How to Best Assist Leonard Peltier

by Paul Hays (PEarthsolutions [at] aol.com)

Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:40PM

Lakota and Anishnabe author, non-violent activist and grandfather unjustly imprisoned since 1976.Leonard Peltier was a participant in the American Indian Movement. Leonard Peltier went to assist Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the mid 1970's where a tragic shoot-out ocurred.

The shoot-out ocurred on June 26, 1975. Accused of the murder of 2 agents of the FBI, Peltier fled to Canada believing he would never receive a fair trial in the United States.
He is currently imprisoned at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth Kansas.
Leonard Peltier is the author of PRISON WRITINGS:MY LIFE IS MY SUNDANCE. Borrow this book! Get your local bookstore or library to carry it or have it! Check-out the official web site with friends: http://www.leonardpeltier.org FORWARD THIS SITE FAR AND WIDE!

Posted by Paul Hays of Atlanta Food Not Bombs. Paul works woth the homeless, organizes against transit cutbacks and organizes against the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan. Paul Hays is a supporter of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) a non-violent, secular and democratic group which organizes education and health care and sustainable economics in Afghanistan.

For more information: http://www.leonardpeltier.org

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