Submitted on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:04am

Whereas the Industrial Workers of the World and the General Defense Committee have long supported Leonard Peltier in his bid for clemency;



Be it resolved that the General Defense Committee renew its call for IWW and GDC members to ask for clemency for Leonard Peltier and support actions to this end, including the May 21st Regional Leonard Peltier March in Tacoma, Washington, United States.

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist. -- Sitting Bull

REGIONAL MARCH AND RALLY FOR CLEMENCY FOR LEONARD PELTIER

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2011, TACOMA, WA.

12:00 NOON: MARCH FOR JUSTICE Portland Ave. Park (on Portland Ave. between E. 35th & E. Fairbanks. Take Portland Ave. exit off I-5 and head east)

1:00 PM: RALLY FOR JUSTICE U.S. Federal Court House, 1717-Pacific Ave.

SPEAKERS:

Co-MCs Matilaja: Yu’Pik/Yakama, Tacoma Chapter LPDOC

Steve Hapy: Tacoma Chapter LPDOC

Drum

Albert Combs: Coastal Salish drum song

Keynote Speaker: Ramona Bennett: Puyallup Tribal Member, Long time Native Activist

Dorothy Ackerman: Lakota Elder

Chauncey Peltier: Son of Leonard Peltier

Deeahop Conway, Tacoma Chapter LPDOC

Peter Bohmer, long-term activist, member of Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, and faculty at the Evergreen State College

Juan Jose Bocanegra: Coordinator/Organizer, The Committee for Immigration Reform and Social Justice (El Comite Pro Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social)

David Duenas: Puyallup

Arthur J. Miller: Northwest Regional Organizer LPDOC Michael One Road: Portland Chapter LPDOC

CAR POOLS: OLYMPIA : There will be a carpool leaving from the parking lot at Harrison and Division at 10:15 am. SEATTLE : Meet at the Red Apple parking lot at 23rd and Jackson. Will be leaving at 10:30 am.

How you can help. Those that can come out for the march, please do. It is very important to have a strong showing. Below are links to the march flier and poster. If you live in the northwest please make copies and get them out where ever you can. Below is a march information packet. It includes more march information, information on Leonard Peltier's case and information on the clemency campaign. Please get this out to others. If printed doublesided it comes out to four pages with a mailer. Fold it in half, staple it and seal the open sides, we use blank mailing labels, and the you cam mail it to friends, groups and organizations. Please forward this message to others. Please use facebook to get the word out. Thank you.

poster:

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/04/13/peltier_poster.pdf

Flier

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/04/07/peltier_flier.pdf

March Information packet

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/04/11/leonard_peltier_infopack.pdf

Join Tacoma LPDOC on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100002154914197

This march will kick off our New Northwest Campaign for Clemency for Leonard Peltier. It will take time to build this campaign and we ask for your help. Leonard has been in prison since 1976 for a crime he did not commit. His health has gotten bad and he needs all of us now. We need people to pass this statement to their friends, groups, organizations, publications, web sites and Facebook. We need people to post and pass out fliers. We need donations. We need to make this march as large as possible to show others that there is support for Leonard Peltier. Please help us. Please contact us if you can help.

For donations: Please make checks out to the Leonard Peltier Defense/Offense Committee (mark them for NW March) and send them to: Tacoma LPODC, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415. Thank you