Former Prison Guard Speaks: Leonard Peltier Must Be Free

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Sign the Official Petition to FREE LEONARD PELTIER: http://www.leonardpeltier.info/petition | Interview with Bruce Smith about Leonard Peltier incarcerated at Leavenworth Penitentiary, KS (Now incarcerated in Coleman, FL). The focus of this short film is about Bruce Smith who introduces himself as a former U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) corrections officer between 1982 and 2003 at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas (Now incarcerated in Coleman, Florida). PLAYLIST of Important Videos to learn about Leonard Peltier's case: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsXvBCk-wqdYV3W91eRHrjN-eIl5s5AJi Follow us @ https://www.facebook.com/iloveancestry https://twitter.com/LovingAncestry http://iloveancestry.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/iloveancestry http://www.instagram.com/iloveancestry "The imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is the imprisonment of all American Indians." Message from World Advocate Bonnie Walker: "Native American Human Rights/ Environmental Rights Activist Leonard Peltier is currently living at USP Coleman 1 a federal maximum security prison; he has now been imprisoned for close to 4 decades for a crime he DID NOT commit! Both Leonard's innocence and the fraudulent facts that were introduced into his case are public knowledge obtained legally thru the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). He is one of the longest held Political Prisoners in America. WE need your help in strongly urging President Obama to grant Leonard Executive Clemency!" --Bonnie Walker Leonard can be contacted at the following address: LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132 USP COLEMAN I U.S. PENITENTIARY P.O. BOX 1033 COLEMAN, FL 33521 Leonard Peltier Defense Team http://leonardpeltier.info/ "I am everyone who ever died without a voice or a prayer or a hope or a chance... Everyone who ever suffered for being an Indian, for being human, for being indigenous, for being free, for being Other, for being committed.... I am every one of them. Every single one. Yes. Even you. I am everyone". -- Leonard Peltier In the Badlands of South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the mystery of exactly what occurred here on June 26th, 1975 is still unsolved. What is known is the morning quiet was shattered by a shootout between a group of Native Americans and two FBI agents. The agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, were wounded from afar, then executed at point-blank range. The only person ever convicted and imprisoned for the killings was Leonard Peltier. Amnesty International is calling for Leonard Peltier's immediate release. Peltier has his own defense committee, with an Internet site, and even has support on Capitol Hill. Peltier also has received support from individuals and groups including billionaire mogul David Geffen, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Rigoberta Menchú, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Tenzin Gyatso (the 14th Dalai Lama), the European Parliament, the Belgian Parliament, the Italian Parliament, the Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, former South African archbishop and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rev. Jesse Jackson. Robert Redford is also a supporter and produced a documentary called "Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story." "I have no doubt whatsoever that the real motivation behind both Wounded Knee II and the Oglala firefight, and much of the turmoil throughout Indian Country since the early 1970s, was—and is—the mining companies' desire to muffle AIM and all traditional Indian people, who sought—and still seek—to protect the land, water, and air from their thefts and depredations. In this sad and tragic age we live in, to come to the defense of Mother Earth is to be branded a criminal." --Leonard Peltier Short Film by Preston Randolph, Cactus Productions https://www.facebook.com/cactusproductions