FREE LEONARD PELTIER

Greetings relatives:

American Indian Movement leader and Indigenous Rights Activist, Leonard Peltier has been unjustly incarcerated for the past 31 years.

On Tuesday, February 6th, from 7:00pm – 9:00pm, the New York City Leonard Peltier Support Group invites you to an evening of music, history, spoken word, open mike & updates on his case.

Live music will be hosted by Native American activist and recording artist Wayquay for W.I.N.D. Running Mouth Radio. There will be a legal update by Peltier’s Attorneys and special guests from near and far as well as live radio interviews.

This will all take place at the International Action Center 55 W 17th St., 5th floor, NY , NY 10011 and you can call them at 1(212)633-6646 for more information.

If you are a drummer, musician, singer, or a poet and would like to dedicate a piece to Leonard Peltier you are welcome to attend and participate. There will be some light refreshments served, a live auction, and donations will be accepted at the door.

The late great Dr. Martin Luther King once stated, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The wrongful imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is a grave injustice and these 31 years of injustice are a threat to justice everywhere.

I hope you can attend this special event in solidarity. Let us show Leonard that we have not forgotten.

In the Spirit of our ancestors,
Oma’bahari (with respect),
Roberto Mucaro Borrero (Taino),
President and Chairman, UCTP
Regional Coordinating Office
http://www.uctp.org/

“Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams.
Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act.” – Leonard Peltier*

*For more information on Leonard Peltier visit http://leonardpeltier.net/

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther KIng

A Message from the Transform Columbus Day Alliance*

MLK and TCD: As we remember and honor The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today, I offer this quote from him for people to keep in mind as Colorado AIM and the Transform Columbus Day Alliance organize to oppose the Columbus Day parade this coming October, and ask allies to join us.

"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode."

--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.



*The United Confederation of Taino People proudly supports the Transform Columbus Day Alliance