Courage is contagious !






 “They have lost their freedom for the truth, so they remind 
us how important it is to know the truth,” 

Italian sculptor Davide Dormino told the media in Berlin's Alexanderplatz. The life-sized statues of the three whistleblowers stand upon three chairs, as if speaking in an impromptu public meeting. Next to them is a fourth, empty chair.

For Dormino, who titled his piece, Anything to Say? this is the centerpiece of the composition.

“The fourth chair is open to anyone here in Berlin who
 wants to get up and say anything they want,”

Dozens of people, including children, have already overcome their fears, and stood up on the platform, some with a loudspeaker.

"People are saying many different things. From politics to babbling to silence, from people who desperately want to help Julian, Bradley and Edward to people who have no idea who they are. This chair is, I guess, a place of free speech," said Dormino.

Bradley Manning, who leaked US diplomatic cables in 2011, is serving a 35-year sentence in a military prison. Manning has since changed her gender to female, and is now known as Chelsea. However, she is presented in her former guise as a male US soldier in the composition. Julian Assange, who hosted Manning’s files on his WikiLeaks website, remains in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, aware that leaving it may leave him exposed to extradition to the US. Former intelligence agent Edward Snowden, who revealed the intricacies and reach of NSA surveillance technologies, has been marooned in an undisclosed location in Russia for nearly two years.(RT)

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