FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014
LENNY FOSTER ON NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES
AND
LEONARD PELTIER
Casa de las Américas
182 East 111 Street (between Lexington & Third Avenues)
Reception from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Dinner will be served
7:00 p.m. Program
Opening Flute – Frank Menusan (Muskogee)
Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Correction Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Native American inmates in nine-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.
Lenny will speak on the illegal imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, land and resources taken from Native peoples by the U.S. government, Native American freedom of religion and the demand to honor Native treaty rights.
Sponsors include NYC Free Peltier, NYC Jericho Movement, ProLibertad
For more information: nycfreepeltier@gmail.com – 646 429-2059
