Chelsea Manning was jailed in 2010 after she leaked 750,000 military documents to the WikiLeaks website. Chelsea’s revelations exposed horrific war crimes committed by the US military. While the perpetrators of the atrocities she exposed have never been brought to justice, Chelsea herself has spent seven years behind bars, including several months in solitary confinement before her trial. READ ME.txt is Chelsea’s first full-length memoir detailing what prompted her to speak out, and her experiences in prison. At an event hosted by Red Emma’s bookstore, Baltimore’s cooperative bookstore, Chelsea Manning joins Baltimore-based activist and independent journalist Ryan Harvey for a special discussion of her memoir.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American transparency activist, politician, and former United States military intelligence analyst. She lives in Brooklyn and works as a security consultant and expert in data science and machine learning.
Ryan Harvey is an activist, independent journalist, and musician based in Baltimore, MD, and the National Field Director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. He has worked extensively in support of active military members and veterans organizing against the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and is a co-founder of several organizations, including the Riot-Folk Collective (2004), the anti-war Civilian-Soldier Alliance (2006). ), Firebrand Records (2015) and Rebel Lens (2017).
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