3 events coming up to support Bradley Manning.

[Geoff Millard]

Hey all,

We have 3 events coming up to support Bradley Manning.

The first will be this sunday, the info is below, and Matt is IVAW's
contact feel free to email him via ma...@fcnl.org.

The second is a caravan to his the brig where he is being held for a
support rabble rousing followed by a BBQ at the DC house. This will
be the 14th of Agust.

The third still in planning but it will be the DC stop of the UXO
show. Let me know if you are interested in these.


Contact: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK 415-235-6517
me...@globalexchange.org

Peace Activists Rally in Quantico Base to Support
Whistleblower Bradley Manning
Manning held in Quantico Brig, facing 52 years in prison, for exposing
war crimes

What: Rally in Support of Whistleblower Bradley Manning
When: Sunday, August 8, noon
Where: Quantico Marine Corps Base where Manning is being held in pre-
trial confinement; we will meet at the Amtrak station in Quantico

Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence
analyst stationed in Iraq, stands accused of disclosing a classified
video depicting American troops in Iraq shooting civilians from an
Apache helicopter in 2007. Eleven people were killed, including two
Reuters employees, and two children were critically injured. No
charges have been filed against the soldiers who did the killing.

News sources have also speculated about Manning's involvement in the
leak of over 90,000 secret documents (collectively known as the
Afghanistan "war logs") made public by WikiLeaks on July 25.

“No top-level officials in the Bush and Obama administrations have
been held accountable for their roles in dragging us into the Iraq war
on the basis of lies or for potential war crimes in Iraq and
Afghanistan. But whistleblower Bradley Manning sits in jail in
Quantico, facing up to 52 years in prison,” says Medea Benjamin of
CODEPINK: Women for Peace. “It’s totally unjust and that’s why we’re
going to Quantico to call for Manning’s release.”

The whistleblower behind the Vietnam era’s Pentagon Papers, Daniel
Ellsberg, has called Mr. Manning a hero. “I admire the courage of
Bradley Manning for sacrificing himself to make the public aware of
the futility of the war in Afghanistan,” says Ellsberg.

“Blowing the whistle on war crimes is not a crime,” says former
Marine Corporal Jeff Paterson of Courage to Resist, a group raising
funds for Manning’s legal fees.

The rally is sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against
the War DC, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Courage to Resist and ANSWER.