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Leonard Peltier 'Take your place in the struggle'
By health and employment statistics, Native Americans, like other people of color in the United States, have not achieved equality. For example, between 1998 and 2000 Native American infants in the United States were 1.7 times more likely to die than white infants in their first year of life (Tomashek et al.).
The Lakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota, who supported the culturally and politically nationalist American Indian Movement, faced brutal counter-insurgency tactics complete with FBI-armed and -trained death squads that murdered 61 political activists on the reservation between 1973 and 1976. As part of that terror war against America’s first nations, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was framed by the FBI and remains in prison to this day.
The following, both from "Censored News", include a message from Leonard Peltier in prison and information regarding the fact that Leonard Peltier has just been thrown in the hole. It asks that people demand he be immediately returned to the general population. People should add to that demand that Leonard Peltier be immediately released.
-Steven Argue
The Lakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota, who supported the culturally and politically nationalist American Indian Movement, faced brutal counter-insurgency tactics complete with FBI-armed and -trained death squads that murdered 61 political activists on the reservation between 1973 and 1976. As part of that terror war against America’s first nations, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was framed by the FBI and remains in prison to this day.
The following, both from "Censored News", include a message from Leonard Peltier in prison and information regarding the fact that Leonard Peltier has just been thrown in the hole. It asks that people demand he be immediately returned to the general population. People should add to that demand that Leonard Peltier be immediately released.
-Steven Argue
Leonard Peltier 'Take your place in the struggle'
Today: Oglala Commemoration, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
June 26, 2011
By Leonard Peltier
Hello my friends and relations,
I always try to come to you full of good spirit and vigor. But I cannot lie. There are days when the ugliness of my situation weighs me down. I swear I never thought this could happen. I never believed law enforcement and the government of this country would go so far for so long to keep their dirty laundry hidden away
Over the years, you my dedicated friends and believers have kept a vision of justice alive. That really is something special. Because of you, we have learned of hidden evidence, coerced testimony, and outright lies by the FBI and prosecutors. Because of you we have been able to uncover thousands of documents the government wanted to stay secret. And yet they have been able to squirrel away thousands more pages of their biggest secrets about me, about the theft of Indian land, their motives behind murder, and their operations to silence people like me. I am living proof that my case is about squashing Indian rights and Indian sovereignty, otherwise why would I be serving a sentence so much longer than what is normal for my so-called conviction?
Those that believe in law and order should be the loudest voices calling for my release! The fact is the day I walk free is the day they are forced to deal with my innocence, and they are so very afraid of doing just that! No matter what they say, the dirty little secret underneath all of this is America’s fear and loathing of Indian people. In over five hundred years, they have not yet learned how to deal honorably with us.
The burden is great sometimes, but the encouragement I get from you helps me to keep my faith that freedom will one day come my way. No matter what happens, on the day I draw my last breath I will be proud to have taken my place alongside my ancestors, knowing I did all I could do, and gave all I could for my people. For those FBI agents and prosecutors in my case,
their last moments will include shame.
So remember all of you my friends and relations, this case is about much more than me. If you believe in truth, justice, honor, freedom, all of what is supposed to make America great, then help me open the door to my release. If you believe in Indian sovereignty, join my cause and in doing so help yourself. Take your place in the struggle and do all you can to eradicate injustice.
Thank you for your time. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your love.
Aho! Mitakuye Oyasin!
Doksha,
Leonard Peltier
*****
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Leonard Peltier Thrown in the Hole
Leonard Peltier Offense Defense Committee
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
On June 27, Leonard Peltier was removed from the general population at USP-Lewisburg and thrown in the hole. Little else is known at this time. Due to his age and health status, please join us in demanding his immediate return to general population.
Thomas Kane, Acting Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
E-Mail: info [at] bop.gov
Web Site: http://www.bop.gov/
Phone: (202) 307-3198
Fax: (202) 514-6620
Address: 320 1st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20534
Launched into cyberspace by the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
contact [at] whoisleonardpeltier.info
******
For more on Leonard Peltier’s case see
Incident at Oglala
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4219825247691110146#
Distributed by Liberation News, subscribe free
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Today: Oglala Commemoration, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
June 26, 2011
By Leonard Peltier
Hello my friends and relations,
I always try to come to you full of good spirit and vigor. But I cannot lie. There are days when the ugliness of my situation weighs me down. I swear I never thought this could happen. I never believed law enforcement and the government of this country would go so far for so long to keep their dirty laundry hidden away
Over the years, you my dedicated friends and believers have kept a vision of justice alive. That really is something special. Because of you, we have learned of hidden evidence, coerced testimony, and outright lies by the FBI and prosecutors. Because of you we have been able to uncover thousands of documents the government wanted to stay secret. And yet they have been able to squirrel away thousands more pages of their biggest secrets about me, about the theft of Indian land, their motives behind murder, and their operations to silence people like me. I am living proof that my case is about squashing Indian rights and Indian sovereignty, otherwise why would I be serving a sentence so much longer than what is normal for my so-called conviction?
Those that believe in law and order should be the loudest voices calling for my release! The fact is the day I walk free is the day they are forced to deal with my innocence, and they are so very afraid of doing just that! No matter what they say, the dirty little secret underneath all of this is America’s fear and loathing of Indian people. In over five hundred years, they have not yet learned how to deal honorably with us.
The burden is great sometimes, but the encouragement I get from you helps me to keep my faith that freedom will one day come my way. No matter what happens, on the day I draw my last breath I will be proud to have taken my place alongside my ancestors, knowing I did all I could do, and gave all I could for my people. For those FBI agents and prosecutors in my case,
their last moments will include shame.
So remember all of you my friends and relations, this case is about much more than me. If you believe in truth, justice, honor, freedom, all of what is supposed to make America great, then help me open the door to my release. If you believe in Indian sovereignty, join my cause and in doing so help yourself. Take your place in the struggle and do all you can to eradicate injustice.
Thank you for your time. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your love.
Aho! Mitakuye Oyasin!
Doksha,
Leonard Peltier
*****
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Leonard Peltier Thrown in the Hole
Leonard Peltier Offense Defense Committee
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
On June 27, Leonard Peltier was removed from the general population at USP-Lewisburg and thrown in the hole. Little else is known at this time. Due to his age and health status, please join us in demanding his immediate return to general population.
Thomas Kane, Acting Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
E-Mail: info [at] bop.gov
Web Site: http://www.bop.gov/
Phone: (202) 307-3198
Fax: (202) 514-6620
Address: 320 1st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20534
Launched into cyberspace by the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
contact [at] whoisleonardpeltier.info
******
For more on Leonard Peltier’s case see
Incident at Oglala
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4219825247691110146#
Distributed by Liberation News, subscribe free
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news
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