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...LEONARD PELTIER Easiest pardon to refuse. Though Native American groups and celebrity advocates made lots of noise, he is in prison, serving consecutive life sentences for murdering two FBI agents. End of discussion...
Some were quite specific: Several people wrote that they hope President Clinton pardons Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 for killing two FBI agents...
Eyre and Alexie are also lining up future projects. Eyre is readying a biopic about imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier. Alexie plans on directing a script based on his 1996 book Indian Killer, sort of a Native American Psycho involving a murderer who scalps his victims. Though he'll continue with novels and poetry, Alexie has staked out his new territory. "I love the way movies have more power than books," he says. "They continue the oral tradition, the way we all sit around the fire and listen to stories." And in them, the Indians...
Morello is quick to point out that his band backs up its revolutionary rhetoric with action, such as staging benefit concerts for imprisoned American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier and death-row inmate/activist Mumia Abu-Jamal. During an appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live in April, the band attempted to hang inverted American flags to protest the influence of big money on American politics (former presidential candidate/millionaire Steve Forbes was the host that night), and Morello says SNL cut the band's second song from the program in retaliation. A spokesman for SNL, however, says the group's second...
...first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four years' worth of contempt citations (none of it served). His use of courtrooms as high- profile political platforms often worked to client's and cause's good...