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Help Get Leonard to the Mayo Clinic

From the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Please make a donation online and/or pledge to donate monthly or mail your donation to ILPDC, PO Box 24, Hillsboro, OR 97123 Dear Supporter: Thank y Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in   Please make a donation online and/or pledge to donate monthly or mail your donation to ILPDC, PO Box 24, Hillsboro, OR 97123 Dear Supporter: Thank you for taking action on Leonard's behalf during this very critical time. Unfortunately, there is no new information to share with you regarding Leonard's health status and medical treatment. Do please continue your efforts on Leonard's behalf and keep pressure on the federal Bureau of Prisons! Demand that Leonard be transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota without delay. Please visit http://www.bop.gov/inmates/concerns.jsp. Make reference to Leonard Peltier #89637-132 and USP Coleman I. Voice your concern about Leonard's medical treatment, and let the federal Bureau of Prisons know that the world is watching. We demand that Leonard receive the best possible care, that is, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Please also send a letter by snail mail or quickly get a letter to the BOP by sending a fax. Try these free online fax services: https://faxzero.com (US) or https://faxzero.com/international (International). Send a letter to each of the below elements of the BOP. Warden Tamyra Jarvis USP Coleman I 846 NE 54th Terrace Sumterville, FL 33521 Fax: 352-689-6012 Helen J. Marberry RO Southeast Regional Office 3800 Camp Crk. Pk. SW Bldg 2000 Atlanta, GA 30331 Fax: 678-686-1229 Office of the Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, NW Washington, DC 20534 Fax: 202-514-6620 Do it and keep doing it until Leonard receives the care that he needs. Again, thank you for all you do on behalf of Leonard Peltier.   ©2016 ILPDC | Indigenous Rights Center LLC, 202 Harvard SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe

Legendary Attorney Martin Garbus to Speak on Leonard Peltier

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Legendary Attorney Martin Garbus to Speak at Leonard Peltier Event in Manhattan

            Martin Garbus, one of the country's leading trial lawyers, will speak at thek  International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier, Saturday, February 6, from 2-5 p.m. at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Labor Center, 1199/SEIU Auditorium.  The venue is located at 310 West 43 Street in Manhattan.

            Mr. Garbus is the lead attorney for Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier's legal team.   Mr. Peltier, in prison for almost 40 years for a crime that he did not commit, is seeking Executive Clemency from President Barack Obama, his only hope for freedom. 

            Among his many cases, Mr. Garbus represented the late Peter Matthiessen and Viking Press in the successful battle to publish Mr. Matthiessen's book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.  He was also an attorney for Gerardo Hernández, one of the now free Cuban 5.

            Also speaking will be Cynthia K. Dunne, formerly Assistant United States Attorney/Senior Trial Counsel in the Office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and now a member of Mr. Peltier's legal team.  A director of Lakota Children's Enrichment, a nonprofit corporation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Ms.  Dunne has stated, "It is now time for President Obama to grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier." 

            A Q and A session will follow the speakers.

            On the program there will be performances by the Red Storm Drum and Dance Troupe, Frank Menusan (Muskogee), who plays many ethnic musical instruments including the Native flute, and Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) an outstanding instrumentalist who plays violin, Apache violin, and electric guitar, among others.  

            The audience will hear updates and announcements from supporters of other political prisoners, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Move 9, Oscar López Rivera, and the Palestinian political prisoners.

            Light refreshments will be served.

            A donation of $5 - $10 is requested, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

            Sponsors include NYC Free Peltier, NYC Jericho, and ProLibertad.

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"My People's struggle to survive inspires my struggle to survive."

Leonard Peltier

El Paso Panel on Maquiladora Strikes in Ciudad Juárez

The Workers Resistance:

Panel Discussion on the Maquiladora Strikes in Ciudad Juárez

Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS
http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/el-paso-paneldiscussie-over-de-maquiladora-stakingen-in-ciudad-juarez

El Paso, TX/Ciudad Juárez- On Saturday, January 23^rd at 10am at the El Paso Public Library's Auditorium- Downtown, 501 N. Oregon, the public is invited to attend a bi-national panel discussion about the maquiladora workers strike in Ciudad Juarez.  Local El Paso leaders and community members have organized a support committee for the Juarez Maquiladora Workers, whose wages are as low as $30/week, and were fired for organizing against low-wages, unsafe working conditions, sexual harassment and discrimination.  

Attorney Susana Prieto Terazzas, representing the workers and Miriam Delgado, maquiladora worker & strike organizer, will join Dr. Oscar Martinez in a panel discussion, moderated by Dr. Kathleen Staudt, about the low-wages and poor working conditions in Juárez assembly plants.

Juárez factory workers have been fired for their participation in union organizing and demanding a pay increase equivalent to about .35 cents/day. Maquiladora workers at Lexmark, a U.S. owned Fortune 500 Company, have been on strike since November of 2015, and in response to the firing of about 100 workers, strikers have set-up encampments, or platones outside the factories, demanding the right to form an independent union.

Lexmark strike organizer, Miriam Delgado states, "They didn't provide face masks or gloves to protect us, (and) many people have injured hands. They cut our salaries for being even slightly late, even if our children were sick and we had to take them to hospital, and we had to put up with harassment from supervisors."

Last month, Dr. Kathleen Staudt and Dr. Oscar Martinez published an op-ed piece about the economic reality of maquiladora workers in Ciudad Juárez, stating, "In real terms, today's line workers make about half of what they made in 1975."

Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), U.S. corporations are incentivized to move factories to Mexico where low wages are considered a 'competitive advantage'.  Mexico's lax labor laws and poor enforcement has created an environment of exploitative business practices. According to the U.S. State Department's 2014 Report on Human Rights in Mexico, "The government did not consistently protect worker rights. Mexico's general failure to enforce labor and other laws left workers with little recourse regarding violations of freedom of association, poor working conditions, or other problems."

Currently, a renegotiation of NAFTA, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), would expand trade with Pacific-Rim countries, to include Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei; countries with a long history of poor labor laws and human rights abuses.

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