Leonard Peltier Freedom Ride 2016 in DC July 23-24

Come Out to Support President Obama Granting Leonard Peltier Clemency.
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This July 23rd-24th US political prisoner Leonard Peltier's supporters
will complete a 3,000 mile freedom ride to Washington DC to ask President
Obama to grant Leonard clemency. A rally is planned for the US Capitol
steps. Leonard's health is failing and his continued incarceration serves
no justifiable reason. He is an old man now who paints artwork and wants
to work on old cars. This rally and freedom ride is organized by Leonard's
oldest son Chauncey Peltier.

Contact Chauncey for more information at:

CHAUNCEY LEE PELTIER

Peltier Justice For All, Inc.

PO Box 83

Hillsboro, OR  97123

 Chauncey@peltierjustice.com

 Tel: 855-369-7842 (toll free)

http://www.peltierjustice.com

Sign the Petition:

https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-executive-clemency-for-leonard-peltier-2

View the documentary Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYAYf_2WQU

On June 26, 1975, two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Jack Coler and Ron Williams - entered private property on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation, South Dakota.  They drove unmarked vehicles, wore
plain clothes, and neglected to identify themselves as law enforcement
officers.  They allegedly sought to arrest a young Indian man for the
theft of a pair of cowboy boots.

Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were camping on the property
(having been invited there to protect elders from the extreme violence on
the reservation at that time).  For unknown reasons, a shoot-out began.  A
family with small children was trapped in the cross fire.  Throughout the
ranch, people screamed that they were under attack and many of the men
present hurried to return fire.  When the skirmish ended, the two FBI
agents were dead.  A young Native American man, Joe Stuntz, also lay dead,
shot through the head by a sniper bullet.

Activist Leonard Peltier was wrongfully convicted in 1977 in connection
with the shooting deaths of the FBI’s agents.  Imprisoned for over 40
years - currently at the federal prison in Coleman, Florida - Peltier has
been designated a political prisoner by Amnesty International.  Nelson
Mandela, Desmond Tutu, 55 Members of Congress and others - including a
judge who sat as a member of the court in two of Peltier’s appeals - have
all called for his immediate release.  Widely recognized for his
humanitarian works and a six-time Nobel Prize nominee, Peltier also is an
accomplished author and painter.

For two years prior to the shootout, reservation residents were victims of
beatings, drive-by shootings, and stabbings carried out by local
vigilantes who collaborated with the FBI. The AIM activists were forced
into a defensive posture to protect not only their lives, but the lives of
others - elders, women, and children.  Indeed, Mr. Peltier’s co-defendants
were acquitted on grounds of self-defense.  Had he been tried with his
co-defendants, Peltier would be a free man today.

The evidence shows the U.S. government’s intent to achieve Mr. Peltier’s
conviction by any means - including falsifying extradition documents and
intentionally committing fraud on a Canadian court, as well as coercing
witnesses, intentionally using false testimonies, and suppressing evidence
of Mr. Peltier’s innocence during his trial.  By the government’s own
admission, the critical part of the prosecution’s case against Mr. Peltier
was the ballistics testimony which, years after his conviction, was
discovered to be false.  Although the courts have acknowledged evidence of
government misconduct, Peltier has been denied a new trial.