The new '#FreeLeonardPeltier' film tells the history of The Trail of #BrokenTreaties and #BIATakeover in Washington. '#Resistance is a responsibility,' says #MadonnaThunderHawk.

April 14, 2025
Film screenshots / collage #CensoredNews

Dates of Free Screenings of the New 'Free Leonard Peltier' Film on the #RezTour2025

April 21 | #BelcourtND, #TurtleMountain Band of #Chippewa
April 22 | #FargoND
April 23 | #FortYatesND, #StandingRock
April 24 | #EagleButteSD, #CheyenneRiver
Apirl 26 | #RapidCitySD
April 27 and 28 | #KyleSD, #Oglala5
April 29 | #ValentineNE, #RosebudSioux
May 1 | #SiouxFallsSD

ALL SCREENINGS ARE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED - no tickets necessary.

Each screening will feature an in-person Q&A with the film team.

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/free-screenings-of-new-free-leonard.html

More upcoming screenings nationwide and globally: Boston, Mass., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, San
Rafael, California, Dallas, Texas, and Warsaw, Poland
https://freeleonardfilm.com/screenings/

Read More at Censored News:
The new film shares deep history of the movement. 'Standing Ovations and Global Awards for New
'Free Leonard Peltier' Film.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/free-leonard-peltier-film-shows-in.html

“Autistic Inclusive Meets: the grassroots group fighting Autistic abuse while uplifting the community”

by Hannah Sharland in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“Autistic Inclusive Meets (AIM) has campaigned for years for a new law to make claiming a treatment or intervention as an autism ‘cure’, illegal”

https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/04/14/autistic-inclusive-meets/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#ChokecherryMassacre Remembrance March by #DinéBikeyah Chapter of the #AmericanIndianMovement [#AIM]

Saturday, April 5, 2025, #FarmingtonNewMexico.

Remembering three Navajo men #HermanBenally of Kirtland, #JohnEarlHarvey of Fruitland, and #DavidIgnacio of Blanco who were beaten and killed in April 1974 by three Farmington High School students.

Signs read: "#ScienceIsReal. #BlackAndBrownLivesMatter. #NoHumanBeingIsIllegal. #LoveIsLove. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights. #KindnessIsEverything. #StopArrestingMyBrothersAndSisters."

Read more / photographs:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/chokecherry-massacre-remembrance-march.html
#Diné #Racism #Remembrance #Resistance #ResistRacism #ResistColonialism #April5th

#FreeLeonardPeltier Today in Fort Collins, Colorado

"The Free #LeonardPeltier film will be shown in Fort Collins, Colorado, today, Sunday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the ACT Human Rights Film Festival. It can be viewed online [at the link below for $7] April 7 through April 15 from the Colorado State University Libraries, all part of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival."

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/free-leonard-peltier-film-shows-in.html

Online viewing:
https://
act2025.eventive.org/schedule/67c8e6c7dd9ab8c88ffc43fb
#IndigenousActivist #LeonardPeltier #AIM #LeonardPeltierMovie

Anlässlich der aim Bildungskonferenz:
Wie erleben Bildungsaufsteiger*innen mit Migrationshintergrund den Spagat zwischen sozialem Aufstieg und familiären Traditionen? In seinem Artikel "Sphärendiskrepanz und Erwartungsdilemma" analysiert Aladin El-Mafaalani typische Herausforderungen und Widersprüche, denen Migrant*innen in Bildungsprozessen begegnen. Jetzt lesen!​
#Migration #SozialeMobilität #Bildungsforschung #Integration #Chancengleichheit #aim #Bildungskonferenz

https://www.pedocs.de/frontdoor.php?source_opus=18823&pk_campaign=SocMed&pk_kwd=mastodonsource_opus=21704

Anlässlich der aim Bildungskonferenz:
Die Beiträge im Band "Vernetzung in Hochschullernwerkstätten – einen Schritt weiter gehen. Bedingung, Mehrwert und Herausforderung" kombinieren theoretische Grundlagen mit praxisnahen Beispielen und zeigen, wie Vernetzung zur Qualitätssteigerung in der Ausbildung von Pädagoginnen beiträgt und die Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Akteur*innen fördert.
#Vernetzung #Bildungsforschung #Lehrerbildung #aim #Bildungskonferenz

https://www.pedocs.de/frontdoor.php?source_opus=32504&pk_campaign=SocMed&pk_kwd=mastodonsource_opus=21704

So the #aim is to have a #healthier population.
1. Appoint an #antivax #conspiracy #nutjob to oversee #health.
2. Reduce or #eliminate #pollution #safeguards.
3. Promote #animal #fat.
4. #strip and #gut #EPA.
#brilliant! The #stupidity of #GOP, #MAGA and this #government is astounding! #USPolitics

Today in Labor History February 27, 1973: 300 Oglala Sioux activists from the American Indian Movement (AIM) liberated and occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota. This was the site of the infamous Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890). They occupied the site to protest a campaign of terror against them by the FBI, and corrupt tribal officials, and the tribal thugs knowns as GOONs (Guardians of Oglala Nation). The occupation lasted over 2 months, before being quashed by the U.S. government. 3 Native activists were killed. Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted for their roll, but charges were later dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct.

We’ve officially hit 25% of our goal for A Red Road to the West Bank!

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, and stood in solidarity with this project. This film is about connecting Indigenous struggles across continents, and every contribution helps us bring this story to life.

Let’s keep the momentum going—we’re just getting started!

Support & share: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

#RedRoadToTheWestBank #IndigenousSolidarity #Decolonization #FreePalestine #AIM #Mohawk #KeepItGoing

Leonard Peltier’s release after 49 years of wrongful imprisonment resonates deeply within anti-colonial struggles, particularly when compared to the systematic incarceration of Palestinians under Israeli military rule. Both cases exemplify how settler-colonial states use imprisonment as a tool of repression against Indigenous resistance.

Peltier, an Anishinaabe-Lakota activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the killing of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His trial was riddled with misconduct, including fabricated evidence, coerced witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct. The U.S. government made him a political prisoner, punishing him not for any proven crime, but for his role in defending Indigenous sovereignty. His nearly five decades behind bars symbolize the criminalization of Indigenous resistance in North America.

Similarly, Israel systematically imprisons Palestinians, especially those engaged in resistance against occupation. Since 1967, over 800,000 Palestinians—including activists, political leaders, and children—have been detained under military rule. Many are held without charge under "administrative detention," a practice that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial. Just as Peltier was targeted for his role in AIM, Palestinians are arrested for organizing protests, resisting land seizures, or even posting anti-occupation statements online.

Both cases highlight how settler-colonial powers use incarceration to neutralize Indigenous movements. The U.S. government sought to break AIM through the imprisonment of Peltier, just as Israel aims to weaken Palestinian resistance by jailing its leaders and youth. The goal in both cases is not justice, but deterrence—turning prisons into tools of colonial control.

Yet, despite decades of imprisonment, neither Peltier nor Palestinian political prisoners have been silenced. Their struggles continue to inspire movements for decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and global solidarity against settler oppression. This is exactly what we seek to unpack in A Red Road to the West Bank—the shared tools of repression used by colonial states and the enduring spirit of resistance that connects Indigenous struggles across continents.

Learn more at: www.redroadtothewestbank.com

Une entreprise de l’est de Montréal rejette des BPC dans l’air
« Je tiens à exprimer mon inquiétude à l’égard du comportement de la compagnie AIM, responsable des rejets de BPC dans l’air » (Chantal Rouleau)
https://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/846814/entreprise-est-montreal-rejette-bpc-air
#toxique #poison #santé #BPC #Montréal #Québec #Canada #USA #AIM #CMM #DRSP #pollution #justice #environnement #CAQ #politique #recyclage

I've known Leonard Peltier's face most of my life, like a plea for change in our world. I found myself crying when I saw him walk in the room. And he does speak later in the video--it's hard to hear how horrible his struggle has been, but also so good to see him out and still advocating, and loved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGUeg8iiLzI
#leonardpeltier #aim #turtleisland #justice #indigenous

"[T]o us, it’s an acknowledgment. It’s an acknowledgment that what they did to #LeonardPeltier was wrong, what they did to #Indigenous people was wrong. And at that time in history, when Leonard and the #AmericanIndianMovement were rising up, they were rising up at a time in which our ceremonies were outlawed, our languages were outlawed." - Nick Tilsen of #NDNCollective

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/19/leonard_peltier_release_return_home
#LeonardPeltierFree #NativeAmericans #AIM #PoliticalPrisoners #USpol #USpolitics

BREAKING! #LeonardPeltier Left Prison on Tuesday Morning

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 18, 2025

"Leonard Peltier will be welcomed home today, and greeted with signs along the roadway and a community feast. 'In The Honor Of' meal will be held at the Sky Dancer Casino Event Center in
#BelcourtNorthDakota, on February 18th, 2025. The meal will start at 6:00 p.m.
'Let's celebrate Leonard with the honor and glory that he deserves,' Peltier's family said.

"'As Leonard arrives on home to the Turtle Mountains, supporters of Leonard's are welcome to come and join the celebration in giving Leonard a warm welcome home by holding signs, honking, cheering and clapping with cars lined up starting from the reservation line coming from Rolla stretching into Belcourt. Please stay safe, no standing on the highway and stay on the shoulder. Please do not leave any signs behind, take them with you.'

"'As Leonard passes through, we are not allowed to follow him, please respect this. Following Leonard's welcome home at the reservation line everyone is welcome to gather for a meal in the honor of Leonard at the Sky Dancer Casino Event Center for stew, bangs and gullet as this is the first meal that Leonard requested for when he returns home.'

"'We do not know yet as of this post of Leonard's restrictions if he will be able to attend the meal.'

"Leonard is an 80-year-old elder with health problems and his first day of being released after nearly 50 years of incarceration will be a lot for Leonard to comprehend. If Leonard cannot attend, we are trying to set up for him to be on FaceTime or a phone call during the meal.'

"'The exact time of Leonard's arrival to Belcourt is still unknown.'

"'Everyone is welcome to come and celebrate this historical day of honoring our elder Leonard Peltier,' Peltier's family said today.

"Please check back for the livestream on Censored News on Tuesday."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/feast-welcomes-leonard-peltier-home-on.html
#LeonardPeltierIsFree #AIM #NativeAmericanNews #NativeAmericanActivist #ReaderSupportedNews

#vendredilecture

Suis en train de lire Lakota woman de Mary Crow Dog, activiste et écrivaine sioux lakota née le 26 septembre 1954 sur la réserve indienne de Rosebud dans le Dakota du Sud et décédée le 14 février 2013 au Nevada, et c'est durement très bien.

So, I am well aware of the controversy surrounding #BuffySainteMarie and her heritage. But whether she is a pretendian (she claims to be adopted, something that's been disputed) or not, a lot of Native Americans accepted her as one of their own, and she had her pulse on what was going on with #AIM...

Buffy's Censored Words Led to Revelations in New #LeonardPeltier Film Premiered at Sundance

"My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
- Buffy Saint Marie, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, 1992.

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 4, 2025

TSAILE, #NavajoNation -- "The words of Buffy Sainte Marie, censored by Indian Country Today, led to revelations about Oglala President Dick Wilson's secret land deal on Pine Ridge in the new film Free
Leonard Peltier, which premiered at Sundance, producer #JesseShortBull told Censored News.

"Buffy's interview at Dine' College in 1999 was censored for seven years. Before I was fired as a staff reporter, a portion of the interview was published by the newspaper -- but one paragraph was still censored. In the still censored portion, Buffy referred to a secret land deal on the day of the shoot out at the #JumpingBull property on #PineRidge. Buffy said, 'Who recalls that on that day one-eighth of the reservation was transferred in secret -- on that day. It was the part containing uranium. That is what never seems to be remembered.'

"Dickie Wilson planned to turn over the #MineralRights in the Badlands to the U.S. government. The U.S. government wanted the land for uranium mining. Dick Wilson's secret plan was discovered in the documents in the BIA file cabinets by the #AmericanIndianMovement, during the takeover of the #BIA building in Washington in 1972.

"Following the premiere of #FreeLeonardPeltier at the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, and director of the film, reveals how Buffy's words led to the search for the facts about #DickWilson's #UraniumMining scheme with the U.S. government. 'Buffy's song about Anna Mae really shocked me, she outlined it so well,' Short Bull said. 'The plans for mineral development for Pine Ridge were discovered at the 1972 BIA takeover, and by the 1980's the big wig energy companies came to Pine Ridge with big ideas for development."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/buffys-censored-words-led-to.html
#PineRidgeReservation #CorporateColonialism #Relocation #AnnaMaeAquash

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1976, the #FBI used false affidavits to capture & imprison #AIM activist #LeonardPeletier. One supposed witness tried to testify that the FBI threatened her to give false evidence but was prevented by the judge. Never forget the US has political prisoners.

“My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she'd died of Exposure…"
- Buffy Sainte Marie
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 4, 2025
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/buffys-censored-words-led-to.html

Life & Death of Anna Mae Aquash
https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/review-of-the-life-and-death-of-anna-mae-aquash-akwesasne-notes-1978/

Leonard Peltier Clemency
https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/statement-on-leonard-peltiers-clemency-and-the-case-of-annie-mae-aquash/

#AnnaMaeAquash #AkwesasneNotes #firstNations #AIM #IdleNoMore #landBack #LeonardPeltier
#WoundedKnee #PineRidge #Oglala