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Marchers carry a large painting of jailed Leonard Peltier during a march on the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Mass., November 22, 2001
INDIGENOUS activist Leonard Peltier will return home, nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
President Joe Biden commuted Mr Peltier’s sentence Monday, hours before leaving office.
It follows decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the United States government’s mistreatment of Native Americans.
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The ghosts of Custer’s doomed campaign haunt a modern America still devoted to waging imperialist war, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
