[Seattle-editorial] FP: Peltier activities

[jonathan lawson]

Feb. 7: Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier

Anishinabe/Lakota community activist Leonard Peltier has now been 
incarcerated for 28 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.

<p>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. <br>On Thursday, Jan. 29, Peltier 
supporters will hold a <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/237853.shtml">teach-in from 
10am-1pm at Seattle Central Community College, featuring a screening of the 
documentary file "Warrior: the Life and Times of Leonard Peltier." Then on 
<a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/237853.shtml>Feb. 7</a>, 
NW supporters of Peltier will hold a <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/237853.shtml">March & Rally 
For Justice</a> in Tacoma. Featured speakers include Shelly Vendiola of the 
Indigenous Women's Network, Harold Belmont of the Native People's Alliance, 
and Lakota Elder Dorothy Ackerman.
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<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">
Subcommandante Marcos' letter to Peltier</a>