Nine Days to Bring Bradley's Case to Washington.
Support the DC Metro Ad Campaign!
We have until April 20th (9 days!) to raise funds to put up 21
“Bradley Manning: Whistle-blower” ads in the DC Metro subway system.
These ads will coincide with Bradley’s next hearing at Fort Meade,
Maryland, which begins April 24. Each ad is 46″H x 60″W.
Bradley Manning needs your help. His next court appearance will be on
April 24th and the Bradley Manning Support Network is calling on
supporters to stand up and show the government that war crimes must be
exposed and that whistle-blowers must be set free. The military has done
its best to limit public exposure to Bradley Manning’s case by holding
the trial at Ft. Meade, a relatively difficult location for the public
to attend, and they have not released transcripts of the pretrial
hearing, thereby limiting media exposure and making it difficult for
laymen to follow the proceedings. Let's bring the case back to
Washington!
Our proposed Washington DC metro ad.
Furthermore, the government has gone out of its way to purge
WikiLeaks from its employees’ memories. State Department officials are
categorically banned from visiting WikiLeaks.org or even linking to it
personally. The word “WikiLeaks” in any government email gets that whole
message blocked, or sent to a spam filter. These ads will force
government workers to remember WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, remind
them that the public is behind Bradley, and explain that what Bradley is
accused of doing is a public good. Exposing wrongdoing is to the
benefit of transparency, justice, and democracy. Help us bring Bradley’s
case into the public eye.
There are two ways to support the campaign, either by making a
donation on the EpicStep Ad Campaign website, or by donating directly to
the Bradley Manning Defense Fund.
Previous campaigns have included billboards in Kansas City near Fort
Leavenworth were Bradley is often held, and on Highway 50 leading into
downtown Washington DC from Fort Meade, the site of Bradley's court
hearings. Of course our grassroots campaign is fueled primarily by
supporters' handmade banners and picket signs, but these selective
billboards are an important aspect of building public awareness and
support for Bradley.
Past billboard campaigns
With your help Bradley Manning’s case will be known by every metro
rider in DC - particularly the thousands of government and military
persons on their way to work, who due to the government's censorship of
employee access to WikiLeaks, may have no idea what kind of war crimes
Bradley Manning exposed.
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