{"id":19597,"date":"2022-10-29T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=19597"},"modified":"2022-10-29T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:24:35","slug":"laser-focused-in-the-midst-of-shaggy-older-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=19597","title":{"rendered":"Laser-focused in the midst of shaggy older boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the trial began, the courtroom was filled with press; older activists with shaggy beards and <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">tie-dyed<\/span> shirts; groups like <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Veterans for Peace<\/span>, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Iraq Veterans<\/span> <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Against the War<\/span>, and Occupy <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Wall Street<\/span>; and the <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Chelsea Manning<\/span> <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Support Network<\/span>, a nonprofit organization that helped raise funds for my legal defense and subsequent appeals. Many of the activists in attendance were older\u2014boomers with a lifelong, Vietnam-related commitment to pacifism. They gathered outside Fort Meade, in groups of fifteen or twenty, holding up signs with messages such as <span style=\"white-space: nowrap; font-variant: small-caps;\">i support manning<\/span>, and cars going by would occasionally honk at them in support. I appreciated the sentiment, but inside the court\u00adroom, they were loud in their civil disobedience, sometimes interrupting and slowing down the proceedings. I watched Judge Lind get more and more irritated, and worried it would turn her against me. At that moment, I was <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">laser-focused<\/span> on trying to win the <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">court-martial<\/span>: for me, this wasn&#8217;t a great symbolic action, it was my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Chelsea Manning, <em>README.txt<\/em>, (London: <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">The Bodley Head<\/span>, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 203<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_19605\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/oct\/22\/chelsea-manning-leaked-military-documents-free-world-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19605\" class=\"wp-image-19605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-scaled.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-scaled.webp 2560w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-150x90.webp 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-768x461.webp 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-1536x922.webp 1536w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Chelsea-Manning-October-2022-Guardian-2048x1230.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph: <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Camila Falquez\/The Guardian<\/span>. <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Dress: Balenciaga<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the trial began, the courtroom was filled with press; older activists with shaggy beards and tie-dyed shirts; groups like Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Occupy Wall Street; and the Chelsea Manning Support Network, a nonprofit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=19597\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}