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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

18TH ANNUAL NW REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER -- Tacoma, Sat. Feb. 8

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist. -- Sitting Bull

18TH ANNUAL NW REGIONAL
INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER

FEBRUARY 8, 2014, 12 NOON, TACOMA, WA

12:00 NOON: MARCH FOR JUSTICE Portland Ave. Park (on Portland Ave. between E. 35th & E. Fairbanks. Take Portland Ave. exit off I-5 and head east)

1:00 PM: RALLY FOR JUSTICE U.S. Federal Court House, 1717-Pacific Ave.

FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE: Please invite your friends. https://www.facebook.com/events/458124807625652/

SEATTLE CAR POOL & OLYMPIA BUS AND CAR POOL FOR FEB. 8TH NW LEONARD PELTIER MARCH
The Seattle Car Pool will leave the Red Apple parking lot (23rd & Jackson) at 10:30am.
Olympia: A bus and cars will leave from Grocery Outlet Parking Lot on Harrison Ave. near Division on the Westside of Olympia at 11 A.M. this Saturday and return to Olympia after the march and rally. It will also stop to pick up people at Media Island, 816 Adams after leaving Grocery Outlet Parking Lot.

Speakers
Matilaja: Yu’Pik: Eskimo from Mountain Village Alaska. Member of N.W. AIM since 1973, Friend of Leonard Peltier for 40 odd years and member of Tacoma Chapter LPDOC
Ramona Bennett: Puyallup Tribal Elder, Life long friend of Leonard Peltier, Grand Mother, Great Grand Mother
Chauncy Peltier: Leonard Peltier's son
David Bean: Puyallup Tribal Council Member and child of the movement (mother Gloria Bean)
Olivia One Feather: Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux member, Native and Idle No More activist
Deeahop Conway, Puyallup Tribal member, Tacoma Chapter LPDOC
James OldCoyote: Sacred Water Canoe Family
Jimbo Simmons: AIM West
Peter Bohmer: long-term activist, member of Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, and faculty at the Evergreen State College
Wakinyan Waanatan (Matt Remle): Hunkpapa Lakota. Last Real Indians
Father Bill Bichsel: Jesuit Priest, Catholic Worker Movement
Gary Wessels-Galbreath: Host View From The Shore on KAOS Radio.
Steve Hapy: Long time Leonard Peltier and Native struggles activist, Tacoma Chapter LPDOC
Arthur J. Miller: Northwest Regional Organizer LPDOC

COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
  Our work for freedom for Leonard Peltier has always been a grassroots struggle involving many different community activists. Each NW regional march and rally in Tacoma is the direct efforts of the Tacoma Chapter LPDOC and Leonard Peltier supporters throughout our region. This up-coming regional march will be the 18th held in Tacoma. COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, we really need your help this time.
  The awareness of Leonard's case has grown in the NW, as have our events grown also. But members of our group have grown old, poor and in bad health. We are not able to do all that we once were able to. But we cannot back down now. Important support for Leonard has in recent times increased greatly. Thousands upon thousands of phone calls, e-mails, petitions and letters have gone to the White House, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) unanimously passed a resolution in support of freedom for Leonard Peltier, the great concert for Leonard hosted by Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte, the renewed campaign for Leonard by Amnesty International and much more. We here in the NW do our part by organizing marches for Leonard out in the pubic.
  We need your help getting the word out for the up-coming march on Feb. 8th. Please forward this statement to to others, groups and organizations.  Please share and like our appeals on facebook, please down load our fliers and get them out, please go to our facebook events page and sign-on if you can go and please invite your friends.
  Together we have made the NW and Tacoma known across the land as a strong region of Leonard support, as people have watched videos of our events or heard about them. We need to continue in that spirit and tradition and build the best possible march as possible. With your help that can be done. Thank you.
Leonard Peltier (of the Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations), long time Native Activist and member of the American Indian Movement. Leonard Peltier, an innocent man who was convicted for the 1975 shooting deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. U.S. prosecutors have repeatedly admitted that they did not and cannot prove Peltier's guilt, and the appellate courts have cited numerous instances of investigative and prosecutorial misconduct in this case. As late as November 2003, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that "…Much of the government’s behavior at the Pine Ridge Reservation and its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not disputed." The trial of the first two AIM members in this case were found not guilty for reason of self-defense. Amesty International has renewed their campaign to free Leonard. For more information go to: www.whoisleonardpeltier.info.

“I have no doubt whatsoever that the real motivation behind both Wounded Knee II and the Oglala firefight, and much of the turmoil throughout Indian Country since the early 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, Prison Writings –

Please call and or send e-mails in support of clemency for Leonard Peltier:
White House Comments Line - 202-456-1111; 202-456-1112
E-mail:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Message: I support clemency for Leonard Peltier 

    It is important to keep phone calls, e-mails, and letters going to the White House during the clemency campaign.



Tacoma Chapter LPDOC,
P.O. BOX 5464
Tacoma, WA 98415-0464
e-mail: bayou@blarg.net 
on facebook at: http://facebook.com/tacoma.lpdoc  
Subscribe to: Northwest Peltier Support at: nwpeltiersupport-subscribe@lists.riseup.net  
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