Leonard Peltier & Mumia Abu- Jamal Update
***Leonard Peltier Fast/Hunger Strike Update***
2/10/99
Due to the amount of letters and emails that have been written daily since the start of the Leonard Peltier Solidarity Action, which began on Sat. Feb. 6th aknowledgements have been made by Kathleen Hawk, Bureau of Prisons Director. Just yesterday
we recieved word that they have been flooded with emails, letters, and phone calls from around the world. A profound effect is being made, but the letters, emails, and support for the proper medical treatment for Peltier must keep on being sent!!! We can't let up now!! We need to intensify the action and spread the word so that the BOP continues to be heckeled w/ urgent action letters.
If you are interested in joining the fast/hunger strike or would like to help out w/ the email campaign email me Smashgovt@aol.com or the Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network bayou@blarg.net
THE TIME IS CRUCIAL. PLEASE ACT NOW!!!
END THE TORTURE OF LEONARD PELTIER NOW!
THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE STATEMENT
Whereas, the medical condition of American Indian Movement activist
and political prisoner Leonard Peltier is severe and could become
potentially life threating, the repeated denials by the federal prison
system, for two and a half years, of the necessary medical treatment
offered by the Mayo Clinic is nothing other than politically motivated
torture. Leonard Peltier has been, and is, living daily in excrutiating
pain. The U.S. Government should be held accountable for this act of
torture. Should Leonard Peltier's condition become critical, the denial
of medical treatment offered for free by the Mayo Clinic should be
viewed as an act of attempted murder.
Therefore, THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER
STRIKE will begin on February 6th, and has the purpose of calling
attention to and helping to mobilize support to end the torture of
Leonard Peltier. This campaign will continue until Leonard is undergoing
treatment in the Mayo Clinic.
Upon February 6th, we are asking those who can to join us on this
hunger strike. Each day of the fast two different fasters will issue a
statement, one in the morning and one in the evening, in their own
words calling for the end of the torture. We are also asking people
who support this campaign to help widely distribute these statements.
Furthermore, we are asking that supporters on each day of the hunger
strike e-mail messages to: Ms. Kathleen Hawk, Director, Bureau Of
Prisons at: swolfson@bop.gov, asking that Leonard be allowed medical
treatment at the Mayo Clinic. We are also asking supporters to take
whatever positive local actions will advance this campaign.
In The Spirit Of Crazy
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FASTERS SIGN-UP
Organizational affiliation, tribe, profession, city, state, country,
Means of contact (e-mail or street or P.O. Box address)
Support person for faster (name and means of contact)
FOR THOSE NOT FASTING BUT WHO CAN HELP SPREAD THE
STATEMENTS OF THE FASTERS AND HELP WITH THE E-MAIL
CAMPAIGN
Name____________________________________________________
Means of contact___________________________________________
Please return this to: the NWLPSN at; bayou@blarg.net
(from the NORTHWEST LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK)
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