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How We Can Best Assist Leonard Peltier
Lakota and Anishnabe; artist, non-violent activist and grandfather unjustly imprisoned since 1976; Leonard Peltier was a participant in the American Indian Movement. Here's how to help him.
Leonard went to assist Oglala Lakota people on the PIne Ridge Reservation where a tragic shoot-out occurred on June 26, 1975.
Falsely accused of the murder of 2 agents of the FBI, Leonard Peltier fled to Canada believing he would never receive a fair trial in the United States.
AND LEONARD WAS RIGHT! THE TRIAL WAS A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE!
Leonard Peltier is currently imprisoned at the U.S. Federal Peniteniary in Leavenworth Kansas.
He the author of PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUNDANCE. Borrow or buy this book. Get it into libraries, bookstores and schools. With your friends check out his Official website at leonardpeltier.org
Posted by Paul Hays of Atlanta Food Not Bombs. Paul works with serving the homeless, organizing against public-transit cutbacks and agaisnt the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan. Paul is a supporter of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) a non-violent, secular and democratic organization organizing schhols, hospitals and sustainable economics in Aghanistan.