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<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Rkn81T92cZUlfWatHmp6%2B3%2FxtJ2IWr1t> <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mc7RsYpH39ayiphhl1nZn3%2FxtJ2IWr1t> This time, honor someone who's earned it! <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6zpU8%2FzkuKAYeQe025LvCn%2FxtJ2IWr1t> GRAPHIC: Sign here button <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DQhya%2F9V4t5%2FQVBqB40P23%2FxtJ2IWr1t> Share this action on Facebook <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KCDeX1oCMssPyjvyYr134H%2FxtJ2IWr1t> Share this action on Twitter <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DGWS5BQRMjji7ODKikUQYn%2FxtJ2IWr1t> Earlier this week, RootsAction sent out the email below, to announce a new petition urging a Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning. The response was overwhelming. More than 15,000 people signed the petition in the first day, and the number keeps rising. Now, we're taking an unusual step, sending you this special email to ask: Please forward this email to people you know and lists you're on, perhaps with a cover note explaining why you think a Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning is such an important idea. A lot more signers will be essential to create the kind of grassroots pressure we need. That's where you come in. We hope you'll forward this letter now. _____ Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he should receive it. <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3rEfFfhnAkXP2RXNlMY7TH%2FxtJ2IWr1t> Let's help make that happen. No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism" than Bradley Manning. And right now, remaining in prison and facing relentless prosecution by the U.S. government, no one is more in need of the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel's will left funding for a prize to be awarded to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The intent of the prize was to fund this work. As a result of enormous legal expenses, Bradley Manning is in need of that funding. <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3ybwZ5iWVsc6TrQOCbC0BX%2FxtJ2IWr1t> Click here to help him get it. The people of the United States and the rest of the world have learned more about the intentions of the U.S. government from Bradley Manning than from anyone else. "Thanks to Manning's alleged disclosures, we have a sense of what transpired in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have an image of how Washington operates in the world," author Chase Madar wrote in his book about Manning's whistleblowing. Just a few of the results: "Thanks to those revelations we now know just how our government leaned on the Vatican to quell opposition to the Iraq War. We now know how Washington pressured the German government to block the prosecution of CIA agents who kidnapped an innocent man, Khaled El-Masri, while he was on vacation. We know how our State Department lobbied hard to prevent a minimum wage increase in Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest nation." Manning revealed a secret U.S. war in Yemen, U.S. records of massive civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, video of a U.S. helicopter attack on civilians and their rescuers in Baghdad, and facts about the corruption of numerous governments including those of the United States, Tunisia, and Egypt. In those last two nations Manning's revelations contributed to nonviolent pro-democracy movements. <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hb4RnKzOLp6uOyfD%2B3XtE3%2FxtJ2IWr1t> While Manning sits in prison under dire conditions, we can let the Nobel committee know that we support his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Among the revelations made by Manning through WikiLeaks is the extent of time and energy the U.S. State Department puts into marketing U.S. weapons to the world's governments. We all have a better understanding of the work that is needed for peace as a result of this exposure of "diplomacy" as consisting so greatly of weapons selling. The Guardian newspaper and BBC Arabic detailed last week how the United States armed and trained Iraqi police commando units that ran torture centers and death squads. Maggie O'Kane, executive producer of the documentary, said: "I hope this film will be a legacy that actually says, 'If you want to go to war, this is what war means. It means 14-year-old boys being hung up and tortured. It means men being turned on spits. And that's called counter-insurgency.' This would not be coming to light if it hadn't been for Bradley Manning." <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rIH7hm81if97Yegq7TQ9OH%2FxtJ2IWr1t> Let's help someone who's earned it to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends. -- The RootsAction.org team P.S. Our small staff is supported by contributions from people like you; your donations are greatly appreciated <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9MpzLWKjmXGJQVw2d0CfZRhBYSmCtXVl> . P.P.S. 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