Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
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LEONARD PELTIER is a 71-year-old Native American militant who has been in prison since 1975. He was sentenced to life without parole as a member of the American Indian Movement (Aim) in 1975 after two FBI agents and an Aim resister were killed in a gunfight at Ogala on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation.
I can remember his case being described when Aim speakers visited Grenada in 1982. Then in 2003 after an appeal hearing, US Appeal Court judge Gerald Heaney openly declared that government witnesses had been intimidated and crucial defence evidence had been withheld: “These facts are not disputed,” he said.
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