Mumia on Peltier
Excerpted from a Jan. 21 message of thanks to Leonard
Peltier and his supporters from Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Many years ago, when I was doing radio commentary for
several Philadelphia college stations, I frequently received
taped reports from communications people from AIM (American
Indian Movement), and promptly reported such information to my
audience.
What I learned was that the U.S. government was waging a
vicious and unrelenting war against Native people. (It) was in
a phase in that war that an innocent Lakota activist, Leonard
Peltier, was dogged by this government, and framed for
murder.
For almost a quarter of a century, this kind and gentle
warrior, this artist, this son of his people, has withstood the
brutal assaults of the U.S. government, against its own "law,"
its own constitution, its own precedent.
On Feb. 6, 1999, the calendar will strike 23 long and lonely
years in U.S. gulags for Leonard Peltier. Twenty-three years
since an overtly illegal extradition from Canada to the U.S.
Twenty-three years in a Yankee Iron Cage for the "crime" of
resisting American repression.
As we enter a new century, it is past time for us to correct
this vile injustice against Leonard Peltier. Let a new century
begin with an act of justice for the Oglala people.
Free Leonard Peltier! Free the MOVE 9! Long Live John
Africa! In the Spirit of Nat Turner & Crazy Horse! Ona
Move!
-- Mumia Abu-Jamal
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