<html><head><base href="x-msg://680/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="http://bradleymanning.org">bradleymanning.org</a><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><center><table cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FAFAFA" border="0" id="templatePreheader" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td class="preheaderContent" valign="top" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" style="width: 602px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><div mc:edit="std_preheader_content" style="margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; "><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Write a letter to Maj. 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Buchanan for PVT Manning's clemency.</div></div></td><td width="190" valign="top" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><div align="left" mc:edit="std_preheader_links" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: left; ">Is this email not displaying correctly?<br><a href="http://ymlp350.net/z6o05l" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">View it in your browser</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FDFDFD" border="0" id="templateContainer" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); width: 600px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><table cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#D8E2EA" border="0" id="templateHeader" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: rgb(216, 226, 234); border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" align="center" class="headerContent" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Arial; font-size: 34px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 34px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; "><a href="http://BradleyManning.org"><img mc:label="header_image" mc:edit="header_image" id="headerImage_campaign-icon" alt="Bradley Manning Support Network" src="http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pvt-manning-banner600.jpg" height="84" width="600" name="headerImage_campaign-icon" style="max-width: 600px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; text-transform: capitalize; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; "></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><table id="templateBody" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FDFDFD" valign="top" class="bodyContent" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" style="width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><div mc:edit="std_content00" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; "><h2 style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; ">Pvt Manning needs you to write a letter in support of clemency bid</h2><table align="right" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><tbody><tr><td style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency"><img border="0" width="300" height="199" src="http://www.privatemanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Bradley-Manning-300x199.jpg"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">PVT Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning’s 35-year sentence is an outrage to the idea of American justice, and creates serious concerns for democracy advocates around the world. It's been condemned by public figures as wide ranging as Cornel West, Ron Paul, and American Civil Liberties Union 'Speech, Privacy, and Technology' Project Director Ben Wizner, who stated,</p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote>[A] legal system that doesn't distinguish between leaks to the press in the public interest and treason against the nation will not only produce unjust results, but will deprive the public of critical information that is necessary for democratic accountability.</blockquote><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><b>However, there's something you can do right now.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Convening Authorities are granted the power to reduce or eliminate a convicted soldier’s sentence. They use this power when they feel the court martial failed to deliver justice. As Commanding General of the Military District of Washington, Major General Jeffrey S. Buchanan is the only other individual besides President Obama with the power to lessen WikiLeaks whistleblower PVT Manning’s sentence in the immediate future.</p><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><b>We are now requesting letters from professors, law experts, human rights advocates, politicians, artists, veterans, and concerned citizens urging Maj. Gen. Buchanan to reduce PVT Manning’s sentence.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These letters will be submitted as part of an application for clemency from PVT Manning’s legal defense. We are collecting these letters at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto://nathan@bradleymanning.org">nathan@bradleymanning.org</a></p><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><b>So what are you waiting for?</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Write a letter yourself, then encourage any professors, lawyers or community leaders you know to do the same.</p><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">There are a few<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>important guidelines</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to keep in mind as you compose your letter:</p><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><table align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency"><img border="0" width="550" height="297" src="http://www.privatemanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/buch1.jpg"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><ul style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">Your letter should be approximately<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>1 page</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>long.</li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">It should be composed on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>personalized letterhead</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-you can create this yourself (here are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/personal-letterhead-TC102803622.aspx">templates</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and some<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/create-letterhead-by-using-microsoft-word-HA001055259.aspx">tips</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for doing that).</li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">Pvt Manning’s recently announced that her preferred name is Chelsea, and that folks should use female pronouns. However, she also understands that for efforts such as these, it is most effective for supporters to use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>her legal name and military rank, “Pvt. Bradley E. Manning”, along with male pronouns.</b></li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">The letter should focus on your support for PVT Manning, and especially<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>why you believe justice will be served if PVT Manning’s sentence is reduced.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The letter should NOT be anti-military and/or anti-Buchanan, as this will be unlikely to help.</li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><b>A suggested message:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Pvt. Manning has been punished enough for violating military regulations in the course of being true to his conscience. I urge you to use your authority as Convening Authority to reduce Pvt. Manning's sentence to time served.” Beyond that general message, feel free to personalize the details as to why you believe PVT Manning deserves clemency.</li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><b>Please print and sign the letter, then scan it and send it to<a href="mailto:nathan@bradleymanning.org">nathan@bradleymanning.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by November 1, 2013</b>, and sooner if possible. If you cannot scan the letter, please mail it to Pvt Manning Support Network, c/o Courage to Resist, 484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610. We will review these letters prior to forwarding them to PVT Manning’s legal defense, and may request that you make changes if necessary.</li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">Convening Authorities have reduced the sentences of soldiers who broke military law for conscientious reasons in the past. We think PVT Manning deserves clemency as much as anyone -thank you for helping us show the Convening Authority that the public agrees!</li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/manning-ca.pdf">Here is an example letter written by Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist Project Director. Note these letters will be submitted by Pvt. Manning's attorney as part of the formal clemency packet.</a></li><hr><h2 style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; ">Help us continue to cover 100%<br>of Bradley's legal fees!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/donate">Donate today.</a></h2></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><table cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FDFDFD" border="0" id="templateFooter" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td class="footerContent" valign="top" align="center" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" style="width: 580px; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#FAFAFA" valign="middle" id="social" align="center" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); 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