[Announce-DAN] Peltier Clemency Developments!

[Doc Rosen <drdrdoc@dr.com>]

MORE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EFFORT TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER!

Below: LPDC media update, telephone update, and comments made today by Rev.
Jesse Jackson and Congressman Ackerman.

Dear friends,

We are writing to update you on some MORE positive delevopments regarding
the Leonard Peltier clemency effort.  The White House officially released a
statement last Monday reaffirming the President's commitment to deciding on
Leonard Peltier's clemency petition before leaving office.  The release
prompted a media outburst.  The story was covered by CNN, NPR, AP, the LA
Times, USA Today, the Washington Post and numerous other papers.

We want to congratulate each of you for all of your phone calls, faxes, and
letters.  We have made it through a critical period, the Thanksgiving
Holiday, without a denial and we are still going strong.  Our advisors
suspect that the White House released the statement in order to test the
waters and find out what kind of reaction would ensue.

Let's give the White House an overwhelming reaction of support for Leonard
Peltier's clemency!  In our last urgent telephone action, we said we would
update you after December 1st.  Since there has been no decision, it is
important to keep up and increase, the intensity of our calls. Please
continue the daily calls through December 1st and on through the month of
December.  There is a good chance a decision will be made after the Freedom
Walk (December 10) and before the Christmas Holiday, so please hang in there
and keep up the great work!

Wait! more good news.  Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" has struck again.
Today she posed questions to both Rev. Jesse Jackson and Congressman
Ackerman.  Here is what they said:

Excerpts of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now interviews on Leonard Peltier
November 29, 2000 will air on November 30, 2000
Comments of Reverend Jesse Jackson, NY Democratic Congressmember Gary
Ackerman


Amy Goodman: "Reverend Jackson, President Clinton says he's weighing
executive clemency for Leonard Peltier, what are your thoughts on that? "

Jackson: "I hope that when he weighs it, he will free Peltier. He's been in
jail a very long time for a crime he never committed in the first place. I
hope that as an act of humanity that President Clinton will free Peltier."

Goodman: "Will you talk to him about it?"

Jackson: "I have."

Goodman: And what has he said?

Jackson: "He's weighing it."

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New York Congressmember Gary Ackerman, ranking Democrat on  Subcommittee on
the Western Hemisphere under the Committee on International Relations:

Goodman: President Clinton says he's weighing executive clemency for Leonard
Peltier..."

New York Congressmember Gary Ackerman: "I think he should review it. There's
no term limits on justice. Sometimes with the benefit of history and
hindsight, sometimes some of these cases should be reviewed. It appears that
he might have gotten a very bum rap based on the temperament of the times
and the fervor of the feds and the dislike for people who protest".

--LPDC


Call the White House Comments Line Today
Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111

Be in New York City December 10th
Peltier Walk For Freedom!


Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-5774
www.freepeltier.org
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