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The 50th anniversary of AIMs (American Indian Movement's) occupation at Wounded Knee is coming up, so the Lakota People's Law Project is leading another push to free an AIM activist who was wrongly convicted of killing two federal agents in 1975- Leonard Peltier. He was convicted on false evidence and false testimony and sentenced to two life sentences. He is now 78.

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Leonard Peltier, I Am Everyone, in Prison Writings. My Life Is My Sun Dance, Edited by Harvey Arden, Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Preface by Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1999

I am everyone who ever died without a voice or a prayer or a hope or a chance… everyone who ever suffered for being an Indian, for being human, for being indigenous, for being free, for being Other, for being committed… I am every one of them. Every single one. Yes. Even you. I am everyone.

International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee American Indian Movement The Jericho Movement

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[“Significantly smaller in size than Wesler and on crutches and in a leg cast at the time of his break-in, Wanrow maintained that she acted instinctively to protect the children in the house when she fired her own registered gun first at Wesler and then at his friend, who sustained a minor injury: “When Wesler headed towards one of the children, I screamed for help. Wesler, who was drunk out of his mind, turned, lurching toward me. So I shot him. I immediately called the police to report what had happened. They arrested me and put me in jail. I feel all I was guilty of was being a mother who loves her children.”

In May of 1973, she was convicted of first-degree assault and second-degree murder by an all-white jury and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. The trial took place in a general climate of virulent anti-Indian racism in eastern Washington and against the particular backdrop of the American Indian Movement’s (AIM) seventy-one-day occupation of the small town of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of a U.S. Army massacre of several hundred Lakota people in 1890. The occupation was front-page news during her jury trial, and the coverage was overwhelmingly disparaging of the occupiers. “All Native Americans were seen as militants and extremists,” Wanrow later recollected.

By 1973 AIM had identified criminalization and imprisonment as priority concerns. It was the first activist organization to rally behind Wanrow and work with her and her family to launch a national defense campaign. Through her involvement with AIM she came to secure representation from feminist lawyers with the New York–based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 1975.

Over the next several years a growing number of Native American, feminist, and civil rights activists joined the effort, and defense committees emerged in the Pacific Northwest, California, Midwest, and Northeast. Out on bond throughout the six-year appeals process, Wanrow headed her own defense campaign. She traveled around the United States meeting with activists and participating in solidarity events, not only for herself, Inez García, and Dessie Woods, but also for several other lesser-known black and indigenous women in comparable legal predicaments, and for imprisoned AIM leader Leonard Peltier. In 1976 she took part in the historic International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Brussels, and in 1978 she joined a delegation of indigenous peoples in the Americas that traveled throughout West Germany, helping to circulate her story and mobilize supporters internationally. “I’m fighting as a woman, I’m fighting as a Third World person, and I’m fighting as a Native American,” she told audiences. She regularly stressed that her case was “not unique” but rather “just one blatant example of brutality that has been perpetrated towards Native people in this country.”

[…] As in the other three defense campaigns, activists pressed for a rethinking of violence to include the structural and institutional forces that produced the moment in which Wanrow killed Wesler. As one organizer put it: “In Yvonne’s case, the refusal of the police to provide protection was an act of violence. The continuing effort of the prosecutor to go after her—after 5 years—is an act of violence. A prison system that locks up a Joanne Little for theft for 8 years and lets Watergate criminals go free is violent…. We need to go a lot further back into the chain of violence to reach the real source.”

For many campaigners, Wanrow’s struggle for her freedom symbolized indigenous resistance to the institutional racism and sexism of the criminal legal system, as well as to the gendered structural violence of the settler colonial relationship between the United States and indigenous communities within its borders.”]

emily l. thuma, from all our trials: prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence, 2019

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NYC – Free Leonard Peltier Event! — NYC Anarchist Black Cross

NYC – Free Leonard Peltier Event! — NYC Anarchist Black Cross

WHAT: Discussion and PresentationWHEN: 1:00pm, Saturday, October 8thWHERE: The People’s Forum–320 West 37th Street New York, New York 10018COST: FREE With Dan Battaglia, International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Secretary Kevin Sharp, Leonard Peltier’s Attorney Lenny Foster, former Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project,Leonard’s Spiritual Advisor Other Speakers and Cultural…

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Emergency Week of Action for Haitian Refugees

September 24 – October 2

Biden: Halt Your Racist Border Patrol

Stop the Whippings and Racist Deportations NOW!  

Progressive organizations and activists in solidarity with Haitian refugees will hold protests around the country demanding the Biden administration end state terror at the border and deportations. In Texas, refugees face life-threatening conditions and brutal racist terror by U.S. policies and Klan-like Border Patrol agents.

We demand:

-Immediate firing and prosecution of all those responsible for the whipping and hate speech used against Haitian refugees, witnessed by and documented in the videos of various news organizations, including Al Jazeera;

-Provide permanent shelter and health care, including access to COVID-19 vaccinations, to all arrivals at the border;

-Extend Temporary Protection Status indefinitely for those facing deportations;

-Provide asylum to all arrivals;

-End the use of Title 42 to deny humane immigration policies and its racist and selective use of justifying the denial for the majority of non-European peoples;

- Reparations not deportations!

Partial list of endorsers, 9/25/21:

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice - Los Angeles; Unión del Barrio; Christopher Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 808* - NY; Clarence Thomas, author, "Organizing In Our Own Name: Million Worker March"; Puerto Rican Alliance; National Young Lords Organization; United American Indians of New England (UAINE); BAYAN-SoCal; American Indian Movement - SoCal; OCCUPY ICE – LA; Peoples Power Assembly - Baltimore; Moratorium NOW Coalition - Detroit; Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI); Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement; Socialist Unity Party; San Diego Coalition to Free Mumia & All Political Prisoners; Committee Against Police Brutality – San Diego; Pacific Asian Nuclear-Free Peace Alliance; Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA) – LA; Coloradans Against Racist Hate; Indian Voices newspaper; Party for Justice and Liberation – Columbia, SC; Leonard Peltier Defense Committee – San Diego; San Diego Cop Watch; San Diego County Central Committee of the Peace & Freedom Party; Entrepreneur Educational Center, Inc. – LA; Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine; Ina Martinez, UPWARD*; Sandra Sunshine Williams, SOA Watch – LA*; Casey Lynn - Syracuse, NY

* For identification only

Add your endorsement here: https://forms.gle/GGMuiujx6u4SDJX49

Please consider doing an action, regardless of size, during this week.  Pick an ICE office, Federal Building, City Hall, or stand at a busy intersection with signs. Every action is important. This is an emergency!

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Tweet from The Leonard Peltier Podcast (@Leonard_Pod)

The Leonard Peltier Podcast (@Leonard_Pod) Tweeted:

The Freedom Family and the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee are seeking to raise $50,000 for Leonard's legal commitments over the nx 6 months.

Leonard has 3 current pending actions in 2021. Please consider donating!

#FreeLeonardPeltier

https://t.co/ewkCtLgewU https://twitter.com/Leonard_Pod/status/1355328978488201219?s=20

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Photos from the Clemency for Leonard Peltier action and talk by Rigo 23 on January 7, 2017 at 356 Mission

Click HERE for the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee website

Click HERE to sign the Amnesty International petition to free Leonard Peltier

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James Reynolds, the US attorney who helped incarcerate Mr Peltier in the 1970s, wrote an astonishing letter to President Joe Biden in July. The contents of the letter were made public in November. In it, the lawyer implored the US commander in chief to free the man he now believes was wrongly convicted and to help repair the fractious relationship between Native Americans and the US government.

“I write today from a position rare for a former prosecutor: to beseech you to commute the sentence of a man who I helped put behind bars,” wrote Mr Reynolds.

Carol Gokee, the National Director of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has highlighted to The Independent the specific failings in the 1975 trial. “The actions of the FBI and the federal government unquestionably lead to the circumstances for Leonard being in jail,” she says. “The falsified affidavits for extradition, the second autopsy without looking at the bodies so they can point to a particular gun, the falsified ballistics, the intimidated witnesses who gave false testimony, and so much more.”

Mr Reynolds writes in his letter that the only legitimate evidence court had was that Mr Peltier was “present with a weapon at the Reservation that day,” he wrote. “He has served more than 46 years on the basis of minimal evidence, a result that I strongly doubt would be upheld in any court today.”

Now aged 77, and suffering from diabetes and an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which can be lethal if ruptured, this could be the final chance for Peltier to be released. It would free “Leonard Peltier from this nightmare. And restore justice to an already broken system,” said Ms Gokee, who hails from the Ojibwe tribe in northern Wisconsin.

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Leonard Peltier Undergoes Triple-Bypass Surgery

Leonard Peltier Undergoes Triple-Bypass Surgery

Leonard Peltier has been in prison for over 40 years Published September 3, 2017 COLEMAN, FLORIDA – On Saturday, it was revealed that Leonard Peliter (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians) underwent triple-bypass surgery near Leesburg, Florida recently. Exact details were not shared. The announcement came from the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Peltier shared this message to…

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Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings. My Life Is My Sun Dance, Edited by Harvey Arden, Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Preface by Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1999

Doing time creates a demented darkness of my own imagination… Doing time does this thing to you. But, of course, you don’t do time. You do without it. Or rather, time does you. Time is a cannibal that devours the flesh of your years day by day, bite by bite.

International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee American Indian Movement The Jericho Movement

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Who Is Leonard Peltier?: Paulette D'auteuil of the ILPDC

A Story of Leonard Peltier

This week, Paulette D'auteuil speaks about the life and case of Leonard Peltier. Peltier is one of the best known political prisoners currently held in the U.S. Paulette is the Director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, based near Coleman, FL, where Leonard is incarcerated and also is an advisor to the National Jericho Movement.

For the hour, Paulette tells about Leonard's life, his case, his health, the resistance that Leonard was and continues to be a part of, COINTELPRO, and Leonard's art. You can learn more about Leonard Peltier by visiting the ILPDC's website, http://whoisleonardpeltier.info, where you'll find lots more info, Leonard's artwork, ways to plug in and do events to raise awareness of Leonard's case and keep up on updates. You can also find the ILPDC on twitter and fedbook.

Interview begins at 9 min, 14 sec

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Los Angeles: Solidarity with Land Back Movement

Saturday, November 20 - 4:00 p.m.

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, 5278 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles

During Native American Heritage Month we salute the ongoing struggles of Indigenous peoples in the U.S. "Conscience Point," a major film regarding the Shinnecock people in the Hamptons, Long Island exemplifies the struggle of Indigenous people fighting to protect their homeland and self-determination. Excerpts of this award-winning production and other important video contributions will be part of this forum and discussion to highlight and honor the ongoing Indigenous struggles today.

Activists in the current Indigenous movement leading the discussion:

Zola Fish: Member of Choctaw Nation, Land Back Movement, San Diego Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Committee Against Police Brutality and Socialist Unity Party

Carl Muhammad: Black Native of the Nipmuc Nation, founding member of the Committee Against Police Brutality and Socialist Unity Party

For more information: 323-306-6240 or facebook.com/HarrietTubmanCenter

https://linktr.ee/harriettubman

Masks and social distancing are mandatory.

Sponsored by Socialist Unity Party & Struggle La Lucha newspaper 

323-306-6240

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Clemency for Leonard Peltier letter writing action + presentation by Rigo 23 Postcards, pens, and postage provided

At 3 PM, Rigo 23 will present on his two decades of work surrounding the freedom campaign, including the Leonard Peltier Statue Project [Click for link].

Saturday, January 7, 2017 2 - 5 PM

For video of this event click HERE.

to read Democracy NOW’s interview with Rigo 23 about the current state of this project, click HERE

Click HERE for the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee website

Click HERE to sign the Amnesty International petition to free Leonard Peltier

***image: Two-term vice-president of the Oglala Lakota Tribe - Tom Poor Bear - stands on the statue's feet in front of his home at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He holds a framed photograph of himself and Leonard Peltier taken during a recent visit at U.S. Penitentiary Coleman, in Florida. Photo: Marc Hors

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That's a Sick Baby, That's a Mulatto Baby

That’s a Mulatto Baby

My daughter Jharae was born on the 8th of August 1988. She was a month and a half early, small and strong. I was in my 1st year of sobriety when I gave birth to Jharae and still close to the crew her father and I ran with; chaos was still lurking around. To oversimplify my daughter’s parental lineage, her father was a Rude Boy and her mother a Punk.

The late 80s were a blast. It was a time of turmoil, hope and change. Reagan was President and as a single mother I struggled to live under his money privileged policies. But there was also hope coming from halfway around the world and his name was Nelson Mandela. Economic resistance and artistic expression came together in hopes of dismantling a country divided along racial lines. A world-watched concert celebrating Mandela’s birthday was the final push that would eventually end Racial Apartheid in South Africa and open the door for a Black South African President.

In the 80s, the Golden Hill area wasn’t filled with hipsters. It was an authentic neighborhood of working-class people including an off-shoot crew of Whoopi Goldberg before she made it big with her one woman stage play. It was also a time when landlords gave opportunities to small businesses to realize their dreams. The Big Kitchen was in full swing and the Whistle Stop was in its original form. I didn’t have a car, usually by myself because Jharae’s father hadn’t yet found sobriety I walked all over Golden Hill with my daughter in tow.

It was a few months prior to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Release of Mandela. I was visiting my local YOUR ROOTS CONNECTION, a small business of all things Africa and planned to walk across the street to 7-11 to purchase a few guilt-free snacks. I remember it being a beautiful afternoon for me and my daughter to get out and about.

As If I Hadn’t Known I Had Given Birth to a Mulatto Baby

Usually aware of my surroundings, I was startled when 3 young skinheads, 2 male and 1 female suddenly surrounded me and my daughter Jharae. Skinheads were always trying to bum-rush the punk scene. Though at odds and engaging in an occasional fight, drugs brought punks, skins, mods and “rudes” together in the 80s. TO THIS DAY, DRUGS SEE NO COLOR.

The 2 guys I didn’t recognize. I recognized the female from my drug days. One of the males walked up to me, right in front of the stroller stopping my movement and said, “That’s a Sick Baby,” then putting his finger in my daughter’s face, “That’s a Mulatto Baby.” My first reaction was to take him down and kick his ass. The voices in my head told me to be a responsible mother. I smiled and laughed and walked myself and my daughter quickly away.

I didn’t even turn around to look at the wankers’ expressions, I headed straight for the 7-11. One of the day workers who had become a friend met me outside and guided me in… “Are you okay?” I pulled my daughter from the stroller hugging her tight and told him I was “fine.”

A few days later I learned from my friends at YOUR ROOTS CONNECTION and 7-11, the 3 skinheads were harassing everyone up and down 30th and Fern Streets in Golden Hill. The skins bum-rushed 7-11 stealing some items as they ran in and ran out; yelled “niggers” to YOUR ROOTS CONNECTION owners and kicked cars as they left the neighborhood.

Just one of many incidents as a mother of a bi-racial child, or in the eyes of a a racist, a mulatto baby. This moment in time stands out in my memory. This moment taught me to be a selfless mother and put everything Jharae first and foremost in my life. Parenting is a rough job, a thankless job and job that has no manual… It was also the most beautiful time in my life. My daughter is now 28 and the strongest, most balanced womyn I know…

  Over the years, Janice has either volunteered with or supported the work of community groups and organizations including: The American Indian Health Center, The Alliance for Survival, The Kevin Barry Artt Defense Committee, Irish American Unity Conference, Native American Rights Network, Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, The San Diego Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, The San Diego Chapter of The California Coalition for Women Prisoners, The Committee Against Police Brutality, The Peace Resource Center, Desert Waves, The International Action Center, CopWatch-San Diego, the Old Women’s Project and various Animal Rights Groups and Coalitions.

Currently, Janice supports the efforts of reparations for all of our African-American sisters and brothers who have survived the legacy left behind by slavery in our country. She calls for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in the state of California. Janice also supports and is working on the unconditional release of Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, and H. Rap Brown and thousands of others who have been unjustly abused and incarcerated by a racist, sexist, classist, and homophobic justice system. She also supports the unconditional freedom of political and social activists Sara Jane Olson and Marilyn Buck.

Janice received the Bob Marley Peace Award on behalf of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners at the WorldBeat Center’s (WBC) black history month event, “An Evening with Jamaican Dub Poet Mutabaruka” in February 2002. Presented by WBC’s, Executive Director Makeda Cheatom, Janice accepted the award for all sisters behind California’s prison walls. To learn more about Janice:

www.janicejordan.org www.ferdinandsfamilia.org www.undisputeddowntown.com

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