Visiting Grandpa, Leonard Peltier, in Prison

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I want to thank you all for making this wonderful trip possible, Last Friday I flew from Fargo to Orlando to visit Uncle. I met Waha family in Orlando and we drove to Coleman to get ready for our visit on Saturday. On Saturday we were at the prison bright and early 7:30 a.m., signed in and were told that the girls were dressed wrong for the visit. So off we went to Walmart and had to buy new shirts and closed toed shoes! Amazing what the guards find to pick at to slow down our visit. It was almost 10:30 by the time we got to the visiting room and then had to wait another half-hour for then to bring Leonard. Leonard was so happy to see his daughter in law Emily and his sweet granddaughters. Kobe, Kadeem and Kaleigha. The girls were a bit shy the first day but the second day they were excited and asked their grandpa many questions and he loved answering them. He is always telling stories of the past, and his past as a young man. He also told them about the struggles of his grandparents and great grandparents and how strong they were to survive so much racism and abuse from people in the near-by towns as well as the BIA agents who ran the reservations in the 30’s and 40’s. We also talked about my position as the Art Director as I will be staying in Fargo as the main office goes to Florida. Sadly, he can’t paint right now because he is recovering and he is unable to lift his hands in the painting position. He is worried that he will be unable to donate paintings to the committee. I would really like everyone to take a look at the paintings that are available on our website and see what you can afford. These paintings are the basis for our fundraising for his legal team. And I am concerned that without your generous donations we will be unable to raise the necessary funds that the lawyers are requesting. Given his health I am concerned that this heart surgery has shortened his life and we need to get him released as soon as possible. On Sunday we talked about his health, he is still recovering from his heart surgery, and yet they have moved him from the handicapped cell into a make believe elder unit where he is in a double bunked cell. Thank goodness he has the bottom bunk, but his cellie, who has the top bunk is in his late 60’ has a hard time getting to his top bunk. How can this be an ELDER UNIT with these conditions for older and sick inmates. These conditions need to be addressed because Leonard is 73 and had major surgery. We, as free people, are able to go home and rest, go to the doctor whenever we feel ill, and usually have someone to nurse us back to health. But Uncle doesn’t have that luxury. all, we had a great visit for about 4 hours and then around 2:00 pm the guards rushed us all out as there was an incident in the yard, and immediately ended visiting. Leonard wants me to be sure and thank all the supporters for their help in making this visit possible and give a shout out to the Rosenberg Fund for Children for their support! For all our friends in New York, the New York Support Committee is having an event tomorrow. And you can find the information on our website under News. We hope you can attend as all fundraising is important at this time to help build Leonard’s new legal team. We hope to have the new office in Florida open by early November and look forward to sharing that information with you. Leonard is very excited about the ILPDC coming there, as it will remove his stress at being so far from his committee. Anything you like to contribute to help with this endeavor will be greatly appreciated. Just hit paypal on our website. Peace and Respect, Kari Ann ©2017 ILPDC | PO BOX 329, Fargo ND 58107 Web Version  Preferences  Forward  Unsubscribe  Powered by GoDaddy Email Marketing ®

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Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Shark Tank's Steve Baxter Joins Climate Science Deniers and Islamophobes for Australian LibertyFest What do you get when you bring together some of Australia's most fervent climate science deniers with anti-Islam activists, fledgling right-wing political groups, and an American "free market" Libertarian? The answer, apparently, is the one-day conference titled LibertyFest scheduled for Brisbane this Saturday. Two mainstays of Australia's "fever swamp" of climate science denial, Professor Ian Plimer and Jennifer Marohasy, are set to kick-off the proceedings on Friday evening. Read more. Top Trump Official for Pipeline Safety Profits from Selling Oil Spill Equipment A newly appointed federal regulator charged with overseeing pipeline safety personally profits from oil spill responses, a DeSmog investigation has found. Drue Pearce is the acting administrator for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), an agency in the Department of Transportation responsible for ensuring oil and gas pipeline integrity. However, she is also associated with a company specializing in the sale of oil spill equipment. Read more. Experts Who Sold the Idea of Oil Exports Proven Very Wrong Very Fast As Bloomberg put it recently, today "crude oil gushes out of the U.S. like never before." U.S. exports of crude oil just hit a new record: nearly two million barrels per day. And while at DeSmog we predicted that "lifting the oil export ban will result in large increases in fracking for oil in the U.S.," most industry experts at the time were making very different claims. "It's universally agreed in the short term that we won't see a flood of ships leaving for foreign ports because the economics aren't right," Sandy Fielden, director of energy analytics at respected consulting firm RBN Energy, said in December 2015, just before the ban on crude oil export lifted. Fielden was explaining why lifting that ban wouldn't result in a sizable and ongoing rush to export American crude. Read more. Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott's 'Misleading' Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation Australian climate scientists have hit back at their former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, describing his speech to a London think tank as being laced with distortions, falsehoods, misrepresentations, and misdirection. Abbott told the contrarian Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) that rising carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning could be "beneficial" and compared acceptance of human-caused climate change to religion. The GWPF, founded by former Thatcher government treasurer Lord Nigel Lawson, consistently pushes positions on climate change that fall well outside the established science. Read more. FERC Allows Conflicted Contractor to Supervise Enbridge's Atlantic Bridge Gas Project The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is permitting a contractor with a known conflict of interest to monitor Enbridge's Atlantic Bride natural gas project. This decision joins a growing list of apparent conflicts of interest involved in the project, as DeSmog has extensively reported. In an internal FERC memorandum sent this week, FERC's ethics officer authorized the commission's Office of Energy Projects to continue using a third-party contractor, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), that had produced the project's environmental assessment. While the work of such contractors is paid for by the pipeline company, they are considered independent reviewers laboring under the supervision of FERC staff who must vet for possible conflicts of interest. Read more.