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 Candlelight
Vigil for
families torn apart
by poverty, foster care, prison, immigration laws, the poverty
draft, killed by police . . . .
…for whistleblowers & truth-tellers in prison or detained
Chelsea Manning, the Dallas 6, Julian Assange, Rev. Edward
Pinkney, Ali Fikri Işık in Turkey, Mumia, Maroon…
For your loved one not home for the holidays! |
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Thursday, Dec 18 at 4:30pm at
the Department of Human Services (DHS)1515
Arch St, Philadelphia (short
program & speak-out from 5pm) |
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This year we light candles for… |
…Whistleblower Chelsea
Manning. Happy Birthday !
Free her now! Chelsea
Manningis
27 years old on Dec 17. Formerly known as Bradley, she is the
transgender whistleblower, US soldier, Grand
Marshal at
San Francisco Pride 2014, who revealed US, UK and other
governments’ war crimes and corruption. She leaked hundred of
thousands of documents to Wikileaksexposing
the truth and therefore saving many lives.
Imprisoned in 2010 and held for months under torturous
conditions, she was sentenced to 35
years in August
2013. Sign
Amnesty International’s petition for
her immediate release. Write
letters to
Dept of Defense requesting clemency. For
more info: Chelsea
Manning Support Network - www.chelseamanning.org.
Actions
happening in Berlin,
Boston, Chicago, Istanbul, London, Philadelphia, Rome, San
Francisco, Venice, Vancouver... Details
of actions:www.refusingtokill.net
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 …Carolyn
Hill’s niecesabruptly
and traumatically removed from her home by the Dept
of Human Services because
she is a low-income Black woman with no GED. Superior Court to
rule soon.Read the
Amici Curiae brief. See The
Right to Parent, Even if You Are Poor www.everymothernetwork.net
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 …The
Dallas 6 -six
African-American prisoners in solitary confinement in SCI Dallas
PA prison who blew the whistle on & peacefully protested against
torture and abuse by prison guards. Four
of them face trial on Feb 17, 2015 in
Luzerne County (infamous for the “kids for cash” scandal) for
“rioting.” Justice
for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign - scidallas6.blogspot.com
 …Grassroots
leader Rev.
Edward Pinkney convicted
of election law violation by an all-white jury without any
supporting evidence. Benton Harbor Michigan is 96% Black. He
was sentenced to 2½ to 10 years in prison on Dec 15.
We will
also mark the occasion of the Welfare Warrior’s annual Fight
Back Caroling Caravan by
closing the vigil with a carol on poverty. |
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Thanks to Chelsea's whistleblowing, we the public now know
about:
The “collateral
murder” video
of a US helicopter crew killing Iraqi civilians ● the cover- up
of rape in
Iraq & Afghanistan ● the secret use of drones for extra-judicial
killing ● US dirty tricks in Haiti, Venezuela, Peru &
elsewhere ● Egyptian and Palestinian Authority collusion with Israel’s bombing
of Gaza ● How Clinton spreadfracking around
the world for big oil. . . |
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Every Life is of Value from
Ferguson to NYC to Palestine …
Called by DHS
Give Us Back Our Children, Every Mother is a Working Mother
Network, Global Women’s Strike, Human Rights Coalition, Payday
men’s network. More
info: 215-848-1120 philly@globalwomenstrike.net
www.globalwomenstrike.net • www.refusingtokill.net • www.everymothernetwork.net • www.hrcoalition.org |
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