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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Tell
Pres. Obama: PVT Manning deserves clemency!
Tell President Obama: Private Manning deserves clemency!
August 26, 2013, By attorney David Coombs and the Private Manning Support
Network (formerly the Bradley Manning Support Network). Clarification on PVT
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's request regarding her gender and name. With
your continued support, our network will continue its advocacy efforts in
support our heroic WikiLeaks whistle-blower. Note: The image above is PVT
Manning's current favorite photo of herself. Read more...
Last week American democracy took a tragic step back, when a military
court was allowed to sentence heroic Army whistleblower PVT Manning to 35 years
in prison. As we wrote in our joint statement with Amnesty
International, “The prosecution of Bradley Manning starkly contrasts to the US
government’s repeated failure to deliver justice for serious human rights
violations committed during counter-terror operations of the past decade.”
As PVT Manning files a formal request for pardon, now is the time for
supporters to call on President Obama to improve his record by granting PVT
Manning's request. Only a massive outpouring of public support will
convince the Administration that PVT Manning deserves
clemency.
Please follow the directions below to sign our
petition now, and tell President Obama: “To reduce this blight on the
US human rights record… grant Manning clemency for time served, protect
whistleblowers, and provide accountability for crimes like those Manning
exposed.”
This is the first of many actions our Support
Network will organize to promote clemency for PVT Manning. It is also the most
important action you can take right now. So please sign and share widely! Instructions to sign the White House Petition:
If you have a whitehouse.gov account, you can go ahead and click on “Sign
in” then click on “Sign Petition.”
If you don’t have a whithouse.gov account, you will need to create one first.
This only takes a couple of minutes.
Why do you need to create an account to sign the petition?
Verifying your email address ensures that your email account is valid and
prevents having duplicate signatures by the same person. To create an account to sign our petition, follow these
steps:
You will receive an email within a few minutes asking you to click on a link
to verify your email address. Click on the link in the email (or cut and paste
it into your web browser).
Once you have verified your email address, you’re logged into the system.
(Note, some people receive an ‘error’ message when they click the link, even
though the verification process actually worked).
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