>From: "LPDC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Peltier Clemency Developments! >Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:14:34 -0600 >MORE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EFFORT TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER! > >Below: LPDC media update, telephone update, and comments made today by Rev. >Jesse Jackson and Congressman Ackerman. > >Dear friends, > >We are writing to update you on some MORE positive delevopments regarding >the Leonard Peltier clemency effort. The White House officially released a >statement last Monday reaffirming the President's commitment to deciding on >Leonard Peltier's clemency petition before leaving office. The release >prompted a media outburst. The story was covered by CNN, NPR, AP, the LA >Times, USA Today, the Washington Post and numerous other papers. > >We want to congratulate each of you for all of your phone calls, faxes, and >letters. We have made it through a critical period, the Thanksgiving >Holiday, without a denial and we are still going strong. Our advisors >suspect that the White House released the statement in order to test the >waters and find out what kind of reaction would ensue. > >Let's give the White House an overwhelming reaction of support for Leonard >Peltier's clemency! In our last urgent telephone action, we said we would >update you after December 1st. Since there has been no decision, it is >important to keep up and increase, the intensity of our calls. Please >continue the daily calls through December 1st and on through the month of >December. There is a good chance a decision will be made after the Freedom >Walk (December 10) and before the Christmas Holiday, so please hang in there >and keep up the great work! > >Wait! more good news. Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" has struck again. >Today she posed questions to both Rev. Jesse Jackson and Congressman >Ackerman. Here is what they said: > >Excerpts of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now interviews on Leonard Peltier >November 29, 2000 will air on November 30, 2000 >Comments of Reverend Jesse Jackson, NY Democratic Congressmember Gary >Ackerman > > >Amy Goodman: "Reverend Jackson, President Clinton says he's weighing >executive clemency for Leonard Peltier, what are your thoughts on that? " > >Jackson: "I hope that when he weighs it, he will free Peltier. He's been in >jail a very long time for a crime he never committed in the first place. I >hope that as an act of humanity that President Clinton will free Peltier." > >Goodman: "Will you talk to him about it?" > >Jackson: "I have." > >Goodman: And what has he said? > >Jackson: "He's weighing it." > > * * * > >New York Congressmember Gary Ackerman, ranking Democrat on Subcommittee on >the Western Hemisphere under the Committee on International Relations: > >Goodman: President Clinton says he's weighing executive clemency for Leonard >Peltier..." > >New York Congressmember Gary Ackerman: "I think he should review it. There's >no term limits on justice. Sometimes with the benefit of history and >hindsight, sometimes some of these cases should be reviewed. It appears that >he might have gotten a very bum rap based on the temperament of the times >and the fervor of the feds and the dislike for people who protest". > >--LPDC > > >Call the White House Comments Line Today >Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111 > >Be in New York City December 10th >Peltier Walk For Freedom! > > >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 > > > >This message was launched into cyberspace to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
