Update 6/16/13: Solidarity events in the San Francisco area

Bradley Manning contingent, Washington DC Pride Parade, 8 June 2013

Bradley Manning contingent, Washington DC Pride Parade, 8 June 2013

Dance Flashmob for Bradley Manning
Practices June 17, June 24, and then in SF Pride march
Hellman room (second floor) @ ODC (17th Street & Shotwell, entrance on Shotwell)

Blowing the Whistle on Military Crimes
a free public forum
Facebook page
June 27, 2013, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church 
1187 Franklin Street (corner Geary Blvd.) 
San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Trans March Honors Bradley Manning
June 28, 2013, from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Mission Dolores Park, 18th Street & Dolores Street
San Francisco, CA

Bradley Manning contingent, Washington DC Pride Parade, 8 June 2013

Bradley Manning contingent, Washington DC Pride Parade, 8 June 2013

Support Bradley Manning @ The SF Dyke March (men are invited to cheer from sidelines)
June 29, 2013, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Facebook page
Mission Dolores Park
, 18th Street & Dolores Street
San Francisco, CA

March in SF Pride with the official Bradley Manning contingent!
June 30, 2013, meet up at 10:00 am
Howard Street & Beale Street
San Francisco, CA
More info below

SF Pride Bradley Manning After Party & Fundraiser!
Hard French Hearts Los Homos 2013

June 30 2013, from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Roccapulco, 3140 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA

For more information about any of these San Francisco area events, contact organizer Michael Thurman at michael(at)couragetoresist.org, or call 510-488-3559.

 

Bradley Manning @ SF Pride! Come out for our LGBTQ whistle blower! - 

San Francisco Pride Parade
June 30, 2013
Meet up at 10:00am
Howard Street and Beale Street, San Francisco, CA
https://www.facebook.com/events/327236664071988/

Pride contingent at CapPride13, Washington DC

Photo from the Pride contingent at CapPride13, Washington DC

Your Money to Make Bradley Manning Fabulous at San Francisco Pride!

Give Manning all your money and then forward & send invites to all your rich friends!

DONATE: https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=67109

We are a coalition of San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ community members, local military veterans & activists that are organizing support and awareness for openly gay army whistle-blower Bradley Manning during the San Francisco Pride parade and festivities.

We are celebrating the radical heritage & original spirit of Pride by marching for a heroic Queer army intel analyst who sacrificed everything so we could all know the truth about US wars and foreign policy by a massive leaking of classified information via WikiLeaks. We will not only be supporting Manning but challenging an entire system of oppression at home and abroad. LGBTQ liberation is integrally tied to the collective liberation of all oppressed groups.Despite the SF Pride Board publicly maligning and rescinding Manning as a Grand Marshal, members of the San Francisco LGBTQ, military veteran and activist community have named Bradley Manning the 2013 San Francisco Pride People’s Grand Marshal & we will be marching in solidarity & in mass. 

Endorsed by Queer Strike, Gays without Borders, Gay Liberation Network, ACT UP SF & East Bay, The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, SF Green Party, Occupy AIDS & Occupy SF. Organized by Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network.

BRADLEY MANNING, a 25-year-old, openly gay, US Army intelligence analyst is facing life in prison and has been held in pre-trial confinement for over 3 years. He endured torture and solitary confinement for the first 10 months of his incarceration. He is accused of sharing with WikiLeaks: the “Collateral Murder” video of the killing of civilians and journalists by a US helicopter in Iraq, the Guantanamo Files, the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, & revealing US diplomatic cables. In short, he’s been charged with blowing the whistle on war crimes & telling us the truth.

What We Need & What You Get:

Here is the breakdown.

We are looking to raise at least $5,000 dollars total.
Up to $3,000 dollars for posting and advertising (Specifically a premium ad space in the widely read and distributed Bay Area Reporter for the week of SF Pride)
Up to $2,000 dollars for a mass printing of Bradley Manning posters for the SF Pride parade contingent and the supporting crowd.
Donors will get stickers, posters & t-shirts depending on how much they give.
If we do not reach our goal we will put however much we raise towards these two efforts.

The Impact

Your funds will help raise significant awareness and a large show of support for Bradley Manning in San Francisco during LGBTQ Pride in the midst of his summer military court martial. We want to send Bradley Manning and the US Military a message that the San Francisco LGBTQ, veteran and ally community stands with and celebrates him as whistle-blower hero that should be freed and honored immediately.

DONATE: https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=67109

Other Ways You Can Help

JOIN US IN PRIDE FESTIVITIES & OTHER EVENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY! 

https://orders.bradleymanning.org/support_events

SIGN THE PETITION! WE STAND WITH BRADLEY MANNING! 

http://www.standwithbrad.org/
DONATE: https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=67109

https://www.facebook.com/events/178558995642471/?ref=2

2 thoughts on “Update 6/16/13: Solidarity events in the San Francisco area

  1. Hi, I will be in the sfpride parade and I want to wear a Bradly manning support shirt or carry a poster. Do you know where I can get one?
    Thanks very much,
    Robert

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