FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 28, 2024
Contact Information:
Leonard Peltier Official Ad Hoc Committee
Contact: Kalonji Jama Changa
Tel. 917.921.0271
Email: defendingthepoor@gmail.com
Dawn Lawson
Leonard Peltier Official Ad Hoc Committee
Tel. 916.717.2661
Email: dawn@freeleonardpeltiernow.org
PRESS RELEASE REGARDING LEONARD PELTIER AND MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
In a historic alliance, the Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier organizations have officially joined forces to convene the Pan African Pan Indigenous Collective.
The objective of the alliance is the mobilization of Mr. Abu-Jamal’s and Mr. Peltier’s international communities of support to leverage, evince, and catalyze the official support of nation-state(s) to advance the interests of both comrades in freedom and the anti-colonial struggle. The strength of this leverage is found in the current geopolitical climate seeded by the second and third waves of anti-colonial pan-Africanist and Indigenous struggle, in which a new wave is currently emerging as a bright dawn in both African and South America, in nations such as Burkina Faso and Venezuela. At the same time, the situations of Mr. Abu-Jama and Mr. Peltier, who both represent the anti-colonial struggle, are in an urgent posture for which additional weight, focus, and commitment must be enlisted. The concentric circles of domestic and international strategies are extraordinarily strong, mutually complementing, and self-sustaining.
Honoring the movement, while initiating the next phase or wave of the anti-colonial struggle in the United Front Against Fascism, the Abu-Jamal and Peltier organizations seek the support of nation-states with similar aligned interests upon an Axis of Love and Unity as power- a power that has yet to fail. The Delegation holds the concrete objectives of (1) Requesting nation-state(s) expression of concern regarding the incarceration of both men during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), (2) Ambassadorships for both Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier, and (3) Their release to a sovereign nation-state, including tribes in North America, in the form of a potential prisoner exchange.
To initiate the work of the joint delegation from the Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal organizations, a press conference will be held on September 12, 2024, at 5pm, Mr. Peltier’s birthday, during the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the People’s Forum in New York City. We invite organizations, entities and individuals to send delegates and messages of support to endorse this first of further steps to be announced.
Free Leonard, Free Mumia
Free Them All
Press Conference Details
The People’s Forum
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024, at 5pm
Location: 320 W 37th St. New York, NY 10018
