We stand with accused whistle-blower US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning from COURAGE TO RESIST 26OKT

JOIN the struggle for Bradley Manning's release from prison and against the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and against the abuse, corruption, deception and manipulation of the American public and the world by the pentagon and the military-industrial complex! Click the header or the link below to sign the letters of support for Bradley Manning!

"We stand for truth, for government transparency, and for an end to our tax-dollars funding endless occupation abroad... We stand with accused whistle-blower US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning."

The Bradley Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist are launching a new campaign, and we wanted to give you a chance to be among the first to add your name to this international effort. If you sign the letter online, we’ll print out and mail two letters to Army officials on your behalf. With your permission, we may also use your name on the online petition and in upcoming media ads.

Read the complete public letter and add your name at:
http://standwithbrad.org/

	Stand with Bradley! A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. Manning faces decades in prison for allegedly leaking a video of a US helicopter attack that killed at least eleven Iraqi civilians to the website Wikileaks. Among the dead were two working Reuters reporters. Two children were also severely wounded in the attack. In addition to this "Collateral Murder" video, Pfc. Manning is suspected of leaking the "Afghan War Diaries" – tens of thousands of battlefield reports that explicitly describe civilian deaths and cover-ups, corrupt officials, collusion with warlords, and a failing US/NATO war effort. "We only know these crimes took place because insiders blew the whistle at great personal risk ... Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal," noted Barack Obama while on the campaign trail in 2008. While the President was referring to the Bush Administration's use of phone companies to illegally spy on Americans, Pfc. Manning's alleged actions are just as noteworthy. If the military charges against him are accurate, they show that he had a reasonable belief that war crimes were being covered up, and that he took action based on a crisis of conscience. After nearly a decade of war and occupation waged in our name, it is odd that it apparently fell on a young Army private to provide critical answers to the questions, "What have we purchased with well over a trillion tax dollars and the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan?” However, history is replete with unlikely heroes. If Bradley Manning is indeed the source of these materials, the nation owes him our gratitude. We ask Secretary of the Army, the Honorable John M. McHugh, and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General George W. Casey, Jr., to release Pfc. Manning from pre-trial confinement and drop the charges against him. Sincerely, Bradley Manning Support Network Advisory Board members: Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, board member for the National Whistleblower Center Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistle blower Kathleen Gilberd, co-chair of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and activist Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker Jose Vasquez, executive director of Iraq Veterans against the War US Army Colonel Ann Wright (ret.), former US State Department official Kevin Zeese, co-founder and executive director, Voters for Peace Bradley Manning Support Network Steering Committee members: Gerry Condon, national co-chair of the Veterans for Peace GI Resistance Working Group Mike Gogulski, founder of bradleymanning.org Jeff Paterson, project director of Courage to Resist Loraine Reitman, privacy advocate
			Add your name! I Stand with Bradley Your name (and title) as letter signer: We will mail these on your behalf and publish your name and title online. Postage donation required to use this form ($5 Suggested). $  Or, sign with no postage donation. Resources & info  Print petition, single signature  Print petition, three signatures  Donate to the defense fund  View Collateral Murder video  Shirts, stickers, buttons... Write a personal appeal  Hon. Mr. John M. McHugh  Secretary of the Army  101 Army Pentagon, Rm. 3E560  Washington DC 20310-0101  General George W. Casey, Jr.  Cheif of Staff of the Army  101 Army Pentagon, Rm. 3E672  Washington DC 20310-0200