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>Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:37:02 -0600
>From: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Peltier Conf. Registration form
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>Hello everyone! Here is how to register for the conference. We look
>forward to meeting you face to face. Attached to the bottom is the the
>Leonard Peltier Organizing Conference Article to pass out this Saturday.
>Big thanks to everyone for all of your work. Leonard sends his
>love.---LPDC staff
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>LEONARD PELTIER ORGANIZING CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
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>Name___________________________________________________________________
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>Phone______________________________email________________________________
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>Address__________________________________________________________________
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>CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE PER PERSON
>$25.00
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>LODGING
>Dorm rooms, camping, and hotel rooms are available. If you would like to
>reserve a hotel room you can call the LPDC to find out what is available.
>Camping will cost 5.00 a night and dorm rooms will cost 15.00 a night.
>Fill in the blanks below with the appropriate amounts and nights you will
>need lodging.
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>____Friday night
>____Saturday night
>____Sunday night
>____Total
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>FOOD
>All food will be provided by the Haskell Cafeteria and Food Not Bombs. If
>you choose to have your food provided, the cost will be 5.00 for Friday
>night, 15.00 for Saturday, and 15.00 for Sunday.
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>____Friday night
>____Saturday night
>____Sunday
>____Total
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>ORGANIZING KIT
>Organizing kits will be sold at cost during the conference. They will
>include a lobbying packet, a Leonard Peltier organizing hand book, one copy
>of the documentary, "Incident at Oglala," 20 news letters, The FBI files,
>10 buttons, 10 bumper stickers, and a Leonard Peltier Support Group Banner.
> This will cost 50.00. If you will be purchasing a kit let us know so we
>can order appropriately.
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>____ Yes I would like to purchase an organizing kit at the conference
>____ I would like to pre-pay for an organizing kit and will include 50.00
now.
>____ I will not be purchasing a kit.
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>TOTAL COST
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>25.00 Registration fee
>_____ lodging
>_____ food
>_____ pre-paid organizing kit
>_____ TOTAL-I have enclosed this amount with my registration form.
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>I am most interested in participating in a working group that will focus on:
>____direct action/demonstrations
>____lobbying and letter writing
>____fund-raising
>____media, writing, speaking and public outreach
>____on-campus organizing
>____legal research
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>Thank you! Make checks and $ orders payable to LPDC. Send to PO Box 583
>Lawrence, KS 66044
> You will receive verification of your registration for the conference by
>mail.
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>Leonard Peltier Organizing Conference
> June25-27,1999 in Lawrence, Kansas
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> June 26th, 1999 will be the twenty-fourth anniversary of the shoot out on
>the Pine Ridge Reservation which lead up to the illegal incarceration of
>Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier has been in prison now for twenty-three
>years and as he gets older, prison policies become more and more abusive
>making the time more difficult for him to do. His health is deteriorating
>and it is important now more than ever that we pull our forces together in
>unity and focus all of the support and love that exists for him into a
>massive collective effort to gain his freedom. The LPDC will be sponsoring
>the Leonard Peltier Organizing Conference on June 25, 26, and 27 at Haskell
>Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas in an effort to make this
>happen. The goal of the conference is to build a more effective support
>group network. With all of the people who have agreed to participate in
>panels, run work shops, and attend the conference putting their heads
>together to develop concrete strategies to gain freedom for Leonard
>Peltier, we are bound to develop a strong, successful campaign.
> The conference will open with traditional Lakota, David Chief and Oglala
>fire fight survivors, Jean Day, Jean Bordeaux Roach, and Edgar Bear Runner
>welcoming everyone to the conference.
> Panel discussion topics will include presentations on the legal status of
>Peltier's case, the international campaign to free Peltier, and Prison
>issues in general. Leonard's lawyers, Eric Seitz, Carl Nadler, Jennifer
>Harbury, and Ramsey Clark (invited) will be giving the presentation on the
>legal case which will be followed by a question and answer period.
>Sylvain Duez-Alesdrini, the European Peltier Support Group coordinator
>(tentative), Bobby Castillo, international spokesperson for Peltier, Noal
>Kleinman of Amnesty International (invited), and Lennox Hinds, human rights
>activist and lawyer for Nelson Mandela (tentative) will be giving the
>presentation on the status of the international campaign to free Peltier
>and its importance.
>A panel discussion on prison issues will happen in order to sensitize
>people to what Leonard and other prisoners are going through on a daily
>basis to create the sense of urgency needed to free Peltier. Ida Robinson,
>former political prisoner and advocate for prisoners with children, Helen
>Felix Baca, former Lakota prisoner and Peltier supporter, and Bobby
>Castillo, former Marion Control Unit prisoner who met Leonard in prison,
>will be giving this presentation.
> Jennifer Harbury, lawyer and renowned Latin American human rights
>activist, Ernie Stevens,Jr., president of the National Congress of American
>Indians, and Keith Jennings, president of the African American Human Rights
>Foundation, will be leading a workshop on lobbying for Leonard Peltier.
>They will speak on how to best lobby elected officials, NGO's, and tribal
>councils.
> There will also be a work shop on grass roots organizing that will be
>conducted by David Dellinger, co-defendant of the Chicago Eight and life
>long activist, CT Butler, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, Dr. Michael Yellow
>Bird, Professor of social welfare and First Nations activist, Debra
>Peebles, radio broadcaster and Native prisoner advocate, Arthur Miller,
>North West Leonard Peltier regional support group coordinator, and
>Dacajeweiah (Splitting the Sky also known as John Hill), ex-Attica
>Political Prisoner and defender of Gustafen Lake.
>Finally, there will be a workshop on strengthening the movement to free all
>political prisoners which will be lead by Sufiaya Bukari, Jericho
>spokesperson, Geronimo Ji Jaga, recently released Black Panther political
>prisoner (invited), Mary Dickinson, Jericho State Coordinator for Mondo we
>Langa and Ed Poindexter, Pam Africa, Friends and Family of Mumia Abu Jamal
>and MOVE member, Marcos Vilar, Defense Committee for Puerto Rican political
>prisoners and prisoners of war, Jamila Levi, companera of freedom fighter,
>Ray Luc Lavasseur, and Irma Muniz, wife of Raza political prisoner, Ramsey
>Muniz.
>Organizing materials will be prepared and sold at cost at the conference.
>This will include lobbying packets, the Leonard Peltier Support Group
>Handbook, a copy of "Incident at Oglala", a bundle of Spirit of Crazy Horse
>news letters, The FBI files, literature to copy, buttons, bumper stickers,
>T-shirts, and Leonard Peltier Support Group Banners.
>We will also be breaking into specific working groups where people can
>strategize, dialogue and plan to take responsibility for certain areas of
>Leonard's campaign. We hope that everyone will leave this conference with
>renewed inspiration and concrete ways to contribute to the campaign to free
>Leonard Peltier and all political prisoners.
>We are still at the early planning stages of this conference so your
>suggestions and input are welcome. You can help by organizing
>fund-raisers. We desperately need money to make this conference a success.
> You can also help by organizing buses and caravans from your areas to the
>conference. The more people to share expenses with the better! Haskell
>has both camping and dorm rooms available. Food will also be provided. We
>understand the financial difficulties many may have in coming to the
>conference and we are trying to make it affordable as possible. Plan to be
>in Kansas this June and register with the LPDC! Call, write, fax, or email
>the LPDC to get a registration form.
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>LEONARD PELTIER ORGANIZING CONFERENCE June 25, 26 and 27, 1999
>HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY - Lawrence, Kansas
>Haskell Indian Nations University is off 23rd Street three blocks east of
>Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas
>( 23rd Street is also Kansas Route 10 which intersects I-35 and I-435 west
>of Kansas City, MO )
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>LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE COMMITTEE
>PO Box 583 - Lawrence, KS 66044 - 785-842-5774 FAX 785-842-5796<
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