Leonard Peltier Granted Clemency, Native Governance Center Under New Leadership - Minnesota Native News

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Leonard Peltier: “It’s finally over–I’m going home”

The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

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Leonard Peltier Granted Clemency, Native Governance Center Under New Leadership - Minnesota Native News

Peltier’s Official Executive Clemency Grant document from former President Biden. Credit: NDN Collective. This week, former President Biden granted Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier clemency, and there’s new leadership at the Native Governance Center in Minneapolis. TRANSCRIPT Host Marie Rock: This is Minnesota Native News. I’m Marie Rock. This week, former President Biden granted Leonard Peltier clemency, and there’s new leadership at the Nat…

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Leonard Peltier: a 50-year story of US colonialism

Far-right settler violence, repression of local resistance, ethnic cleansing, and genocide are not just the preserve of the modern Israeli state. Because the superpower ally fuelling its atrocities also has a long history of settler-colonial genocide against Native Americans. And political prisoner Leonard Peltier’s release after 50 years of unjust incarceration brings into focus the repression… Source

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With Biden’s grant of clemency, Leonard Peltier’s racist political imprisonment has ended

It is with the greatest euphoria, the greatest elation, call it what you will, that I pen this article celebrating the issuing of clemency to long-suffering, unjustly incarcerated Indigenous fighter and stalwart Leonard Peltier.

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Accused of killing two FBI agents in 1975, the activist will finish his sentence under house arrest. He embodies the struggle of indigenous peoples to defend their rights and culture. A struggle that could be undermined by Donald Trump

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Leonard Peltier “will be remembered as a warrior by his people,” wrote political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal on 21 January, after news that the now former president of the United States, Joe Biden, granted executive clemency to the activist who remained unjustly in prison for almost 50 years. It is a wonderful and joyful thing to hear that Leonard Peltier will spend his last days outside the iron cage, that cage that held him for almost five decade…