>From: "LPDC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Sample Press Release For Feb 6th-Peltier Arrest > >Dear Peltier Supporters, >Below is a sample press release which you can send out to your local media >sources for February 6 activities. Here at the office we are gearing up for >a visit from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Rigoberta Menchu Tum who will be >lobbying in DC and visiting Leonard in prison this February. We have gotten >some clues that there is activity around the clemency petition at the White >House happening, so please keep up the calls to the Clinton Comment Line and >Reno, because you are having an effect! Monday, February 7 will be a >National/International call in day. Flood the White House Comments line >with calls to let Clinton know that we don't want to commemorate another >anniversary of Leonard Peltier's arrest, set him free now! Thanks! >---LPDC > >Release Date: February 6, 2000 > >February 6, 2000 Marks Leonard Peltier�s 24th Year In Prison >Supporters Gear Up For an Upcoming Parole Hearing and A Last Chance At >Clemency > > >Contact: >(Add local contact info here if applicable) > >The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee 785-842-5774 > >Exactly 24 years ago today, a Native American man was arrested in Alberta, >Canada for the murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Lakota >Reservation in South Dakota. Soon afterward, this man would be extradited >from Canada to the United States with the use of falsified affidavits >setting the scene for what would become one of the most controversial and >well known trials of the 20th century. February 6, 2000 marks Leonard >Peltier�s 24th year in prison for a crime that millions believe he in fact >did not commit. The case of Leonard Peltier has already become an important >element of modern Native American history in a country whose treatment of >Native peoples remains a blight on its claim to an immaculate human rights >record. > >Today people are gathered across the country and around the world to >strategize ways to mount additional pressure on President Clinton, Attorney >General Janet Reno, the United States Congress, and the United States Parole >Commission to grant Mr. Peltier�s release from prison. Mr. Peltier will be >reviewed for parole May of this year and has a pending Clemency Petition >with President Clinton. Locally, (your details can be added here) > >Many are wondering what is causing this recent rush of support for Mr. >Peltier�s freedom to be renewed. Some say it is the wave of criticism the >FBI has received for their handling of Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Geronimo Ji >Jaga (Pratt) case, all of which have shed considerable light upon the FBI�s >potential for severe abuse of power. Others say it is a result of the >several prestigious human rights groups, human rights advocates, and Native >organizations such as Amnesty International, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, >the National Congress of American Indians, and the Assembly of First Nations >who have recently taken stronger positions on the case and in doing so have >increased their activities in support of Mr. Peltier�s release. Some also >point to the deterioration of Mr. Peltier�s health as a reason for the >urgency in winning his freedom. > >No matter what the cause may be, the FBI has certainly not taken this new >wave of support lightly. The FBI Agents Association and the Society of >Former Special Agents of the FBI have gone to great lengths to counter these >efforts by purchasing expensive newspaper and radio ads giving emotional >accounts of the FBI agents� deaths and referring to Mr. Peltier as a cold >blooded murderer and a thug. > >What the FBI refuses to talk about is that in fact, their own legal council >has established on record that they cannot prove who killed the agents or >what involvement Mr. Peltier may have had in their deaths. In 1985, after >being faced with previously withheld evidence on appeal casting serious >doubt on Mr. Peltier�s guilt, the US prosecutor in the case admitted for the >first time that he could not prove who killed the agents. The judge who >dismissed this appeal on a technicality, would later write a statement >advocating for Mr. Peltier�s release through a presidential grant of >Executive Clemency. Yet, years later, Mr. Peltier remains in prison. Will >Mr. Peltier live the rest of his life in prison, a historical symbol and >martyr of the ongoing injustice against Native Peoples? Or, will President >Clinton take the monumental step of freeing Leonard Peltier, beginning a new >chapter between the US government and Native Americans at the beginning of >this new millenium? > > >Call the White House Comments Line Today >Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111 > >Leonard Peltier Defense Committee >PO Box 583 >Lawrence, KS 66044 >785-842-5774 >www.freepeltier.org >To subscribe, send a blank message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To change your email address, send a message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with your old address in the Subject line > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >To subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change your email address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with your old address in the Subject: line > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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