Standing Up for Leonard Peltier
The Peltier Statue made an epic journey from California to Washington D.C. and was successfully installed at the American University Campus. It was dedicated on December 9, with Leonard Peltier’s eldest son present, Chauncey Peltier, as well as Len Foster – Peltier’s spiritual advisor – and Robert King a former prisoner himself, now the recipient of an honorary doctorate’s degree in law and a global champion against the systemic racism festering in the US Justice system.
On Saturday I saw a film about the letter box settled on the grave of Antonio Machado who is burried in Collioure where he died after a long travel through the Pyrenean Mountains because of Franco. Serge Pey wrote to Barack Obama to ask for the release of Leonard without effect.
In the film he recitates a poem to Leonard with also the help of the langage of the Dakota fields. Have a look. It is very mouving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDdrhRi0SdE