WED. 8/21 Emergency Rally to Protest Bradley Manning Sentencing

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Date: Wednesday, August 21st
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Federal Courthouse (300 S. 4th Streetin Downtown Minneapolis)

What to bring: signs and as many people as possible!

Please come out to this important rally to mark the end of the court-martial and react to the sentencing of Bradley Manning. The defense is wrapping up their case this week and the sentencing decision will likely be announced by Judge Lind on Wednesday, August 21st!! Keep your calendar open and join us at 4:30pm outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.

At our rally, we as Minnesotans, demand the following:

-Demand that Bradley Manning is immediately released.
-Demand that Bradley Manning is given a full presidential pardon.
-Demand that our local leaders stand with whistleblowers and join with us to advocate for an immediate release of Bradley Manning.

If Manning is only sentenced to “time served” and is immediately freed by Judge Lind, we will host a celebration rally with cake! Yes, we’ll have cake and healthy fresh fruit for all to enjoy outside the federal building. Let’s hope this is the outcome so we could have a victory rally this time.

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1. 50 plus show up for the Bradley Manning rally this evening

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2013/8/21/minneapolis-emergency-protest-demands-pardon-bradley-manning?utm_source=Fight%20Back%21%20News%20Service&utm_campaign=461597c828-UA-743468-8&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_acdbc87f5c-461597c828-263618909

Minneapolis, MN – About 50 supporters of WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning joined an emergency rally at the Federal Building here, Aug. 21, in response to Military Judge Denise Lind’s sentencing him to 35 years in prison. The protest was called by Free Bradley Manning-Minneapolis and was one of the many held across the U.S. sponsored or coordinated by the Bradley Manning Support Network.

A statement from protest organizers demanded President Obama “fulfill his campaign promises to promote government transparency and protect whistleblowers by pardoning Bradley Manning.”

Jess Sundin, a leader of the Anti-War Committee and one of the activists raided by the FBI in 2010, told the crowd, “According the ACLU, 35 years is the longest-ever prison sentence for leaking government secrets to the media. The government prosecuted Bradley Manning for espionage, but we know that his real ‘crime,’ in their eyes, was to expose the inhumane conduct of the American war machine. He told the world the truth about secrets shared by war criminals. We are here today, because prosecuting this man is the shameful act of cowards, afraid for the world to know what kind of monsters they really are. We are here today, because we know why Bradley Manning has been targeted, and we will not stand by silently while this injustice is carried out in our names.”