Wednesday September 23, 2009, 7:49 am
Leonard Peltier: The Writer

The Author

Since his imprisonment began in 1976, Leonard Peltier has depended most on the written word to communicate with family, friends, and supporters. In this way, he records his thoughts, concerns, and emotions; and discusses Native issues, American and international politics, and strategies to win his freedom. Over the years, he has honed his writing skills and developed a unique style. Although he has evolved as a writer, Leonard Peltier has not lost his "voice"—or his passion for freedom and the survival of his People.

Leonard often writes articles for publication. The topics vary, but usually touch on his life experiences, current events or trends of most concern to him and, of course, the specifics of his case.

My Life is My Sun Dance

In 1999, Leonard Peltier's memoir was published—"Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance" (St. Martin's Press).

The work received wide acclaim and attracted the attention of luminaries such as Britain's Queen Elizabeth. As a result, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for Peltier to be freed and France's former First Lady Danielle Mitterand—president of the French human rights organization, France Libertés—also called for the release of Leonard Peltier.

Editor Harvey Arden said, "Leonard Peltier's powerful memoir, a Native American spiritual testament, will shake the conscience of the nation... and the world. It's a flaming arrow aimed at the circled wagons of American injustice."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls it: "A deeply moving and very disturbing story of a gross miscarriage of justice and an eloquent "cri de coeur" of Native Americans for redress and to be regarded as human beings with inalienable rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution… We pray that it does not fall on deaf ears. America owes it to herself."

details above AND MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS MAN… from the following link:
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/writer.htm




LET us THANK Just Carole for BRINGING THIS TO Care2… again… RECENTLY…
Her LINK to the PETITON: http://www.care2.com/news/member/497847928/1256416


Inspired by Eleanor Roosevelt's belief that, "The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities."

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 7:54 am

Thank you so much for keeping this issue in the spotlight, Ge!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 8:00 am
Just Carole... THE CITIZENS ACROSS OUR GREAT EARTH... WITH UNITED VISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, COLLECTIVELY UNCOMPROMISED HUMAN RIGHTS, IS AN EMBRACE CHERISHED PURSUED AND BECAUSE THE FUTURE IS OURS>>>SUCCESSFUL!

PEOPLE SUCH AS Your CHARACTER and INTEGRITY... those WHO HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE NECESSITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS WHO WORK IN NATIONS ACROSS OUR GREAT EARTH WITH THE SAME CREED... SUCH HONORABLE CHARACTER AS TO INCLUDE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF Mr. Peltier (YES his and ALL CITIZENS... that THERE MUST BE REFORM WITHOUT HESITANCE OF OUR PRISON SYSTEM AND INVESTIGATION OF EVERY PERSON REVIEWED WITH THE INTEGRITY TO STAND FORTH WITH DIGNITY IN APOLOGY TO OUR WRONGFULLY INPRISONED... !


BLESSINGS

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 10:37 am
Thanls Ge!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 11:06 am
Thank Ge and Carol. This is justice miscarried if there ever was.

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 11:42 am
Thank you Ge and Carole

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 11:52 am
Thank you Ge.

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 12:41 pm
Exactly Betsy. A miscarriage of justice and very concerted effort by those involved from the beginning to keep Peltier in prison till he dies. There are real murders that have served less time. This is CYA politics by the FBI.

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 12:53 pm
Done!!! Here is another if anyone wants to sign...

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/michael-jackson-and-the-peter-pan-house

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 12:54 pm
Noted. Thank you Ge for sharing and thank you "C" for sending me the link to this story.

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 4:17 pm
NOTED. Thank you Ge for posting and thank you C for sending to me. This is another story that screams we went beyond ENOUGH IS ENOUGH a long time ago!!!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 4:52 pm





HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES THIS IS THE 60th ANNIVERSARY
OF A LABOR OF LOVE... OF UNITED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS:

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO COME TO THIS LINK... AND VIEW THE INFORMATION...
AND WHEN YOU HAVE TIME... AS MUCH AS YOU WILL...
POST YOUR THREAD OF YOUR CARE2 NEWS... ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS
LET us TOO CELEBRATE THE UNITED WORK ETHIC OF HUMANITY...


THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING JUST WHO YOU ARE!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 4:54 pm
http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/1257278

OOPS... BEING HUMAN... I FORGOT TO PLACE THE THREAD

IN HONESTY... A TEAR WAS IN MY EYE... HONESTLY SO...
THINKING OF THOSE IN PRISONS TODAY... WHO ARE HUNGRY THERE...
WHO ARE BEING VIOLATED BY OTHER TREACHERY IN USA PRISONS... OTHERS...
THINKING...
OF THE CRIES OF RAPE GOING OUT TO TOO OFTEN DEAF EARS...

I HAD A TEAR FOR THOSE LIVES... AND OTHERS...
LET us DO WHAT WE CAN TO WIPE AWAY THE TEARS AND THE SUFFERING!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 5:38 pm
Noted and signed. We can never return the years stolen from a life.

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 7:50 pm

Free Peltier and all political prisoners and JAIL WARMONGERS AND ALL THOSE THAT PROFIT FROM DEATH!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 8:13 pm





***HUMAN RIGHTS!!!

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 11:37 pm
Thanks Ge ... i just found this > http://www.noparolepeltier.com/ ... i've never seen it before - have you ? UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday September 24, 2009, 2:20 am
thanks for keeping this in the news

Thursday September 24, 2009, 7:35 am




Rosemary... thank you for the information
WHICH I WAS CERTAIN OF TO EXIST
as the "groups out there INVESTED in continuing particularly their INVESTED INTERESTS of GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
as they LABOR to INCITE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUALLY
and attempt to CONTEND WITH JUSTICE
as they CONTEND under the pretext that they presently "get away with it" as they contnd presently to abide "within the law" ALBIET A CORRUPTED "law" THAT WILL BE THROWN DOWN AND THROWN OUT!

THESE TYPES OF GROUPS UNDERMINE THE INTEGRITY OF THE USA!




WE ALL DESERVE, TO SEE... JUSTICE CARRIED OUT! NOT MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE!
TO DENY ANY CITIZEN... ALL CITIZENS...

THAT OUR USA PRISON SYSTEMS BE INVESTIGATED... FOR VIOLENCE


THAT OUR USA POLICE FORCES BE INVESTIGATED FOR CORRUPTED COPS AND THEY BE FOUND AND DETAINED AND CHARGED AND INPRISONED...


THAT OUR OTHER BRANCHES OF USA GOVERNMENT WHERE THE CORRUPTED ARE ATTEMPTING TO HIDE THEMSELVES IN THEIR ATTEMPT "of miscarriages of POWER" WE DESERVE THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THEM>>>THEIR INCARCERATIONS>REINVESTIGATION OF ALL PRISON TERMS/OF EVERY CASE EVER HELD...

Thursday September 24, 2009, 12:15 pm
Thank you, Ge.

Thursday September 24, 2009, 3:29 pm
Thank you Ge. I've read quite a bit of his writings on the net - he writes beautifully and from the depths of his soul. A travesty of justice. The hate mongering in this world is so sad. I send this man love and light, and courage, and apologise to him on behalf of those who insist that he stays behind bars. Shame on us.

Thursday September 24, 2009, 6:04 pm
Thanks Ge doesn't look like I've seen this one before...

Friday September 25, 2009, 11:38 am
The Case of Leonard Peltier and the "Incident" (?!!!) at Pine Ridge/Wounded Knee (all of them) has polarized not only your country but the World, into two camps, one for, one against. But then, the whole issue of the 'savages' having the nerve!! to fight back when their lands were invaded and their people slaughtered, has been around for over 400 years. (the "how dare they fight back" mentality) In the fifties, my brothers and I would boo when the 'cavalry came over the hill" at the Saturday Matinee . Didn't win us friends... My brother spent 16 years as a humanitarian aid worker in Africa, saw the aftermath of the Rwanda massacre... has no pretentions of believing that ANY group has a monopoly on vicious prejudice and murder. America has proved that many times, like the fight for desegregation of Blacks during the 50's/60's..(he went down to help and came back alive). Somehow, tho' the Native People of Turtle Island (North America) are still viewed by so many people, as something beneath human. When they talk about the unemployment in Black communities, which is awful, they don't mention the 85% rate of unemployment on many Reserves, like Pine Ridge, one of the poorest areas in the world. The fact that this ANTI-Peltier - read Native - site exists and is taken seriously by so many indicates the depth of racism towards Natives. If it was against any race or ethnic group, black, Jewish, etc., It would be hauled off the internet and somebody would be sent to jail. But basically, anything can be said about native people and it is accepted or dismissed. MY country won't sign the UN bill for Indigenous RIghts(Right Wing government) and this is shameful to me. What is Americas position regarding this Human Rights Bill? I believe, with great sadness in my soul, that Leonard Peltier will die in jail (or murdered outside of it), a martyr to Native People (unless they have sold out to the Right) and that the illegitimate POWER of the FBI will continue unchallenged, to the great detriment of your country, and the world. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - May his mountain monument be finished and stand forever looking out over the Land where his people died. (no doubt this statement will put me on some List of your Homeland Security or FBI.....)

Friday September 25, 2009, 11:41 am

Not to worry about "the list," Madeleine . . . most of the best people are on it, so you'll be in good company!

(Great comment, by the way!)

Sunday September 27, 2009, 2:57 pm



all of You
INVESTED IN HUMAN RIGHTS... to ALL NATIONS OF PEOPLE.

CONTINUE BEING GROUNDED IN YOUR INTEGRITY
for surely WE CELEBRATE A NEW ERA
with GLOBAL UNITY for HUMAN RIGHTS.
AN INITIATIVE THAT IS TOO PRECIOUS TO DENY.

Monday September 28, 2009, 9:22 am
Great girl thanxxx for amping up the volume in getting our man free.. he needs to be set free, and be allowed to walk the road to freedom

Monday September 28, 2009, 10:31 am

t.y. CHAZ... !
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight Eisenhower

Inspired by Eleanor Roosevelt's belief that, "The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities