Pirates nominate Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for Nobel peace prize

February 3, 2014 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News

Representatives in the EU parliament from the Pirate Party of Sweden (Amelia Andersdotter and Christian Engström) as well as parliamentarians from the Pirate Party of Iceland (Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jón Þór Ólafsson and Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson) have conjointly nominated the American…

Chelsea Manning’s First Birthday in Prison

December 17, 2013 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Pirate Topic

Today, 17 December 2013, Chelsea Manning is spending her birthday in prison, the first of a remaining thirty-five. In August this year, after three years of incarceration, she was sentenced to a prison sentence for 22 different charges, including aiding…

The Transphobic Trials of Chelsea Manning

September 13, 2013 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Editorial Opinion, Pirate Topic

A national Pirate Party uploads a picture of a famous face alongside the text “We Are Chelsea Manning”. Immediately the comments start raining . Extremely few of them actually deal with what the woman on the picture has done for her country, for the world, for the Pirate movement, and for the very freedom of speech.