‘Commentary’ Archives
FREE LEONARD PELTIER
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes Leonard Peltier was railroaded for FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams’ 1975 murder at the historic Pine Ridge Indian Reservation gunfight in South Dakota. Don’t take my word, look it up. You’ll find some interesting information. Peltier’s attorney, former Tennessee U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp, told Native News Online in June, “Leonard did not shoot the agents, and the FBI knew this but withheld evidence. The court of appeals acknowledged this but couldn’t overturn the conviction due to legal standards”. During his trial, Darlene Nichols said Peltier told her about committing the crime. She later acknowledged receiving $42,000 from the FBI in connection with her cooperation on the case. No investigation looked into whether the testimony was perjured. FYI. She’s now married to a former FBI Chief Agent. At the trial, FBI agents changed their statements that they’d searched for a [...]
Jim Brown’s Ghost
from the Series Raise Your Voice... By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar Jim (a.k.a. Jack) lived much of his later years at 2517/2519 17th Avenue. He was a descendant of the Sami people, the reindeer pastoralists of Norway and Sweden, who had fled north as per an influx of landholding farmers. Naturally, Jim identified with the indigenous people of the Americas. Note: our Norway House and the American Swedish Institute are local sources of Sami history in the Phillips Community. Some 25 years ago, Jim found me turning soil in the 17th Avenue Community Garden. The time had come for us to distribute the People’s World, a product of an entity affectionately referred to here as the “Community Party”. Hey, as a skilled mechanic, Jim served in two theaters of the war to preserve democracy against the forces of fascism. Were he still alive, would he support Trump’s plan to burn the planet under a fossil fuel dictatorship… a plan where their offspring survives and ours [...]
