LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE OFFENSE COMMITTEE

PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND  58106

Phone: 701/235-2206

E-mail: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info

Write Letters of Support and Sign Petitions

Online Petitions

Congressional Investigation—For decades, we have requested that a congressional hearing be held to address the events on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during the 1970s. In spring 2004, the Judiciary Committee (U.S. House of Representatives) announced plans to investigate misconduct on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In response, the Peltier attorneys submitted a formal request to Congress for this investigation to include a full examination of the misconduct exhibited on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during the 1970s, and in the case against Leonard Peltier. Recently, activist organizations also have called for a congressional hearing on the long-term effects of COINTELPRO. Join with these organizations and support this action. Sign the online petition today.

Executive Clemency—Continue expressing your support for an award of Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier. View/sign online.

FOIA Documents—Tens of thousands of documents on the Peltier case have yet to be released by the FBI. Urge that congressional hearings be held on the handling of Leonard Peltier’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The FBI must be required to divulge the exact number of documents it maintains on Leonard Peltier and the Field Offices that maintain these records; the total number of documents regarding this case that have been destroyed, as well as the date and authority under which records were destroyed; and whether or not any records dealing with Leonard Peltier have been transferred to any other agencies, as well as pertinent details of those transfers. Most importantly, the FBI must release all documents related to the Peltier case. These documents are over 25 years old and are considered historically significant. Further, they may contain information that may exonerate Leonard Peltier. Sign the online petition.

Parole—Sign an online petition in support of the immediate parole of Leonard Peltier. Invite others to sign the petition.

Write Letters

Write to the President of the United States to ask for a grant of Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier.

President George W. Bush

Washington, DC  20500

Please also write to the following organizations to urge their continued advocacy on Leonard's behalf:

Amnesty International

Amnesty International-USA
5 Penn Plaza – 14th Floor
New York, NY  10001

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue

34th Floor

New York, NY  10118-3299

United Nations

High Commissioner for Human Rights

United Nations

CH-1211

Geneva 10

Switzerland

Working Group on Indigenous Populations

United Nations

CH-1211

Geneva 10

Switzerland

Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations

CH-1211

Geneva 10

Switzerland

Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations

CH-1211

Geneva 10
Switzerland