At Age 70, Leonard Peltier Is Still
Imprisoned and Seriously Ill:
To What End?

Jun 23, 2015 | Press

23 June 2015 MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT: It will be 40 years – on June 26 – since what has become known as “the incident at Oglala.” That was when a young Indigenous man and two undercover FBI agents were killed on the Pine...

40th Anniversary of the
Incident at Oglala

Jun 22, 2015 | Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 June 2015 Contact: Peter Clark, International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, PO Box 24, Hillsboro, OR USA; Telephone: 1-505-217-3612; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info 40th Anniversary of the Incident at Oglala Forty years ago, on June 26,...

Gaspo: Peltier pit stop
in Durham

Jun 18, 2015 | General, Press

Most people around here have probably never heard of Native American Leonard Peltier. The Anishinabe-Dakota tribal member’s story is an ongoing civil rights cause to many, including Amnesty International, but to the FBI and many others, the long-imprisoned Peltier is...

Leonard Peltier’s Art at
2015 Indigenous Fine
Art Market

Jun 18, 2015 | General, Press

The Indigenous Fine Art Market (IFAM) has just announced that imprisoned Native activist Leonard Peltier applied for and was juried into this year’s Festival. Peltier is widely known as a painter (and a writer) and his booth will be curated by his son Chauncey...

Human Rights Organization
Opens in Albuquerque:
Focus on American Indians Rights

May 2, 2015 | Press

Leonard Peltier has been in prison for nearly 40 years ALBUQUERQUE — A new human rights organization, the Indigenous Rights Center, opens its doors on May 1 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Indigenous Rights Center will operate as a charitable and educational...

Longtime prisoner Leonard Peltier
gets new ally, his son,
in fight for freedom

May 2, 2015 | Press

Leonard Peltier, to some, is the country’s most unjustly convicted political prisoner. To others, he’s a cop killer who should never again see the light of day. Either way, nearly four decades after his conviction for killing two FBI agents in a 1975...