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Bradley Manning Solidarity Weekend!

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Posted by PunkJohnnyCash on Apr 2, 2011 in Featured | 1 comment

I stumbled on a post at Operation Awareness about the Bradley Manning Solidarity Weekend. This weekend was started by ‘A Ride Till The End‘. A Ride Till The End (ARTTE) is a collective of veterans and artists riding bicycles around the U.S. until the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan ends.

This is a push to raise awareness on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00am – April 10 at 10:00pm

The Facebook page says:

The creation of art for Bradley Manning’s historic action feeds the worldwide push for justice and accountability!

We must activate our boldest cultural creativity in the defense of this young man. His accomplishment continues to be essential to public awareness of corruption and the concealment of criminal activities by our governments and mass media.

Tremendous changes are upon us.
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Our peace-seeking communities simply have not had this great of an opportunity to end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began – a generation ago.

By facilitating art to honor the heroism of Bradley Manning, an openly-gay war-resisting soldier, we help bridge the cultural divides between the greater arts community, the burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement, and the worldwide peace and democratization movements.

Bradley crossed those divides in an act of moral conscience as he changed from a soldier to a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal advocate then to an active-duty war resister. Others can, too.

Bradley Manning Solidarity Weekend events are being planned across the country by local peace-seeking groups and individuals acting on their moral conscience – just like Bradley did.

On April 9th & 10th, do something explicitly artistic for Bradley!!

May the art we produce in our communities be candles lit until Bradley walks free.

Post info about your event or calls for assistance in the Comments section!

Peace Y’all!

It also gives current dates and locations:

Fayetteville, AR:
Moshe Newmark – moshenewmark@hotmail.com
Hamsa Newmark – hamsaknewmark@hotmail.com
Event Details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106851302730308

Tallahassee, FL:
Tom Baxter – 124c4u@gmail.com
Rachel Saxer – rcsaxer@gmail.com

Panama City, FL:
Jerrad Hardin – jerrad.hardin@gmail.com

Pensacola, FL:
Nick Alford – nickwatchesthis@gmail.com

Lawrence, KS:
William Stewart-Starks – william.stewart.starks@gmail.com

Manhattan, KS:
Chris Hopkins – chrishop@ksu.edu

New Orleans, LA:
Flux Rostrum – flux@fluxview.com

Colombia, MO:
Matt Schacht – schacht99@hotmail.com

New York City, NY
Rally in Union Square, Sunday April 10, 3pm
Sonni Farrow – sonnifarrow@gmail.com

Nashville, TN:
Elizabeth Barger – loveliz77@yahoo.com

Fort Worth, TX:
Linda Foley – lindasfoley@yahoo.com

Austin, TX:
Carl Webb – carlwebb@carlwebb.org

Seattle, WA:
Lisa Marcus – sucram2219@hotmail.com
Event Details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185721938138885

AND AROUND THE WORLD!

Sydney, NSW, Australia:
Michele: bradleymanningsydprotest (at) y7mail (dot) com

The One — Ballet Movie Even Straight Guys Might Like.(Culture)(‘Black Swan’)(Movie review) in our site black swan movie

Newsweek December 6, 2010 | James, Caryn Byline: Caryn James Director Darren Aronofsky’s darkly enthralling entertainment makes the perfect antidote to too many sugary holiday Nutcrackers. Nina (Natalie Portman), an obsessive ballerina newly made prima for Swan Lake, is endless grace onstage. Offstage she is as tightly wound as the dancer on her childish music box: she retches in the ladies’ room, tends her bloodied toes, indulges in fantasies both sexual and paranoid, and is altogether psycho in a delirious Hitchcockian way. With sublime balance, the film combines its high-art subject with the jolt of a sexually charged thriller.

Yes, there is lovely Tchaikovsky music, and tutus. Boyishly thin Portman reportedly trained hard (although you rarely see her feet as she dances). But Black Swan’s up-to-the-minute brilliance comes from its blatant use of sex and its Sixth Sense-informed narrative. Vincent Cassel is a manipulative Balanchine-inspired artistic director who seduces then dumps his stars; Winona Ryder plays his latest has-been. He goads Nina into exploring her sexuality–not with him, with herself–so she can inhabit her dual role. She’s ideal as the goody-goody White Swan, but unless she can channel her sensuous, sinister inner Black Swan, she may forfeit the part to her free-spirited rival, Lily (Mila Kunis). Assuming Nina’s point of view, Aronofsky deftly leads us to wonder, is Lily really stalking her? And does anyone else see Nina’s overbearing, failed-ballerina mom (Barbara Hershey)? Portman and Kunis’s sex scene is already infamous (although it’s tame enough for an R rating), but that doesn’t answer the film’s wily question: does it really happen, or is Nina’s imagination playing seductress? Anything for art! website black swan movie

From the hallucinatory Requiem for a Dream to the gritty The Wrestler and his current project, The Wolverine, Aronofsky has always displayed a taste for pulp. As Black Swan races toward a possibly supernatural, over-the-top ending–a human sprouts swan feathers? really?–he manages to stay just this side of camp. The climax is bloody, terrifying (a sly homage to The Red Shoes), and in its sheer audacity, thoroughly gleeful fun.

James, Caryn

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  • Free Concord

    Video of my chalkings for Bradley over the weekend.