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Leonard Peltier 'Take your place in the struggle'
By health and employment statistics, Native Americans, like other people of color in the United States, have not achieved equality. For example, between 1998 and 2000 Native American infants in the United States were 1.7 times more likely to die than white infants in their first year of life (Tomashek et al.). The Lakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota, who supported the culturally and politically nationalist American Indian Movement, faced brutal counter-insurgency tactics complete with FBI-armed and -trained death squads that murdered 61 political activists on the reservation between 1973 and 1976. As part of that terror war against America’s first nations, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was framed by the FBI and remains in prison to this day. The following, both from "Censored News", include a message from Leonard Peltier in prison and information regarding the fact that Leonard Peltier has just been thrown in the hole. It asks that people demand he be immediately returned to the general population. People should add to that demand that Leonard Peltier be immediately released. -Steven Argue
By health and employment statistics, Native Americans, like other people of color in the United States, have not achieved equality. For example, between 1998 and 2000 Native American infants in the United States were 1.7 times more likely to die than white infants in their first year of life (Tomashek et al.). The Lakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota, who supported the culturally and politically nationalist American Indian Movement, faced brutal counter-insurgency tactics complete with FBI-armed and -trained death squads that murdered 61 political activists on the reservation between 1973 and 1976. As part of that terror war against America’s first nations, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was framed by the FBI and remains in prison to this day. The following, both from "Censored News", include a message from Leonard Peltier in prison and information regarding the fact that Leonard Peltier has just been thrown in the hole. It asks that people demand he be immediately returned to the general population. People should add to that demand that Leonard Peltier be immediately released. -Steven Argue
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