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Category: My Activism

My Activism

Chelsea Manning is free! Looking back at seven years of activism for our hometown whistleblower hero

This reflection on my time working on Chelsea Manning support and awareness in her home state was published by the Oklahoma Observer in the June 2017 issue under the title “In Oklahoma, A Celebration Seven Years In The Making.”

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Chelsea Manning Submits Personal Account of Her Struggles and Motivations in Application for Clemency

Included in Chelsea Manning’s recent request for clemency from President Obama, filed by her attorneys on November 10, was a very personal recounting by the imprisoned whistleblower of her personal history, …

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ACTION ALERT: This may be the final effort to save Chelsea Manning

Attorneys for Chelsea Manning have filed a request for commutation of her sentence to time served.  In a statement accompanying her petition, a copy of which her lawyer provided to …

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OKC council rejects Indigenous People’s Day proposal for second year

For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma City city council has failed to pass a popular initiative to name the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day, as has been …

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An open letter to President Obama regarding Chelsea Manning

President Obama, Are you seriously going to sit back and let the Army punish Chelsea Manning with solitary for a suicide attempt that was a direct response to their inhumane treatment of her?

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The many trials of Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning, facing decades of imprisonment in a military that denies her fundamental human rights, recovers from a suicide attempt.

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Death Penalty opponents to fast and vigil at Supreme Court for 23rd year

My fellow abolitionist and Amnesty SDPAC Abe Bonowitz organizes this annual action — Starvin‘ for Justice: The Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty — and put out the press releases below. Wish I could be there. Maybe next year will be the last, and a big celebration to mark the end of the death penalty in the US.

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Photos and report from the 2011 Oklahoma Democratic Party State Convention

So yeah, I went to the convention yesterday and I lived to tell the tale! Photos The Oklahoman story Former state lawmaker to head Oklahoma Democrats describes how a credentialing …

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Internet access for the people of Libya

Dutch ISP provider XS4ALL has set up an internet dial-up service for Libya. Use your modem to dial +31205350535 username: xs4all password: xs4all Spread please.

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