[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: PELTIER MARCH

[Susan]

excellent -- approve!

At 11:14 AM 2/1/03, jonathan lawson wrote:
>Subtitle: FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE
>Title: Tacoma Peltier Supporters Denied Permit
>
>The City of Tacoma has reportedly blocked a permit to the Tacoma Leonard 
>Peltier Support Group for a planned Feb. 8 march and rally seeking justice 
>for Peltier</b>. The native rights group has held the event annually for 
>ten years, marching on sidewalks Anticipating a larger turnout this year, 
>organizers requested a permit. According to a statement from one 
>organizer, Tacoma Police told the group that they would be denied a permit 
><a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21953">unless 
>they could pay for additional police deployment</a>. The march will take 
>place in any event, leaving Tacoma's <b>Portland Ave. Park at noon Feb. 
>8</b>, followed by a <b>1pm rally at the  Federal Courthouse</b> on 
>Pacific Ave.
>
><p>Anishinabe/Lakota community activist Leonard Peltier has now been 
>incarcerated for 27 years,  for a crime many agree he did not commit. 
>Amnesty International considers him a political prisoner  who should be 
>"immediately and unconditionally released."  Events leading to <a 
>href="http://www.freepeltier.org/peltier_faq.htm">Peltier's 1975 
>arrest</a>  for the murder of two FBI agents took place in the context of 
>the FBI's <a 
>href="http://www.dickshovel.com/covertwar.html">COINTELPRO-style 
>campaign</a> to suppress native rights activism at the Oglala Lakota Pine 
>Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Peltier spent the latter part of the 
>1960s living in Seattle; his activist work here included helping to found 
>a Native halfway house for ex-prisoners, alcohol counseling, and protests 
>concerning the preservation of Native land within the city.
>
><p><a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21953">Tacoma 
>march info</a> | <a href="http://www.aimovement.org/">American Indian 
>Movement</a> <a href="http://www.freepeltier.org">Peltier Defense 
>Committee</a> | <a href=" 
>http://ishgooda.nativeweb.org/peltier/clemency.htm">Peltier and Clemency</a> |
><a href="http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/chiapas-l/1999.11/msg00132.html"> 
>Subcomandante Marcos' letter to Peltier</a> | <a 
>href="http://www.permitthis.org</a>Permit This!</a>
>
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