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The Bradley Manning Support Network reports today that a coalition of journalists is challenging the  Manning trial secrecy in civilian court;  And the Nobel Peace Prize petition continues to draw signatures, 50,000+ at last count. Signed it yet?

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, reads an article from the website of Solidarity, a socialist-feminist-antiracist organization, and adds some comments at the end.  The article is about Assata Shakur and the government's recent campaign to smear her as a terrorist by naming her one of the FBI's most wanted. The situation bears an uncanny similarity to what Cara Dugas was saying just a couple weeks earlier about labeling environmentalists as eco-terrorists.

Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two groups, from which Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo came, were against the apartheid government.

Jonathan Schuppe is a crime and government reporter who has spent much of his reporting life in and around Newark, NJ.  In that time, he's seen first hand the results of shattered lives and their effects on children.  But he tells a different story in his new book, "A Chance to Win."  Don Merrill talks with Mr. Schuppe about a special man who got a bunch of inner city kids interested in forming a sports team.  And not basketball or football.