Thursday,
17 December 2015, 12.30-2pm
Trafalgar
Square, (north
side) London
WC2N 4JJ
Charing
Cross 
Actions
planned so far in Bucharest, London,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco . . .
(watch
this space for more countries and more events). If
you organise an event, let us
know and we’ll publicise it. Please
circulate this mailing to your contacts.
Chelsea
Manning will be 28 years old on this day. She is the whistleblower, US soldier,
Grand
Marshal
at San Francisco Pride 2014, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to
Wikileaks
exposing
the truth about
US, UK and other governments’ war
crimes
and corruption in Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinian Authority, Peru, Venezuela .
. . In doing so, she helped save many lives. Chelsea was Imprisoned in 2010 and held for
months under torturous conditions; in August 2013 she was sentenced
to 35 years.
From
prison Chelsea has written
against
the police killings
of young people of colour in the US, and in support
of immigrants and refugees – including queer and transgender people.
An
appeal to quash Chelsea Manning’s conviction is being put forward by her legal
team and will be announced in late 2015 or early 2016. We
must get her out!
Sign
the
petition
for Obama to pardon
Chelsea.
Despite
mass protest, the UK Parliament has just voted to bomb Syria (see Payday’s
letter here). Whistleblowers
like
Chelsea and now former US drone operators have blown the whistle on the killing
of civilians during bombing.
We
have a responsibility to defend all whistleblowers who are persecuted for
telling the truth about murder and
war crimes, rape, torture, neglect, underfunding, starvation wages, corruption .
. . in the military,
prison, detention
centres, police, hospitals, care homes, and
every institution.
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