2019-03-09

A fucking hero if I've ever seen one - Chelsea Manning.

https://shadowproof.com/2019/03/08/defying-wikileaks-grand-jury-chelsea-manning-carries-on-tradition-of-resistance-and-goes-to-jail/

"There is a tradition of resistance to grand juries in the United States, particularly when the goals of a grand jury were clearly unjust. The tradition goes all the way back to abolitionists who were fighting slavery in the 1800s. It includes activists targeted by COINTELPRO, who were hauled before grand juries when Richard Nixon was president. Chelsea Manning is carrying on this tradition through her bold defiance."

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