[BearwWthoutBorders] Leonard Peltier seeks clemency from Obama

[David McReynolds]

On to others - let us hope for the best,
David

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Hunter Gray
<hunterbadbear at hunterbear.org>wrote:

> **
> *The case is old but the man lives -- in a small prison cell.  Leonard
> Peltier is far from a forgotten person -- not only in Indian Country but
> around the globe.  Let's hope and pray on this one.   In Solidarity, H.*
>
> *Indianz.Com. In Print.
> **http://www.indianz.com/News/2012/007978.asp*<http://www.indianz.com/News/2012/007978.asp>
> *
>
> Democracy Now: Leonard Peltier seeks clemency from Obama
> Thursday, December 13, 2012
> Filed Under: **Law* <http://www.indianz.com/Law/>* | **National*<http://www.indianz.com/National/>
> *
> More on: aim <http://www.indianz.com/m11/mt-search.cgi?tag=aim&blog_id=1>,
> barack obama<http://www.indianz.com/m11/mt-search.cgi?tag=barack%20obama&blog_id=1>,
> leonard peltier<http://www.indianz.com/m11/mt-search.cgi?tag=leonard%20peltier&blog_id=1>,
> new york<http://www.indianz.com/m11/mt-search.cgi?tag=new%20york&blog_id=1>
>
> "During the holidays, the atmosphere of goodwill and mercy traditionally
> extends all the way to the nation’s highest leaders, with presidents
> typically pardoning more prisoners than any other time in the year. On
> Friday, actors, musicians and activists are uniting to renew calls for
> clemency for one of America’s most well-known and longest-incarcerated
> prisoners: Leonard Peltier. The Native American activist and former member
> of the American Indian Movement was convicted of abetting the killing of
> two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian
> Reservation in 1975. Peltier has long maintained his innocence. Amnesty
> International considers him a political prisoner who was not granted a fair
> trial. We air a never-before-broadcast video of Peltier from an interview
> by German journalist Claus Biegert." *
>
> **
> *Get the Story:
> **Exclusive: Native American Activist Leonard Peltier’s Jailhouse Plea
> for Long-Denied Clemency *<http://www.indianz.com/my.asp?url=http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/13/exclusive_native_american_activist_leonard_peltiers>
> *(Democracy Now 12/13)
> **After Rebuff by Clinton, Actor Peter Coyote Joins New Push to Sway
> Obama on Leonard Peltier Clemency *<http://www.indianz.com/my.asp?url=http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/13/after_rebuff_by_clinton_actor_peter>
> *(Democracy Now 12/13) *
>
> **
> **
> *HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
> Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
> Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
> **www.hunterbear.org* <http://www.hunterbear.org>*
> (much social justice material)*
> **
> *I have always lived and worked in the Borderlands.*
> **
> *Key pieces from our big Jackson Mississippi Movement
> scrapbook.  Three consecutive and full pages beginning with
> this Link:  **http://hunterbear.org/a_piece_of__the_scrapbook.htm*<http://hunterbear.org/a_piece_of__the_scrapbook.htm>
> *And see my reflection ON BEING A MILITANT AND RADICAL
> ORGANIZER -- AND AN EFFECTIVE ONE:
> **http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm* <http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm>
> **
> *The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
> **http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm*<http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm>
> *(Expanded in Fall 2012. Photos. Material on our Native
> background.)  And see Personal Background Narrative:
> **http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm*<http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm>
> *  (Updated into 2012) *
> **
> *For the new (11/2011) and expanded/updated
> edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI --
> with a new and substantial introduction by me.
>  **http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm* <http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm>
>
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