Bradley Manning is spending his third birthday in confinement, December 17th, approaching 1,000 days in pre-trial military custody. The Bradley Manning Support Network urges all of us to take a moment during the busy holiday season to wish PFC Manning a happy birthday.

Just hours after it was revealed that PayPal had frozen the account of the Bradley Manning Support Network, a group raising funds for alleged Wikileaker Pfc. Bradley Manning, the payment processing giant backed down after public pressure to restore access to the account.

In just 8 hours, more than 15,000 Firedoglake activists signed a letter to PayPal demanding the company “drop its unreasonable demands of the Bradley Manning Support Network and restore access to the group’s PayPal account.”