Compassionate Release for Leonard Peltier

We continue to work on securing Compassionate Release in the case of Turtle Mountain Chippewa Native American Leonard Peltier.
Peltier is now in the 47th year of his imprisonment and is 78 years of age and in declining health.

We do not argue the legal parts of the Peltier story. We leave that to the writers, lawyers, filmmakers, and social advocates who have supported him for decades.

We do argue that guilt or innocence is no longer relevant. We argue that no human should be incarcerated for decades in harsh and inhuman conditions including many months in solitary confinement.  Leonard suffered a stroke in prison and three years ago endured emergency open heart surgery. He suffers from diabetes, an untreated abdominal aortic aneurysm, partial blindness, and other ailments.  Two years ago he survived the COVID-19 virus. Yet he has continued his work as a painter and a writer and has earned more than 20 years of “Good Time.”  He has earned the respect and friendship of many of the administrators and guards who see him every day USP Coleman 1.

Director Jack Healey began working with and supporting Native Leaders in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. As director of Young World Development, the youth arm of Freedom From Hunger he worked with Dennis Banks, Russell Means, and Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt in their work to improve the conditions of Native people as the American Indian Movement, including The Red School House in Minneapolis.

Healey, as director of Amnesty International U.S.A., supported the late Geronimo Pratt. Pratt was released from prison after 27 years as his conviction was deemed “wrongful” and vacated.

HRAC continues its work of advocating for the Inclusion of the International Declarations of Human Rights in every passport in the world and writes to address issues of wrongful imprisonment, war, famine, and poverty in Yemen, Burma, and other places.

Pope Francis said, “Very long prison sentences ARE the death penalty.” HRAC works with leaders from the Catholic Church in the U.S.A. and in the Vatican in our efforts to secure Compassionate Release for Leonard Peltier.

This campaign will have a much higher chance of success if everyone gets involved and takes action.
Below are a few ways that YOU CAN HELP! 

PLEASE WRITE TO LEONARD PELTER AND OFFER HIM ENCOURAGEMENT AND HOPE.
Leonard Peltier
#89637-132
USP Coleman 1 P.O. Box 1033
Coleman, FL. 33521 
Use 15-pt. font size on plain white paper.
Do NOT send cards, glitter, stickers, or perfume.

The "I Will, Will You?" Freedom Campaign was started as a means to show the support of numerous people across America for Leonard Peltier. Celebrities such as Desmond Tutu, Michael Moore, Sting, Ringo Starr, and Kenney Jones, spoke up and asked President Donald Trump to grant compassionate release to Leonard Peltier! You can see all the videos linked below.

Leonard Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which promotes Native American rights. In 1975, during a confrontation involving AIM members, two FBI agents were shot dead. Peltier was convicted of their murders but has always denied killing the agents.

Leonard Peltier has been in jail for over 40 years now. The trial that sent him to jail for two life sentences was flawed. Amnesty International said so immediately and was joined by other human rights groups and activists. While special agents Coler and Williams died that day, Leonard Peltier did not do the killings. A major confrontation did go on for quite a while between the FBI and the American Indian Movement. Many Indians were lost in this period.

Massive support has come from the communities of film, stage, spiritual leadership, and tribal leadership across the world. Our goal is simple and it is to ask pure and simple. We are not arguing the legal case. We are asking President Biden for compassionate release for Leonard Peltier. Thus, we are mobilizing to show the POTUS that there is massive support for compassionate release for Peltier, both in the Indian communities and tribes as well as the American people. This will be Leonard Peltier’s last chance for Freedom.

Please call the White House Comment line at (202)256-1111 and using the key term: "Compassionate Release", respectfully ask that President Biden release Leonard Peltier.

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