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About Our Online Petitions
Unlike paper petitions which can be lost or destroyed, the
system we use for our online petitions stores
signatures in an electronic database. This allows us to retain
signatures over time and use them for a variety of purposes—but
only for the purpose of winning Leonard Peltier's freedom.
Specifically, the data we collect will be provided to the
Peltier attorneys for presentation at the appropriate time—to
the President and White House staff, members of Congress, and
the U.S. Parole Commission.
We ask you to please take a moment to sign at least one of the online
petitions. It will be the last time you will have to do so
because of how the signatures are stored. Please encourage
others to do the same.
If you are in doubt as to whether or not you have already signed
any of our petitions, sign one of them anyway. The system is
programmed to exclude duplicate signatures when petitions are
printed.
When prompted to do so, please also provide as much information
about yourself as possible. This makes your signature on an
electronic petition all the more credible.
Important: Be aware that we do NOT display personal
contact information at the petition site. We also do not display
comments (to guard against abuse). You should also know that you
have the option of excluding your name
from public display when you sign a petition. Simply check the box at the
bottom of the signature form ("Display my name as
anonymous on the signatures list").
2007-2008 Petitions
Congressional
Investigation—For decades, we have
requested that a congressional hearing be held to address the
events on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during the 1970s. In spring 2004, the Judiciary Committee (U.S. House of
Representatives) announced plans to investigate misconduct on the part of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI). In response, the Peltier attorneys submitted a formal
request to Congress for this investigation to include a full
examination of the misconduct exhibited on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation during the 1970s, and in the case against Leonard
Peltier. Recently, activist organizations also have called for
a congressional hearing on the long-term effects of COINTELPRO.
Join with these organizations and support this action. Sign
the
online petition
today.
Or
download the petition in Word format for photocopying and
distribution at events.
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Executive Clemency—Continue expressing
your support for an award of Executive Clemency to Leonard
Peltier. View/sign
online or
download in Word format.
FOIA Documents—Tens
of thousands of documents on the Peltier case have yet to be released by
the FBI. Urge that congressional hearings be held on the
handling of Leonard Peltier’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The FBI must be required to divulge the exact number
of documents it maintains on Leonard Peltier and the Field
Offices that maintain these records; the total number
of documents regarding this case that have been
destroyed, as well as the date and authority under which
records were destroyed; and whether or not any records
dealing with Leonard Peltier have been transferred to any
other agencies, as well as pertinent details of those
transfers. Most importantly, the FBI must release all
documents related to the Peltier case. These documents are over
25 years old and are considered historically significant.
Further, they may contain information that may exonerate Leonard
Peltier. Sign the
online petition. Or
download a Word version of the petition for use in your
community. -
Parole—Sign an
online petition in support of
the immediate parole of Leonard Peltier. Invite others to sign the
petition. You also may
download the petition in Word format to circulate in your
community.
SEE ALSO: Resolution—Attention
organizations and solidarity groups! Renew your commitment and pass a resolution in support of justice for Leonard Peltier. Urge other groups
and
organizations to do the same. Such resolutions will be compiled, combined
with supporter petitions, and presented to the U.S. Congress, the White House,
and used for miscellaneous other purposes.
View online.
Download a Word version to circulate in your community, too. |
