Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”, Peltier’s trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier’s application for clemency.

“You must understand…I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn’t modesty. This is fact. Maybe you’re ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary.”

  • Leonard Peltier

An Interview with Leonard Peltier

Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”

Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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  • Mokey [none/use name]English
    23•2 years ago

    Im with my family because my grandma died and I just feel entirely alone on this planet. My dads a racist trump guy slob. My sister is highly neurotic, has zero self control and is always trying to pick fights and be ms know it all. My mom has mental issues and is way overmedicated. I cant find love here, i want to just abandon it all. I hate that I went to college and I saw how weird and fucked up my family is.

    I feel like my escape (music) is not really a escape but just a reminder that I am an idiot, born to idiots and my position in life is to be white trash. I still want to keep going though, I just wish there were more people supporting me. My partner is the only good figure in my life and that scares me.

  • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]English
    14•2 years ago

    You know I started rewatching a bit of 30 rock and this is just genuinely one of the most homophobic shows I’ve ever seen. Like this is actually hateful.

    • operacion_ogro [he/him]English
      5•2 years ago

      The mid to late '00s had a very unfortunate amount of comedy where the punchline to a joke was “he’s gay” or “he’s black”

      see also: Scrubs

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]English
      8•2 years ago

      It was obligatory to like Tina Fey but she was pretty racist and homophobic lmao plus she just kept redoing the high power striver middle age lady needs a baby plot in everything she did

  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]English
    13•2 years ago

    My financial situation is really bad this month. Im on social security and I’m already down to 350 with a 60 dollar half of the gas bill yet to come out (no idea why its that high in the summer???). It was already looking bad and I thought, without looking, that my frustratingly high electric bill had already come out, but it hadnt yet and it just hit and now its looking RELALY bad and I also have to pay my half of the internet still (that isnt that much at least). I didnt even spend all that differently other than that this month so I dont know why I’ll be under 300 before the halfway point? That leaves absolutely NO pleasure money really and its only the 12th idk wtf happened. At the end of last month I had a decent suprlus (which I immediatly spent on food orders because I wanted to enjoy myself with it) and now I’m not even spending all that much differently this month and somehow I’m in dire straights? Wtf is happening? I hate money!!! FUCK.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]English
    13•2 years ago

    I don’t get it- when I divide the pizza dough I make into two, one portion always rises much more than the other

    Does all the yeast always end up in one portion thonk

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]English
    6•2 years ago

    So trueanon is now located in New York? Was there some podcaster exchange program between California and New York where they traded brace-watching and liz-society for matt-jokerfied and thinky-felix

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]English
      6•2 years ago

      ACtually what happened is baby-matt and felix-trash have caused a schism in orthodox podcasting; they have denied the holy seat of Brooklyn and are forming their own West Coast eschatology.

      TrueAnon are simply recent converts to the Orthodoxy.

  • Parzivus [any]English
    21•2 years ago

    Not even halfway through Blowback and I’m more convinced than ever that “America bad” is more valid that most ideologies

  • Parzivus [any]English
    15•2 years ago

    They said they wouldn’t give us homework for this workshop I’m doing, then they did anyway. Said “fuck it I’m not doing this,” show up the next day, nobody else did it either. Bluff called comfy-cool