For 41 years, Native activist Leonard Peltier has been falsely imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. As the Obama presidency winds down, the coming months are critical for Peltier’s freedom. Due to failing health and exhausted legal options, it is highly unlikely...
James Franco’s digital tattoo – @JamesFrancoTV tweeted #FreePeltier today! “Tattooed for Peltier” is a campaign created by The Amplifier Foundation (http://theamplifierfoundation.org/ and @amplifierfoundation) and Native American artist Cheyenne Randall...
So much time has passed that many Americans have forgotten, if they ever knew, what happened to an American Indian named Leonard Peltier, who has spent more than 40 years confined in various federal penitentiaries. This summer, a group of his family members and...
Published July 18, 2016 NEW YORK – The “I Will Ask – Will You?,” clemency for Leonard Peltier began in 2012 after Harry Belafonte and the late Pete Seeger held a concerrt Peltier in the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Jack Healey who was the former director of...
June 26, 2016 Sisters, brothers, friends and supporters: June 26th marks 41 years since the long summer day when three young men were killed at the home of the Jumping Bull family, near Oglala, during a firefight in which I and dozens of others participated. While I...
Last night at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, Sting and Peter Gabriel played a video made especially for them by the Human Rights Action Center’s I Will Campaign in support of Leonard Peltier’s clemency. The public service announcement (PSA) showed...
