Media Release > Poetic circle for Leonard Peltier: > WORLD-RANGING MIX OF poets and musicians in Benefit at Justice league > >EVENT: Poetic Circle for Leonard Peltier, a Benefit for the >Leonard Peltier Defense Committee > >DATE and TIME: Monday, June 26, 8:00-10:30 p.m. > >VENUE: Justice League, 626 Divisadero, San Francisco > >PERFORMERS: the ALI KHAN BAND, Native Drummers; writers DON BAJEMA, DIANE >DIPRIMA >(poems for Leonard), MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH, DON PAUL, WANDA SABIR, and Youth >Speaks >poets BIKO, JASON MATEO, LAUREN QUINN and TIGER WALSH; musicians BABATUNDE >LEA >(percussion), RICHARD HOWELL (saxophones and talking-drum), KASH KILLION >(cello and >sarangi), and LISA MOSKOW (electric sarod). > >ADMISSION: $5-20 sliding-scale > >CONTACT: SAKURA KONE, 415-421-8622. >On the 25th anniversary of the gunfight on Pine Ridge Reservation that has >led to >24 years in Federal Prisons for LEONARD PELTIER, the celebrated Native >American >activist, painter and writer, a wide range of San Francisco Bay Area >performers >will gather to honor him and to demand his release through Parole or >Executive >Clemency. > >Writers DON BAJEMA (Boy on a Swing), DIANE DIPRIMA (her poems for Leonard >read by >her grand-daughter), Slam-winner MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH, DON PAUL (AmeriModern, >Just >Like You), WANDA SABIR, and Youth Speaks poets BIKO, JASON MATEO, LAUREN >QUINN and >TIGER WALSH will be joined by BABATUNDE LEA (percussion), RICHARD HOWELL >(saxophones and talking-drum), KASH KILLION (cello and sarangi), and LISA >MOSKOW >(electric sarod). > >Native drummers will set a leading tone for the event. >The ALI KHAN BAND will >perform an acoustic set. > >BOBBY CASTILLO, International Representative of the Leonard Peltier Defense >Committee, will speak on long-term Governmental midhandling of LeonardÃs >case, the >latest news about it, and worldwide efforts for his release. > > FREE LEONARD PELTIER THIS YEAR! > > > > > > >Call the White House Comments Line Today >Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111 > >Leonard Peltier Defense Committee >PO Box 583 >Lawrence, KS 66044 >785-842-5774 >www.freepeltier.org