I was the editor of an international journal based in the US in the early to mid- '80s. I put AIM news and commentary in every edition because it addressed every issue faced by ordinary US citizens. I remember how brilliant and dynamic Leonard was onstage speaking at an big AIM event in Wyoming. Leaping all over the stage, reciting poetry.... A great mind and extraordinarily charismatic. He often spoke in pictures... Easy to see why he had to be silenced one way or another. ❤

THANK YOU‼️HE IS FROM MY TRIBE‼️FREE LEONARD PELLETIER‼️✌️AIM

Free him now.

I was very disappointed that Obama didn't pardon Leonard Peltier. Very disappointed!

THANK YOU Rachel Thunder for the incredible work you do to keep this long overdue issue of release of Leonard Peltier Alive with great hope for his release now. When Obama was elected everyone called the Hotline to push this release, but nothing happened. I was blessed to meet several leaders of AIM, Leonard Crow Dog, who was also imprisoned to break the leadership, and Dennis Banks, who I met during the SACRED RUN -London to Moskow , in 1990. May all prayers be heard to allow Leonard Peltier to be with his family and People, to live freedom at last. 🌹🌿 Thank you Real News Networks to make this comemorating talk possible.

We need more awareness of the original peoples plight and history. The genocide of the indigenous peoples of North America is our country’s original sin along with slavery. It was a dual atrocity.

I grew up in the Bay Area seeing Free Leonard painted off the freeways. I didn’t know what it meant until I was in my late teens... it’s crazy that I’m 43 years old now and he’s still not free.

Whats really cool is that pretty much every single person who's native, knows who he is. Free Leonard ✊🏽 From Toronto 🇨🇦 Fuck the crown. Land back. ✊🏽

13:57 / 35:22 FREE LEONARD PELLETIER

Thanks for a really incisive interview that gets to the point and demands action

My brother, Rafael, did time with that AIM activist. He described Leonard as a gentleman. He even called me to support my struggle to obtain a commutation for Rafael. He got it after serving 23yrs. God speed Leonard. Thanks.

Free Peltier NOW.

I live in the colony of Puerto Rico which was "discovered" by the original Colonizers Christopher Columbus and in 1898 became a colony of the United States 😢. We understand colonization first hand 😢.

Thank you. Free Leonard Peltier. Give the Lakota their land back.

Bro we need to hear more about native Americans but we mostly watch African American plight

#FREELEONARDPELTIER

If the evidence was so unsubstantial, can't they declare a mistrial due to prejudice? They can prove there was reasonable doubt that Leonard didn't commit the crime. That is enough to set him free. If the law wasn't followed in the trial, it is a mistrial. I don't know if there are appeals left but get someone who knows the law and isn't there trying to show off as the attorney.

Free Leonard Peltier! Free Turtle Island! 🐢🏝

#FreeLeonardPeltier

Ive always know about Peltier and AIM growing up and being from an indigenous family. I will always remember when he ran for president back in 2004 and got around 30 thousand votes in california alone if im not mistaken

The NED should be funding AIM.

What does the United Nations have to say about Indian rightd. Native Americans are sovereign and as such should at the very least have a seat at the general assembly.

NDN Collective. What a brilliant acronym. Leonard Peltier imprisonment was the crime. Leonard Peltier should be released immediately.

Of course it was self-defense, it was ALWAYS self-defense, but federal courts are as crooked as a 3 1/2 dollar bill. There's absolutely no justice to be had in federal courts-they control the jury, I mean those judges are puppets or willing participants, and the DA's are just as joyfully evil and sick as the agents who send people there, so it's really very much a team effort andva gong show. I mean it's a show trial period. I mean it makes the Cardassian trials from the TV series Star Trek look like a paragon of equanimity and citizen justice. Its all very sad. I mean federal judges and anyone high enough of the food chain have had 50 years to right this issue and no one has touched it. The federal government club is lost; they are really pure evil & they will never stop doing evil. I don't know what the future will bring but anyone who thinks there's anything that could be morally saved about these Federal demons I think has not been paying attention for their adult life and I think they should start. These are people who love evil passionately, and they will seek to destroy or harm by any means necessary ANYONE who doesn't immediately bow down to them and empower their lust for destruction and it is just very sad. The world's enemy is the feds, that is certainly been made clear so many times over and domestically they certainly wreck plenty of harm on their own. Hopefully one day their power will end, they're evil will end and simple humanity and decency will return to not just this land but all the lands and countries on Earth that the US has destroyed in its ugly, vial 200 year plus history. One can only hope. Including Palestine. In my eyes in its current form, under its current agenda the federal structure of the US has no right to exist. That's what I have to say about that and I told people that when I speak on political topics everywhere I go. They are cancer on the world and they have nothing positive to offer but death, suffering, destruction, and resource theft. Thats all the DC club is about. It's just about all that is bad. There's nothing good in their agenda and that is sad and I hope more people start waking up to it.

Thank you for this enlightening story and for carrying on. All oppressed peoples all over the world need to get together to claim back basic human rights, equality and justice.

Free Peltier ! Free Mumia ! Free Assange ! Free Turtle Island ! Land Back ! Decolonization !

Excellent interview !

Free Leonard Peltier now! And please remember our 1st Nations Indigenous people are pure black folks. Sorverign rights for ALL Indigenous people!❤

Why is it that NO ONE has read the preeminent book on this topic - "In The Spirit of Crazy Horse" by Peter Matthiessen? Every time I talk about this case, with anyone, I can't find anyone else who has read this great book. If you read Matthiessen's work, you'll know as much, or more, about the case as Leonard's lawyers. It also shows you just how treacherous, how sneaky, and ruthless the National Security State is.

Because of AIM, we were FINALLY allowed to Practice our TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL BELIEFS in 1978! #NoTreatyUnbroken! #FreeLeonardPeltier!

Exceptionally informative interview. Thank you both.

There are a couple of under populated states in the west for the Amerindians , You have my support, love and respect !

Custer had it coming .

Good show.

Freedom, rehabilitation, compensation for 4 decades in prison for nothing!

Thank you for this video, I remember when this was happening; however, I did not know the current situation. He has been badly treated.

That's the madness about it.Just how cold these people have been towards black people.

✊💛 support from outer circle. -American Yellow Vests FREE LEONARD PELTIER

Why Obama didn't parden Leonard escapes me!!! He has suffered enough and should be free and compensated for his iillegal imprisonment!!!

If I were in charge, ALL Indigenous Peoples EVERYWHERE would get their lands back, and they would become full, voting members of the United Nations.

Maybe you should have asked about Anna Mae Aquash.

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Imperialism 400 years old God willing will return from where it came to become GODS ON EARTH.❤❤❤❤❤

OMG! LEONARD PELLETIER IS STILL IN JAIL?

It's so wrong. Free Leonard Pelletier.

I did time with him . Beginning 1981 in Terre Haute. Spike.

MN RIGHTS!!!

FREE EDWARD SNOWDEN. FREE JULIAN ASSANGE, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISIONERS FREE LEONARD PELLETIER....FAIR JUSTICE FOR ALL....NO JUSTICE NO PEACE.

You must mean Russell Means .

Màn you look like my Uncle Bill Woods

President Biden, " Free Leonard Pelletier " He is Innocent.

Wow, it's been sooooo long since I heard about Peltier was already long imprisoned, but he was still on the people's radar in the 1980's. I'm so sad that i as if thought he was long dead. Now happy that he's still alive. I bet RFK jr would release him, if elected. My best for you all, from Canada.

wait. we calling indigenous people Indians again? wtf?

George Mitchell was the founder of AIM.

The Feds give little help for missing or dead on the Res.. Too bad the families have to solve the murder of their own.

I wrote a book and published it on Amazon about my alien abductions it's called "violence will not be tolerated" please read it.

Guess she doesn’t include Mexico as part of turtle island, weird maybe she needs to looks a map again, Mexico is in North America

I live in Tahlequah Oklahoma. The Cherokee nation location. I have a CDIB card. I use it. The government has a building full of treaties. The rotted because of mold, mildew, insects and rodents. Only one person has the job to find intact treaties. The last guy just quit. The treaties the government never did want any. So, do you think they respected the treaties enough to store them properly. How about a team of people going through the old treaties.

The book Agents of Repression has a very detailed account of this occurrence. The author was not who he said he was though.

#Free Eric Brant.