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Thank you for supporting Chelsea Manning this year! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Thank you for supporting Chelsea Manning this year! With your help, we've continued to fund Chelsea Manning's defense and raise awareness of her upcoming legal appeals. Below you'll find birthday gatherings honoring Chelsea, her attorney's recent work in Spain, & Amnesty International's interview with our heroic whistleblower. Help us continue to fund 100% of Chelsea's legal fees with a tax-deductible donation Around the world, supporters gathered to celebrate Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning on her 27th birthday. December 17th, 2014 marked the fifth birthday Chelsea has had to spend behind bars. A birthday message from Edward Snowden: “Happy birthday, Chelsea Manning. I thank you now and forever for your extraordinary act of service and I am sorry that it has come with such an unbelievable personal cost. As a result of your courageous act, the American people are more informed about the workings of our government as it positions itself for endless war. You have inspired an angry public to demand a government that is accountable for its perpetration of torture and other war crimes, for the true costs of its wars, and for conspiring in corruption around the world. The distinguishing strength of democracy is self-correction- that no matter how bad things get, the public in partnership with a free press can detect and correct mistakes of public officials. You valiantly renewed this self-correcting, self-determining American tradition of governance. For this, we all thank you. Happy birthday, Chelsea.” Read birthday messages from Terry Gilliam, Vivenne Westwoord & more Chelsea Manning speaking tour through Spain In conjunction with Amnesty International, Chelsea Manning's appeals attorney Nancy Hollander and journalist Alexa O'Brien led a speaking tour throughout Spain last month. The tour raised awareness of Chelsea Manning internationally and provided information on Chelsea's important next step-- her legal appeals coming up next year. Chelsea's upcoming legal appeals have the potential to reduce her 35-year sentence by decades. Donate today! From an interview with Nancy Hollander on the speaking tour "Chelsea was convicted under the Espionage Act passed in 1917. Probably then it was a pretty bad law, but today it’s even worse. And why? Because it makes no distinction between providing information that helps the enemy and providing information of public interest. That means any person, including a journalist, may be charged for exposing information that is of public interest. In my view, the government is saying ‘look what can happen to you if you put the government in an embarrassing situation’." An interview with Chelsea Manning Currently serving a 35-year prison sentence, whistleblower Chelsea Manning has made a great personal sacrifice to reveal to the public important truths. In a recent interivew with Amnesty International, Chelsea was asked what motivated her to leak these documents, and if it was worth the risk: "In your life, you are rarely given the chance to make a difference. Every now and then you do come across a significant choice. Do you really want to find yourself asking whether you could have done more, 10-20 years later? These are the kind of questions I didn’t want to haunt me." Read the complete interview here Help us continue to cover 100% of Chelsea's legal fees! Make an end-of-the-year tax-deductible donation today!

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