Chelsea Manning - Reinstated as Grand Marshall of SF Pride Parade

 

Janice Josephine Carney posted on your timeline
"Pat please pass this on"
A small movement is trying to have her removed; please send an email to
info@sfpride.org thanking them for honoring Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning has been
Selected by the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors in January
Enlisting in the army in 2007, Chelsea Manning, became an intelligence analyst, and rose to the rank of Specialist, receiving a high level security clearance. Deployed to Iraq in 2008, living and working under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Manning experienced severe isolation and bullying from her fellow soldiers. In 2010, Manning began to share information with the website Wikileaks, ultimately releasing hundreds of thousands of files, pager messages, diplomatic cables and video.
Manning’s release of information had far-reaching consequences, exposing controversial excesses by the American military, including the video of a Baghdad airstrike killing civilians, known as “Collateral Murder,” the “Guantanamo Files,” containing secret documents relating to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, detailing the detention of dozens of innocent Afghans and Pakistanis as well as the release of 251,287 State Department cables.
Arrested in May, 2010 and convicted in August 2013, Manning is currently confined at the military correctional facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Only history will inform us of the ultimate impact of her disclosures. The 2013 SF Pride Board’s controversial decision to revoke her status as Grand Marshal fueled an international controversy and created intense strife within the local LGBT and progressive communities. In January, in the spirit of community healing, and at the behest of SF Pride’s membership, the newly elected SF Pride Board of Directors reinstated Manning’s status as an honorary Grand Marshal for the 2014 Celebration and Parade."