Leonard Peltier

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Leonard Peltier

PLEASE click HERE.. to read a note from the LPDOC -- plus a message from Leonard, dated May 18th

Please read Leonard's latest message from July 22nd

NEW PAGE = Leonard Peltier ~ America's Unfinished Business
( Sept. 22 - 2008 )

The long struggle of Leonard Peltier... an article from counterpunch.org [Nov. 2005] you'll find here [engl.].

Diese Seite ist Leonard Peltier gewidmet ~~ bis er als freier Mensch
durch das Tor des Gefängnisses hinaus gehen kann.

Schweigen, so sagt man, ist die Stimme der Komplizen.
Aber Schweigen ist nicht möglich.
Schweigen schreit.
Schweigen ist Botschaft,
so wie Nichtstun Handlung.

In jedem Wort, in jeder Handlung
laß dein Wesen laut erklingen und widerhallen.
Nimm dein eigenes Wesen an.
Es führt kein Weg daran vorbei,
weder an deinem Wesen noch an der Verantwortung.

Du bist, was du tust.
Du bist deine wohlverdiente Strafe.
Du wirst deine eigene Botschaft.

Du bist die Botschaft.

This page is dedicated to Leonard Peltier ~~
until he'll walk through the prison's gate as a free human relative.

Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act.
Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.
You are your own comeuppance.
You become your own message.
You are the message.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

Drums for Peltier

by Phil Goldvarg

Drums for Peltier,
   conga drums,
      water drums,
         bata drums,
Ponca drums,
   Lakota drums,
      Otoe drums,
Cheyenne drums,
   First Nation drums,
skin tight,
   hands slap the skins,
new skin
   over old skin,
heart beat,
   breath beat,
      dream beat,
the drumming of feet
   on mother earth,
she drums back in contentment,
   deep voice of love,
drumming for Peltier
   across the night,
      sunrise and sunset,
drumming ocean waves of hope,
   crashing the rocks of injustice,
put them hands on the skin,
   new skin over old skin,
ancestor skin,
   seven generation skin,
      regeneration skin,
we go on beating,
   never retreating,
we are skin
   caressing skin,
drum echoes dance Paha Sapa,
   dance Leonard,
      repair the circles,
spirit drums,
   eagle drums,
      wolf drums,
all relation drums,
   hand in hand,
      arm in arm,
wall of voice
   calling for freedom,
      for Leonard,
handing him the drum,
   the skin of our soul,
beating the drum
   for us and Peltier,
for generations of breath
   that sing in the drum

Drums for Peltier

by Phil Goldvarg

©Phil Goldvarg Permission granted for general use

©Phil Goldvarg
Permission granted for general use