Free Chelsea Manning Now!

SF Chapter of the Nat’l Org of Women (NOW) joins 30 groups to support Pride contingent

June 24, 2015. Thirty of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most active progressive organizations have come together to support the Chelsea Manning contingent in the 2015 SF Pride Parade, including the SF Chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW).
Organized by the Chelsea Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist, the contingent also enjoys the backing of prominent military veteran groups Veterans for Peace Chapter 69 (San Francisco), Veterans for Peace Chapter 162 (East Bay), American Legion Post 315, and Iraq Veterans Against the War-Bay Area.
This year, for the first time, Asian Americans for Peace and Justice and the Chinese Progressive Association will also be formally joining the contingent.
Additional organizations who have formally endorsed the contingent include:
NLG-Bay Area Military Law Panel
CODEPINK Women for Peace – San Francisco
ANSWER Coalition
SF Green Party
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
ACT UP-East Bay
Occupy AIDS
Middle East Children’s Alliance
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
World Can’t Wait
VeteranArtists.org
Socialist Action
War Resisters League-West
Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party
Bay Area Radical Women
Inkworks Press Collective
Haiti Action Committee
Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Committee
OccupySF Action Council
Workers World Party
WORD: Women Organized to Resist and Defend
Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission
All are welcome to join the Chelsea Manning contingent! Meet up is at noon, on Main Street, between Howard and Folsom Streets, San Francisco.
Please contact us to list your organization as an endorser! To RSVP, volunteer, and/or become a monitor, please contact: melissa@couragetoresist.org / 510-488-3559
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