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http://www.alternet.org/activism/12-real-patriots-brave-enough-fight-truth-and-justice***SNIP
Edward Snowden is a 30 year old risking a lifetime in prison to expose massive extensive wrongful secret government surveillance of hundreds of millions in the US and even more globally.
Rosanell Eaton, 92, a 70 year member of the NAACP, was arrested on June 24 in North Carolina in one of the weekly actions resisting government cutbacks and mistreatment of the unemployed. Nearly 600 others have also been arrested in the last two months in the NAACP led protests.
Tim DeChristopher, 29, was just released from two years in federal prison for disrupting an improper government auction of oil and gas rights around national parks in Utah by making false bids for leases.
Bradley Manning is a 25 year old Army soldier who has been in jail since May 2010 because he exposed evidence of illegal US airstrikes, murder, and other embarrassing confidential political information about the US and other governments
KG
(28,751 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)"Cindy Sheehan made national news when she became an anti-war activist after her son Casey was killed in Iraq, on April 4, 2004. Sheehan, a Gold Star mom, was in Oklahoma City on Mothers Day speaking to a group of supporters at the First Unitarian Church while on her cross country Tour de Peace bike ride. In 2005, Sheehan established Camp Casey outside President George W. Bushs ranch in Crawford, Texas. Thousands made their way there to protest the Iraq war."
http://city-sentinel.com/2013/05/cindy-sheehan-still-protesting-americas-wars-with-cross-country-bike-tour-two-oklahoma-gold-star-fathers-speak-out/
Don Siegelman is currently serving years in prison for daring to stand up to KKKarl Rove and questioning the sudden appearance of votes for his RepubliCON opponent. He is a political prisoner.
http://www.donsiegelman.org/don-story_home.html
Vietnameravet
(1,085 posts)She protested and expressed her opinions in a legal way..she did not lie and steal to promote her ideals.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Vietnameravet
(1,085 posts)Skeeter Barnes
(994 posts)Piss on the politicians and the military on this patriotic day.