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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
NAMAPAHH FIRST PEOPLES RADIO SHOW ~ PELTIER DENIED PAROLE & REMBERING STEPHANIE M. SCHWARTZ WILL AIR THIS EVENING
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JOIN HOST ROBIN CARNEEN AND GUEST CO HOST TARA PRETENDS EAGLE
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LIVE THIS EVENING
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7:00 PM TO 9:00 PM
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PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
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Call-in Number: (718) 508-9165
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open talking circle if you want to weigh in about the recent decision of Peltier being denied Parole
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PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate release Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee Yesterday, the United States Parole Commission denied, Native American Activist, Leonard Peltier parole, after serving 33 years, for the murders of 2 FBI Agents, that occurred in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Peltier had his full parole hearing on July 28, 2009 at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, as a 64 year old, great-grandfather, in poor health who is a six-time Noble Peace Prize nominee & a philanthropist who raises both awareness & money selling his painting for Native American causes. Leonard Peltier’s Attorney, Eric Seitz’s response to the U. S. Parole Commission’s denial of parole: ”The Bush Administration holdovers on the U.S. Parole Commission today, adopted the position of the FBI that anyone who may be implicated in the killings of its agents should never be paroled and should be left to die in prison. Despite judicial determinations that the unrepentant FBI fabricated evidence and presented perjured testimony in Leonard Peltier's prosecution; despite a jury's acquittal on grounds of self-defense of two co-defendants who were found to have engaged in the same conduct of which Mr. Peltier was convicted; despite Mr. Peltier's exemplary record during his incarceration for more than 33 years and has clearly demonstrated eligibility for parole;
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Tune into show for more info
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Memorial for Stephanie M. Schwartz January 17, 1947 - August 17, 2009 Sunday, August 23, 2009 : 1:00 p.m. Boulder Lodge, Boulder Colorado Ceremony led by Lakota elder David Swallow, Jr. Monday, August 24, 2009, 11:00 a.m. Graveside Ceremony Riverside Cemetery, Denver, CO Sundance, Summer, 2010: A traditional ceremony in Stephanie's honor at the Sundance of Lakota elder, David Swallow, Jr.
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LEONARD PELTIER DENIED PAROLE
Attorney Seitz responds to denial of Peltier's parole
The Bush Administration holdovers on the U.S. Parole Commission today adopted the position of the FBI that anyone who may be implicated in the killings of its agents should never be paroled and should be left to die in prison. Despite judicial determinations that the unrepentant FBI fabricated evidence and presented perjured testimony in Leonard Peltier's prosecution; despite a jury's acquittal on grounds of self-defense of two co-defendants who were found to have engaged in the same conduct of which Mr. Peltier was convicted; despite Mr. Peltier's exemplary record during his incarceration for more than 33 years and his clearly demonstrated eligibility for parole; despite letters and petitions calling for his release submitted by millions of people in this country and around the world including one of the judges who ruled on his earlier appeals; and despite his advanced age and deteriorating health, the Parole Commission today informed Mr. Peltier that his "release on parole would depreciate the seriousness of your offenses and would promote disrespect for the law," and set a reconsideration hearing in July 2024.
This is the extreme action of the same law enforcement community that brought us the indefinite imprisonment of suspected teenage terrorists, tortures, and killings in CIA prisons around the world and promoted widespread disrespect for the democratic concepts of justice upon which this country supposedly was founded. These are the same institutions that have never treated indigenous peoples with dignity or respect or accepted any responsibility for centuries of intolerance and abuse.
At his parole hearing on July 28th Leonard Peltier expressed regret and accepted responsibility for his role in the incident in which the two FBI agents and one Native American activist died as the result of a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Mr. Peltier emphasized that the shootout occurred in circumstances where there literally was a war going on between corrupt tribal leaders, supported by the government, on the one hand, and Native American traditionalists and young activists on the other.
He again denied -- as he as always denied -- that he intended the deaths of anyone or that he fired the fatal shots that killed the two agents, and he reminded the hearing officer that one of his former co-defendants recently admitted to having fired the fatal shots, himself.
Accordingly, it is not true that Leonard Peltier participated in "the execution style murders of two FBI agents," as the Parole Commission asserts, and there never has been credible evidence of Mr. Peltier's responsibility for the fatal shots as the FBI continues to allege.
Moreover, given the corrupt practices of the FBI, itself, it is entirely untrue that Leonard Peltier's parole at this juncture will in any way "depreciate the seriousness" of his conduct and/or "promote disrespect for the law."
We will continue to seek parole and clemency for Mr. Peltier and to eventually bring this prolonged injustice to a prompt and fair resolution.
Eric Seitz - Leonard Peltier Attorney
Monday, July 27, 2009
JOIN NAMAPAHH FIRST PEOPLES RADIO TUESDAY JULY 28 2009 FOR LEONARD PELTIER'S PAROLE HEARING
WILL BE COVERING LEONARD PELTIER'S PAROLE HEARING OUTSIDE THE GATES OF LEWISBURG FEDERAL PENITENTIARY TOMORROW MORNING JULY 28 2009
4 - 6 AM PACIFIC
7 - 9 AM EASTERN STANDARD TIME
Join Robin Carneen on the NW coast @ 4-6am PST... While her friend & fellow journalist Tara Pretends Eagle Weber calls in from a Rally / Vigil outside the gates of Lewisburg PA Prison,where Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier has been incarcerated & has been granted a Parole Hearing on the morning of July 28th @ 7am-9am EST-So we got this covered coast to coast....plz call in wherever you are praying or holding your own vigil / rally for Peltier! Radio show Call in Line: 718-508-9158 (check your time zones) Tara Pretends Eagle Weber: She has been named the Media Coodinator by the Leonard Peltier Defense / Offense Committee for the Vigil of Solidarity for Leonard on his parole hearing 7/28. Leonard is a Native American, wrongfully incarcerated for 33 years! http://www.whoisleonardpeliter.com/
White House contact form @ www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 (USA) Ph / Fax / Comments +1-202-456-1111 Switchboard: +1-202-456-1414/FAX:+1-202-456-2461 Keep sending letters: US Parole Commission 5550 Friendship Blvd., Ste. 420 Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7286
Media Contact: Tara Weber Pretends Eagle Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee Email: lakotarockie@sbcglobal.net PH: (216) 650-7444 VIGIL OF SOLIDARITY FOR LEONARD PELTIER BEING HELD THE DAY OF HIS PAROLE HEARING! Tues, July, 28, 2009 from 7 AM - 7:30 AM EST Corner of Route 15 & William Penn Road, Lewisburg PA By the entrance of the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary The Parole Commissioners will see the support for Leonard as they enter the prison ~ In conjunction with a VIGIL OF SOLIDARITY, American Indian Movement (AIM) - West will also host a Sunrise Ceremony & Rally from 6 AM - 3 PM PST in SAN FRANCISCO at the Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue Join us in solidarity, for Leonard, with his family, relations, friends & supporters from around the world! As we, pray for open minds & the healing of America to begin! www.aimwest.info
Saturday, March 14, 2009
RED TOWN RADIO WILL AIR TODAY
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Brenda Golden
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Host and Producer of Red Town Radio
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SHOW LINK
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GET READY FOR TWO HOURS OF POWER PACKED RADIO
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STARTING AT 6:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME
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SHOW NOTES
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First hour-We would like to welcome Quanah Parker Brightman back to our show. He is Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux/Muscogee (Creek)Tribal Nations and Vice President of United Native Americans, Inc.
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Please lend your support to the following page:
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Second hour:
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Corine Fairbanks, Oglala, Sioux board member
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for Indigenous Youth Foundation.
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Roberta Weighill and Diego Cordero
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will update on:
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intimidation over mascot removal in Carpinteria
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
ACIREMA FO SETATS DETINU EHT
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MARLON'S SPEECH
DECLINING THE OSCAR
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For 200 years we have said to the Indian people who are fighting for their land, their life, their families and their right to be free: ''Lay down your arms, my friends, and then we will remain together. Only if you lay down your arms, my friends, can we then talk of peace and come to an agreement which will be good for you.''
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When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that we called treaties which we never kept. We turned them into beggars on a continent that gave life for as long as life can remember. And by any interpretation of history, however twisted, we did not do right. We were not lawful nor were we just in what we did. For them, we do not have to restore these people, we do not have to live up to some agreements, because it is given to us by virtue of our power to attack the rights of others, to take their property, to take their lives when they are trying to defend their land and liberty, and to make their virtues a crime and our own vices virtues.
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But there is one thing which is beyond the reach of this perversity and that is the tremendous verdict of history. And history will surely judge us. But do we care? What kind of moral schizophrenia is it that allows us to shout at the top of our national voice for all the world to hear that we live up to our commitment when every page of history and when all the thirsty, starving, humiliating days and nights of the last 100 years in the lives of the American Indian contradict that voice?
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It would seem that the respect for principle and the love of one's neighbor have become dysfunctional in this country of ours, and that all we have done, all that we have succeeded in accomplishing with our power is simply annihilating the hopes of the newborn countries in this world, as well as friends and enemies alike, that we're not humane, and that we do not live up to our agreements.
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Perhaps at this moment you are saying to yourself what the hell has all this got to do with the Academy Awards? Why is this woman standing up here, ruining our evening, invading our lives with things that don't concern us, and that we don't care about? Wasting our time and money and intruding in our homes.
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I think the answer to those unspoken questions is that the motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil. It's hard enough for children to grow up in this world. When Indian children watch television, and they watch films, and when they see their race depicted as they are in films, their minds become injured in ways we can never know.
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Recently there have been a few faltering steps to correct this situation, but too faltering and too few, so I, as a member in this profession, do not feel that I can as a citizen of the United States accept an award here tonight. I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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I would have been here tonight to speak to you directly, but I felt that perhaps I could be of better use if I went to Wounded Knee to help forestall in whatever way I can the establishment of a peace which would be dishonorable as long as the rivers shall run and the grass shall grow.
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I would hope that those who are listening would not look upon this as a rude intrusion, but as an earnest effort to focus attention on an issue that might very well determine whether or not this country has the right to say from this point forward we believe in the inalienable rights of all people to remain free and independent on lands that have supported their life beyond living memory.
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A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF ROBERT ROBIDEAU
Brenda Golden & Nell Cole
put on a wonderful show honoring the life of a warrior.....
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Robert Robideau
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If you missed this remarkable show you can listen to it here
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FROM CENSORED NEWS
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As with the passing of a loved one, an account has been set up to assist the family with the financial responsibilities of laying Bob to rest. If you would like to help, please send donations to:
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In the benefit of Robert Robideau
US Bank
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*You can send it to any US Bank in the United States, via mail or transfer, or walk-in.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
RED TOWN RADIO ~ TRIBUTE TO ROBERT ROBIDEAU
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Will honor a warrior
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Robert Robideau
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A tribute show will air Saturday Febuary 28 at 5:00 PM Central - 6:00 EST
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Tribute to honor Robert Robideau who passed away in Spain on February 18, 2009 at the age of 61.
Guests include Starr Robideau, Russell Means, and David Hill.
Anyone that wants to share memories of Robert Robideau are encouraged to call in.
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YOU CAN LINK TO THE SHOW BY CLICKING ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
CENSORED NEWS: Censorship and the heroes of our generation
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Censored News
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From one of todays most important blogs comes one of the most important articles...
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In honor of the heros of our generation
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