LENNY FOSTER ON LEONARD PELTIER AND NATIVE ISSUES

Oct 24, 2010 from 7:00am to 5:30pm EDT
Location: American Indian Community House
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020

Lenny Foster on Native Issues & Leonard Peltier Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. American Indian Community House 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, NYC Light Brunch & Refreshments Lenny will speak on Native American Spirituality & the Prison System 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Brecht Forum 451 West Street, NYC Opening Flute by Tiokasin Ghosthorse "Spirituality is the foundation of American Indian culture—the root of a traditional way of life. If American Indian peoples are denied the right to exercise their spirituality, we're talking about a denial that borders on cultural genocide." —Lenny Foster, 1997 Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project and the Spiritual Advisor for 1,500 Indian inmates in many state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado that allows Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and results 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 ’73, 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 five Native American issues: 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: LPDOC Chapter NYC , NYC Jericho Movement For more info: nyclpdoc@gmail.com • 718-325-4407 Directions to the Brecht Forum: A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the river, turn left. 1, 2, 3 or 9 to 14th Street & 7th Ave, get off at south end of station, walk west on 12th Street to 8th Ave., left to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the river, turn left.

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LENNY FOSTER ON LEONARD PELTIER AND NATIVE ISSUES

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