Leonard Peltier is going home!
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
4.8 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
A livestream conversation hosted by TRN Podcast host Nick Estes and prominent members of the Leonard Peltier movement for clemency!
Statement by The Red Nation:
"After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home! “It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.” For decades, the now elder Dakota and Ojibwe member of the American Indian Movement represented a powerful symbol for millions. His imprisonment has been viewed as collective punishment against generations of Indigenous people who fought for liberation, from the Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the Water Protector Movement that fought against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016."
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Greetings, everyone, welcome to this special live stream of the Red Nation podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | We are joined by two lovely guests. |
| 0:40.7 | Of course, my name is Nick Estes, the co-hosts of the Red Nation podcast. So you can see |
| 0:46.3 | this is a podcast about the wonderful news that we heard today, historic news, about the Leonard Peltier being granted clemency. |
| 0:57.5 | Before we get into discussions with our guests, I just wanted to go over what the facts are |
| 1:03.7 | that we know so that we're all on the same page here because there's a lot of, you know, |
| 1:07.5 | this just happened this morning. |
| 1:09.6 | Literally, when it was posted on the White |
| 1:13.0 | House press briefing website, that website was taken down just minutes after Trump was inaugurated. |
| 1:20.7 | So you can't really find the press release online right now. There's a lot of news stories that |
| 1:24.8 | have covered it. So I wanted to actually show the physical copy of the actual clemency so that we're all on the same page here. I don't |
| 1:33.2 | know if anyone can see this. It looks like it's on the center of the screen. This is the |
| 1:38.1 | executive clemency that was issued from President Biden. And I'll just read it, you know, |
| 1:45.2 | Executive Grant of Clemency. |
| 1:47.5 | This is on the DOJ website by Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States, |
| 1:53.2 | former president to all to whom these presidents shall come, greeting, a hereby commute the remainder of the total sentence of imprisonment imposed upon Leonard Peltier. |
| 2:10.4 | That says his, I think that's his BOP number, to be served in its entirety on home confinement. To take effect February 18th, 2025, |
| 2:23.3 | I leave intact all other components of this sentence. So that's kind of an important part, |
| 2:29.5 | right? That I leave intact all other components of the sentence and executive clemency is not an |
| 2:35.3 | acknowledgement of innocence. It's just a commutation of the sentence. Sometimes it happens |
| 2:41.3 | in terms of releasing somebody directly from prison. In this case, it's a commutation to home |
| 2:47.1 | confinement. So he hereby designates and direct and empower the partner attorney as my representative |
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