Another Take: Native American activist Leonard Peltier
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on November 24, 2023. None of the dates or references from that time have been changed.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been in a United States maximum security prison for over 47 years. The US government says he aided in the murder of two FBI agents. But since his trial, allegations of false evidence and coerced testimony have come up. His parole hearing on June 10 might be his last opportunity for freedom.
In this episode:
- Nick Tilsen (@NickTilsen), President of NDN Collective
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Sarí el-Khalili. The original production team was David Enders, Amy Walters, Chloe K. Li, Sonia Bhagat, Ashish Malhotra, Alexandra Locke, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, this is Saril Khalili, a senior producer at the take. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming to you with another take, stories from the archives that are relevant again now. |
| 0:20.0 | Native American activist Leonard Peltier, |
| 0:23.4 | the longest serving political prisoner in the U.S. will have a parole hearing on Monday, June 10. |
| 0:30.1 | Leonard is now 79 and his health is deteriorating. The U.S. government says he aided in the murder |
| 0:37.0 | of two FBI agents in 1975. |
| 0:40.9 | He maintains his innocence, and that hearing might be his last opportunity for freedom. |
| 0:47.3 | Amnesty International urged the U.S. Parole Commission to grant him parole on humanitarian grounds. |
| 0:54.7 | Last year, we talked about Leonard Peltier with one of the groups advocating for his release. |
| 1:00.8 | Here's our episode from November 2023. |
| 1:04.4 | Keep in mind, all the dates and references are from that time. |
| 1:27.1 | Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been in a U.S. maximum security prison for nearly five decades. |
| 1:32.0 | But Nick Tilson is one of the few people able to speak with Leonard. |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah, so I got to talk, I actually talked to Leonard last night. |
| 1:38.8 | You know, he wants to be free. |
| 1:45.1 | The U.S. government says Leonard Peltier aided in the murder of two FBI agents. |
| 1:53.1 | But over the years, problems with his trial, allegations of false evidence and coerced testimony have also appeared. |
| 1:56.7 | The only thing I'm guilty of was trying to help my people. |
| 1:59.2 | That's the only thing I'm guilty of. |
| 2:14.6 | Since then, the UN Amnesty International, U.S. Senators, his former prosecutor, and many other activists, native and non-native, have spent the last decades advocating for his release. |
| 2:21.0 | Leonard Peltier is known to many as the U.S.'s longest-serving political prisoner. |
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