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Happy Birthday CHELSEA MANNING! Free her now! Support all whistleblowers! |
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Thursday, 17 December 2015, 12.30-2pm Chelsea
Manning will be 28 years old on this
day. She is the trans woman
whistleblower, US soldier, Grand
Marshal at San Francisco Pride 2014, who leaked
hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks exposing the truth about
US, UK and other governments’ war crimes
and corruption in Afghanistan,
Haiti,
Iraq,
Israel
& the Palestinian Authority, Peru, Venezuela
. . . In
doing so, she helped save many lives. Chelsea was Imprisoned in 2010 and held for
months under torturous conditions; in August 2013 she was sentenced to 35 years. From prison Chelsea has written against
the police killings
of young people of colour in the US, and in support
of immigrants and refugees – including queer and transgender people. An appeal to quash Chelsea Manning’s conviction is
being put forward by her legal team and will be announced in late 2015 or
early 2016. We must get her out! Sign the petition for Obama to pardon
Chelsea. Donations to her legal fund are needed also. Despite mass protest, the UK Parliament has just
voted to bomb Syria (see Payday’s letter here). Whistleblowers like
Chelsea and now former US drone operators have blown the whistle on the
killing of civilians during bombing. We have a responsibility to defend all
whistleblowers who are persecuted for telling the truth about murder
and war crimes, rape, torture, neglect, underfunding, starvation wages,
corruption . . . in the military,
prison, detention centres, police,
hospitals, care homes, and every institution. |
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