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From: "LPDC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: For immediate release
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:31:54 -0500
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Dear Leonard Peltier Supporters,
Below is a press release for the Leonard Peltier Organizing Conference.
Please fax and email it to your local media contacts.
Also, we have now received our first shipment of Leonard's new book, PRISON
WRITINGS, MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE edited by Harvey Arden. If you order the
book through the LPDC, half of the money will be used toward Leonard's
defense. Order now!!! Thank you.
----LPDC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JUNE 14, 1999
International Organizing Conference on Behalf of
Native American Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier
June 25, 26, and 27 Haskell Indian Nations University
Contact: The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Gina Chiala or Bobby
Castillo
Phone: (785) 842-5774
Fax: (785) 842-5796
Press Conference:
Location: Haskell Indian Nations University, in front of the Auditorium
Date: Friday, June 25
Time: 5:00 PM (As Freedom Runners Arrive)
Interviews with Panelists:
Interviews with panelists can be arranged at the press conference or by
calling the LPDC office
Human Rights workers, grass roots activists, lawyers, lobbyists, and
educators from across the U.S. and around the world will be attending,
speaking, and facilitating the Leonard Peltier Organizing Conference
sponsored by the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee June 25, 26, and 27 at
Haskell Indian Nations University. The goal of the conference is to unite
and focus the mounting support to gain proper medical treatment and freedom
for Native American Federal Prisoner, Leonard Peltier. Peltier is deemed to
be a political prisoner by Amnesty International who is calling for his
“immediate and unconditional release.” Many people such as renowned Human
Rights activist and lawyer, Jennifer Harbury, legal counsel for Nelson
Mandela, Lennox Hinds, recently released political prisoner, Geronimo Ji
Jaga Pratt, and former South African Political Prisoner, Dennis Brutus have
recently joined the campaign. Additionally, survivors of the infamous
1973-1976 “reign of terror” in which over sixty Indigenous People from the
Pine Ridge Lakota Nation in South Dakota were murdered, have recently
rejoined the campaign to speak out about the political climate and shoot out
which lead to Mr. Peltier’s incarceration.
As a show of solidarity with the Leonard Peltier Organizing Conference, a
600 mile Run For Freedom will start in Covington Kentucky on June 21st and
will arrive at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas on
Friday June 25. Such runs were traditionally done by Indigenous Peoples to
carry messages from one village to another. Today such runs are similarly
used by Native Americans to raise awareness about issues facing their
communities. Runners from Japan, Europe and Australia will be joining the
run as well. The runners are scheduled to arrive at Haskell University at
5:00 PM on Friday evening. A press conference will be held at this time.
Interviews with panelists can be prearranged by the LPDC.
The registration fee for the three day conference, which is open to the
public, is twenty-five dollars. The conference will open on Friday evening
with a prayer by Lakota Spiritual Leader, David Chief and cultural
presentation by Oglala survivors and Peltier’s grandchildren as well as a
reading from Peltier's recently released book, PRISON WRITINGS, MY LIFE IS
MY SUNDANCE and will be followed by panel discussions on Saturday and
strategy work shops on Sunday.
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
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