American Indian Movement

Justice Denied and Delayed—Leonard Peltier Commutation While Marcus Garvey Is Pardoned

January 31, 2025 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Racism, Resistance, The War at Home

by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, January 30, 2025 On this year’s annual holiday to commemorate the life, times and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), news had quickly spread regarding the long-delayed decision to commute the life sentence of American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier. Peltier was charged in the 1975 killing of two FBI[…]

Leonard Peltier is Going hHome!

January 20, 2025 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

from The Red Nation, January 20, 2025 After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home!“It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.”For decades, the now elder[…]

Leonard Peltier: ‘I remain Undestroyed’

July 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Racism

by Leonard Peltier, published on Workers World, July 6, 2024 The following statement is from political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, in response to the U.S. Parole Commission that denied him parole on July 2, 2024. His parole board hearing is scheduled for 2026. Go to freeleonardpeltiernow.org/s/Leonard_Peltier_June26th_2024.pdf to read the original statement. Greetings my Friends, Family, Loved Ones and Supporters. Go to[…]

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole

July 8, 2024 UNAC Editor Imperialism, Native Americans, Political Prisoners

by People’s Dispatch, July 2, 2024 Longest-held political prisoner in United States and Indigenous freedom fighter continues to maintain innocence. The federal Parole Commission has denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole, Peltier’s legal team announced on Tuesday, July 2. This marks a major setback for the longest-held political prisoner in the United States, who had his first parole hearing in over[…]

‘We Have Survived and Flourished’: Massive Turnout on National Day of Mourning

December 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Native Americans

By Will Hodgkinson posted on Workers World, November 29, 2022 Kisha James (Aquinnah Wampanoag and Oglala Lakota), co-leader of United American Indians of New England (UAINE), opened the rally by telling the history of NDOM, which was founded in 1970 by her grandfather, the late Wamsutta Frank James. Kisha James quoted an account of the first NDOM by Russell Means[…]

Why Wouldn’t Biden Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier?

February 3, 2022 UNAC Editor Native American Genocide, Political Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners

By Gustavo A. Maranges and Bill Hackwell, published on Resumen, on February 1, 2022 Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States. This fact has brought attention to his case,[…]

Clyde Bellecourt: the Thunder Before the Storm

January 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Peoples' Movements, Resistance

by Stephanie Tromblay, published on Workers World, January 18, 2021 Hundreds gathered to honor the life of Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Ojibwe, in Minneapolis, Jan. 13. Bellecourt, 85, was the last living founding member of the American Indian Movement and a lifelong civil-rights activist known worldwide. (Star Tribune, Jan. 13) Bellecourt, whose Ojibwe name is Neegawnwaywidung, (the Thunder Before the[…]

The War for Survival

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Political Prisoners

by Leonard Peltier, from Counterpunch, November 22, 2018 Well here it is, sorry to say, another year, and I’m still writing to you from a prison cell. I am still in pain from my illnesses with no knowledge of whether I will ever get treatments for them. But I’m alive and still breathing hoping, wishing, praying for not just my[…]