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Dear Leonard Peltier supporters,

Below is a press release that can be used for your local actions this Saturday the 19th. Also included is a list of cities organizing. If you are on the list and we do not have a contact and details for your demonstration, please contact us to give us that information. If you are not on the list, but should be, please contact us too. If you are organizing a protest for this Saturday please give us reports afterwards so that we can let everyone know how your event went. Thanks to everyone for your work.

In solidarity,
The LPDC staff

December 15, 1998
For immediate release:

On December 19th, 1998 cities internationally will be protesting the continued incarceration of Native American Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier. Many cities will be including Civil Disobedience as part of their protests. Locally there will be a protest at ____________________.

Why? Leonard Peltier applied for Executive Clemency in November of 1993. Millions have since signed petitions, written letters, and passed resolutions in support of his immediate release. The European Parliament, Jesse Jackson, fifty members of Congress, Amnesty International, the National Congress of American Indians, and The National Council of Churches are just a few examples of groups and individuals who have urged President Clinton to grant Executive Clemency to Peltier. Normally the review process for a clemency petition takes six to nine months, yet over the last five years supporters have received no response from the Clinton administration aside from a form letter stating that the petition is still under review. A prominent member of the Belgian Parliament recently wrote to President Clinton regarding Peltier's case and received no response at all. Meanwhile Peltier's health is deteriorating and his supporters are concerned for his life.

Peltier's case has come to symbolize injustice for all Native people. The government has conceded numerous times that they do not know who killed the agents or what involvement Peltier may have had in their deaths. They say that someone must pay. An investigation into the sixty murders of traditional people, AIM members, and supporters during the FBI backed "reign of terror" (1973-1976) on the Pine Ridge Reservation has never happened. To Native people this exemplifies America's continued attitude that Indigenous lives have no value, but when white lives, especially those of law enforcement officers, are lost someone must pay--innocent or guilty.

Peltier supporters will again be organizing acts of civil disobedience on February 6th which will mark 23 years since Peltier's conviction. This campaign will continue until the following actions are taken:

*Peltier is transferred to the Mayo clinic for proper medical treatment.

*Peltier is granted executive clemency.

*Congress investigates and exposes the Pine Ridge "reign of terror" and Peltier's illegal incarceration as a result.

FREE PELTIER-DECEMBER 19TH, 1998
The following locations are organizing protests:

B.C. Canada

Seattle, Washington-12:00 noon-Federal Court House
(Madison/5th) Phone: 206-325-0085

Taberg, NY
Tucson, AZ
Grantiville, PA
Cinncinatti, OH
Greenfield, MA

San Francisco, California, 10:00am UN Plaza near 7th
and Market St. Phone: 415-826-4127

Little Rock, AK
Atlanta, GA
Albuquerque, NM
Canton, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Hanover, NH
Portland, OR
Thorpe, PA
Wadsworth, OH
Elmwood Park, IL
Burlington, VT
Cornelius, NC
Detroit, MI
Westtown, PA
Reistertown, MD

Washington D.C. - Rally at FBI Bldg.
(9th+Pennsylvania NW) march to White House

Laurel, MD
Lincoln, NE
New York, NY - Theresa Phone: 718-934-5504 - Email: cessana@aol.com

Reno, Nevada
Boston, MA

Melbourne, Australia
10:00am at the American Consulate
553 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

Brussells, Belgium
Lansing, MI
Parkersburg, WV

Los Angeles, California
11:00am - South Coast Plaza Mall,
3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa

Gallup, New Mexico

Austin, Texas, South steps of the Capitol from 10am-2pm.

Kansas City, MO - Maurine Phone: 816-455-3014

Lawrence, KS - 3:30 at 9th and Mass contact the:
LPDC
P.O. Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
Phone: 785-842-5774
Email: lpdc@idir.net

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