Today is a grim and shameful day.
We do not know why. Leonard himself has asked that we thank each and every one of you for your phenomenal efforts on his behalf during the last year. Towards the end the world support had turned into a literal human rights tidal wave, with every high level leader and organization calling or writing to President Clinton on Leonard's behalf. Yet somehow it was not enough to outweigh the outright terror the FBI was able to instill in our government leadership. Canada Internationally renowned American Indian Movement leader and political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, is suffering a slow death as a result of his 24 years of imprisonment.