#FreeChelseaNOW tweetstorm October 24, 2016

#PardonManning #FreeChelseaNOW
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"It now falls upon a tireless and restless minority to assist Manning. Only through dedicated mobilization and peaceful activism can Manning be saved. For what is at stake is not just Chelsea Manning, but the rescuing of the human conscience from repeated government assault." - Kevin Patrick Kelly, http://www.mintpressnews.com/MyMPN/chelsea-manning-and-the-execution-of-the-human-conscience/
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WELCOME! Below you will find tweets that you can copy, edit and send during the #FreeChelseaNOW tweetstorm on October 24, 2016, 9am Eastern. Please WAIT to tweet these until the start of the tweetstorm. Repeat: DO NOT TWEET these tweets or use the hashtag until the tweetstorm begins. We suggest you use Tweetdeck or some other app to schedule tweets in advance.

This tweetstorm will be a little bit different than the usual one hour sprint. We want to keep the tweetstorm going by spacing out tweets over 2-3 hours! This could be a sustained tweetstorm that starts on the East Coast, then bounces to the West Coast and back. If you're on the West Coast of the US and the start time is too early for you to wake up, again, schedule your tweets in advance, and keep it going!

This link - http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw - opens a new tab with a tweet to Obama. Please help keep the tweetstorm moving forward by attaching this link to your tweets if you have space. Our goals are to trend Chelsea Manning or the hashtag if we can, stay visible over time for as many people as possible, and send tweets en masse to Obama with our message asking him to #FreeChelseaNOW.

Gallery of suggested artwork to attach to your tweets:
http://imgur.com/a/t1gC1

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>> FIRST TWEET. Please send out a tweet with this tweet package attached first!
• Ask @POTUS to #FreeChelseaNOW! Join the tweetstorm happening NOW! Steal these tweets >> http://pastebin.com/AbGPhD6w

  ^^ send out this tweet above first

• Dear @POTUS: Please end Chelsea Manning's abuse in prison. #FreeChelseaNOW before you leave office! http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw

• This @POTUS made grave mistakes on civil liberties. Pardon the whistleblowers of our age #FreeChelseaNOW https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/01/edward-snowden-chelsea-manning-barack-obama-pardon

• Chelsea Manning has been denied her gender expression in prison and punished for the distress this causes. @POTUS, time to #FreeChelseaNOW

• Solitary confinement is torture, especially in the case of Chelsea Manning. It's time @POTUS - #FreeChelseaNOW http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw

• Hey @POTUS, Chelsea Manning is a WHISTLEBLOWER & prisoner of conscience. Where's YOUR conscience? #FreeChelseaNOW http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/XZCJL65.jpg)

• Dear @POTUS: before leaving office, you have the chance to end a fellow US citizen's suffering, do what's right and #FreeChelseaNOW

• All Presidential candidates admit Iraq war was a disaster; why is Chelsea Manning the only one paying the price? @POTUS #FreeChelseaNOW

• The hypocrisy is appalling. Call on @POTUS to #FreeChelseaNow! http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw (include this image https://scontent.ftxl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1528598_681310111913098_1639836056_n.jpg?oh=efa722092262d805821bdf3050e91f45&oe=58A29BCC)

• Dear @POTUS: The treatment of #ChelseaManning is discouraging further whistleblowers! Do the right thing and #FreeChelseaNOW

• Earlier this year @POTUS banned solitary for juveniles. Will he #FreeChelseaNOW & end her abuse in prison? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/25/463891388/obama-announces-reforms-to-solitary-confinement-in-federal-prisons

• Dear @POTUS @BarackObama, Chelsea Manning has been in prison 7 years for whistleblowing. Enough! #FreeChelseaNOW http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw

• Remember @POTUS when your admin was going to be the most transparent in history? Chelsea Manning treatment says otherwise. #FreeChelseaNOW

• Bush fabricated evidence for a war that has killed 1.5million people, while Chelsea paid the price for exposing it. @POTUS #FreeChelseaNow (include this image https://scontent.ftxl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1510870_681307511913358_1732575981_n.jpg?oh=8ae4bc58eba310ca3f825855a2f63116&oe=588CAEB6)

• Dear @POTUS: Chelsea Manning did a public service in exposing war crimes. Please #FreeChelseaNOW before the end of your term! (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/AFdFRdI.jpg)

• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. @POTUS #FreeChelseaNOW
(include this image https://scontent.ftxl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1558479_685943918116384_1796691554_n.jpg?oh=1ee54e884970e32b29d2b634d3d108cf&oe=5891FA28)

• Dear @POTUS: Please stop this wrongful imprisonment of this true hero held by the US military! #FreeChelseaNOW http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/7Edg5MV.jpg)

• Dear @POTUS: Chelsea Manning's status has been used to question the moral status of the US by Russia #FreeChelseaNOW http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/10257228/Bradley-Manning-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison.html

• Chelsea Manning has constantly faced treatment that's globally considered torture. End this and #FreeChelseaNOW @POTUS

• Are hypothetical victims more important than real victims of war? No one was harmed by Manning's leaks. #FreeChelseaNOW @POTUS

• Dear @POTUS, The inhuman treatment of #ChelseaManning has been described as torture by UN experts #FreeChelseaNOW https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-cruel-inhuman-treatment-un (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/n24OLOD.jpg)

• No leaker was punished as harshly as Chelsea Manning. She already served 7 years. @POTUS #FreeChelseaNOW!  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/marine-general-james-cartwright-leak-fbi.html?_r=2

• Not everyone in Iraq & Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people struggling to live @POTUS #FreeChelseaNow (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/PLZj07i.jpg)

• The treatment Chelsea Manning has endured over years is a stain on the US human rights record #FreeChelseaNOW @POTUS http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw

• Dear @POTUS, On Feb 24 2009 you said "America does not torture", the int'l community disagrees #FreeChelseaNOW https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-cruel-inhuman-treatment-un (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/n24OLOD.jpg)

• Chelsea served more time than the rest of these people combined. Is this justice? @POTUS #FreeChelseaNOW http://tinyurl.com/hytsgxw (include this image https://scontent.ftxl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1463296_681308711913238_1014274519_n.jpg?oh=4a78e3a8761779fcaf96d473d90b9a3b&oe=5896A861)

• Dear @POTUS, Orgs like @ACLU have said the prosecution of #ChelseaManning created chilling effects #FreeChelseaNOW https://shadowproof.com/2014/07/28/mass-surveillance-leak-investigations-the-chilling-effect-against-journalism/ (image to attach: http://i.imgur.com/Um3t19u.jpg)