Leonard Peltier - 40 years Incarcerated - Clemency Event and Film

Leonard Peltier ~ 40 years incarcerated ~ February 6, 2016

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Watch this film, Incident at Oglala - 90 minutes

From Wikipedia:

Incident at Oglala is a 1992 documentary by Michael Apted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Apted), narrated by Robert Redford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford). The film documents the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation) agents, Jack R. Coler (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_R._Coler&action=edit&redlink=1) and Ronald A. Williams (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronald_A.Williams%28FBI%29&action=edit&redlink=1), on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation) in the summer of 1975.

It examines the legal case surrounding the subsequent trials of Robert Robideau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Robideau) and Darrell Butler, and later the separate trial of Leonard Peltier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peltier), who had to be extradited from Canada. Robideau and Butler were acquitted at their trial, but Peltier was convicted of murder in 1977. (Peltier's supporters, including the International Indian Treaty Council (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Indian_Treaty_Council), maintain that he is innocent of the crimes.) The film also discusses tribal chairman Dick Wilson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wilson_%28tribal_chairman%29).

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“Amnesty International considers Leonard Peltier to be a political prisoner whose avenues of redress have long been exhausted….Amnesty International recognizes that a retrial is no longer a feasible option and believes that Leonard Peltier should be immediately and unconditionally released. – Amnesty International, April 6, 1999

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Call the White House and ask President Obama to grant Executive Clemency to free Leonard Peltier - White House comment line is (202)456-1111; if busy try (202)395-0805 -

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For more information - http://www.WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info +

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