And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:52:29 PST
>From: KOLA International Campaign Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [FN] FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!!
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Brussels - Belgium
>Saturday, February 6, 1999
>
>3:00 to 4:00 pm
>U.S. Embassy
>
>15 KOLA members made a surprise "attack" on the U.S. Embassy
>in the capitol of Europe.
>The gates around the closed embassy were decorated with several
>huge banners, upside down American flags, posters of Leonard Peltier,
>and dozens of slogans on cardboard.
>
>The embassy security guards did not anticipate the action and were
>flabbergasted. After about five minutes, they started taking down the
>banners and put them on a heap. These banners were immediately
>re-captured by the activists and hung on the gates. This cat & mouse
>game lasted for about half an hour.
>
>Two activists threw the board and photographs into the embassy's
>garden where they ended up in the trees and on the grass. All face up,
>to our own astonishment.
>
>In the meantime, security had warned the metropolitan police and the
>federal gendarmes who arrived within five minutes. One of the activists
>was asked to give a statement about the purpose of the action. The
>statement lasted about 25 minutes because she explained the entire
>Peltier case from day 1...
>The police officer had to repeat every word on the phone to the
>commissioner at the police headquarters. Without losing his temper,
>the police officer translated every word from Dutch into French. After
>this, the commissioner gave the okay to put up the banners (again)
>and to leave the activists at the gates for another 15 extra minutes.
>
>The federal police did not need an explanation about who Leonard
>Peltier was, because the captain of the gendarmes had just wacthed
>a report on CNN about the worldwide actions. He convinced the
>embassy security that we were no terrorists, but human rights activists
>defending a "political prisoner" (his words, not ours ! - smile)
>
>More police arrived and the Peltier case was explained again. They
>told us to ask for a permit in the future. The banners were not confiscated.
>They also allowed us to take photographs, which is in fact never allowed
>
>at a federal building.
>
>Instead of a 15-minute blitz action, we remained at the embassy for nearly a
>full hour; and were even given a permit to demonstrate the rest of the day
>across the street. We decided not to stay because the ambassador nor any
>of the other embassy personnel was working today.
>
>The posters and boards remained in the embassy entrance garden; and will
>probably remain there until Monday morning. One photo of Leonard taken
>during the extradition 23 years ago, was given to the police so they would
>remember his name...
>
>FREE PELTIER!!!!
>
>
>Elsie, Christophe, Agnes, Anne, Dominique, Danny, Rosita and the
>kids, Myriam, Jean-Claude, and those four new people from the
>University of Ghent
>KOLA & LPSG Belgium
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