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SUPPORT LEONARD PELTIER’S JOURNEY HOME
THANK YOU TO THE NATIONAL JERICHO MOVEMENT FOR YOUR GENEROUS $1000 DONATION AND ALL OF LEONARD’S SUPPORTERS
A SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT TO THE SOCIAL JUSTICE QUILTS PROJECT, KATLA, AND EDGAR.
On January 20, 2025, President Joe Biden granted executive clemency to Leonard Peltier, commuting the remainder of his sentence. After 49 years behind bars, Leonard will finally be going home. He will be released from Coleman Penitentiary on February 18, 2025. Leonard Peltier is an elder, a symbol of resilience, and a beacon of hope for Indigenous communities and human rights advocates worldwide.
Yet, after nearly five decades of incarceration, he faces numerous challenges as he reintegrates into the community. Your support can make a profound difference in his life.
Leonard Peltier has a world of supporters. We can all work together to ensure his independence as a free man.
Donations will go directly to help Leonard with the following: Medical care. Leonard has urgent medical needs, some of which are still to be determined. Living expenses as he transitions to life outside prison. Art supplies to help him continue his passion for painting, which has sustained him throughout his imprisonment. Unforeseen expenses. The world has changed drastically over the past five decades.
This campaign is organized in collaboration with the Leonard Peltier Official Support Group, the only organization authorized by Leonard Peltier to raise funds on his behalf. Please visit www.freeleonardpeltiernow.org to listen to a statement from Leonard himself.
All funds raised will be allocated to Leonard’s care and well-being. Let us unite to honor this elder and ensure he receives the support and dignity he deserves after enduring so much.
Every contribution will mark history. Leonard Peltier has sacrificed for all of us. He needs to know that all his supporters are working together to ensure that the deprivation he has suffered for almost five decades is firmly left in the past.
Your generosity will directly affect Leonard’s journey home. Please donate today and share this campaign with your friends, family, and networks.
Thank you for standing with Leonard Peltier.
LEONARD PELTIER IS FREE
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On behalf of his late father, the author, Peter Matthiessen, who wrote In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, the definitive account of the Peltier case, Alex Matthiessen said, “Leonard Peltier’s release is a big f**** deal, as the honorable Joe Biden might say. Four previous presidents, dating back nearly 30 years, have declined to grant Peltier clemency despite overwhelming evidence that the U.S. government railroaded him into prison nearly 50 years ago for a crime they had no evidence he had committed. Joe Biden, who has shown enormous sensitivity to the plight of Native Americans, is the president who had the courage to step up and right a wrong, freeing a man long viewed by his people as a spiritual leader. The travesty of justice that Peltier’s wrongful imprisonment represents has, at long last, been rectified. Thank you, President Biden.”
Alex Matthiessen
Educate
Learn about Leonard Peltier’s story and history as America’s Native American political prisoner whose journey towards freedom has been fought for by global revolutionary leaders.
Read his writings, watch the documentaries and films created for him, and explore his artworks.
Support
Leonard’s rapidly deteriorating health requires urgent care. He requires transfer to a medical facility for immediate care.
Your support and donations ensure his basic necessities are met, his legal fees, and priority healthcare is provided during his incarceration.
Take Action
From network petitions, street initiatives to community organized events - you can do your part in maintaining Leonard’s presence in our society as an icon of active oppression.
Your voice matters in ensuring justice for Leonard Peltier.
“The true shackles are those caging the souls of those who oppress us.”
Latest statement by Leonard Peltier on November 24, 2024
URGENT APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS
On April 12, 2024, Jenipher Jones ESQ., a lead attorney for Leonard Peltier’s post-conviction legal efforts, filed a Request for Communications with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and the United Nations Special Procedures group, asking for communications to the United States regarding the denial of urgently needed medical care and an immediate investigation of the abuses and human rights violations habitually taking place in the nation’s prisons.
The Peltier Street Initiative
is a nationwide initiative to ensure the legacy of Leonard Peltier remains in the forefront of the public eye. As an icon of Native American political injustice, we must work towards maintaining his heart and sacrifice for his People to those who need inspiration to stand up against the forces of oppression.
