Law enforcement officers, former FBI agents, their families and prosecutors strongly opposed a pardon or any reduction in Peltier’s sentence. Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ...
The resistance started before the inauguration. One day ahead of a nationwide movement against the second Donald Trump administration scheduled to coalesce in 70 American cities, San Francisco became ...
This is something that we always prepared for," producer Jhane Myers told Yahoo Entertainment about the documentary's ...
Sundance: David France and Jesse Short Bull’s film tackles the 50-year story of activism surrounding the contentious ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
By Emily Cochrane President Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, an imprisoned Native American rights activist, using his final minutes of presidential power on Monday to free a ...
Sumterville, FL – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s decision is the result of decades of grassroots ...
THE DOCUMENTARY FREE LEONARD PELTIER, IS PREMIERING AT THE UPCOMING SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. MYERS HOPES THAT THIS WILL INTRODUCE HIS STORY TO A BIGGER COMMUNITY. WE HAVEN’T SEEN A LIST OF THE ...
In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.