Thank you to Daniel Strum for this video footage of Noura Erakat speaking on Israeli Apartheid at the Memorial United Methodist Church.

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I will be interviewing Toni Zeidan, Bob Robideau, and Barry Bachrach for a PNN Special this Saturday at 2pm.  Toni Zeidan is the National Coordinator of the Leonard Peltier Defense Cte and Barry Bachrach is the lead attorney.  Bob Robideau was one of the two men initially arrested for the death of two FBI agents at Wounded Knee but they were both found not guilty.  (See information at the bottom here).

I will be in Missouri all of next week (June 26 through June 30) with limited access to e-mail.  I will be back in the office on Monday, July 3rd and hope to see as many of you as possible marching in the streets on July 4th with WESPAC, No War and Code Pink!

Cheers,  Nada

EXCERPT: Dino Butler and Bob Robideau were first apprehended and were taken to court. Leonard Peltier had escaped to Canada, knowing that he could not receive any fair justice in the U.S. judicial system. Dino Butler and Bob Robideau, during their trial, were able to prove that not one of the murders at the Pine Ridge reservation were ever investigated. And even today, still not one of those murders have gone investigated, including that of Anna Mae Aquash. They had chopped her hands off to identify her. Normally when you identify someone, you just take a piece of paper and you put the ink on the finger and take the finger prints. But they chopped the hands off of Anna Mae Aquash and sent them back to Washington, D.C. for "positive identification."

Even though Bob Robideau and Dino Butler were able to prove that all these atrocities and conditions existed on the reservation, the government didn't think it was going to be very much, because they were relying on their best weapon: racism. All-white jury. Two Indians killed two white cops. This they figured was enough. There's no way two Indians could get away with killing white cops with a white jury. But these white people on the jury, they listened with their hearts and their minds. They listened to all the evidence and found the defendants not guilty by reason of self-defense. This was a major, major victory for Indian people....