[pp.int.general] Who forgot Bradley Manning?

[Erik Lönroth]

The 28:th of may seems like a date that might be a good day to settle
about... Did you get in contact with the Support Network for Bradley
Manning about this date and the events that are planned?

/Erik

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Dirk Poot - Secretaris Piratenpartij
<bestuur at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
> For what it's worth:
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> We from the Dutch Pirate Party also realized this when we ran across the announcement of a demonstration planned for may 28 in Berlin: http://www.freebradleymanning.de/?p=51
> We have just released a press release calling for a demonstration in Amsterdam, Holland on the 28 of may as well. https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/aankondiging-demonstratie-en-tweetup-bradley-manning-vrij/
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dirk Poot
> secretary a.i.
>
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> On 19 Apr, 2011, at 21:11 , Erik Lönroth wrote:
>
>> Dear Pirates!
>>
>> In december 2010, we managed to create a common voice in support for
>> the people behind Wikileaks. By that time, threathened to their lives
>> due to their involvement in the publication of diplomatic documents.
>>
>> The announcement was translated into many different languages and
>> every Pirate Party that wanted to participate did so with their own
>> versions.
>>
>> Our version was:
>> http://sodertalje.piratpartiet.se/2010/12/07/piratpartiet-i-sodertalje-stodjer-reservationslost-wikileaks/
>>
>> Now its time to do this again. This time, focusing on the real
>> hero(es) - the whistle-blowers, and more explicitly "Bradley Manning".
>> He has by end of MAY been imprisoned without a trial for a full year.
>> Parallells can be drawn to the journalist, Dawit Isaak, who is
>> imprisoned in Eritrea under similar circumstances.
>>
>> I have tried to get in contact "Bradley Manning Support Network" to
>> get a "date" to organize the "One year of illegal imprisonment" day
>> and in conjunction with that - I hope - to formulate a common protest
>> together with the international Pirate Party.
>>
>> There are some stuff we can do, apart form the "announcement".
>>
>> * A "counter" that shows how long he has been imprisoned without a
>> trial that anyone can put on their blog/website.
>> * Poster/graphics for this.
>> * Make donations to the www.bradleymanning.org
>> * A "draft" on the announcement in text.
>>
>> Anything to mark this day. Whenever it is.
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