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Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse", Peltier's trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier's application for clemency.

"You must understand...I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn't modesty. This is fact. Maybe you're ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary."

  • Leonard Peltier

An Interview with Leonard Peltier

Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”

Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The line "there are daggers in men's smiles" in MacBeth is actually an homage to the Dark Knight (2008)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

People who say "I love traveling" might as well just say " I love being rich"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

silk moths are so adorable. silk moths? more like silk.. uh.. mothdorable??? I dunno I'm bad at making jokes but too tired too care, so i'll just leave that bad joke in. future me can deal with that. anyways silk moths are cool

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

oh actually I came up with a better joke. silk moths are the bomb, because they're bombyx. okay anyways bye

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Looks like a fantastical creature out of a fairy tale. Very cute.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Holy shit I hate that typing "engineer" into a job search brings up anything but engineer jobs

enter in the specific type of equipment I've spent the last several years working on

It's still all software shit! Computer-touchers stop using the names of real world objects to describe writing software challenge: fucking impossible

hypersus

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

How is Scrooge McDuck rich? He never sells the stuff he finds, he just hoardes it in a big bin. Where's the money coming from?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

a joker among clowns

a clown among jesters

a jester among jokers

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Love how democratic "lesser of two evils" outreach is still focused on potential Cornel West voters when twice as many dems would vote for Joe fucking Manchin for some reason

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Hows everybody doing tonight?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Human beings are born with a two alcoholic drinks deficiency.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

A type of guy who walks up to you and whispers "Don't come in tomorrow," because he doesn't like you and doesn't want you there

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

#Tradle #555 3/6
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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

what's up with that

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm always thinking of peltier element first instead of comrade leonard sadness

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I was thinking it'd be fun to have a Russian revolution movie ib the style of a heist movie for some reason, then remembered they literally funded themselves with bank heists.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

uh oh there was a mix up at the little caesar's factory and I ate too many slices.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Hotep who secretly supports Yakub because he thinks it's cute when the 'Yakubian devils' get red noses in winter

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Me: "Hey, maybe we should filter out videos that have hate speech labels, it's literally 1 extra line of code to just add the label to the filter list"

Lead: "No it's okay, only filtering out profanity meets the business requirements for no bad language"

Why is everybody in tech so icky

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Ian from Forgotten Weapons decided to go full mask off today and decided to review the Russian brain pan

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

he sings the songs that remind him of the songs that remind him of the P I S S

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Very easy solution for people trying to gaslight you into thinking Bidenomics work: lie to them. Say you totally agree, you totally voted for Biden, and you're totally going to vote for him again. Let their lives be this carousel of constantly going "BWUUUUH?!?!? HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?!?!?" They're not going to change.

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