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🦄 Community, Prison

Half-Century Campaign Secured Leonard Peltier’s Clemency, Will Serve Remaining Sentence in Home Confinement

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025

Turtle Mountain Reservation — Leonard Peltier, 80, was released from federal custody on Feb. 18, 2025 after spending 49 years in prison for the murder of two federal agents in 1975. Peltier was found guilty by a jury for two counts of first-degree murder for…

🦄 Prison

Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Granted Clemency After Decades in Prison

January 26, 2025January 26, 2025

Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner for nearly half a century until he had his life sentence commuted on Jan 20, 2025, to serve the remainder of this sentence at home, effective February 18, 2025. The 80-year-old member of the Turtle Mountain…

🦄 Eco, Land & Housing, Protest & Direct Action

Indigenous-Led Occupation Begins at Roof Depot Site Demanding City Call Off Demolition

February 21, 2023February 23, 2023

Minneapolis, MN – East Phillips residents and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) started an occupation of the Roof Depot site in the early hours of Tuesday morning in resistance to the city’s plan to demolish the site which sits atop decades of arsenic…

🦄 Prison, Racism & Far-Right

Leonard Peltier AIM ‘Walk to Justice’ from MN to D.C. Started With a Dream [AIM Arrives in D.C.]

November 14, 2022December 6, 2022

Minneapolis, MN – Over the past two years, leaders within the American Indian Movement (AIM) organized a 1,103-mile walk from “the heart of AIM” in Minneapolis to Washington, D.C. “to seek elder Leonard Peltier’s release,” according to the main organizer Rachel Thunder. The walk’s primary…

🦄 Protest & Direct Action, Racism & Far-Right
Statue of Columbus laying on the ground with sign saying End White Supremacy in background

Felony Charge Brought Against Native Organizer Over Minnesota Capitol Columbus Statue

August 14, 2020March 4, 2022

Saint Paul, MN – The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged Mike Forcia with Criminal Damage to Property – 1st Degree – Value Reduced Over $1000 for the toppling of the Christopher Columbus statue on June 10 at the Minnesota State Capitol grounds.

Although Mike Forcia…

🦄 Protest & Direct Action, Racism & Far-Right
image: state troopers with weapons stand between community members and the statue of Christopher Columbus which was toppled from its pedestal on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol on June 10, 2020. The statue is face-down on the ground. Straps are wrapped around the statue – it is about to be hoisted into the air and then placed on a flat-bed truck for removal.

Christopher Columbus Statue Toppled in Saint Paul

June 11, 2020December 27, 2024

Saint Paul, MN – Joining a new nationwide cleanse of racist monuments, the Christoper Columbus statue at Minnesota’s Capitol building is one of the latest to be torn down.

On Wednesday evening over a hundred people came to take part in toppling a statue of…

🦄 Racism & Far-Right

“Americans of European Heritage Exclusively”: Identity Evropa Front Group Meetings Leaked

April 27, 2019May 13, 2019

Washington, DC – Identity Evropa, the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States, recently renamed itself the American Identity Movement. The name change came after reporting by Unicorn Riot exposed over a year of internal chat logs from inside Identity Evropa, leading to journalists and…


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