[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: PELTIER MARCH

[Jason Reep]

also approve

Susan wrote:

> 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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