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I am Bradley Manning! the public deserves the truth. Drop the "Aiding the Enemy" Charge. 1109 days of unfair confinement is enough. www.iam.bradleymanning.org Dear Friends & Allies, This coming Monday, June 3rd, we will launch the biggest online campaign to date for whistleblower & Nobel Peace Prize nominee Bradley Manning: www.bradleymanning.org And We Need Your Help - www.iam.bradleymanning.org - As you may know, on Monday, June 3rd Bradley will finally go to trial after three years in confinement. Though Bradley himself is facing life in prison, the charges against him are so extreme that if the prosecution is successful, it could open future whistleblowers to the death penalty. For the last month we have been working both around and against the clock-and without a budget-to create an impactful Public Service Announcement - PSA. We have filmed people in studios in cities across the US. We've recruited from a wide spread of issues and audiences and have been inspired by those who have stepped up. We will be launching our three minute video, titled: "I AM BRADLEY MANNING" - www.iam.bradleymanning.org - on Monday morning as the court martial proceedings begin. The goal is to snowball public comment about the controversial "aiding the enemy" charge (see below) through the press cycle surrounding this momentous trial, both by reaching people directly over social media and inspiring conversation and coverage in the press. As an independent team of volunteer producers and activists working on many issues, we are asking for your help by pushing the video out to your allies and supporters over social media channels. We've tried to make it as easy as possible for you, and as attractive as possible to your followers and supporters. The video includes among others: Oliver Stone | Daniel Ellsberg | Alice Walker | Phil Donahue | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Moby | Michael Ratner | Matt Taibbi | Angela Davis | Lt. Dan Choi | Russell Brand | Chris Hedges | Tom Morello | Mairead Maguire | Tim DeChristopher | Wallace Shawn | Allan Nairn | Ahdaf Soueif | and more... Please Join Us. HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO. Any or all of the following: 1. Join the I Am Bradley Manning <https://bitly.com/tweetbradley> Thunderclap today. It is scheduled to blast out a coordinated global call to action via twitter on Monday June 3rd at 12pm. Thunderclap is the first crowd-speaking platform that helps people be heard by saying something together over their social networks. By joining with our Thunderclap you'll be helping us boost the social reach to millions, and make the message trend. It only takes a couple of seconds to sign up - but must be done ahead of time: https://bit.ly/tweetbradley 2. Post the Thunderclap on Facebook or Twitter so your followers can sign up. 3. Share the video directly over social media on Monday morning, when it will be released. You will find it here: http://iam.bradleymanning.org 4. Share this email with your allies and contacts that we may not have been able to reach. If you hesitate, please remember that this is the young army private who brought us with him into the killing fields of Iraq so we could see the human cost of our own wars. Later, in an effort to inspire "worldwide discussions, debates, and reforms" by releasing the Cablegate documents, he helped fuel the popular movements that have inspired the world since 2011. The clarity of purpose and ethical fiber revealed in the recent audio leaks of Bradley's own pretrial testimony have also surprised and inspired us. Obama's war on whistleblowers has been so severe that he has already brought more cases under the Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined. The charge that Bradley faces on Monday could set the worst precedent possible for future whistleblowers. According to legal experts who both support and dismiss Bradley's actions, if the prosecution is successful all future whistleblowers on "national security" issues could face the death penalty. The government has so far produced no evidence of harm to individuals from by the leaks, but simply by proving that Bradley knew the enemy might gain access to them, they claim that he was in both intent and purpose trying to aid them. Sitting in the courtroom during a pretrial hearing last year, I watched the military judge ask the government if the charge would be the same had he brought the files to the Washington Post instead of Wikileaks. The answer: "Yes, your Honor." A year prior, when I asked President Obama about Bradley during a fundraiser in San Francisco, his reply to me was simply that "this is a nation of laws.and he broke the law." He had already decided Bradley was guilty. The implications of this trial have been kept mostly out of the public by a high level of courtroom secrecy and a startling lack of coverage from mainstream outlets. I'm probably as "outrage-fatigued" as anyone, but I have chosen to come back to this critical case again and again, because I believe that Bradley is the single most important actor of our generation. That this case has taken on greater implications since his arrest is no surprise. Regardless of the outcome, this trial will leave a mark on our times. This may be the last, best chance to have an impact. Thank you for joining us. In Solidarity, Logan Price lo...@riseup.net ++ <tel:%28206%29234-1060> (206)234-1060 with Ana Nogueira a...@risuep.net ++ <tel:%28917%29%20445-4619> (917) 445-4619 Death to Whistle-Blowers? by Floyd Abrams and Yochai Benkler, New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/opinion/the-impact-of-the-bradley-manning-case.ht ml Some Collaborators to Thank, Large and Small: Katie Davison, producer Andrew Stern, producer Brice Bishop-Pullen, editor Melanie Vi Levy, asst. editor Sam Alcoff, asst. editor Todd Chandler, sound editor Roger Hill, sound Scott Cramer, videographer Robin Bell, videographer Elizabeth Press, sound Cressida Trew, videographer Abe Heisler, videographer David Martinez, videographer John Trozzolo, videographer Serena kuo, color correction McNair Scott, project management Metar Moskovitch, web develper Flynn Joffray, web developer Bonny Moss, outreach Jordan Flaherty, outreach Other Support: George Machado, OWS Zak Solomon and Sandra Nurse, OWS Josh Bolotsky, Other 98% Bonnie Thornbury, Nobel Women's Initiative Rachel Vincent, Nobel Women's Initiative Han Shan, Rikshaw Films Meagan Alger, Starr Street Studios Cristian Flemming and Pranav Behari, The Public Society Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men Andrew Boyd, Beautiful Trouble Laura Poitras, Praxis Films Mathew Smucker, Beyond the Choir Ryan Harvey, Riot Folk Mike Burke, Democracy Now Norman Solomon and David Swanson, RootsAction Owen Wiltshire and Emma Cape, Bradley Manning Support Network And many many more - www.iam.bradleymanning.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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