UPDATE ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 ACTIVITIES!

Support groups build awareness and unity. Teamwork is vital in our ongoing work with the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. We encourage each and everyone of you to join us in our ongoing work towards Leonard Peltier's freedom, and to work with us on ideas, strategy, fundraising and public support as well as forming coalitions that work collaboratively towards our main objective- Leonard Peltier's freedom. You can help! You can continue to contribute to Leonard's freedom as an individual, a Leonard Peltier support group member, or a solidarity group. For more information on Leonard Peltier Support Groups ( LPSG's) contact our Support Group Coordinator at: supportgroupsleonardpeltier.net

September 12, 2007 is Leonard Peltier’s Birthday! Supporters nationwide and internationally are gathering in unity and solidarity for Leonard Peltier and letting others know about the injustices Leonard Peltier has endured which have resulted in over 30 years of wrongful incarceration. Please contact us and let us know your plans, ideas, and support for Leonard Peltier.

We, at the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee would like to THANK YOU for joining us in unity and solidarity as we coordinate events that are being held throughout the month of September.
Please click on the following on the following link for weekly updates:
http://www.leonardpeltier.net/worldevents.htm

Thank you
Toni Zeidan,
Co-director Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Email: info@leonardpeltier.net

ACTIVITIES/EVENTS/PROJECTS

ALABAMA:

Huntsville Alabama LPSG-
LPSG group members and supporters will be meeting at Braham Spring Park
When: Sept 12, 2007.
Location: Braham Spring Park, Huntsville Alabama
( Drake Avenue)
Time: 8am-8pm
Drumming by “ Shadow Hawk”
Guest Speaker- Arturo Adrian- “Spirit Warrior”
Come joins us as we sing prayer songs and pay tribute to Leonard Peltier!



Northern Alabama LPSG-
Northern Alabama LPSG group members will be attending “ Trail of Tears” Bike Run in Waterloo, Alabama on September 16,2007. LPSG members will be available to provide
information packets on Leonard Peltier and also collect signatures for the Native American Freedom of Religion Petition. Northern Alabama LPSG members would like to relay the following message: If you haven’t signed the petition please take a few minutes and sign the Native American Freedom of Religion Petition:
Please click here:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/inipi/petition.html

CALIFORNIA:
Northern California LPSG- will be hosting a concert.
Date: Sept 16, 2007
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Veterans Memorial Building
846 Front Street
Santa Cruz, California
Music by -7th Generation Rise.


CANADA

Winnipag LPSG- will be hosting an event on September 12, 2007.
Location, and Time to be announced soon!


MISSOURI
St. Louis/LPSG
“ Third Annual Fair for Social Change”
When: September 29, 2007
Location: University of Missouri, in St. Louis.
Time: 9am-3pm
Leonard Peltier Booth/Display will be available with St. Louis LPSG members providing
information, updates, and outreach information brochures on Leonard Peltier.

Southwest Missouri/ LPSG – will be holding a Star quilt raffle in honor of Leonard's birthday at the Cahokia Mounds Pow-wow in Collinsville, Illinois, Sept 7-9.


PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia/LPSG –
“ In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”
Date: September 28, 2007
Location: American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA
Time: 7:30pm
Speakers, Video- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Music and Poetry

UPDATE ON FASTING GROUP!
Join the Climate Emergency Fast, sponsored by Ted Glick, Us Climate Emergency Council
For years I've been a coordinator and participant in fasts calling for Leonard's release. This fall I'll be starting a fast in early September, a Climate Emergency Fast, as part of the mushrooming movement for climate justice and a clean energy revolution, and I hope you'll consider joining it for at least one day.For more information on Climate Emergency Fast for present and future generations see:U.S. Climate Emergency Council, or http://www.climateemergency.org/
Thanks!
Ted Glick, Coordinator ,- US CLIMATE EMERGENCY COUNCIL
In previous years, activists around the Country joined in solidarity with Ted Glick and fasted for twelve days during October for Leonard’s freedom. The 12 day fasts held for Leonard’s freedom have been happening since 1992. This year as in previous years, Toni Zeidan Co-director for the LPDC will join Ted and others in their Climate Emergency Fast and encourages supporters to do so on Sept 4th and also on Sept 12, 2007, Leonard Peltier’s 63rd birthday. You may want to fast throughout these nine days or even longer, as some such as Ted, are doing. Please let us know your plans. LPDC contact info: info@leonardpeltier.net


"Develop who you are and remain true to your higher self and your integrity will be an inspiration to others. Show your strengths when necessary, even if it is in being gentle or humble. Do your best to find the good in all people and stand and speak up against wrong doing. Respect the earth where you stand. Many parts of Mother Earth are also held captive behind concrete and steel. Do your best to recognize inspiration from the Creator. Never be too proud to say you were wrong or too fearful to stand up for what you know is right"
Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Contact info:
Email: info@leonardpeltier.net
Website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
Support Group email: supportgroupsleonardpeltier.net
Address:
LPDC
3800 N. Mesa
A2
El Paso, Texas 79902

A Message from Leonard Peltier

Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

I hope my message finds you in the best of health and spirits and that each one of you is enjoying your summer and looking forward for the Fall Season. I have always enjoyed the Fall Season. I still remember the vivid colors of the leaves changing and falling in preparation for our Winter. This Sept 12, 2007 I will be 63 years old, and I can no longer say I am a young man eh? Behind bars I have aged from a youth into an Elder. As the seasons have passed I have become an elder, my children have grown, and my grandchildren are now young men and women, and lately I became a Great – Grandfather.

This year will mark more than 31 years of my unjust imprisonment. Your thoughts, supports, letters, cards, prayers, and energy have kept me strong. I thank you for the lovely cards, and letters that I have been receiving, for I enjoy hearing from you! Some of you have been writing me for the past 32 years and through your letters have included me in your family gatherings, festivities and in your life as the years have passed. I thank you! Many of you are writing me to tell me about the activities and events that are being held in my honor, and your efforts of joining me and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee in our ongoing campaign towards my freedom. On a sad note I also receive letters from supporters who identify themselves as loyal Peltier supporters and yet in their letters their advice is for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee to be closed and how inappropriate it is for me or the LPDC to be asking for support and help so that we can continue our ongoing work towards my freedom. I once wrote in a message a few months ago that we are all climbing the same mountain, just on different sides at times. As I read my letters from supporters that write to tell me of their ongoing work towards my freedom and state that we are all working together, I feel inspired and know that each one of us is working in unity and solidarity from all sides of the mountain until we win this ongoing struggle for my freedom.
As for the “supporters” who write me and offer their advice on closing the LPDC office, and for the committee to stop raising funds for our legal campaign, I wonder which mountain they are climbing? Are they maybe working with an organization that for the past 32+ years has falsified affidavits, withheld evidence, and has withheld documents in their efforts to keep me wrongfully incarcerated? One would start to wonder…

My case has been fraught with government misconduct since the beginning. The Government among other wrongful acts manufactured false evidence, withheld evidence and coerced witness. We now know that the FBI used confidential informant sources to compromise attorney/client communications they illegally used to develop strategies for conviction. The FBI permitted informants to attend both my trial and that of my co-defendants. The FBI however refuses to produce the name(s) of their informants and has been given unfettered discretion by the courts to keep this information from my legal team.

On June 8, 2007 my legal team, attorneys, Ron Kuby and David Pressman filed with the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit an appellate brief asking the Court to review and release some 11,000 pages of documents that have been withheld for over 30 years.
Indeed, a document recently produced by the FBI and recently introduced to a Magistrate Judge established that the FBI intentionally took actions to try to avoid producing documents in discovery in my case. But again, this seems to have had no impact on the Court. The United States Federal Courts have recognized overwhelming evidence of FBI misconduct in my case which has already been revealed, yet it has continued to allow the FBI to use exemptions under FOIA to shield its illegal tactics in this case, depriving me of my rights to a fair trail.

I urge all of you who believe in justice to join my fight and cry out for the production of all documents related to my case. Why is the FBI still withholding documents? Why won't they produce all documents to me? To me the answer is obvious. I believe the answer is obvious to you also.

The new legal team, attorneys Ron Kuby, and David Pressman, the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee and I thank you for your support and help.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier

Toni Zeidan-Co-director, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
email: info@leonardpeltier.net
website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
Address: 3800 N. Mesa
A2
El Paso, Texas 79902
Online donation site:
http://www.freedomwalk.com/

Activists Join Climate Energy Fast!

Dear Friends,

Yesterday I was going through some papers and found a statement of Leonard Peltier's written last spring. It was a very profound statement. Here's some of what he said:

"Develop who you are and remain true to your higher self and your integrity will be an inspiration to others. Show your strengths when necessary, even if it is in being gentle or humble. Do your best to find the good in all people and stand and speak up against wrong doing. Respect the earth where you stand. Many parts of Mother Earth are also held captive behind concrete and steel. Do your best to recognize inspiration from the Creator. Never be too proud to say you were wrong or too fearful to stand up for what you know is right."
Leonard Peltier

For years I've been a coordinator and participant in fasts calling for Leonard's release. This fall I'll be starting a fast in early September, a Climate Emergency Fast, as part of the mushrooming movement for climate justice and a clean energy revolution, and I hope you'll consider joining it for at least one day.
For more information on Climate Emergency Fast for present and future generations see:
U.S. Climate Emergency Council, or http://www.climateemergency.org/
Thanks!
Ted Glick, Coordinator , US CLIMATE EMERGENCY COUNCIL

In previous years, activists around the Country joined in solidarity with Ted Glick and fasted for twelve days during October for Leonard’s freedom. The 12 day fasts held for Leonard’s freedom have been happening since 1992. This year as in previous years, Toni Zeidan Co-director for the LPDC will join Ted and others in their Climate Emergency Fast and encourages supporters to do so on Sept 4th and also on Sept 12, 2007, Leonard Peltier’s 63rd birthday. You may want to fast throughout these nine days or even longer, as some such as Ted, are doing. Please let us know your plans.

When we deprive our bodies of food we do not just carry out an action of solidarity with Leonard Peltier, deprived of freedom and held captive behind steel bars, but we also elevate our spirits, unify our minds, and bodies, and strengthen our prayers.

For more information please contact Toni Zeidan at: info@leonardpeltier.net and/ or Ted Glick at: U.S. Climate Emergency Council, or http://www.climateemergency.org/

In Solidarity,

Toni Zeidan -Co-director LPDC
Website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
email: info@leonardpeltier.net
Address: LPDC /Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
3800 N. Mesa
#A2
El Paso, Texas 79902

September 12, 2007- Leonard Peltier's Birthday

September 12, 2007 is Leonard Peltier’s Birthday! Supporters nationwide and internationally are gathering in unity and solidarity for Leonard Peltier and letting others know about the injustices Leonard Peltier has endured which have resulted in over 30 years of wrongful incarceration. The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee will be sending weekly update on events, rallies, and information on Leonard Peltier and ask that you contact us and let us know your plans, ideas, and support for Leonard Peltier. Join Us!
In Solidarity,

Toni Zeidan
Co-director LPDC
Email: info@leonardpeltier.net
Website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
Address: LPDC
3800 N. Mesa #A2
El Paso, Texas 79902


Happy Birthday Leonard!-September 12, 2007 Activities/Events/Projects

Write Leonard ! Send him a Birthday card! Leonard Peltier’s address is:
Leonard Peltier #89637-132
USP Lewisburg
PO Box 1000
Lewisburg PA 17837

Donations can be made to Leonard’s Commissary account:
(US Postal Money orders only per USP regulations)
Address: Federal Bureau of Prisons
Leonard Peltier #89637
PO Box 474701
Des Moines, Iowa 50747-0001

( Leonard can not receive gifts or CDs. Books/magazines must be sent from a book store. Newspapers articles are not allowed, however Xerox copies of the articles are allowed)

ONLINE PETITIONS:
Please sign our online petitions:

Please click here to join our Freedom of Religion for Native American Inmates Petition:http://www.PetitionOnline.com/inipi/petition.html

“No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ….never forget that.”
Leonard Peltier

ONLINE PETITION FOR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, By International Peltier Forum: http://users.skynet.be/kola/lppet.htm


ACTIVITIES/EVENTS/PROJECTS

Oglala Commemoration Committee:
Oglala_commemoration@yahoo.com

In honor of Leonard’s birthday in September, a kick off to a fund raiser. MySpace is really getting alot of hype with the number of “Friends”. We ask that all of “Leonard Supporters” donate at least a $1. This should be mailed directly to the LPDC to help cover the upcoming legal appeals. (Heard one may be coming back to St. Louis so keep an eye out for updates on that) Please do not limit this to MYSPACE, but spread it around to all your friends and list. What’s a dollar for someone who has spent so much more on for the struggle?
If you can give more, do so, you may also buy a $10 stone of the Freedom Walk at http://www.freedomwalk.com/
Mail your dollar too-
LPDC
3800 N. Mesa St. Suite 2
El Paso, TX 79902

The Oglala Commemoration Committee will be raffling a star quilt to benefit the LPDC for Leonard’s upcoming birthday- (Please check back for more information regarding the Star Quilt Raffle)

Irish Freedom Committee: New Mexico
Every year for the past 20 years Leonard Peltier and the LPDC have been sponsoring the Leonard Peltier Holiday Gift Drive. Due to Leonard Peltier’s efforts and support, children of the Pine Ridge Reservation and other reservations have a brighter holiday season. The Irish Freedom Committee in collaboration with the LPDC has begun collecting new toys and new clothes that will be delivered to the children of Pine Ridge during the holiday season. If you and or your organization would like to join us in our efforts collecting new toys and clothes for the 2007 Leonard Peltier Holiday Gift Drive please contact the Leonard Peltier Holiday Gift drive at:
info@leonardpeltier.net


Support Group Activities:
Support groups build awareness and unity. Teamwork is vital in our ongoing work with the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. We encourage each and everyone of you to join us in our ongoing work towards Leonard Peltier's freedom, and to work with us on ideas, strategy, fundraising and public support as well as forming coalitions that work collaboratively towards our main objective- Leonard Peltier's freedom. You can help! You can continue to contribute to Leonard's freedom as an individual, a Leonard Peltier support group member, or a solidarity group. For more information on Leonard Peltier Support Groups ( LPSG's) contact :
supportgroups@leonardpeltier.net

Please check back for updates on September 12, 2007 LPSGs ( Leonard Peltier Support Groups) events and activities!

Thank you,

Toni Zeidan
LPDC-Codirector
Email: info@leonardpeltier.net
Website: http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
Address:
LPDC
3800 N. Mesa
#A2
El Paso, Texas 79902