United States
Leonard Peltier
Submitted by macho on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 00:56
Leonard Peltier -- a great-grandfather, artist, writer, & indigenous rights activist -- is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976.
A participant in the American Indian Movement, he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the mid-70s where a tragic shoot-out occurred on June 26, 1975. Accused of the murder of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Peltier fled to Canada believing he would never receive a fair trial in the United States.
Robert 'Seth' Hayes
Submitted by macho on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 12:13
Robert 'Seth' Hayes is one of the longest-held political prisoners in the USA. Born in the Bronx in 1948, Seth was imprisoned due to his activity in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, a fighting formation which grew out of the Black liberation movement of the 1960's.
It was in the period of social upheaval in the late 1960's that Seth radicalized and joined the Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation army. Drafted into the U.S.
