[Peace-discuss] Fw: Support Bradley at Pride! Assange seeks asylum! New organizer hired!

[Jenifer Cartwright]

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--- On Fri, 6/22/12, Bradley Manning Support Network <contact-bmsn at bradleymanning.org> wrote:

From: Bradley Manning Support Network <contact-bmsn at bradleymanning.org>
Subject: Support Bradley at Pride! Assange seeks asylum! New organizer hired!
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, June 22, 2012, 1:15 PM






 
Pride Parades, Assange seeks asylum, new staff member!


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Pride Parades, Assange seeks asylum, new staff member! 



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Pride Parades, Assange seeks asylum, we have a new DC area organizer!
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is asking Ecuador for asylum, while Sweden seeks to extradite him from England.
Many friends of the Bradley Manning Support Network are asking Ecuador to grant Assange’s request via RootsAction. Click here to sign the request!
“Assange’s fear of ending up in the clutches of the US is plainly rational… consider the treatment of Bradley Manning”
By Glenn Greenwald, UK Guardian (Op-Ed). June 20, 2012
If one asks current or former WikiLeaks associates what their greatest fear is, almost none cites prosecution by their own country. Most trust their own nation’s justice system to recognize that they have committed no crime. The primary fear is being turned over to the US. That is the crucial context for understanding Julian Assange‘s 16-month fight to avoid extradition to Sweden, a fight that led him to seek asylum, Tuesday, in the London Embassy of Ecuador.

Read the entire article at the Guardian



Donate now to the Bradley Manning defense fund.
For more information about the defense fund
click here. 


Pride Support for Bradley Manning!
Contingents in support of Bradley Manning are being organized at Pride events in San Francisco, Chicago and New York City. We encourage everyone to stand in support of Bradley Manning.


“[Bradley Manning] has participated in Pride marches and campaigned against the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ restrictions on gay military personnel… Manning is also a humanist and a man with a conscience. When he discovered human rights violations by the US armed forces and duplicity by the US government, he was shocked and distressed… believing it was betraying the US ideals of democracy and human rights.“

-Human rights activist Peter Tatchell


In San Francisco,
The Bradley Manning Pride Contingent will meet in San Francisco at the corner of Howard St. and Main St. at 9:30am on June 24. If you miss the meet up, find us in slot #174, assembly area L, on Beale between Mission and Howard.
See main event page.

In New York City, 
On Sunday, June 24, Veterans For Peace will be marching with other peace & justice organizations behind our “Free Bradley Manning” banner in New York City’s Heritage of Pride Parade.
See main event page.
In Chicago,
On Sunday, June 24, Join the Free Bradley Manning Contingent at this year’s Gay Pride Parade!
Meet at 11:00am in CDT, 4500 N. Broadway.
See main event page.

 Bradley Manning, military resistance, and the left
This week, Manhattan’s Brecht Forum hosted another Manning Monday event, the third in a four-part series examining Bradley Manning’s case and its nuances and implications. The first event, “Being Bradley Manning,” debunked myths about the Army private and reviewed his most recent legal proceedings. In the second, “Bradley Manning, Wikileaks & Some Dangerous Data,” Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Alfredo Lopez & Trevor Timm discussed government transparency in the Internet age. Next Monday, June 25, the series’ will conclude with “Manning, Motions, and Media,” will feature the Support Network’s Emma Cape, CCR lawyer Shayana Kadidal, The Nation’s Greg Mitchell & CMJ’s Betty Yu.
Read more...


Donate now to the Bradley Manning defense fund.
For more information about the defense fund
click here. 


DC Organizer Hired! 

A warm welcome for the Bradley Manning Support Network’s most recent staff member, Bailey Jeffers! Bailey is a disabled veteran that was honorably discharged after serving with an Intelligence Battalion in the 101st Airborne Division.
He is an activist and an advocate for privacy rights. He became involved with supporting Bradley Manning after viewing the Collateral Murder video and has been organizing support for Bradley ever since.
He believes that the corruption that Bradley exposed cannot be silenced and supports whistle-blower’s rights.
Bailey will be organizing events and information sessions in the Washington DC area. If you are interested in hosting an event in the DC area, or in attending future court dates at Fort Meade, please contact him at bailey at bradleymanning.org. We can help! 
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