Free Chelsea Manning-President Obama Pardon Chelsea Now! 

 

Dear Friends, People are taking action in 10 cities across the world on and around Chelsea's birthday to demand her release.  Let us know if you are planning an event and we'll help publicise it. Power to the whistleblowers!  Free Chelsea Manning now! Payday and Queer Strike Force for change on transgender rights Chelsea Manning. A call for her release will be made in London on 17 December.  Thursday 11 December 2014 Martin Pengelly’s article (8 December) on the denial of Chelsea Manning’s transgender rights rightly argues that it has become a “cause celebre for transgender rights in the military and even worldwide”. Chelsea has become one of the world’s best-known whistleblowers. Not only the LGBTQ movement but also the anti-war, anti-racist, anti-rape and anti-zionist movements have organised actions in 10 cities so far – from Berlin to Vancouver, San Francisco and Istanbul – to mark Chelsea’s birthday on 17 December. Since we have all benefited from her whistleblowing, we have a responsibility to get her out. In London, we will stand at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 2.30 - 4pm to back her transgender rights and demand her release. All are welcome. Didi Rossi Queer Strike Ben Martin Payday Men’s Network
Happy Birthday! CHELSEA MANNING Free her now!
Wed 17 December 2014, 2.30-4pm VIGIL on the steps ofSt Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ Charing Cross (St Martin’s requests that vigils on the steps are silent) Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Istanbul, London, Philadelphia, Rome, San Francisco, Venice, Vancouver. . . See details of actions here Chelsea Manning is 27 years old on this day.  Formerly known as Bradley, she is the transgender whistleblower, US soldier, Grand Marshal at San Francisco Pride 2014, who revealed US, UK and other governments’ war crimes and corruption.  She leaked hundred of thousands of documents to Wikileaks exposing the truth and therefore saving many lives.  Imprisoned in 2010 and held for months under torturous conditions, she was sentenced to 35 years in August 2013. Thanks to Chelsea's whistleblowing, we the public now know about: The “collateral murder” video of a US helicopter crew killing Iraqi civilians ● the cover-up of rape in Iraq & Afghanistan ● the secret use of drones for extra-judicial killing ● US dirty tricks in Haiti, Venezuela, Peru & elsewhere ● Egyptian and Palestinian Authority collusion with Israel’s bombing of Gaza . . . If the sentence stands, she’ll be out in 2045. We cannot let this happen – we have to get her out!
WHAT WE CAN DO Sign Amnesty International’s petition Write to Department of Defense officials Write to Chelsea Translate / circulate this message to your network
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