This summer, Chelsea Manning supporters came out to Pride events globally to march and stand by for our heroic Wikileaks whistleblower.
New York City, London, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Salina, Philadelphia, St. Petersburg, Los Angeles and Seattle all featured Chelsea contingents.
Participants marched and carried banners, performed in street theatre & flash-mob dance groups, passed out stickers & buttons to the crowd, and raised awareness of Chelsea and her upcoming legal appeals to crowds of thousands.
In the SF Pride parade, a synchronized dance group performed a routine to Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don’t Care About Us’. Former military strategist Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, marched alongside supporters.
Contingents were organized and endorsed by a multitude of diverse groups such as Payday, Queer Strike, local chapters of Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist and in SF joined by the SF chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) as well as NLG-Bay Area Military Law Panel, CODEPINK Women for Peace (SF), ANSWER Coalition, SF Green Party, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), ACT UP-East Bay, Occupy AIDS, Middle East Children’s Alliance, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, World Can’t Wait, VeteranArtists.org, Socialist Action, War Resisters League-West, Bay Area Freedom Socialist Party, Bay Area Radical Women, Inkworks Press Collective, Haiti Action Committee, Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Committee, OccupySF Action Council, Workers World Party, WORD: Women Organized to Resist and Defend, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission.
