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* Forwarded for your edification from INDIAN_AFFAIRS
* From : John Walter, 1:167/502
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*Please Read ! * (Excuse length, it's justified) * Please Read ! *
Urgent news about Leonard !!!! .......the process to get Bill Clinton to
grant Leonard an Executive Clemency setting him free has already started,
with a recommendation to grant him that clemency having been given the White
House by the Deputy-Attorney-General. All who ever hoped for Leonard's
freedom are asked to *please!* put the thought to action, now like never
before!
Please take the few minutes from your life it will take to write to
Bill Clinton and/or Janet Reno and declare your support for the granting of
clemency. A stamp is a few cents and the addresses of both the president and
the attorney-general are available with a local call to US govt offices in
your locality, so it wouldn't cost most of us any long distance charges.
Leonard's Defense Committees and 30,000,000 supporters around the
globe are requested to write *and mail* those letter now. Snail-mail makes a
bigger impact than e-mail, (which also requires trigger-words before getting
through the auto-reply filters at the proverbial presidential monitor.
"Leonard Peltier" and "Executive Clemency" may not be on the hot-file of the
day list.)
Many members of the US upper & lower houses of govt are taking tough
(but sometimes thoughtless) stances on "crime" with their re-elections in
mind. The administration needs their support on other issues and the denial
of Leonard's clemency could become a bargaining chip in the ongoing game
between the administration & the rightwing on some other issue. So all are
asked to let the administration know that you support his granting clemency
to Leonard Peltier.
We are asked to please not rant or threaten, but firmly mention your support
for the extension of Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier. (For any reader
unfamiliar with the case I can send a short fact-sheet & book referral on
request.)
You can also mention that Leonard was listed as a Prisoner of
Conscience by Amnesty International, and petitions of over 30,000,000
supporters worldwide have been sent to the US govt supporting his freedom,
and more and more legitimate politicians and govts around the world have
added their support.
It is our turn to do something for him. Whether you agree with him or
not should not matter; no one than was alive before AIM and saw the avalanche
of pride and straighter backs that swept the Nations, some almost gone, can
deny the impact that AIM had when it tapped mainstream society on the
shoulder. He has not broken, knowing he is standing as inspiration to
thousands, but he is getting worn by the concrete & the pain inside the walls
and the wire. Since his stroke his vision is almost gone in one eye, and the
brutal inner destruction of doing 'hard-time', coupled with yet another
appeal denial a few mths ago has 'bent his back'.
Leonard has served over 18 yrs in the tightest, toughest maximum security
prisons in the USA, for a crime he did not commit. Please, give just 18
minutes of your life and write and mail those two short letters that could
bring him home to his family.
Many, many thanks...
Forwarded message:
| From: Jacob.Eagle.Eyes@f263.n3603.z1.fidonet.org (Jacob Eagle Eyes)
| Date: 03 May 94 00:54:03 -0800
| Subject: Slight correction re Leonard
| Organization: Helix: FidoNet<>Internet - Seattle (206)783-6368
| To: pnews.d@world.std.com
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* Forwarded for youe edification from INDIAN_AFFAIRS
* From : John Walter, 1:167/502
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*Correction* to the msg re the letter writing campaign for Leonard Peltier.
A phone call to get more info revealed the fact that the Deputy
Attorney-General has not yet recommended that the President grant Executive
Clemency to Leonard, but a "Pardon Attorney" has made that recommendation to
the Deputy Attotney-General. Other than that the msg stands as is. For those
who want to e-mail and access Internet: Internet address;
Clinton@whitehouse.gov
Here are the addresses and voice & FAX no's:
President Clinton The Honorable Jamie S. Gorelick
The White House Deputy Attorney General
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 10th St. & Constitution Ave N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500 Washington, D.C. 20530
phone: (202) 456-1111 phone: (202) 514-2101
fax: (202) 456-2461 fax: (202) 514-4699
For more details contact
Bobby Castillo, International Spokesperson for Leonard Peltier; at California
AIM 415-552-1992
Renee DeGrasse, Executive Director, AIM Support Group 804-790-0166 Leonard
Peltier Defense Committee (USA) 913-842-5774
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (Canada) 416-439-1893
+ Origin: Igloo Station (514) 632-5556 (1:167/502)
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Stuart Russell Stuart@uriah.law.mq.edu.au
School of Law fax (61)(2) 850-7686
Macquarie University tel (61)(2) 850-7861
North Ryde N.S.W. 2109
AUSTRALIA "Ce n'est qu'un debut!"
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