Chelsea Manning
This Saturday will be Chelsea’s 29th birthday. It will be her seventh birthday since she has been incarcerated. We’re making a list of vigils and birthday parties here, please let us know if you’d like to be listed in your...Read more
For Immediate Release: December 12, 2016 Contact: Christina DiPasquale, 202.716.1953, christina@balestramedia.com 100,000+ Chelsea Manning Supporters Urge President Obama to Exercise His Clemency Powers to Commute Manning’s Sentence to Time Served WethePeople Petition Surpasses Target For White House Response On Saturday,...Read more
On Saturday, December 10th, Chelsea’s petition passed the 100,000 signatures required to require a response from the White House. The petition is still collecting signatures at a rapid rate. Please keep sharing and signing until December 14th, so we can...Read more
Chelsea Manning Is Running Out of Time By Evan Greer for the Huffington Post. From the article: Transparency activist Chelsea Manning has already spent more time behind bars than any other whistleblower in U.S. history. She’s been systematically mistreated, subjected...Read more
Chelsea Manning and Other Trans Prisoners Face Exceptional Cruelty in Jail—Will Obama Do Anything? By Nico Lange for OUT Magazine Nico Lange asks: When sentenced to prison, trans women find themselves housed in facilities that misgender them and make them...Read more
Chase Strangio, Chelsea’s attorney for her ACLU case about her gender dysphoria treatment, writes about when he first met Chelsea and why it’s so important for President Obama to give her “time served,” and commute her sentence. Transcription from...Read more
Daniel Ellsberg has made a video asking President Obama to commute Chelsea’s sentence. “I’m Daniel Ellsberg. Tell President Obama to Give Clemency to Chelsea Manning.”
ACLU And LGBTQ Groups Call on Obama to Grant Clemency to Chelsea Manning Letter from ACLU and 16 LGBT Groups to President Obama From the blog post: The American Civil Liberties Union and over a dozen LGBT groups sent a...Read more
President Obama, The Time Is Now to #FreeChelsea. She Deserves Her Freedom. By Ian Thompson, for the ACLU From the post: Since she was first taken into custody in 2010, Chelsea, a transgender woman who is being forced to serve...Read more
Amnesty International has announced that it has sent a letter to President Obama asking him to commute Chelsea’s sentence to “time served.” From the announcement: Thirty-five years. That is the length of prison time that Chelsea Manning was sentenced to...Read more