Leonard Peltier Tests Positive For COVID-19

Massive love and prayers to go Leonard to successfully fight this virus, and gain immunity

1/30/2022 Press Release:
INTERNATIONAL LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE COMMITTEE
Elder Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier contracts Covid 19 at USP
Coleman 1 as BOP fails to follow CDC Covid Guidelines. ILPDC
Demands Covid Release for Leonard Peltier
https://leonardpeltiermatters.com/Press_Release.pdf

Painting by Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier has COVID, 46 years in prison! Hospitalize and free him now!
change.org petition
https://chng.it/z57pwWNG2K

Dear President Biden: Release Leonard Peltier
The Last Real Indians, 10/30/2021
https://lastrealindians.com/news/2021/10/30/dear-president-biden-release-leonard-peltier





Peltier Defense Committee: CDC Guidelines Are Not Followed at U.S. Penitentiary — Leads to Peltier Contracting COVID-19
Levi Rickert, Native News Online, 1/29/2022
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/peltier-defense-committee-cdc-guidelines-are-not-followed-at-u-s-penitentiary-leads-to-peltier-contracting-covid-19

Leonard Peltier Tests Positive For COVID-19
Levi Rickert, Native News Online, 1/29/2022  
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/breaking-news-leonard-peltier-tests-positive-for-covid-19

Leonard Peltier Tests Positive For COVID-19
The ailing 77-year-old Native American rights activist has been pleading for help in prison and was never given a coronavirus booster shot.
Jennifer Bendery, HuffPost, 1/28/2022
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leonard-peltier-covid-positive_n_61f4a8f2e4b04f9a12bd7138?fbclid=IwAR0oLCGy_HNFbA5iW8vduC4_Lj_YGRJVjvznFDtJLCwj1iurDOagEh7hky0

yahoo carries the story:
https://news.yahoo.com/leonard-peltier-tests-positive-covid-035323995.html

The Bharat Express News carries the story:
https://www.thebharatexpressnews.com/leonard-peltier-tests-positive-for-covid-19/

Leonard Peltier tests positive for COVID-19; attorney pushing for compassionate release from federal prison
Angie Wieck, Inforum, 1/29/2022
https://www.inforum.com/news/aim-activist-leonard-peltier-tests-positive-for-covid-19-in-federal-prison

Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Pleads from Prison Amid Pandemic
NPR: The Takeaway, January 27, 2022
For the past 45 years, Leonard Peltier has been behind bars for a crime he says he didn't commit. The Native American activist was accused of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. Peltier was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, and he's been denied parole several times since. Over the years, his imprisonment has been denounced by people like Pope Francis, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and more. Many people expected former President Bill Clinton to grant him clemency, but he didn't — and neither have any subsequent presidents. The U.S. attorney who helped put Peltier in prison has even pleaded with President Joe Biden to grant him clemency. Now, Peltier is begging for help amid the COVID pandemic. According to reporting from the Huffington Post, he says quote "fear and stress" associated with his prison's COVID lockdowns are taking a toll on everyone, including himself. At 77 years old, Peltier has serious health problems including an abdominal aortic aneurysm and diabetes. For more on Peltier and his activism, The Takeaway spoke to Kent Blansett, the Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History at the University of Kansas and a Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Shawnee, and Potawatomi descendant.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444253/pri-the-takeaway?fbclid=IwAR1wlzGQTRf_r-BSweMQ_rr7AY7ma5uE6AxE-_41P7k-_CfssU3jqlPFEyg