A POLITICAL PLATFORM FOR 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!
********************************************************** Hey, Armies of One---...and I mean you!...--Unite in the common struggle to free our brother Leonard NOW! TODAY! PLEASE SOLICIT ALL THE COMMITMENTS YOU CAN BY CIRCULATING THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE! DO IT NOW--PLEASE, FOR LEONARD'S SAKE.
WE NEED YOUR VOTES NOW!
THIS IS THE ELECTION!
REGISTERED VOTERS: Send a statement:
I, of _______________________(town & ________________________________state) (address & tel# optional)__________________, hereby commit myself to write -in LEONARD PELTIER for President in the primaries and general election in 2000.
I will appeal immediately to everyone I know to do the same. Today!
Please email your write-in commitment to harvey@wisdomkeepers.com
ON BEHALF OF LEONARD PELTIER,
/Harvey Arden ********************************************************** Become an Army of One! Exercise your Conscience by exercising your Vote! Write-in LEONARD PELTIER for President on your Ballot in 2000!
All actions to be conducted with love, dignity and humor... ...per Leonard's request
"Those who put me here and keep me here knowing of my innocence can take grim satisfaction in their sure reward---which is being who and what they are. That's as terrible a reward as any I could imagine.
I know who and what I am. I am an Indian--- an Indian who dared to stand up to defend his people. I am an innocent man who never murdered anyone nor wanted to.
And, yes, I am a Sun Dancer. That, too, is my identity.
If I am to suffer as a symbol of my people, then I suffer proudly.
I will never yield."
--Leonard Peltier
From Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
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