From: "LPDC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:30:50 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Peltier Statement Democracy Now!
STATEMENT OF LEONARD PELTIER
IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY NOW AND THE PACIFICA CAMPAIGN
I cannot begin to express my outrage over the harassment of
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and the removal of Democracy Now from the
airwaves. It is my hope that this latest assault will be met with
overwhelming active resistance on the part of the thousands of people across
the country. I want to express my full support for Pacifica Campaign's call
for the resignation of the six board members whose hostility toward the
mission and tradition of Pacifica cannot be tolerated. I also want to
encourage you to withhold donations to the five Pacifica stations
participating in this censorship until the entire conflict is resolved.
I want to tell you why I feel so strongly about this. As you
all know, the majority of the media in this country act as mouthpieces for
the government instead of the watchdogs we are taught they are. This has
been clearly illustrated to me in my case. Over the 25-year span of my
imprisonment, my defense team has had to fight for every ounce of media
attention we have received. And when we do receive it, rarely are the facts
of my case reported. A reporter can have in his hand court records with
quote after quote of the U.S. Prosecutor stating that he can't prove who
shot the agents but then describe me as a murderer in his story simply
because the courts have not overturned my conviction. During the height of
the clemency campaign, we finally received national press but only because
500 FBI agents marched in front of the White House to oppose my release.
Just one week before 3,500 Indigenous Peoples and supporters marched to the
U.N. but, of course, not a peep from the press -- with the exception, of
course, of Democracy Now, WBAI, and other progressive reporters.
When we live in a society where the media is in such a
compromised state, shows like Democracy Now and networks like Pacifica are
not only valuable but they are our life lines, especially for the hundreds
of thousands of us locked behind prison walls where information is even more
difficult to access.
I personally rely on Democracy Now as my main source of
information. Each day it helps me to stay informed and to remember that all
of you are still out there caring about the kinds of issues that Democracy
Now reports and struggling for government accountability, human rights, and
social change. Let's follow in the footsteps of the KPFA victory and refuse
to allow the corporate takeover of the country's most valuable network and
radio show.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier
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