Fiery speeches.
Emphasis on #LoveNotHate.
Repeated calls to #GetInvolved.
More group singing, now led by a woman who channeled Carole King & all the protests of the '60s.
Details on the 17 #Oklahoma grassroots organizations represented at the #NoKings rally today. Details on their dreams, intentions, hopes, ***actions***.
The #AmericanIndianMovement invited us all, indigenous or not, to join them in defending, rebuilding, preserving #OK's living heart.
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Leonard Peltier is being interviewed on tonight's Cascade PBS News Hour.
To many supporters, Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner unjustly punished for his activism with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, he is a remorseless killer of two FBI agents in 1975, a charge he denies. President Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence, restricting him to home confinement.
Locally carried in Seattle area (from Tiger Mountain transmitter?) by KCTS on OTA channel 9-1
#AIM #AmericanIndianMovement #PBS #PBSNewsHour #PBSNews #KCTS #FreeLeonard #FreeLeonardPeltier #LeonardPeltier #Peltier #FBI
“I Have Not Surrendered”: Leonard Peltier Remains Committed to Indigenous Rights
Peltier discusses his time in (and release from) prison, his ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, and more.One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...
Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings
By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025
"The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.
"SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.
"Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06/launching-live-radio-free-simnasho-in.html
Live Now!
https://radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.com/ (Click on Play)
#IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio
"The world should know what America has done. I was no more guilty than my co-defendants, and they were found not guilty by reason of self-defense, because the jury heard what was going on, and they said that should not be done to any American."
#NickEstes talks to a now free #LeonardPeltier 50 years on from the #PineRidge shootout #OTD in 1975
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/leonard-peltiers-story-isnt-over-yet
https://archive.ph/baicD
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #AmericanIndianMovement #LeonardPeltierFree #politicalPrisoners #USpol
Today in Labor History June 26, 1975: Two FBI agents and one member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Undercover FBI agents framed AIM activist Leonard Peltier for the two FBI deaths. During the trial, some of the government’s own witnesses testified that Peltier wasn’t even present at the scene of the killings. Nevertheless, a judge him to two consecutive life terms. Peltier admitted to participating in the shoot-out in his memoir, “Prison Writings, My Life in the Sundance.” However, he denied killing the FBI agents. He became eligible for parole in 1993. Amnesty International, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and the Dalai Lama, all campaigned for his clemency. President Obama denied his request for clemency in 2017. On January 19, 2025, the last full day of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to home confinement. Peltier’s health had been declining for several years.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #americanindianmovement #aim #leonardpeltier #FBI #prison #pineridge #politicalprisoner #indigenous #nativeamerican #memoir #books #author #writer #bookstadon
Today in Labor History May 8, 1973: A 71-day standoff at the Pine Ridge Reservation, at Wounded Knee, ended today, after American Indian Movement (AIM) members surrendered. In 1890, U.S soldiers massacred nearly 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee. Ever since, native peoples on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where Wounded Knee is located, have faced poverty, and racism by their neighbors. They also had a corrupt local government on the reservation. So, on February 27, 1973, 200 Lakota activists and members of AIM, seized control of Wounded Knee. They demanded the resignation of their corrupt tribal leader. They also demanded that the U.S. government start obeying its treaties with indigenous peoples. Within hours of the occupation, police surrounded the them, marking the beginning of the siege. The cops were joined by federal marshals and national guards, who traded fire with AIM activists on a daily basis. Two native activists died in the conflict and one federal agent was shot and paralyzed. AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were arrested, but their case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct. Two years later, there was another shootout at Pine Ridge. AIM leader Leonard Peltier was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned until 2025.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #massacre #indigenous #WoundedKnee #genocide #AmericanIndianMovement #LeonardPeltier #fbi #racism #genocide #lakota #prison
Today in Labor History May 6, 1973; The FBI attacked Native Americans at Wounded Knee. The town of Wounded Knee had been surrounded and cordoned off by the FBI and marshals since February 27. Members of the American Indian Movement had gone to Wounded Knee for a meeting, but were immediately locked in by FBI. Members who tried to leave were arrested. They were opposing the autocratic and corrupt rule of Oglala Tribal Chairman Dick Wilson. Throughout the 3 months of occupation, gunfire was repeatedly traded between the two sides. Several activists were killed by the gunfire.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #woundedknee #pineridge #oglala #AmericanIndianMovement #indigenous #fbi #murder
Today in Labor History April 18, 1977: Native American activist Leonard Peltier was found guilty of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation. However, he was actually framed by undercover FBI agents who were conducting counterintelligence on the reservation. During the trial, some of the government’s own witnesses testified that Peltier wasn’t even present at the scene of the killings. In 2017, President Obama denied Peltier's application for clemency. He was still in prison in 2025 and his health has deteriored. On June 7, 2022, The UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Peltier’s imprisonment violates the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Biden, as one of his final acts as president, commuted his sentence to indefinite house arrest. In February 2025, he was released and transferred to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #leonardpeltier #fbi #obama #AmericanIndianMovement #indigenous #prison #racism #nativeamerican #politicalprisoner #pineridge #biden
#ChokecherryMassacre Remembrance March by #DinéBikeyah Chapter of the #AmericanIndianMovement [#AIM]
Saturday, April 5, 2025, #FarmingtonNewMexico.
Remembering three Navajo men #HermanBenally of Kirtland, #JohnEarlHarvey of Fruitland, and #DavidIgnacio of Blanco who were beaten and killed in April 1974 by three Farmington High School students.
Signs read: "#ScienceIsReal. #BlackAndBrownLivesMatter. #NoHumanBeingIsIllegal. #LoveIsLove. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights. #KindnessIsEverything. #StopArrestingMyBrothersAndSisters."
Read more / photographs:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/chokecherry-massacre-remembrance-march.html
#Diné #Racism #Remembrance #Resistance #ResistRacism #ResistColonialism #April5th
I also met a guy from the #Wichita Tribe who was carrying the flag of the #AmericanIndianMovement. I didn't know the flag so asked him about it. He said, "Nobody really knows about this movement anymore, so I think we need to bring it back." I told him I agreed.
Today in Labor History February 27, 1973: 300 Oglala Sioux activists from the American Indian Movement (AIM) liberated and occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota. This was the site of the infamous Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890). They occupied the site to protest a campaign of terror against them by the FBI, and corrupt tribal officials, and the tribal thugs knowns as GOONs (Guardians of Oglala Nation). The occupation lasted over 2 months, before being quashed by the U.S. government. 3 Native activists were killed. Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted for their roll, but charges were later dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct.
#aim #indigenous #WoundedKnee #massacre #genocide #occupation #fbi #oglala #sioux #workingclass #LaborHistory #native #terrorism #AmericanIndianMovement
🔴 LIVE | NDN Collective to Host Welcome Home Event for Leonard Peltier
After 49 years of wrongful imprisonment by the fascist settler #USA, #LeonardPeltier is finally free and welcomed home! ❤️ 🔥 🪶🥳 🥁 🙌🏽 🐢
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ve1WrKY6k
#PeltierFree #AIM #AmericanIndianMovement #LandBack #BreakingNews #politicalprisoners
Tras décadas de lucha ...liberaron a el activista indígena sioux-chippewa (Leonard Peltier)
"Finalmente se ha acabado, me voy a casa”
👇
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/libertades-civiles/liberado-activista-sioux-chippewa-leonard-peltier
#Activismo #Indigenas #EstadosUnidos #AmericanIndianMovement
"[T]o us, it’s an acknowledgment. It’s an acknowledgment that what they did to #LeonardPeltier was wrong, what they did to #Indigenous people was wrong. And at that time in history, when Leonard and the #AmericanIndianMovement were rising up, they were rising up at a time in which our ceremonies were outlawed, our languages were outlawed." - Nick Tilsen of #NDNCollective
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/19/leonard_peltier_release_return_home
#LeonardPeltierFree #NativeAmericans #AIM #PoliticalPrisoners #USpol #USpolitics
So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...
Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance
"My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
- Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025
TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.
"Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'
"Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.
"Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/buffys-censored-words-led-to.html
#PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash
Biden Commutes Sentence of Leonard Peltier
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/20/biden-commutes-sentence-of-leonard-peltier/
Biden’s last-minute move allows the American Indian Movement activist, imprisoned for nearly half a century, to “spend his remaining days in home confinement.” By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #Legal #U.s. #AmericanIndianMovement(aim) #AmnestyInternationalUsa #AnnieMaePictouAquash #BrettWilkins #DebHaaland #F.b.i. #JackColer #JoeStuntzKillsright #LeonardPeltier #NdnCollective #PineRidge #PresidentialPardon #Rep.RaúlGrijalva #RonaldWilliams #U.s.BureauOfIndianAffairs #U.s.PresidentJoeBiden
Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty Leonard Peltier is free at last!
#freedom #leonardpeltier #firstnation #nativeamerican #indigenousamerican #news #viralnews #love #biden #pardon #fyp #aim #americanindianmovement
Biden grants activist Leonard Peltier clemency to finish life sentence at home
American Indian Movement activist was sentenced to life in prison for killings of 2 FBI agents
The Associated Press · Posted: Jan 20, 2025 1:05 PM
"Just moments before leaving office, U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
"Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn't eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
"He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.
"Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued. He announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offences. He also gave a broad pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.
[...]
"The fight for Peltier's freedom is entangled with the Indigenous rights movements. Nearly half a century later, his name remains a rallying cry.
"An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which began in the 1960s as a local organization in Minneapolis that grappled with issues of police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans. It quickly became a national force.
"The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, leading to a 71-day standoff with federal agents. Tensions between the movement and the government remained high for years.
"On June 26, 1975, agents went to Pine Ridge to serve arrest warrants amid battles over treaty rights and self-determination."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/leonard-peltier-biden-clemency-1.7436142
#LeonardPeltier #AmericanIndianMovement #AIM #IndigenousActivist
