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September 17, 2010

Supporters Launch International Days of Action for Bradley Manning
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Rallies are being held nationwide today in support of the alleged
military whistleblower Bradley Manning. An Army intelligence analyst,
Manning is being held on charges he leaked classified documents,
including a video of a US military helicopter killing a group of
innocent Iraqis, as well as thousands of Afghan war logs. The website
Wiki Leaks published both the video and the war records earlier this
year. The Bradley Manning Support Network says it will hold rallies in
nineteen cities today as part of a three-day series of events to urge
the US government to drop all of Manning’s charges. On Thursday, dozens
of people gathered in Oakland, California, to launch the International
Days of Action for Bradley Manning. The Pentagon Papers whistleblower
Daniel Ellsberg addressed the crowd.

Daniel Ellsberg: "He is disloyal to the empire and to the emperor, as I
have become. And without more Bradley Mannings and people like you who
will support him with money in a concrete way and with your support by
being here tonight—with more Bradley Mannings, there’s a chance
that we will have the democratic constitutional republic we were meant
to have, and may sometime be."



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