Re: Petition - Pymouth, Mass.
Thomas Cagle (nh-adapt@juno.com)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 20:05:01 -0500
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From: WontKneel <WontKneel@aol.com>
To: nh-adapt@juno.com,
Cc: uaine19@idt.net
Subject: Re: Petition - Pymouth, Mass.
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:36:20 EST
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the December 18, 1997
issue of Workers World newspaper
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WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY WITH PLYMOUTH ROCK PROTESTERS
By Mahtowin Munro
More and more people all over the country and around the
world are hearing about the police assault on a peaceful
march of Native people and their supporters that took
place in Plymouth, Mass., on U.S. "Thanksgiving" day.
United American Indians of New England, the group that
has organized the National Day of Mourning since 1970,
has received an overwhelming number of messages of
support from individuals and organizations from virtually
every state in the United States and from Canada,
Belgium, Holland, Peru, Mexico, Australia and other
countries.
Newspaper and radio coverage has extended from New
Mexico to British Columbia, and from Madison, Wis., to
England.
UAINE is asking supporters to gather signatures on the
petition below from their organizations, labor unions,
communities and campuses.
For more information on to help, readers can contact:
UAINE, P.O. Box 7501, Quincy, MA 02269. Phone: (617)773-
0406; e-mail: uaine19@idt.net.
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PETITION
We, the undersigned, wish to express our outrage over the
police assault on Native Americans and their supporters
in Plymouth, Mass., on Nov. 27, 1997, U.S. "Thanksgiving"
day.
On that day, hundreds of Native Americans and their
supporters gathered in Plymouth, Mass., to observe the
28th National Day of Mourning, organized by United
American Indians of New England. Their peaceful march was
attacked by about 150 police from the Plymouth Police
Dept., Massachusetts state troopers, and other police
agencies. During the assault, the cops used pepper spray
and mace in the eyes of elders and children. People
wearing buttons or T-shirts demanding freedom for Native
political prisoner Leonard Peltier were singled out for
harassment and arrest.
This completely unprovoked assault resulted in the
arrests of 25 women and men from all four directions--
Indigenous people from North and Central America, Black,
Latino, Asian, and white, lesbian, gay and straight--on
charges ranging from assembly without a permit to assault
and battery on a police officer. The ages of those
arrested ranged from 20 to 67 years old.
We demand the following: Drop all the charges immediately
against the 25 people arrested. A public apology from all
police agencies involved. An open public inquiry into the
police brutality that occurred in Plymouth on Nov. 27,
1997. This must be done by independent parties, not by
police agencies or prosecutors.
Massachusetts Gov. Cellucci and other state and national
public figures must break their silence and condemn the
police violence that occurred in Plymouth on
"Thanksgiving" day.
NAME ADDRESS PHONE e-mail
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Please return all petitions to United American Indians of
New England, P.O. Box 7501, Quincy, MA 02269. (617)773-
0406, uaine19@idt.net
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