POOR Magazine denounces the denial of parole for Indigenous elder, scholar, activist and protector of Turtle Island Leonard Peltier by the United States Parole Commission
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by POOR Magazine/PNN staff & family POOR Magazine denounces the denial of parole for Indigenous elder, scholar, activist and protector of Turtle Island Leonard Peltier by the United States Parole Commission. Peltier's parole hearing was his first since 1994. His next hearing is scheduled in 2024, when he will be 79 years old. Leonard Peltier has spent more than 3 decades in prison for the killing of 2 FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota 1975. Despite evidence and thousands of pages of documents that would prove his innocence, the US justice system has perpetuated its culture of vengeance, not only against Leonard Peltier but against all political prisoners and indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Poor Magazine recognizes and has implemented the UN Declaration on Indigenous People that states that indigenous people have a right to remain on and have control of the land and to the resources thereof. Poor Magazine stands in solidarity with the American Indian Movement (AIM), United Native Americans and millions of supporters worldwide in resistance to the warehousing and ownership of people to fuel and propagate the prison industrial complex (PIC). We call on the millions of Leonard Peltier supporters to not give up the fight to contact President Barack Obama and demand a full pardon for our brother and elder Leonard Peltier |