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Lenny Foster: Native American Issues and Leonard Peltier
Friday, May 24, 2013
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Casa de las Américas, 182 E. 111th St. (btwn. Lex. Ave. and 3rd Ave.)
Reception from 6:30 to 7 p.m.
Light Refreshments Will Be Served
Lenny will speak on Native American Spirituality, the Prison System, Environmental Issues Affecting Native Lands and Native American Prisoner of War Leonard Peltier
Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Indian inmates in ninety-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.
He is a board member of the International Indian Treaty Council, a sun dancer and member of the Native American Church. He has been with the American Indian Movement since 1969 and has participated in actions including Alcatraz, Black Mesa, the Trail of Broken Treaties, Wounded Knee 1973, the Menominee Monastery Occupation, Shiprock Fairchild Occupation, the Longest Walk and the Big Mountain land struggle. He was a 1993 recipient of the City of Phoenix Dr. Martin Luther King Human Rights Award.
Lenny will speak on the illegal imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, land and resources taken from Native peoples by the U.S. government, stripmining, uranium mining and the pollution of the land, air and water, Native American freedom of religion and the demand to honor Native treaty rights.
Sponsors: NYC LPDOC Chapter, NYC Jericho Movement,
ProLibertad (list in formation)
For more info:
nyclpdoc@gmail.com • 646-429-2059
