PLEASE take action for Leonard Peltier!! info on the following

[nofurylike]

thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6112362

and at the following link:

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/parole_hearing_072809.htm

LEONARD PELTIER PAROLE HEARING SET
JULY 28, 2009

Leonard Peltier's first full parole hearing was held in 1993, at which time his case was continued for a 15-year reconsideration. Mr. Peltier has recently applied for and been granted a parole hearing. The hearing is scheduled for July 28, 2009. All supporters are encouraged to step up their efforts in support of parole for Leonard Peltier.

Below is our suggested letter for you to send. It is critical that everyone write - no matter where you are in the world. Please invite others you know to write letters as well.

Thank you. Your voice has never been more important for Leonard than now. He needs you - your heart, your writing...

Pray or whatever your practice with the Creator is - for Leonard and freedom....the time has come, for our action, and his freedom.

The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee

**

(entire sample letter at the link)


Address to send your letter:

United States Parole Commission
5550 Friendship Blvd., Ste. 420
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7286

(Insert Date)

Re: LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132

Dear Commissioners,

I am writing in behalf of support for Parole for Leonard Peltier. While I am aware of the seriousness of the conviction, I am also aware that people have the ability to go forward out of the past and give to the larger society. I believe that is the case with Leonard Peltier.

I ask you to consider the humanitarian work he has done during his 33 years of incarceration. More than most people can ever do who are not locked up.

I ask you to consider his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for the 6th straight year. There are those who make light of this, but who else among us have had that honor.

He consistently donates his art work for charities such as battered women's shelters, halfway houses, alcohol and drug treatment programs, and Native American scholarship funds.

-snip-

Please grant parole.

Respectfully,

Your Name

***

thank you!!


peace and solidarity

[nofurylike]

1. wow. people can UNRECOMMEND action alerts?!!!! sick. eom

[uppityperson]

9. Some people think he deserves prison forever. I disagree, write and call for him

kick and rec for Leonard.

[Recursion]

13. Some people think he did kill those agents

As for myself, I've never understood why he and Mumia get so much support as compared to anybody else.

[nofurylike]

17. it is, simply, a fact that he did not. the courts acknowledge that.

and he and mumia get so much support because they deserve AT LEAST that much - as do countless others who, i agree, do not get the fair chance they deserve. thank goodness even any of the wronged just MIGHT!!!

thank you for posting, Recursion.


peace

[Recursion]

23. Well, no, that's not "simply a fact"

There is no court "acknowledgement" of that, and there's still quite a bit of evidence implicating him, plus there's the whole Aquash bit.

[uppityperson]

24. You think Peltier killed Anna Mae?

[Recursion]

25. I'd doubt that

But she did say she heard him confess, and she did wind up dead.

[nofurylike]

26. there is not one bit of evidence against him. that is a fact. period.

and this is from desmond tutu's letter on his behalf:

"...incarcerated for thirty-three years based upon what your own courts have admitted was fabricated evidence, both withheld, and then later discovered to be tampered with and questionable. These very courts have admitted that Leonard Peltier did not commit the murders of the FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1976."


if you have any decency, do the research to evaluate what you believe to be the facts. everyone deserves that. leonard peltier did not receive that until he'd already been railroaded by proven prosecutorial misconduct - but then, why didn't they set him free? do you care about that?

i will not be replying further to this. this is not the place to debate this out.

some other time or thread, maybe.

thank you for posting.

peace.

*edit for clarity

[Recursion]

27. The cartridge was ejected from the gun he had on him

The firing pin didn't match, but the stripper did.

[nofurylike]

28. no. that was admitted to be wrong, too. do the research from the

time since.

sorry. can't do this. please look again, but without vested interest in proving what you already believe. your view will be altered.


peace

[Recursion]

30. *cough*

please look again, but without vested interest in proving what you already believe.

Hmm... funny you should say that...

[nofurylike]

31. "funny," you say. you couldn't do it, though, could you? eom

[nofurylike]

16. thank you, uppityperson. very much. i know some see it that way,

but that is because they have not done the fact-finding one ought to do, especially before condemning another! and ignorance is a twisted enough reason for dumping on any thread. but to try to suppress an action alert???

very creepy to me.

thank you for acting!!


peace and solidarity

[nofurylike]

2. who of any decency would unrecommend this action alert? eom

[nofurylike]

3. laughing hysterically while crying. unbelievable....... eom

[nofurylike]

4. i don't exaclty like the tone of the sample letter - written as if he

had something to atone for - but i guess people figure that people on such boards expect people to say it that way.....


alas.

[nofurylike]

5. thank you so much to those who countered the unrec/s!! eom

[nofurylike]

6. i just learned letter needed to be by 7/14! PLEASE CALL A

message, instead!!

The White House comment line number is 202 - 456 - 1111.

PLEASE call and message that you are in support of parole for indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier.


thank you. i'm sorry i messed up on this!!

[nofurylike]

7. i'm sorry for the mislead. please call comments instead, to:

i just learned letters needed to be by 7/14. Please call a message, instead!!

or anything else from this site:
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/index1.htm

The White House comment line number is 202 - 456 - 1111.

PLEASE call and message that you are in support of parole for indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier.


thank you. i'm sorry i messed up on this!!


peace and solidarity

[nofurylike]

8. i wasn't aware of this in time. please do all you can!! thank you!!

peace and solidarity

[nofurylike]

10. please do any actions you possibly can!! thank you!! eom

[nofurylike]

11. there is a petition too!! :

http://www.freepeltiernow.org/welcome.htm

[nofurylike]

12. and more actions on this site:

http://www.freepeltiernow.org/welcome.htm

thank you for all you do!!

[midnight]

14. Amnesty International has called for Peltiers release.

He is considered a political prisoner, and it is believed that he should be immediately released. REC. this!

[nofurylike]

18. thank you so much for posting that, midnight! YES, immediately! eom

[yellerpup]

15. Kick and Recommend!

I already signed the petition from a link in the NA forum. People are ignorant. Free Leonard Now! This is why we need truth reported and not opinion.

[nofurylike]

19. yes "People are ignorant. Free Leonard Now!" thank you so

much for posting, yellerpup!

it is, absolutely, a crime by media that lies they have perpetuated, even perpetrated, have kept this great man in prison for thirty-three years.

doesn't it rob the breath out of you? me too.

:cry:

thank you, again.


peace and solidarity

[yellerpup]

22. Thank you for keeping it visible.

Good work keeping it visible, nofurylike. Vv, ni ka wo da de s gv na si ha. (Yes, I am breathless.)

[nofurylike]

29. humble thanks for your affirmation, yellerpup. it is the very least i

could do.

i could not do enough. and i will do more and keep doing more. how do we ever catch up?!?!?!!!
and conditions on pine ridge now......


"Vv, ni ka wo da de s gv na si ha."
mmmh


i just gasp. and weep.



gratitude.

solidarity, always.

[nofurylike]

20. thank you all so much for recommending this alert!!! eom

[nofurylike]

21. "and keep doing it until Leonard Peltier is FREE!" !!! from this site:

http://www.freepeltiernow.org/welcome.htm
there are actions listed there, too.

and Friends of Leonard Peltier Blog:
http://freepeltiernow.blogspot.com/


more actions tomorrow.


thank you for all you do!!


peace and solidarity!