I already gave my answer to this in an earlier post, but I'll repeat it: Save the protest until after the election (Manning's next hearing is months away anyhow) and in the meantime, try to defeat Romney and the Repubs!! Yeah, the Dems are bad, but OMG, check out the Repubs, sooooooooo much worse. A Repub win won't affect most of us to any extent, but it'll be far, far, far worse for milliions in the US and across the world.
--- On Wed, 8/29/12, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] "Show Obama that Bradley Manning is Our Hero", Sept. 6th - Obama's acceptance speech day
To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>, "ocCUpy" <occupycu at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 1:18 PM
Groups around the country are planning actions in support of Bradley
Manning on Thursday, Sept. 6th - the day of Obama's acceptance
speech at the DNC. Shall we? The Alliance for Global Justice
organizers are suggesting taking some action at local Obama campaign
headquarters.
Would anyone be up for a demonstration of any sort on that date?
I'd suggest we do it in some fairly well-trafficked visible place
(rather than the Dem HQ) - maybe the Main & Neil corner in
Champaign, or the courthouse/veterans' memorial in Urbana - in the
afternoon while it's still light, like 5pm. Or, any other ideas?
(Think of all the things we could complain to Obama about, compared
with his promise as a peace, civil liberties, etc. candidate four
years ago...)
Subject:
Bradley Manning National Day of Action, Sept. 6th.
Date:
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:54:32 -0400
From:
AFGJ Bruce Wilkinson <bruce at afgj.org>
Reply-To:
<info at afgj.org>
To:
<slevy at new.math.uiuc.edu>
Sept. 6th: Show Obama that
Bradley Manning is OUR HERO!
Bradley Manning is
a US political prisoner. His heroism in
delivering the massive truth to Wikileaks about
the US role in Afghanistan opened the eyes of
the world to the terrible atrocities that the US
military was purveying. On September 6th we
stand in solidarity and demand his freedom on
the day that Obama officially accepts the
presidential nomination at the DNC. Occupy and
demonstrate at the campaign headquarters in your
town. No Justice? NO PEACE!
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Call for
action at Obama 2012 offices
nationwide Sept. 6th during DNC
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Call for action
at Obama 2012 offices
nationwide Sept. 6th
during DNC
Hundreds
rally at Obama
campaign
offices for
Bradley,
veterans
arrested
(photos &
video)
The Bradley Manning
Support Network,
Afghans For Peace and
SF Bay Iraq Veterans
Against the War Call
for Nationwide Actions
at local Obama
Campaign Offices
September 6th 2012
during the Democratic
National Convention!
Free Bradley Manning!
Since Army PFC
Bradley Manning’s
arrest in May 2010 for
allegedly sharing the
“Collateral Murder”
video and other
evidence of war crimes
and government
corruption with the
whistle-blower website
WikiLeaks,
progressives and human
rights activists have
been asking, “Why
isn’t President Obama
stepping in to help
Bradley?”
After all, it was
President Obama who in
May 2011 declared with
regards to protests in
the Middle East,
“In the 21st Century,
information is power;
the truth cannot be
hidden; and the
legitimacy of
governments will
ultimately depend on
active and informed
citizens.”
On Thursday, August
16, US military
veterans in Portland
OR, Oakland CA, and
Los Angeles CA,
occupied Obama 2012
campaign offices and
faxed a letter of
demands to the Obama
campaign’s central
office. Those letters
began:
As those
who have spent years
serving our country,
we have faith that as
Commander-in-Chief,
President Obama will
do the right thing in
answering our request.
The letter went on to
list the following
demands:
That
President Obama
retract and apologize
for remarks made in
April 2011, in which
he said Bradley
Manning “broke the
law.” Because
President Obama is
commander-in-chief,
this constitutes
unlawful command
influence, violating
Article 37 of the
Uniform Code of
Military Justice
(UCMJ), and prevents
Bradley from receiving
a fair trial.
That
President Obama pardon
the accused
whistle-blower, taking
into consideration his
800 days of pretrial
confinement. UN
torture chief Juan
Mendez called
Manning’s treatment
“cruel and inhuman,”
as it included nine
months of solitary
confinement at
Quantico despite Brig
psychiatrists
recommending relaxed
conditions.
The Bradley Manning
Support Network
maintains hope that
justice will prevail
and that President
Obama can be the
vehicle of change on
this issue, but first
he needs to hear loud
and clear from
veterans and civilians
across the country
that the American
people want amends for
the unlawful torture
of Bradley Manning,
and believe he should
be freed.
Organizers of the
August 16 West Coast
actions are now urging
others to join them in
a nationwide effort to
hold actions at many
more local Obama
campaign offices on
September 6th, the day
of candidate’s
nomination acceptance
speech. We want to
share messages of
support for Bradley
with Obama campaign
offices from coast to
coast.
Please
contact emma at bradleymanning.org for
more information about
attending and/or
organizing an event.
Donate
now to the
Bradley Manning
defense fund.
For
more information
about the defense
fund click
here.
Veterans occupy
Oakland & Portland
campaign offices for
Bradley, 12 arrested
Six
veterans and activists
in Oakland, and six
more in Portland, OR,
were arrested Thursday
night at Obama
campaign offices for
occupying the spaces
in solidarity with
accused WikiLeaks
whistle-blower PFC
Bradley Manning.
Dozens of veterans and
anti-war demonstrators
coordinated a West
Coast set of actions
that also included
protests in Los
Angeles, Las Vegas,
and Seattle.
Among the
approximately 100
Oakland protesters was
Iraq War veteran Scott
Olsen, who
participated in the
sit-in, said, “We
occupied the
President’s campaign
office to raise
awareness about the
injustices Bradley
Manning has endured.
Bradley has sacrificed
for us, doing what was
right despite
potentially spending
the rest of his life
in jail.”
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