ELP Information Bulletin (29th of December 2007)

Dear friends

ELP has just received two bits of Amer­i­can news. First off ALF/ELF pris­on­er, Jonathan Paul, has released his first prison dis­patch. Sec­ond­ly, we have been infored that ALF/ELF pris­on­er. Chris McIn­tosh has been moved to a new address:

Dear friends

ELP has just received two bits of Amer­i­can news. First off ALF/ELF pris­on­er, Jonathan Paul, has released his first prison dis­patch. Sec­ond­ly, we have been infored that ALF/ELF pris­on­er. Chris McIn­tosh has been moved to a new address:

First­ly here is the dis­patch from Jonathan Paul.…

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11.14.07

Friends, sup­port­ers and fam­i­ly,

This is the first of 51 month­ly dis­patch­es I will be writ­ing until I am released in 2011. Although I will be writ­ing to let every­one know how I am doing while incar­cer­at­ed at FCI Phoenix, the pur­pose of these dis­patch­es are not going to be about me, but about the real issues that threat­en life as we know it on this plan­et.

First, I would like to thank every­one who has writ­ten me in the last few weeks. Your let­ters of sup­port have over­whelmed me with emo­tion and have giv­en me strength and hope. I thank all of you from the bot­tom of my heart. From the Anar­chist writ­ing group in NY, to my tribe of friends and to those I have nev­er met, the time you took to write to me has giv­en me much strength. I would like to put out spe­cial thanks to my sis­ters, Car­o­line and Alexan­dra, my won­der­ful Mom (Mum­sie) and my dear sweet wife, Tami. I under­stand your love is uncon­di­tion­al and with that I am blessed to have you as my fam­i­ly. To my wife Tami — who has been by my side since 1999, your devo­tion and com­mit­ment to me is unmatched by any­one, ever. Thank you for help­ing me pick up the mess left in the wake of this very dif­fi­cult time in our life. To those who are sup­port­ing Tami on a dai­ly basis — I thank you also. All I can to all of you is I would do the same for you and I am in your debt.

As for life here in prison, I want you all to know I am okay. Every day that pass­es is a day clos­er to my free­dom. I look for­ward to that day and that day will come.

I want to say a few words about some­one who has inspired and amazed me over the years, a com­mit­ted
activist who has been “down” for a very long time. Moved to activism after expe­ri­enc­ing the bru­tal
pover­ty and racism expe­ri­enced as a part of every­day life, Amer­i­can Indi­an Move­ment war­rior, Leonard
Pelti­er, has been in prison for over 30 years and is serv­ing two life sen­tences for crimes he did not
com­mit. Leonard worked to pro­tect his peo­ple and the earth from the pow­er­ful ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions and the
gov­ern­ment they rule. On the Pine Ridge reser­va­tion in the 1970’s the tra­di­tion­al Native Amer­i­cans fought for their way of life while under attack from the gov­ern­ment spon­sored goons, the FBI and the coal and ura­ni­um ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions that want­ed the Black Hills for resources. The Native Amer­i­cans of this land have been sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly destroyed and oppressed in a geno­ci­dal cam­paign since the white man first stepped his ugly foot on North Amer­i­ca.

Leonard was accused and con­vict­ed of killing two FBI agents dur­ing a shootout on the Pine Ridge reser­va­tion in 1975. Leonard was wrong­ly con­vict­ed in 1977 based on coerced tes­ti­mo­ny and sup­pressed evi­dence. Leonard’s case is one of the most egre­gious exam­ples of pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al and inves­tiga­tive mis­con­duct in the his­to­ry of Amer­i­can jurispru­dence. I first became aware of the strug­gles of the Amer­i­can Indi­an Move­ment when I was in jail for resist­ing a polit­i­cal grand jury in 1992–1993. I read In the Spir­it of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen while incar­cer­at­ed and could­n’t put it down. Leonard’s sto­ry gave me strength dur­ing my 6 months resist­ing the grand jury. When I was released from jail I was com­pli­ment­ed on my strength and all I could think of was Leonard’s strength.

When I turned myself into prison last month, one of the first books my wife sent me was In the Spir­it of
Crazy Horse. I read this book, for the sec­ond time, behind bars and fin­ished it in the first two days. I
con­sid­er the strug­gles of AIM and think about their fight not only against geno­cide, but also eco­cide.
Our strug­gles are one strug­gle.

To my sup­port­ers and friends — when you sit down to write me a let­ter, please put the paper aside and
write to Leonard Pelti­er. He has been in prison for more than 30 years — he has remained strong with
unprece­dent­ed integri­ty. If you sup­port me, please sup­port him. He has sac­ri­ficed his free­dom for his
peo­ple and for moth­er earth. Leonard needs to hear from our “tribe”…the envi­ron­men­tal and ani­mal rights move­ments for his strug­gle is our strug­gle. Show him and his peo­ple that we are all part of one move­ment — a move­ment to stop the geno­cide, eco­cide, and oppres­sion of all beings. We are one and when we join into one we may actu­al­ly move for­ward and be able to effect change. By sup­port­ing Leonard, you are sup­port­ing me. If Leonard hears from you and it makes him smile, gives him some hope and strength, and lets him know that he is not and nev­er will be for­got­ten, then you are giv­ing me the strength and strength to our move­ments.

Please write to Leonard at the fol­low­ing address:

Leonard Pelti­er

# 89637–132

USP LEWISBURG

U.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 1000

LEWISBURG, PA 17837

In sol­i­dar­i­ty for the earth and ani­mals,

Jonathan Paul

#07167–085

FCI Phoenix

Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion

37910 N. 45th Ave.

Phoenix, AZ 85086

Jonathan’s co-defen­dants:

Daniel McGowan
#63794–053
FCI Sand­stone
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
PO Box 1000
Sand­stone, MN 55072

Nathan Block #36359–086
FCI Lom­poc
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
3600 Guard Road
Lom­poc, CA 93436

Joy­an­na Zach­er #36360–086
FCI Dublin
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
5701 8th St — Camp Parks- Unit E
Dublin, CA 94568

Friends and Fam­i­ly of Jonathan Paul
PMB# 267
2305 Ash­land St., Ste. C
Ash­land, OR 97520

Sec­ond­ly, an ELP sup­port­er has informed us that Chris ‘Dirt’ McIn­tosh has moved. Chris’ new address is:

Chris McIn­tosh
#30512–013
FCI Fair­ton
Fed­er­al Cor­rec­tion­al Insti­tu­tion
PO Box 420
Fair­ton, nj 08320
USA

Accord­ing to www.BOP.gov Chris is expect­ed to be at this address until 2012.

Please send let­ters of sup­port to Chris, Jonathan Paul, and all the oth­er pris­on­ers. Remind them they are not for­got­ten.

ELP Sup­port Net­work

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Lon­don
WC1N 3XX
Eng­land
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