Mar 9, 2015 | General, Press
By Jack Healey, Human Rights Action Center Not many blog posts start off with a listing of the deceased, but in Leonard Peltier’s clemency request to President Obama, he will say the following: After 40 years in prison, it is with sadness that I write the names...
Jan 5, 2015 | General, Press
Leonard Peltier has been in prison since 1977 in spite of overwhelming calls for clemency. It is enough now. Clemency is long past due for Leonard Peltier. See what others have to say in the “I WILL” video: Human Rights Action Center (HRAC) is joining a...
Sep 17, 2014 | General, Press
By Jack Healey, Human Rights Action Center Indigenous peoples in the Americas, American Indians, have been decimated several times over. While a lot of loss came from diseases for which there was no native immunity, it is impossible to overstate the intentional...
Dec 8, 2013 | General, Press
By Ruth Hopkins Since the passing of fellow Indigenous tribesman Madiba Nelson Mandela, much of mainstream media has attempted to paint him in their own colonial image, once again revising history to make the Federal Government and it’s allies look good, and thereby...
Jul 3, 2013 | General, Press
by Harvey Wasserman Barack Obama has taken his two daughters on a dramatic visit to the Robben Island cell once occupied by Nelson Mandela. Let’s hope he takes them next to the one now occupied by Leonard Peltier. Mandela was famously held by the apartheid South...