PLATFORM for a LEONARD PELTIER FREEDOM PARTY
PLANK ONE:
“Our work will be unfinished until not a single human being is hungry, not one woman is battered, not one child is abused, not one innocent languishes in prison and no one is persecuted for his or her beliefs.”
PLANK TWO:
“We need not courtrooms but schoolrooms, not jails and prisons but decent homes and jobs for the millions of every color - including many, many white people - who are being denied their human and civil rights every day of every week by the special interests who are trying to steal America.
Government must be by, of and for the People, not by, of and for the special interests. Read your own Declaration of Independence and Constitution, America. It's all there.”
PLANK THREE:
“If building more prisons for those of us who are unlike yourselves is to be your strategy, then, I promise you, you cannot build enough prisons to hold us all. I ask America, as one familiar with your darkest side as well as with your shining possibilities, rethink this current craze for building ever more prisons for ever more of those of us born different than you. We don't need more prisons. We need more compassion. That compassion is our own highest possibility."
PLANK FOUR:
“Democracy means difference, not sameness. Allow us our differences as we allow you yours. We don't conflict with each other; we complement each other. We need each other.
Each of us is responsible for what happens on this Earth.
We are each absolutely essential, each totally irreplaceable.
Each of us is the swing vote in the bitter election battle now being waged between our best and our worst possibilities.
How are you going to cast your all-important ballot?
Humanity awaits your decision.
PLANK FIVE:
“WE MUST EACH BE AN ARMY OF ONE in the endless struggle between the goodness we are all capable of and the evil that threatens us all from without as well as from within. Yes, we can each be an army of one. One good man or one good woman can change the world, can push back the evil, and their work can be a beacon for millions, for billions. Are you that man or woman? If so, may the Great Spirit bless you. If not, why not? We must each of us be that person. That will transform the world overnight.
That would be a miracle, yes, but a miracle within our power, our healing power.
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children - as well as ourselves - to love the diversity of humanity.
To heal we will have to make a conscious effort to live as the Creator intended, as sisters and brothers, all of one human family, caretakers of this fragile, perishable and sacred Earth. To heal we will have to come to the realization that we are all under a life sentence together on this planet...and there's no chance for parole.
We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time.
Let the Great Healing begin.
Leonard Peltier, USPrisoner#89637-132
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Also please visit Leonard's own website: http://www.leonardpeltier.org
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We WILL get Leonard OUT!!
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THE NEW BOOK ON LEONARD PELTIER IS NOW OUT!
Order copies NOW for Holiday gifts!!
HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELTIER LATELY?
A Living Memoir with Artifacts
by Harvey Arden, Edited & Compiled by George Bowe Blitch
with companion website http://www.haveyouthought.com
& 8 full-color pages of recent paintings by Leonard Peltier
with Special Contributions by
Leonard Peltier
George Blitch
Barry Bachrach
Standing Deer
Arthur J. Miller
Lawrence Sampson
Carter Camp
Stephanie M. Schwartz
Keith Rabin
Please Order copies NOW for yourself & your friends at: http://www.haveyouthought.com
or send a check for $23+$5=$28 per copy ($5 s/h on one copy; $2 s/h each additionall copy) made out to Have You Thought & mail to:
Have You Thought
1410 Blalock Road, #420
Houston, TX 77055
Booksellers, Libraries, Stores, Distributors, Pow-Wow Vendors, Professional Book Reviewers, please contact george@haveyouthought.com
***********************************************************************
For those who may have an interest, there's a new interview with author
Harvey Arden about the Wisdomkeepers, Leonard Peltier, Australian Aboriginals & the state of the world...now archived at: http://www.prophecykeepers.com/arden.html
Please also see:
U.S.: Peltier Seeks to Correct Illegal Sentence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2046&blz=1
PLANK ONE:
“Our work will be unfinished until not a single human being is hungry, not one woman is battered, not one child is abused, not one innocent languishes in prison and no one is persecuted for his or her beliefs.”
PLANK TWO:
“We need not courtrooms but schoolrooms, not jails and prisons but decent homes and jobs for the millions of every color - including many, many white people - who are being denied their human and civil rights every day of every week by the special interests who are trying to steal America.
Government must be by, of and for the People, not by, of and for the special interests. Read your own Declaration of Independence and Constitution, America. It's all there.”
PLANK THREE:
“If building more prisons for those of us who are unlike yourselves is to be your strategy, then, I promise you, you cannot build enough prisons to hold us all. I ask America, as one familiar with your darkest side as well as with your shining possibilities, rethink this current craze for building ever more prisons for ever more of those of us born different than you. We don't need more prisons. We need more compassion. That compassion is our own highest possibility."
PLANK FOUR:
“Democracy means difference, not sameness. Allow us our differences as we allow you yours. We don't conflict with each other; we complement each other. We need each other.
Each of us is responsible for what happens on this Earth.
We are each absolutely essential, each totally irreplaceable.
Each of us is the swing vote in the bitter election battle now being waged between our best and our worst possibilities.
How are you going to cast your all-important ballot?
Humanity awaits your decision.
PLANK FIVE:
“WE MUST EACH BE AN ARMY OF ONE in the endless struggle between the goodness we are all capable of and the evil that threatens us all from without as well as from within. Yes, we can each be an army of one. One good man or one good woman can change the world, can push back the evil, and their work can be a beacon for millions, for billions. Are you that man or woman? If so, may the Great Spirit bless you. If not, why not? We must each of us be that person. That will transform the world overnight.
That would be a miracle, yes, but a miracle within our power, our healing power.
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children - as well as ourselves - to love the diversity of humanity.
To heal we will have to make a conscious effort to live as the Creator intended, as sisters and brothers, all of one human family, caretakers of this fragile, perishable and sacred Earth. To heal we will have to come to the realization that we are all under a life sentence together on this planet...and there's no chance for parole.
We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time.
Let the Great Healing begin.
Leonard Peltier, USPrisoner#89637-132
********************************************************************************
Also please visit Leonard's own website: http://www.leonardpeltier.org
********************************************************************************
We WILL get Leonard OUT!!
********************************************************************************
THE NEW BOOK ON LEONARD PELTIER IS NOW OUT!
Order copies NOW for Holiday gifts!!
HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELTIER LATELY?
A Living Memoir with Artifacts
by Harvey Arden, Edited & Compiled by George Bowe Blitch
with companion website http://www.haveyouthought.com
& 8 full-color pages of recent paintings by Leonard Peltier
with Special Contributions by
Leonard Peltier
George Blitch
Barry Bachrach
Standing Deer
Arthur J. Miller
Lawrence Sampson
Carter Camp
Stephanie M. Schwartz
Keith Rabin
Please Order copies NOW for yourself & your friends at: http://www.haveyouthought.com
or send a check for $23+$5=$28 per copy ($5 s/h on one copy; $2 s/h each additionall copy) made out to Have You Thought & mail to:
Have You Thought
1410 Blalock Road, #420
Houston, TX 77055
Booksellers, Libraries, Stores, Distributors, Pow-Wow Vendors, Professional Book Reviewers, please contact george@haveyouthought.com
***********************************************************************
For those who may have an interest, there's a new interview with author
Harvey Arden about the Wisdomkeepers, Leonard Peltier, Australian Aboriginals & the state of the world...now archived at: http://www.prophecykeepers.com/arden.html
Please also see:
U.S.: Peltier Seeks to Correct Illegal Sentence
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2046&blz=1