And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please post widely From: THE NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK TACOMA OFFICE P.O. BOX 5464 TACOMA, WA 98415-0464 5TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER AND FIRST NATIONS MARCH AND RALLY/ U.S./CANADIAN BORDER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1999 MARCH STARTING POINT: 12:00 NOON, BLAINE PARK, (CORNER OF BLAINE & ALDER) BLAINE, WASHINGTON RALLY: 1:00 P.M. PEACE ARCH PARK, U.S./CANADIAN BORDER STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Our annual gathering at the U.S./Canadain Border on International Indigenous People's Day is a coming together of activists and supporters from both sides of the border as an expression of solidarity and honoring the international Indigenous People's struggles. It is a statement that the border placed upon the land does not divide us. We have been told to respect this day and we do so organizing a respectful event that is suitable for Elders, children and people of all ages. We welcome the involvement of all people of all communities in the spirit of solidarity, honoring and respect. THE RUN FOR JUSTICE: For the last two years young people have held a Run For Justice as part of our Indigenous People's Day This year we hope to include many more young people in this run. The run will begin on the morning of Oct. 10th at 9 am and met up with the Indigenous People's Day March in which the runners will led the march. We have a place for runners to stay on the evening of the 9th on Lummi Land. All runners are welcome. To signup for the run and if you need a place to stay on the 9th please contact: bayou@blarg. CARPOOL FROM SEATTLE TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY MARCH AND RALLY. The Seattle carpool will be meeting at 9am on the 10th at 23rd & Jackson, Promenade Plaza parking lot. For more information contact SLPSG at 206-325-0085. Any who need rides are welcome. And who have cars are needed. FOR PEOPLE COMING FROM OUT OF STATE THAT NEED A PLACE TO STAY ON OCT. 9TH PLEASE CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY POTLUCK. After the rally at the border we hope to have a potluck meal which would include an open mike for people to express their views of the day through speaking and music. Though the NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK is sponsoring the organizing of this annual event, all individuals, organizations and groups that support this important weekend are encouraged to help in anyway that they can. 1. For information and suggestions on speakers and performers contact NWLPSN Advisor Susan Morales at: (253) 627-8435 (home phone evenings), pager with voice mail 253-593-9631, e-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. For donations, or to be placed on the NWLPSN mailing list or e-mail list contract NWLPSN Secretary-Treasurer Carol Reed, 5201 Capitol Blvd P.M.B. 119, Tumwater, WA 98501, (360) 943-3274, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. For fliers, posters, articles, and logistically organizing contact NWLPSN Coordinator Arthur J. Miller, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415-0464, (253) 383-9108, e-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] NWLPSN WEB SITE http://members.aol.com/TurquoisWm/JusticeforLeonardPeltier.html The struggles of Indigenous People, though often over looked by many, should be of concern to all those that believe in social justice. For within these struggle will be found direct connections to all other social concerns, human rights, environmentalism,anti-racism, peace and the struggle against global domination of multi-national corporations. The following piece out of Leonard's Peltiers new book "Prison Writings; My Life Is My Sun Dance" describes what was behind the events that happen on Pine Ridge and why he is in prison. "Since that time, the uranium mining opposed at such high cost in the early 1970s has proceeded insidiously. Lakota people today drink contaminated water and experience a rate of miscarriage and spontaneous abortion seven times the national average. Our sacred Black Hills, according to the master plan, were to have been declared a "national sacrifice area"--ultimately, were the plan to proceed, to be ringed by more than a dozen giant coal-fired plants and twenty-five nuclear reactors. A cat's-cradle grid of power lines was to be flung across the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in order to carry the power eastward. Court challenges to the horrendous environmental impact this nuclear monstrosity would inevitably cause have blessedly slowed the enactment of the plan; so has the drop in uranium prices caused by the end of the Cold War; but when the uranium market starts moving up again, watch out. The energy interests are simply biding their time for the most profitable moment to begin yet again. The death of a people and a way of life, not to mention the death of the land itself, never enters into the considerations of those who would foist this abomination on the Lakota People--and on the people of America as well. That's why the FBIs would come down on us so hard, because AIM and the traditional Elders were the only ones who stood in their way. Everyone else either didn't know, didn't care, or had sold out. I have no doubt whatsoever that the real motivation behind both Wounded Kneee II and the Oglala firefight, and much of the turmoil throughout Indian Country since the eary 1970s, was--and is--the mining companies' desire to muffle AIM and all traditional Indian people, who sought--and still seek--to protect the land, water, and air from their thefts and depredations. In this sad and tragic age we live in, to come to the defense of Mother Earth is to be branded a criminal." Leonard Peltier Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&