisco Labor Councils in excluding the ILWU Local 10 he pointed out that a reason for this was the relationship between this leadership and their concern not to embarrass the Democratic Party. Thomas in his KPFA interview pointed out that this alliance with the Democratic party was in fact harming the fightback against the very attacks that labor is facing and that there needed to be more direct action by workers in this country to defend labor. The ILWU was also one of the founding members of the Labor Party and attended it's founding convention in 1995.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/06/18676499.php

This is a message obviously that some in the trade union officialdom do not want to hear. At the Oakland rally a speaker from the IBEW said it was time for a general strike and won a rousing cheer from many workers at the rally. Even Liz Shuler Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO mentioned at a labor meeting in Berkeley the next day that workers in Northern California were supportive of a general strike but it had to be "organized and have support of the community".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4MclsKkR1A

Thomas was was also asked not to speak on the KPFA Morning Mix show by the CWA Local 9415 officials because of a "boycott" of the KPFA Morning Mix show. He ignored the request and decided it was more important to take up the issue of what is happening in the labor movement on KPFA than agree to a "boycott" that even union members of the Local's chapter are ignoring.

Ken Riley, president of ILA Local 1422 in Charleston, South Carolina in the Huffington Post and in radio interviews has also called for organizing for general strike actions against the union busting tactics taking place throughout the country. This union busting campaign has been answered by the AFL-CIO and most unions with concession bargaining.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/corey-hutchins/sc-union-leader-calls-for_b_830861.html

http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20110310-Thu0800.mp3

In San Francisco, Tim Paulson, Executive Director of the San Francisco Labor Council and chair of the Labor Caucus of the California Democratic Party also personally told Trent Willis, past president of ILWU Local 10 and Clarence Thomas of Local 10 that on April 4 they would not be allowed to speak at the san Francisco rally. The same Labor Council had previously passed a resolution for a militant fight back including "to support such action by engaging, whenever possible, in work stoppages, sick-outs and any other solidarity action"

http://sflaborcouncil.org/sites/labor/uploads/03-14-11ResSptApril4SolidarityActions2.pdf

So the one group of workers in the United States that actually took work action on the job to support the Wisconsin workers and is presently being sued for it by the Pacific Maritime Association PMA is prevented from even speaking a labor rally for solidarity run by the San Francisco Labor Council.

Another striking issue that was off the table was the failure of any of the speakers at both the San Francisco and Oakland rallies to address that attacks on public workers by not only the Republicans but also by labor supported Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and the Democratic controlled legislature. Brown has continued the furlough of State workers initiated by Governor Schwarzenneger including the 192 CA-OSHA inspectors. Brown is also aware that these inspectors who protect California's 17 million workers have their wages paid not by the State but by the Federal government and a tax on Workers Comp premiums. In other words, Brown was and is harming the health and safety of California workers in order to get the union CAPS to agree to contract concessions. These workers are now on forced furloughs harming the health and safety of California workers including State workers and patients at Napa State Hospital who are being raped and murdered due to the lack of staff.

As the 1.5 million public workers in California know, they are are the chopping block and are being blamed by both Republicans and Democrats for this economic crisis yet this is not a issue for discussion and debate within the labor movement because of their structural ties to the Democratic party. This must obviously change and ILWU Local 10 is leading the way in opening up these issues for a broader debate in the labor movement about where we need to go.

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Private First Class Bradley E. Manning was arrested and charged with the unauthorized use and disclosure of U.S. diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. He has been held in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico since sometime in May 2010.

Timeline:

2011:

January 20:

Brig Commander removes Manning’s suicide risk restrictions, and returns him to POI watch.

January 19:

Over the recommendation of 2 forensic psychiatrists, the Brig Commander places Manning under suicide risk, which make his conditions worse.
Manning’s attorney David Coombs files Article 138 Complaint with Quantico base commander, alleging extended suicide risk/watch assignment is an abuse of the Brig Commander’s discretion.
Army Staff Judge Advocate’s Office made aware of Manning’s situation.

January 5:

Judge orders Twitter subpoena unsealed at Twitter’s request (PDF).

2010:

December 31:

NY Times publishes a correction to the Charlie Savage story of December 16, acknowledges they never actually read the chat logs for themselves before writing on the subject.

December 29:

Wired tells BoingBoing that the chat logs contain no unpublished references to Assange or private servers.

December 28:

Wired responds to Greenwald’s request for release of chat logs
Greenwald responds to Wired.

December 27:

Glenn Greenwald calls on Wired to release the rest of the chat logs.

December 24:

Manning releases a holiday message through his attorney, David Coombs

December 23:

David House writes at FDL: Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions
Dr. Jeffrey Kaye: Bradley Manning & the Torture That Is Solitary Confinement
UN says it will investigate Manning’s treatment
David House appears on MSNBC talking about Manning’s Detention

December 22:

Julian Assange tells Cenk Uygur that Bradley Manning is a “political prisoner”

December 19

David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

December 18

Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, writes a blogpost describing Manning’s conditions in the Quantico brig
The Independent reports that Manning is being offered a deal to roll on Julian Assange
David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

December 17

US military challenges allegations about Manning’s detention conditions
Daily Beast interviews Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, who backs up Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on Manning’s conditions
Guardian article on Manning’s deteriorating mental state, including interview with David House

December 16

Glenn Greenwald writes that the government is using techniques accused of being torture on Bradley Manning to get him to flip on Julian Assange
Charlie Savage of the New York Times uses Adrian Lamo as the sole source for an extremely dubious story on how Manning supposedly gave the cables to Wikileaks via physical hand-off. Contra what he told CNN on July 30, Lamo says he doesn’t have chat logs because his hard drive was “taken” by the FBI.

December 15

Glenn Greenwald breaks the news about the harsh conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention

December 14:

Department of Justice serves a subpoena on Twitter demanding information for individuals currently or formerly associated with Wikileaks, including Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks’ Twitter account (PDF).

December 11

David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

December 10

Forensic psychiatrist recommends Manning remain under suicide watch for one week. The following week, the psychiatrist again recommends he be removed from POI watch. The Brig Commander once again refuses to do so.

November 9

Manning’s friend and supporter David House’s computer seized by customs’ agents and FBI

October 22

Wikileaks publishes Iraq War Diaries.

October 14

Assange scheduled for interview in Sweden he does not attend.

Late September: Assange leaves Sweden.

August 27

The first of three forensic psychiatrists recommends Manning be taken off POI watch and his confinement be changed from MAX to Medium Custody In (MDI), but each time the Brig Commander refuses to do so.

August 21

Sweden withdraws rape charges.

August 20:

Ms A and Ms W go to the police; news of their accus ations leaked to the press.
Assange leaves Ms A’s apartment.

August 16

Assange meets up with Ms W again, they have consensual sex followed, the next morning, by allegedly non-consensual sex.

August 14

Assange’s talk in Stockholm. He goes to a movie with Ms W.

August 13

Ms A returns to Stockholm earlier than planned. That night she and Assange have consensual sex, though the condom breaks.

August 11

Assange arrives in Stockholm, stays at Ms A’s apartment.

August 6

Based on recommendation of forensic psychiatrist for Quantico Brig, Manning moved from suicide risk to POI watch.

August 2

Lamo now tells Wired he did not receive classified documents from Manning, and Uber was mistaken.

August 1

Lamo confirms Chet Uber’s initial version of events to Computerworld magazine, in which he says Lamo received classified documents from Manning, and called him about it in “early June.”
Lamo refuses to tell Wired whether he received classified documents from Manning or not.
Uber tells Wired he first spoke with Lamo “one or two days before Lamo had his first face-to-face meeting with federal agents, which was on May 25.”

July 30

Lamo tells CNN’s Ashley Fanz that he knew of one person in the military who had helped Bradley Manning but wouldn’t elaborate. Says he no longer has chat transcripts because he “gave” his hard drive to the FBI.

July 29

Bradley Manning transferred to Quantico Brig in MAX custody under suicide risk.
Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Applebaum questioned at the airport and his computer is seized

July 25

Wikileaks publishes Afghan War diaries.

July 6

US military announces it is pressing criminal charges against Manning for allegedly transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system. (Charge sheet)

June 28

Lamo issues statement hoping that Manning gets a plea deal and accusing Assange of exposing his role in the Manning arrest.

June 19

Boing-Boing publishes an allegedly more complete version of the alleged Lamo/Manning chats

June 18

Poulsen tells Glenn Greenwald that he published all of the chats that Lamo gave him, with the exception of “Manning discussing personal matters that aren’t clearly related to his arrest, or apparently sensitive government information that I’m not throwing up without vetting first.”
Greenwald compares Wired’s published chats with the Washington Post’s, and finds there are things that are neither “personal matters” nor “sensitive government information,” which Wired nonetheless withheld.

June 17

Glenn Greenwald interviews Lamo, who says he informed Manning he was an ordained minister who would treat Manning’s conversations as a confession, which would compel Lamo by law to keep them confidential
Iceland passes Modern Media Initiative

June 14

Using their Twitter account, Wikileaks directs their followers to the Boing-Boing comment alleging Lamo and Poulsen were working together with the FBI “in order to gain Manning’s trust and mislead him into confessing.”

June 13

Comment appears in Xeni Jardin Boing Boing article, alleging that Poulsen and Lamo “worked their target, Bradley Manning, for days — in co-operation with the FBI and US Army CID,” classic “COINTELPRO tactics.”
“The only reason to even think that PFC Manning was ‘risking lives’ is the unconfirmed innuendo made public by Adrian Lamo who has every reason in the world to justify the breach of trust he committed by willfully initiating a clandestine interrogation of PFC Manning,” says the comment.

June 11

Wikileaks commissions lawyers to defend Manning
Assange allegedly sends and email to Lamo requesting copies of the chats to aide in Manning’s defense. Lamo refuses, telling Poulsen that Manning’s attorney “can get them by discovery like everyone else.”

June 10

Wired Magazine posts the heavily redacted chats provided to them by Adrian Lamo
Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima also publishes redacted version of the chats

June 9

Lamo informs John Cook of Yahoo News he told Manning he was a journalist and offered to speak to him as a reporter, which would grant him protection under the shield law, and that Manning refused
Yahoo asks Lamo to provide that portion of their chats; Lamo says he will have to check with his lawyer

June 7

Julian Assange, on Twitter, casts doubt on the credibility of the Wired article: “Adrian Lamo & Kevin Poulson are notorious felons, informers & manipulators. Journalists should take care.”
Lamo tweets: “I was not acting as a journalist.”
Lamo issues a press release, saying he will respond by June 8 to “allegations that he was instrumental in the arrest of PFC Manning”
Washington Post denies they sat on Wikileaks video, but David Finkel evasively says he “was on book leave” from the paper when the Manning transcripts allege he acquired it

June 6

Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired Magazine report the arrest of Manning
They also report that a friend of Manning’s, Tyler Watkins, says Manning told him he had gotten his hands on sensitive information and was considering leaking it

June 1

Lamo lifts embargo on chat logs, per Poulsen

May 29

Manning arrested, according to his Charging Documents. He is detained at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.

May 27

Poulsen meets with Lamo in Sacramento for several hours. Alleges Lamo tells him for the first time the details of his chats with Manning, and he learns Manning’s name.
Poulsen says he leaves Lamo at 3pm with the chats on a thumbnail drive
At 4pm, Lamo says he met with FBI for the second time and FBI told him Manning was arrested the previous day in Iraq
Manning’s Charge Sheet, however, say Manning’s alleged activities continued until “on or about 27 May 2010″
Latest possible date for “introducing” classified information onto his personal computer and obtaining “more then 150,000 diplomatic cables.”
Manning’s pre-trial confinement begins, and presumably ties to the date when they first assessed what they had on Manning’s seized computer

May 26

Poulsen asks Lamo for the chat logs
Lamo agrees to provide them if Poulsen will drive to Sacramento and pick them up, provided he embargoes them until Lamo grants permission
Former Army counterintelligence agent Timothy Webster says Lamo called him to ask a hypothetical question about Manning, and that this was the first contact Lamo had in reporting Manning. Lamo confirms this account to AP.
Manning is arrested in Iraq, per Lamo and Wired.
Lamo later tells CNET, “I and the FBI wanted to continue feeding him disinformation,” but the criminal investigation unit of the Army had other plans.

May 25

Lamo tells Wired he met with FBI for the first time, at a Starbucks near his house in Carmichael, California.
Chet Uber says Lamo called him during the meeting, and then took agents back to his house to show them the classified documents.
Lamo says he called Poulsen after the meeting and told him the details of what happened.

May 24

Poulsen claims Lamo tells him for the first time of his chats with Manning, after Lamo had already scheduled his first meeting with the FBI the next day
Latest possible date for knowingly exceeding his authorized access to obtain “more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables” and willfully transmitting them per the charge sheet.

May 23 or 24

“Security pro” Chet Uber gets a phone call from Lamo, who says he has “received classified documents from a U.S. Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning and wanted advice about what to do.”
Uber puts him in touch with the former DOJ head of computer crimes, Mark Rasch. Uber suggests Lamo told him him about having received emails–but when Uber refers Lamo to Rasch, he describes ongoing AIM chats.

May 23

Lamo begins “cooperating with federal agents,” he tells AOL, after he “passed on what he knew to his ex, who happened to work for Army counterintelligence.”

May 21

First chats begin between Lamo and Manning, according to Wired.
Lamo tells Greenwald he lost the PGP key and never decripted emails from Manning, but sent him an invitation to chat over AIM anyway and the two began their alleged exchanges

May 20

Kevin Poulsen’s Wired Magazine article appears about Adrian Lamo’s involuntary psychiatric hold
Lamo tweets that people should donate to Wikileaks
Bradley Manning contacts Adrian Lamo on AIM “out of the blue,” Lamo tells Yahoo News. He tells Glenn Greenwald Manning first contacted him via encrypted email.

May 12

Adrian Lamo photographed at his parent’s house for use in upcoming Wired story by Kevin Poulsen

May 7

Adrian Lamo discharged from mental hospital

May

Manning demoted after an assault according to Army spokesman, who says Manning was not facing early discharge. This contradicts what Manning ostensibly said to Lamo in chat logs

April 28

Adrian Lamo’s backpack with his antidepressants is stolen. He calls the police, who have him involuntarily committed to a mental facility under state law allowing “the temporary forced hospitalization of those judged dangerous or unable to care for themselves.”

April 10

Wikileaks releases “Collateral Murder” video.

April 5

Latest possible date for having unauthorized possession of photos related to the national defense, knowingly exceeding his authorized access on SIPRnet, willfully transmitting it, and intentionally exceeding his authorized access, all in relation to the Collateral Murder video per the Charge Sheet.

April 3

Latest possible date for “wrongfully adding unauthorized software to a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer” (see emptywheel)

March 25

Assange tweets about being tailed in Iceland.

March 24

In chat, Manning suggests it took him four months to verify Assange was who he said he was

March 22

Wikileaks volunteer detained and questioned about Assange.

March 18

Two people carrying diplomatic passports follow Assange from Iceland to Norway.

March 15

Wikileaks publishes March 18, 2008 NGIC document analyzing the threat Wikileaks posed to the Army.

February 19

Latest possible date for obtaining and communicating the Rejkjavik 13 per Charge Sheet (Spec. 3)

February 18

Wilikeaks publishes Rejkjavik cable dated January 13, 2010. According to the Manning/Lamo chat transcripts, after the leak Manning tracked the Northern Europe Diplomatic Security Team tailing Assange in Sweden.

February:

Manning gives Wikileaks the video of the 2007 Army helicoper attack on Iraqi insurgents, according to Adrian Lamo in the Washington Post

February 11:

Manning returns to Baghdad from US

January 21:

Manning leaves for US

January 13

Earliest possible date for accessing the Rejkjavik 13 cable (the date is obviously taken from the date of the cable) per Charge Sheet (Spec. 3)

2009:

November 24:

Per chat logs, Manning said he first started working with Wikileaks after release of 9/11 pager messages, which was first announced on November 24, 2009

November 19:

Earliest possible day Manning downloaded “Collateral Murder” video & all charges except accessing the Rejkjavik 13 cables, per Charge Sheet (Spec. 2 & 4)

November 1:

Earliest date for which government subpoenas Wikileaks related twitter accounts

October:

Manning arrives in Iraq.

2008:

U.S. Army Counterintelligence Center prepares a classified report placing WikiLeaks on “the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States.” That Report discussed ways to destroy WikiLeaks’ reputation and efficacy, and emphasized creating the impression that leaking to it is unsafe.

October:

Manning enters the Army as a private

2007:

July 12

U.S. helicopter air strike in Baghdad that claimed the lives of two Reuters employees, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. Gunsight video of the incident became known as the “Collateral Murder” video.

Acknowledgment due to AdrianLamoLogs and Cryptome timelines for their fine documentation work, and to Denver Nicks for his background research on Bradley Manning.

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Pfc. Bradley Manning has been held for five months in severe isolation, and it is already having negative effects his health.

Please add your name to our letter urging the Marines to lift the heavy restrictions of Manning’s unnecessary “Prevention of Injury” order.

Bradley’s friend, David House, will deliver your letter to Commanding Officer James Averhart at the Quantico Marine Base brig when he next visits Bradley Manning.

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Information allegedly accessed by Manning, per his charging document:

The video of the July 12, 2007 Apache killing of Reuters journalists
The Rejkjavik State Department cable leaked by WikiLeaks
50 State Department cables (loaded onto his unsecured computer, transmitted to someone unauthorized to receive them)
150,000 State Department cables (obtained information from them via unauthorized access)
A classified Microsoft Powerpoint presentation

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Wired – 6/10/10
Washington Post – 6/10/10
Boing-Boing – 6/19/10
Merged Manning-Lamo Chat Logs

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Manning charge sheet
Marcy Wheeler on the glaring inconsistencies in Adrian Lamo’s stories
Marcy Wheeler: more inconsistencies in Lamo’s stories
Judge’s order unsealing Twitter subpoena (PDF)
Justice Department’s subpoena of Twitter (PDF)
AdrianLamoLogs Timeline
Cryptome Timeline
Adrian Lamo Interview Transcript Page
Key Articles in the Wikileaks – Manning investigation

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David House on MSNBC with Jonathan Capehart, 23 December 2010

Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now, 16 December 2010

Julian Assange tells Cenk Uygur that Bradley Manning is a “political prisoner” on MSNBC, 22 December 2010

Al Jazeera English on Bradley Manning, 18 December 2010

Michael Whitney on GritTV with Laura Flanders on Bradley Manning’s detention, 22 December 2010

Keith Olbermann on Bradley Manning’s detention, 17 December 2010 MSNBC

Adrian Lamo at The Next HOPE conference on why he turned in Manning, 7 July 2010

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Glenn Greenwald interview with Adrian Lamo, Pt. 1 17 June 2010 Salon

Glenn Greenwald interview with Adrian Lamo, Pt. II 17 June 2010 Salon

Daniel Ellsburg discusses Bradley Manning’s arrest 11 June 2010 AntiWar Radio

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CWA (Telephone) Union Fights Attacks on Teachers

Telephone Union rallies against CUTS to UC Education.

For the Week of April 11, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated across the nation last Monday, April 4, on a national day of action called to support the bargaining rights and unions of workers in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

For instance, thousands of chanting marchers poured into San Francisco's Financial District at rush hour, shouting "Tax the Rich! Tax the Rich!" – among them UPTE’s Nino Maida (in red t-shirt at far left).

Demonstrations also took place on several UC campuses, such as this one at UCSF.

From the Bay Area to Southern California, public workers have come out recently to make their voices heard. UPTE members’ photos are included in this gallery from our national union, the Communications Workers of America.

Staff and faculty at the California State University system will be taking a class action on April 13 to defend bargaining rights and quality education at their 23 campuses across the state.

California Senate Democrats began considering closing some UC campuses as one option if the legislature takes an “all-cuts approach” to dealing with the state’s budget deficit. Although California’s Democrats saw the hearing “as an opportunity to rally public support for raising taxes without GOP backing,” the UC system is considering worst-case scenarios. In a budget update to the UC Santa Cruz community, Provost Alison Galloway said “it will be impossible for managers to scale back their spending without laying off employees.”

At UCSD, a plan to create a law school with California Western School of Law has been shelved at least temporarily.

Are UC faculty deserting a sinking ship, or are these defections perfectly normal? Last week, UC Berkeley Dean of Biological Sciences Mark S. Schlissel was named the 11th provost of Brown University. And another UCB professor, mathematician Vaughan F. R. Jones, will become a distinguished professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University beginning in fall 2011.

Jeff Colvin, staff physicist and an UPTE member at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, spoke at Los Alamos National Lab last week about the effects of privatization on the labs.
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PMA SUES ILWU OVER MLK DAY ACTION

LWU Members And Supporters Sit-In At Oakland PMA Office Photos

by Labor Video Project
Wednesday Apr 13th, 2011 7:14 AM

Approximately 18 ILWU members and supporters had an several hour occupation of the PMA offices in Oakland to protest the lockout of their members in Concord by the Pacific Maritime Association. The PMA has also sued the ILWU Local 10, its president and other locals to try to destroy the union hall.

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ILWU members and their supporters had an several hour occupation of the Oakland PMA offices on April 12, 2011. They left later for a rally at the entrance of the building to be joined by members who had left the docks to support them.

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