[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: Army sets pre-trial hearing date for Bradley. Vigils and rallies planned at Fort Meade MD, worldwide.

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From: Bradley Manning Support Network <noreply at bradleymanning.org>
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Sent: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 4:38 pm
Subject: Army sets pre-trial hearing date for Bradley. Vigils and 
rallies planned at Fort Meade MD, worldwide.









Army sets pre-trial hearing date for Bradley. Vigils and rallies 
planned at Fort Meade MD, worldwide.


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Army sets pre-trial hearing date for Bradley. Vigils and rallies 
planned at Fort Meade MD, worldwide.


Protest his Pretrial Hearing Saturday, Dec 17th (Bradley’s B-Day) at 
12pm at Fort Meade, MD outside Washington D.C.! (Solidarity actions 
taking place around the world.)
After 560 days of pretrial confinement, including 250 days spent in 
solitary conditions, the Military has finally announced that PFC 
Bradley Manning’s Pretrial Hearing will begin on December 16th in the 
Washington D.C. area. Read our press release.
PFC Bradley Manning is accused of uncovering the facts behind a system 
of foreign policy that routinely hides abuse from public scrutiny. "If 
convicted of all charges, Manning would face a maximum punishment... of 
confinement for life" the U.S. Army reports.
If he is the source of the WikiLeaks revelations, he is the most 
significant whistle-blower in a generation. According to journalists, 
his alleged actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring 
movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on our foreign 
policies of the sort #OccupyWallStreet opposes, and most recently 
contributed to the Obama Administration agreeing to withdraw all 
U.S.troops from the failed occupation in Iraq.
Bradley Manning, who turns 24 on the date of our protest, is a young 
soldier from a working-class background who believed that people should 
know the truth, “no matter who they are… because without information 
you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”
He now faces opposition from embarrassed politicians and military 
officials, and potential life in prison on a poorly defined military 
charge of “Aiding the enemy through indirect means.” If words 
attributed to Bradley Manning are accurate, it appears that he was 
motivated only by a desire to expose questionable and illegal actions 
by our leaders. This information had been concealed -- not to protect 
us -- but in order to avoid accountability. According to several who 
served in the same unit as Manning, this information had already been 
made available to Iraqi Army recruits -- but not the American public. 
It is absurd for our government to suggest that the American people is 
somehow "the enemy."
As founding father Patrick Henry wrote, “The liberties of a people 
never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their 
rulers may be concealed from them.”
Bradley's pretrial hearing date has been announced, and this is the 
time to take our support of Bradley into the streets. Bradley Manning 
was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last month, and topped the UK 
Guardian’s Readers Poll. Now the world watches the proceedings of this 
case while judging our country as a whole.
Previous protests outside of a Quantico brig where Manning was being 
held were successful in ending the mistreatment he had endured there. 
December 17th will be our International Day of Solidarity with the 
largest protest taking place outside the gates of Fort Meade! View 
logistics/RSVP here.
For people outside of the DC and Baltimore area, we welcome creative 
solidarity actions. Visit events.bradleymanning.org to register your 
event.
Please share this announcement with friends and connections via e-mail, 
facebook, and twitter.
Sincerely,
The Bradley Manning Support Network
 
Help us give Bradley a fighting chance in the upcoming proceedings, 
inside and out of the military courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Please donate today.


















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