INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER FEBRUARY 6, 1999
MARCH AND RALLY, TACOMA, WASHINGTON 12:00 NOON MARCH GATHERING POINT PUYALLUP NATION TRIBAL GROUNDS
(off I-5, exit 135 north, State Route 164 in Tacoma. The Tribal Grounds are about a 1/4 mile on the right hand side of the road.)
We will march from the Puyallup Nation Tribal Grounds to the Federal Court House in downtown Tacoma at 1717 Pacific, where the rally will take place.
SPEAKERS SET AT THIS POINT:
MATILAJA, YU'PIK - YAKAMA, NWLPSN PRISONER LIAISON DON ALEXANDER, CIVIL RIGHTS & LABOR ELDER ACTIVIST STEVE HAPY, JR, NWLPSN SPOKESPERSON HARRIET WALDON, MOTHERS FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY ARTHUR J. MILLER, NWLPSN COORDINATOR TYREE SCOTT, LONG TIME CIVIL RIGHTS & LABOR ACTIVIST
For over 23 years the government has lied about the guilt of Leonard Peltier. The politicians have lied. The prosecutors have lied. The judges have lied. The FBI has lied.
For over 23 years, we who support Leonard because of our interest in seeing an innocent man free have proven that the evidence on which he was convicted was perjured and manufactured, that those who convicted him, and continue to imprison him, do so from personal and political agendas, and that when they were forced to admit that he was NOT guilty of the crime for which he was tried and convicted, simply invented new reasons to hold him.
Is there anyone with eyes, ears, and a brain in this country today who does not realize that our government is full of people who have lied so long, and so often, that they cannot recognize the simple truth when it is before them? People whose personal and political agendas cause them to sacrifice all decency, integrity, and honor to their venal ends?
These are the people who have said for over 23 years that Leonard Peltier is guilty.
On February 6, people throughout the world will be demonstrating in support of Leonard. We will be calling on the Bureau of Prisons to allow the urgently-needed medical treatment that they have denied him - treatment that they have promised time and time again without granting.
We will be calling for Congressional hearings into the events surrounding his conviction. And we will be demanding Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network (NWLPSN)
"I stand before you as a proud man; I feel no guilt! I have done nothing to feel guilty about! I have no regreats of being a Native American activist. Thousands of people in the U.S., Canada and around the world have and will continue to support me to expose the injustices that have occurred in this courtroom. I do feel pity for people that they must live under such an ugly system. Under your system, you are taught greed, racism and corruption - most serious of all, the destruction of Mother Earth. Under the Native American system, we are taught all people are Brothers and Sisters; to share the wealth with the poor and needy."
-- from Leonard Peltier's courtroom speech
"February 6, 1997 marked Leonard Peltier's 21st year in captivity. During these years, the keepers of the Iron Houses of Greed have subjected him to some of the most hideous treatment imaginable in an unsuccessful effort to break his will and spirit, yet his warrior heart remains strong and unyielding, serving as an inspiration to us all. Peltier is an innocent man. He has committed no crime. He is the victim of a system of injustice which operates outside the moral boundaries that just people claim to live by.
Leonard is a Prisoner of War being held captive in his own land by the descendants of the very sea pirates who murdered his great grandmothers and great grandfathers, decimated his People and stole Mother Earth out from under their feet."
-- Standing Deer
FREE LEONARD PELTIER NOW! SUPPORT TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY! FREE WOLVERINE NOW! HONOR MOTHER EARTH, THE PEOPLE AND THE FUTURE GENERATIONS!
NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK
P.O. Box 5464
Tacoma, WA 98415-0464
E-mail: bayou@blarg.net
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