Could America’s longest-serving ‘political prisoner’ be on the verge of freedom?

Could America’s longest-serving ‘political prisoner’ be on the verge of freedom?
Native American Leonard Peltier has spent four decades in jail and is in poor health. Clemency from President Biden is his only hope, writes Jade Bremner
Independent, 12/27/2021
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/leonard-peltier-clemency-joe-biden-b1976098.html

My Turn: Leonard Peltier is America’s Nelson Mandela
David Detmold, Greenfield Recorder, 11/30/2021
https://www.recorder.com/my-turn-detmold-FreeLeonardPeltierNow-43773954

Marchers carry a large painting of jailed
American Indian Leonard Peltier during a march for the
National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Mass., on Nov. 22.  AP

Free Peltier
Duane Natvig, Rutland Herald, 12/15/2021
https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/letters/free-peltier/article_b18719d8-4028-5766-a72e-59016321aaea.html

Jonathan P. Baird: It’s time to release Leonard Peltier
Concord Monitor, 12/20/2021
https://www.concordmonitor.com/Jonathan-P-Baird-It-is-time-to-release-Leonard-Peltier-44028190

ADAMS: Nollag Shona Daoibhse Go Leir
Irish Echo Staff, 12/22/2021
https://www.irishecho.com/2021/12/adams-nollag-shona-daoibhse-go-leir

Neegonwewaywedun “Thunder Before the Storm” A.K.A Clyde Bellecourt, Co-Founder of the American Indian Movement
The Alley Newspaper, 2/1/2022
https://alleynews.org/2022/01/giga-waabamin-nee-gon-way-we-dun/

ADAMS: Remembering AIM's Clyde Bellecourt
Gerry Adams, Irish Echo,  1/27/2022
https://www.irishecho.com/2022/1/adams-remembering-aim-s-clyde-bellecourt

GERRY ADAMS: 45 years on, it's past time to release Leonard Peltier
Gery Adams, Belfast Media, 12/23/2021
https://belfastmedia.com/leonard-peltier-an-appeal-for-some-compassion

No color is this wind
Ellis Taylor, 12/2/2021
https://ellisctaylor.com/2021/12/02/no-colour-is-this-wind/?unapproved=9436&moderation-hash=4a603cf8915a37eae87f86e4ce4e5622#comment-9436

Clyde Bellecourt, Co-Founder Of The American Indian Movement, Dies Of Cancer At 85
Deepa Shivaram and Doualy Xaykaothao, NPR, 1/12/2022
https://laist.com/news/clyde-bellecourt-co-founder-of-the-american-indian-movement-dies-of-cancer-at-85

Former South African President Nelson Mandela (R) listens to
Clyde image: Bellecourt, director of the American Indian Movement,
making an appeal for the case of Leonard Peltier at the
Minneapolis Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Nov. 21, 2000.

CNN carries the story:
Clyde Bellecourt, Native American civil rights leader, dies at 85
Caroll Alvarado, CNN, 1/12/2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/us/aim-leader-clyde-bellecourt-dies-85/index.html

The Philadelphia Tribune carries the story:
Clyde Bellecourt, Native American civil rights leader, dies at 85
https://www.phillytrib.com/obituaries/clyde-bellecourt-native-american-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-85/article_c641ed9f-f26b-5775-811c-5daadbf51231.html



I am honored to call Archbishop Tutu a friend
Matt Meyer, International Peace Research Association, San Fransisco Bay View, 1/1/2022
Those still imprisoned for political reasons (and their jailers) should also remember his consistent calls for their release – be they well known figures such as American Indian Movement elder Leonard Peltier or Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal or the lesser-known names of the wrongfully incarcerated of every nation – including, in the US, Sundiata Acoli, who is just a few years younger than the Arch.
|https://sfbayview.com/2022/01/i-am-honored-to-call-archbishop-tutu-a-friend/

Peter Gabriel Supports Leonard Peltier Freedom Campaign
Silent Bear, 12/6/2021
https://youtu.be/Fn4yHyHMmEo


Pressenza - L'appello di Naila Clerici per la liberazione di Leonard Peltier
Pressenza Italia, 12/31/2021
https://youtu.be/z2wNx9gxC6A


‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: When Rage Against the Machine Brought the Revolution to the Suburbs
Rob Harvilla, The Ringer, 1/19/2022

“Freedom” is the last song on the first Rage Against the Machine record; its video, ubiquitous on MTV for a time, is an explicit plea for the release of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of two FBI agents during a shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. Peltier has been imprisoned since 1977 despite widespread outcry that he is innocent, that key evidence was withheld at the trial, and that the eyewitnesses who testified at the trial were coerced by the FBI. Leonard Peltier is still in prison. The “Freedom” video ends with the statement WE DEMAND AND SUPPORT THE REQUEST THAT LEONARD PELTIER BE GRANTED EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY AND BE RELEASED; JUSTICE HAS NOT BEEN DONE, broken up a few words at a time in giant white letters on screen while the band thrashes through the loudest and screamiest and raddest part of the song.

https://www.theringer.com/2022/1/19/22890721/rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name



Leonard not specifically mentioned but of interest:


Comet Leonard With a Long, Long Tail Spotted By NASA’s STEREO Spacecraft
nemesis maturity, 12/25/2021
https://youtu.be/kNmcQpzBiIU

Judge Rules Against Pipeline Company Trying to Keep “Counterinsurgency” Records Secret
In a legal fight over public records, press advocates say that Dakota Access pipeline company Energy Transfer engaged in “abusive litigation tactics.”
Alleen Brown, The Intercept, 1/6/2022
https://theintercept.com/2022/01/06/dakota-access-pipeline-energy-transfer-tigerswan-documents/

Anakú Iwachá: Long out-of-print book of Yakama legends and stories is back once again
Feliks Banel, My Northwest, Jan 26, 2022
A long out-of-print book of legends and stories from the Yakama Nation – “Anakú Iwachá,” or “The Way It Was” – is available again in a new edition.

The author is Virginia Beavert. But that’s not her only name.

“My Indian name is Tuxámshish,” she said at the start of a recent interview with KIRO Newsradio.

Beavert has led – and is still leading – an amazing life. For decades, she has done so much to preserve and share Sahaptin dialects and other Native languages, as well as the culture and history of the original inhabitants of the Columbia Plateau – maybe more so than anyone else. She was born in Oregon in 1921, and grew up in the Yakima Valley with parents and grandparents who spoke many tribal dialects and languages that she learned to speak as well.

https://mynorthwest.com/3325860/anaku-iwacha-book-of-yakama-legends-and-stories-is-back/