Leonard Peltier and the history of the American Indian Movement w/Rachel Thunder | Rattling the Bars
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- In 1977, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents, and has remained a political prisoner of the US ever since. Peltier's conviction has long been contested by activists and legal experts. Despite the recantation of three key witnesses, his case has never been brought back to trial. Peltier has been eligible for parole since 1992, and the federal government has ignored calls to free him for more than 30 years. Rachel Dionne Thunder joins Rattling the Bars to discuss Peltier's case and the radical vision of the American Indian Movement which the federal government has sought to repress through Peltier's incarceration.
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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. ❤
He's also a Painter
He will never be silenced or erased from the hearts and minds of all of us who share his vision.
THANK YOU‼️HE IS FROM MY TRIBE‼️FREE LEONARD PELLETIER‼️✌️AIM
Solidarity from Australia
He's from my tribe too, if you'll forgive me.
The tribe of humanity! ✊🏾❤
@@billkosses3808 Che Miigwetch!
Thank you! There's so much support for Assange but it seems nobody cares about Leonard and he was a Spoken Word Journalist that is still imprisoned at 80 years old. 😓
@@ellenjeanabare9419 The man is a class hero and deserves accolades not imprisonment. Love and respect to all who honour Peltier and his ideas x
I was very disappointed that Obama didn't pardon Leonard Peltier. Very disappointed!
Too busy playing golf and directing drone attacks. He never gave a shit about people.
What made you think that he would?
Pardoning for what? He's guilty.
So sad 😢.
@@miskwaadwere you a member of the jury?
Free him now.
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.
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.
Just saw a sign the other day. I'm in the Bay Area. Signs still up all over the place.
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.
100% agree- it’s wild the amount of pushback folks get for saying this obvious thing.
John Trudell was amazing! The feds bombed his home when he was marching, killing his wife, Mother-in-law, & 2 Babies. He used to wear their diaper pins on his jeans jacket. There's tons of RUclips videos with him doing spoken word. Annie Humphrey is from my and Leonard's tribe. She has beautiful music videos on RUclips. She's from Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota.
There are certain people who will get fighting mad at you for mentioning the Native American gen•cide and African slavery.
But, I’m going to keep talking about our true history. Not the sanitary nice history in most of the American history books, but the REAL story.
Thanks for a really incisive interview that gets to the point and demands action
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
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.
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 😢.
Bro we need to hear more about native Americans but we mostly watch African American plight
indigenous peoples have been largely erased and pushed out of view by design. it's hard to get people to care. i'm glad they had her on but they definitely need more. we need voices from canada too to talk about the indian act.
Thank you. Free Leonard Peltier. Give the Lakota their land back.
I agree but Leonard Pelletier is Anishinaabe not Lakota.
There were many different Tribes in the American Indian Movement. AIM started in Minneapolis after many Indians were killed by MPD. We used CB Radios to keep track of each other.
Wounded Knee was but 1 fight among many. The Feds were deeply involved. Pottinger was a major CIA Player in Wounded Knee!
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.
Maybe the Innocence Project?
@@ileanahernandez1709 Maybe. The whole thing seems so political though, maybe they are scared to touch it. You know who was getting people, out, Kim Kardashian. Maybe even her.
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
Free Peltier NOW.
The NED should be funding AIM.
#FREELEONARDPELTIER
#FreeLeonardPeltier
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.
Free Leonard Peltier! Free Turtle Island! 🐢🏝
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.
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.
I read it. Amazing book. That book really portrays the "reign of terror" atmosphere prior to the shootout at the ranch. You feel like you were there. It communicates how people feared for their lives. The film "Incident at Oglala" did not really communicate that atmosphere as well, I thought. After reading Spirit of Crazy Horse, I volunteered to spend a couple weeks on Lakota territory to assist an environmental activist who was/is fighting to end the toxic uranium mining that has been encroaching on their lands. The radioactive waste from the mining had contaminated the water serving Cheyenne River. We saw radioactive mining waste dumped off the side of a highway, covered in a broken plastic tarp. The dust was just blowing around in the wind.
@@aspirapolvere5510 It's truly unbelievable, the way the people there have been treated. The couple times that I have been to the Dakotas, my heart is always touched by the endurance of the people; and being white, I get to hear, from the white often Nordic inhabitants, just how racist and resentful toward the Indians they still are.
But having been to that country, I could almost picture the escape from White Clay Creek, as though I was there, when I read about it, in Matthiessen's book. Such an excellent, heartbreaking, and infuriating read.
Free Peltier ! Free Mumia ! Free Assange ! Free Turtle Island ! Land Back ! Decolonization !
ABSOLUTELY
Excellent interview !
There are a couple of under populated states in the west for the Amerindians , You have my support, love and respect !
ummm... all the land is Native land though? sounds like you are suggesting another forced relocation, maybe do some more learning
Because of AIM, we were FINALLY allowed to Practice our TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL BELIEFS in 1978! #NoTreatyUnbroken! #FreeLeonardPeltier!
Custer had it coming .
Exceptionally informative interview. Thank you both.
Ditto
Thank you for this video, I remember when this was happening; however, I did not know the current situation. He has been badly treated.
Good show.
Freedom, rehabilitation, compensation for 4 decades in prison for nothing!
Free Leonard Peltier now! And please remember our 1st Nations Indigenous people are pure black folks. Sorverign rights for ALL Indigenous people!❤
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!!!
Maybe you should have asked about Anna Mae Aquash.
Agent David Price should have been asked about that.
For what? To confirm what we already know? Peltier and the rest of his ilk were psychopaths who lied for years?
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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.
I did time with him . Beginning 1981 in Terre Haute. Spike.
It's so wrong. Free Leonard Pelletier.
The Feds give little help for missing or dead on the Res.. Too bad the families have to solve the murder of their own.
Je prie pour qu il soit libere cette annee 2024. ❤
Imperialism 400 years old God willing will return from where it came to become GODS ON EARTH.❤❤❤❤❤
OMG! LEONARD PELLETIER IS STILL IN JAIL?
MN RIGHTS!!!
Màn you look like my Uncle Bill Woods
Osiyo on the Dark Side of the Moon!
One White Brother here of mixed heritage. What one white? The one who one. OB1. Pick another color! Gosh darn golly he must of jumped right off the screen! While that may be funny to you what I’m about to say is quite real…
“Our conversation with the Federal Gov. to Free Native American Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier who’s been falsely imprisoned going on half a century and to honor the Indian Treaties (pre-constitutional law) forming the basis of our great nation was almost entirely redacted on national TV shortly before the insurrection because it demanded that the then President also relinquish the nuclear codes which has never been done.
Oct. 2020 I spoke with at least around a dozen federal agents including the FBI and even the US Navy. Trump says before being elected, “We have nuclear weapons so why can’t we use them?” Nancy Pelosi confirmed to our international audience on national TV that indeed they where removing the nuclear codes with the help of the CIA and if anyone has any questions they could just call up and ask. What followed only confirms nuclear tensions where about to explode. The redaction is worth at the minimum trillion$ more than all moneys because with nuclear war lights out! Nothing! This simultaneously addressed the other largest nuclear power and all the rest without having to address any of them directly except our own.”
This is a true story. If you alike what you see please support the Peacekeeper. Please allow me to retire and pass the torch. I should not need to utter another word. What was done never needs to be repeated. The whole story must be told with or without the redaction so what happened in Japan never happens again. The hardest work is finished and far too much already been sacrificed. We’re much too close to loosing everything. The freedom of all unjustly incarcerated sets the precedence both on the national and international scale for human rights violations leading us into this mess. If we cannot connect the bigger picture to what is happening on the human scale we’ll loose everything within the next century including the environment. “We inherit the earth from the future generations.”
Thank You!
Your Peacekeeper and friend
P.S. There’ve been many like Christ or the Buddha but Krishna is a thief. Best to be, “Wanted” in Hopi Tribal Court for stealing all of space-time. During the proceedings the Peacekeeper will demonstrate just by being seen the supernatural.
Know me (No-me). You know like, “Menominee.” “Brian” means King. Some say I’m all, “Ram.” Indeed 100% Ram (pronounced “wrong”).
FREE EDWARD SNOWDEN. FREE JULIAN ASSANGE, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISIONERS FREE LEONARD PELLETIER....FAIR JUSTICE FOR ALL....NO JUSTICE NO PEACE.
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.
These oppressors are so cunning they find different ways of getting away with forfeiting and destroying agreements and the people they’re oppressing. In regards to these treaties, they will probably say, “see it wasn’t us, it was nature that disintegrated these treaties.”
@@susangarcia1184 absolutely. If they were going to honor the treaties they would have been protected like the original Constitution. Yeah government is still messing with us.
Hi & hello, I hope to get out that way in six - 12 months. If you don't have enough volunteers I'll reach out to you.
It would be a privilege & I'm pretty good at following directions when necy 😉
You must mean Russell Means .
President Biden, " Free Leonard Pelletier " He is Innocent.
Man they Palestined the Native Indians
Or American Indianed the Palestinians
George Mitchell was the founder of AIM.
wait. we calling indigenous people Indians again? wtf?
Those discussions mainly take place in American colleges and white culture. Indians often call themselves Indians unless they're speaking of specific nations. They're not worried about words; they're worried about survival and justice.
Who are you⁉️ we who, who is this “ we,” Call people what they call themselves.
Free Leonard and palestin prisoners of colonialism
I wrote a book and published it on Amazon about my alien abductions it's called "violence will not be tolerated" please read it.
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.
I bet you RFK wouldn’t do sh*t!!!!!
@@obsoleteelite8258 Why? Listen to his stances & hear him out & you'll change your mind.
He should have been freed during the Obama administration but Obama did not have the guts to do 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
#Free Eric Brant.
Who's Eric Brant
The book Agents of Repression has a very detailed account of this occurrence. The author was not who he said he was though.