And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:07:11 -0600 >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) >To: Freedom Heart Rising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Freedom Heart Rising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Please keep sending letters - they are working! LEONARD: LPDC > News: > > >LETTERS TO CLINTON URGENTY NEEDED > >Our letters are really working. We are getting complaint calls about the >amount mail, faxes and phone calls that are coming in about Leonard's case. > Today the Canadian Embassy called because of all the mail and faxes. The >Canadian Justice Minister Anne Mc Clellan's office also reported that they >are getting flooded with mail. Ms. Kathleen Hawk Director, Bureau of >Prisons and Warden Booker have also been telling people that they are >getting overwhelmed by the correspondence on behalf of Leonard Peltier. >Please keep writing. At this time letters and faxes to President Bill >Clinton and his assistant in charge of Executive Clemency Charles Ruff are >URGENTLY needed. Please ask your friends, family and associates to take >this time to make it a priority to contact the President and urge him to >Grant Executive Clemency. Organize a letter writing party. A number of >prominent Democrats believe that this is the most likely time for Clinton >to grant Clemency. Now that the Impeachment Hearings are over we have been >told that we must step up the pressure during the next few weeks. > >SAMPLE LETTER TO CLINTON > >The Honorable President William Jefferson Clinton >1600 Pennsylvania Avenue >Washington, DC 20500 >Phone 202-456-1414 >Fax 202-456-2461 > >Dear Mr. President Clinton, > >I am writing to say how relieved I am that the Impeachment Hearings are >over. Now that that terrible ordeal has passed, please grant Native >American activist Leonard Peltier Executive Clemency. I know you must share >my concern for an innocent person such as Mr. Peltier, who is suffering >life in prison for a crime he did not commit. Leonard Peltier has been >incarcerated now for twenty-three years despite the fact that the >government has conceded on numerous occasions that they do not know who is >responsible for the deaths of the agents or what part Leonard Peltier may >have had in them. I am adding my voice to those who have been requesting >that you free Leonard Peltier. > >While the Impeachment hearings were consuming much of your time many >international Human Rights organizations have urged you to look into the >case of Leonard Peltier. On February 11, 1999 the European Parliament >passed a resolution (B4-0169,0175,0179 and 0199/99) insisting that you >grant Mr. Peltier Executive Clemency. Amnesty International also urged you >to review the case of Leonard Peltier as part of it's campaign against >human rights violations committed by the United States. This December >Leonard's case was featured at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the >Universal Declaration on Human Rights in Paris. Now that the Impeachment >Hearings are over I know that you will listen to the many millions of >people who are asking you to free Mr. Peltier. >. >I strongly urge you to do the right thing and grant executive clemency to >Leonard Peltier. Millions of people internationally know the case of >Leonard Peltier and what it symbolizes and millions upon millions more >continue to learn about it. If you listen to our valid demands for justice, >you will be remembered by millions for a gracious act, which you will go >down in history for. Please listen to all of us who are asking you to free >Leonard Peltier. > >Leonard is suffering from severe health conditions. He filed for executive >clemency five years ago. Please do not send me a form letter stating that >his petition is still under review by the justice department. Instead, >please look into this case and take immediate action. Thank you. >Sincerely,… > > > >CLEMENCY: >President Bill Clinton >1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW >Washington DC 20500 >202-456-1111 > >cc your clemency letters to: >US Pardon Attorney >Roger C Adams >500 First Street NW Suite 400 >Ref: Leonard Peltier #89637-132 >Washington DC 20530 >202-616-6070 > >Charles Ruff >G1 >725 17th St. NW >Washington DC 20503 > >HEALTH >Ms. Kathleen Hawk >Director, Bureau of Prisons >320 First St. NW >Washington, DC 20534 >Fax: (202) 514-6878 >Phn: (202)307-3198 > >Warden Booker >Leavenworth Federal Prison >Box 1000 >Leavenworth, KS 66048 > >Please release the EXTRADITION REPORT >The Honorable Anne Mc Clellan, Member of Parliament >Minister of Justice >The House of Commons >Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A6 >(613)992-4524 >fax (613) 996-4516 > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&