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DESCRIPTION:INCIDENT AT OGLALA: The Leonard Peltier Story\nA free film screening, with 
 information about Native prisoners and resistance movements.\n7:30pm at the 
 Big Yellow House.\n\nFilm description from the DVD case:\n\nIn 1975 armed 
 FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Gunfire 
 Erupted--a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest 
 manhunt in FBI history three men were apprehended--only one Leonard Peltier 
 was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This is his 
 story.\n\nFrom the very beginning, Peltier's case has been dogged with 
 controversy. Were the charges trumped up? Was the evidence falsified? Ware 
 witnesses pressured to change their testimony? Many people, including some 
 of today s greatest legal minds, believe that Peltier is an innocent 
 man.\n\nTwelve years ago Robert Redford visited Leonard Peltier in prison. 
 Today after yours of struggle with the FBI and the prison system he and 
 director Michael Apted are able to present incident at Oglala a riveting 
 examination of the case and the real story of what my be one of the most 
 outrageous abuses of justice in American history.\n\n90 minutes / color / 
 1988\n\nSome back story:\n\n In the 1970’s a resurgence in Native 
 American resistance  occurred with series of land occupations and armed 
 standoffs related to protecting sacred sites, opposing broken treaties, and 
 fighting genocidal governmental policies.  The American Indian Movement 
 became a major target of the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program 
 (COINTELPRO) by at least 1972, when the Trail of Broken Treaties ended in 
 Washington DC with the takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office.  
 The government repression resulted in the targeting and assassination of 
 participants in the movement, including the death of between 70-250 people 
 over a five-year reign of terror on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South 
 Dakota (where prospectors had recently discovered one of the largest 
 uranium deposits in N. America).  \n\nLeonard Peltier was convicted based 
 on faulty evidence and FBI manipulation of the murder of 2 FBI Agents who 
 started a shoot-out at the Jumping Bull residence on June 25, 1975.  
 \n\nJohn Graham: Leonard Peltier II?\nA female leader of AIM named Anna Mae 
 Pictou Aquash was found murdered a few months after the shoot-out; 
 authorities attempted to conceal her body as well as information of death 
 threats she had received from FBI agents.  The government is now attempting 
 to cover-up this shameful legacy and sow contempt in contemporary 
 indigenous struggles by framing Anna Mae’s comrade, John Graham, for her 
 murder.  Cointelpro’s legacy of infiltrating, imprisoning and otherwise 
 disrupting resistant communities continues to be used and improved on by 
 law enforcement.  AIM was targeted extensively in the 70’s because it 
 successfully restored hope and pride in the Native American spirit of 
 resistance. \nTo learn more about John Graham's case: 
 http://www.grahamdefense.org/\n\nRelated 
 links:\nhttp://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/\nhttp://www.freeleonard.org/\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104504/\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/07/18491117.php
SUMMARY:Free film screening of INCIDENT AT OGLALA - the Leonard Peltier Story
LOCATION:Big Yellow House\n742 N. Branciforte\nSanta Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/07/18491117.php
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