[Seattle-editorial] FP: Peltier activities

[Laury]

Just a suggestion -- lead with the local connection, follow with the 
historical context, and close with the event specifics, e.g.:

> Feb. 7: Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier

> Anishinabe/Lakota community activist Leonard 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.   <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.  Amnesty International 
> considers him a political prisoner who should be "immediately and 
> unconditionally released."

> 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.
> <p>
> <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>

IMHO, this minor change will broaden the appeal of the event.

-- Laury

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On Jan 27, 2004, at 9:25 PM, jonathan lawson wrote:

> 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.
> <p>
> <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>
>
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