AUT: THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE

[Dale Pfeiffer <dalealen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   THE LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY FAST/HUNGER STRIKE

   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@xxxxxxx, 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 Horse
Fasters/Hunger Strikers
Dale Pfeiffer, Clarkston, Michigan, IWW Delegate, novelist (Feb. 6 E)
Arthur J. Miller, Tacoma, Washington, coordinator of the Northwest
Leonard Peliter Support Network, IWW Delegate, publisher of Bayou La
 Rose, marine pipefitter. (Feb. 7 M)
William Boemmels, Stratford, Connecticut, Malecite, Engineer (Feb. 7
 E)
Gina Chiala, Lawrence, Kansas, International Office of the Leonard
 Peltier Defense Committee. (Feb. 8 M)
Keith McHenry, Lawrence, Kansas, International Office of the Leonard
 Peltier Defense Committee. (Feb. 8 E)
Ron (Saquiiyona) Dunning, Tupper Lake, New York, Shawnee, Adult
 Basic Education Teacher NYS Dept. Of Corrections, jewelry
 maker, traditional story teller, ornamental gardener/contractor.
 (Feb. 9 M)
Lois Brooks (Feb. 9 E)
Barbara Fortier, Atlanta, Georgia, Leonard Peltier Support Group-
 Atlanta, ballet dancer, teacher and dance school director.
 (Feb. 10 M)
Waabnong Kwe, Toronto, Ontario, Tsalagi and Ojibway Nations, AIDS
 Educator. (Feb. 10 E)
Becky Delaney, Rushville, OH (Feb. 11 M)
Darlene Holland-Hayter, Crystal River, Florida, Choctaw/Cherokee,
 Recording Secretary Native American Indian Center of
 Citrus/Levy counties of Florida. (Feb. 11 E)
John Rosania, Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade. (Feb. 12 M)
Rachel Ann Carey-Harper, Dennis (Cape Cod), Massachusetts,
 Yarmouth Friends Meeting, Sisters of the Light, volunteer with
 Homes For Seven Generations, Clothesline Project.
 (Feb. 12 E)
Debbie Hagopian  (Feb. 13 M)
Quwahia Whisperingfire, Saint Petersburg, Florida, Navajo Artisan,
 poet. (Feb. 13 E)
Reid Freeman Jenkins, Atlanta, Georgia, Coordinator Leonard Peltier
 Support Group-Atlanta, printer. (Feb. 14 M)
Kyle Browning, Lawrence, Kansas, President Amnesty International
 local chapter/group #172. (Feb. 14 E)
Haley Shackelford, Southaven, MS
Jeff Parente, State College P.A.
Brooke Sluder, Hartford City, IN
 Mohawk & Osage
 Auto worker, photographer, writer
Darlene Holland-Hayter, Choctaw/Cherokee,
 Recording Secretary Native American Indian Center
 of Citrus/Levy Counties, .
 Crystal River, FL
Cliff Alles-Curie, AIM Autonomous
 Grand Rapids, MI
Debbie Hagopian
Dmitri Ryabinin, Federation Anarchists Kuban, pressmen,
 Krasnodar, Rossia
Pilar de la Serna, Se Ven Sioux Kolektibo,
 LPSG Basque Country Spain, Graphic
 designer, Pamplona
 Basque Country, Spain



FASTERS SIGN-UP
Name____________________________________________________

Organizational affiliation, tribe, profession, city, state, country,
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
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Means of contact (e-mail or street or P.O. Box address)___________
_________________________________________________________
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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___________________________________________

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