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ultralite001

(2,355 posts) Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:39 PM Dec 2024

Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz asked President Biden to grant Leonard Peltier a pardon

In a less than four-minute speech on the Senate floor, Chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Senator Brian Schatz, asked that President Joe Biden grant clemency to Leonard Peltier.

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Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz asked President Biden to grant Leonard Peltier a pardon (Original Post) ultralite001 Dec 2024 OP

Kick & Rec! Drum Dec 2024 #1

Make it so, Joe Deuxcents Dec 2024 #2

Mhaalo Senator Schatz! Cha Dec 2024 #3

Please, President Biden pardon Leonard Peltier🙏🏽 Clouds Passing Dec 2024 #4

Hard to believe in 2024 the Committee hasn't changed their name, like last millenium would not have been too soon. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2024 #5

200 years: Bureau of Indian Affairs, founded March 11, 1824. Time for a change!! Celerity Dec 2024 #9

Because it's currently a legal term of art. LisaM Dec 2024 #14

Good point, but that should not be any constraint on the Committee changing its name Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2024 #21

Please do this Joe. Thanks to Brian Schatz. yorkster Dec 2024 #6

Should have been done 30 years ago. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #7

Let it be! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 1WorldHope Dec 2024 #8

Yes, please. I have asked both Obama and Biden (more than once). LoisB Dec 2024 #10

Might as well. paleotn Dec 2024 #11

Why doing it this way? Has he talked to Biden about it? LiberalFighter Dec 2024 #12

Assembly of First Nations rescinds support for activist Leonard Peltier uberblonde Dec 2024 #13

Interesting Lulu KC Dec 2024 #20

Yes, kindly pardon Leonard Peltier Wild blueberry Dec 2024 #15

Make it so. defacto7 Dec 2024 #16

YES!!! AverageOldGuy Dec 2024 #17

Do it JOE! bluestarone Dec 2024 #18

That's my Senator proud patriot Dec 2024 #19

Drum

(10,559 posts)

1. Kick & Rec!

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:40 PM

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Deuxcents

(25,364 posts)

2. Make it so, Joe

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:58 PM

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Cha

(316,456 posts)

3. Mhaalo Senator Schatz!

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:00 PM

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Clouds Passing

(6,850 posts)

4. Please, President Biden pardon Leonard Peltier🙏🏽

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:48 PM

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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

5. Hard to believe in 2024 the Committee hasn't changed their name, like last millenium would not have been too soon. . .nt

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:49 PM

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Celerity

(53,554 posts)

9. 200 years: Bureau of Indian Affairs, founded March 11, 1824. Time for a change!!

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:03 PM

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LisaM

(29,465 posts)

14. Because it's currently a legal term of art.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:27 PM

Dec 2024

We actually had a presentation on this at our work last month and they discussed why the term "Indian" is still used. I expect it will eventually get changed, but it's not that simple to just change something with a specific legal meaning.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

21. Good point, but that should not be any constraint on the Committee changing its name

Reply to LisaM (Reply #14)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:53 PM

Dec 2024

A Senate Indigenous Affairs can oversee government agencies and legislation that have "Indian" in the name.

I note in passing that Indigenous and Indian have the same first 4 letters.

yorkster

(3,648 posts)

6. Please do this Joe. Thanks to Brian Schatz.

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:51 PM

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OAITW r.2.0

(31,351 posts)

7. Should have been done 30 years ago.

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 06:58 PM

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1WorldHope

(1,832 posts)

8. Let it be! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:02 PM

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LoisB

(12,257 posts)

10. Yes, please. I have asked both Obama and Biden (more than once).

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:06 PM

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paleotn

(21,423 posts)

11. Might as well.

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:15 PM

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LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)

12. Why doing it this way? Has he talked to Biden about it?

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:21 PM

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uberblonde

(1,220 posts)

13. Assembly of First Nations rescinds support for activist Leonard Peltier

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 07:24 PM

Dec 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-leonard-peltier-support-1.7264911

The Assembly of First Nations has reversed 37 years of support for locked-up American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier, citing Peltier's alleged role interrogating murdered activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

The assembly, an advocacy organization for more than 600 chiefs, withdrew official backing for the 79-year-old via a resolution adopted at its annual summer convention last week in Montreal.

Peltier, who is serving consecutive life sentences for the 1975 murders of two FBI agents he maintains he didn't do, was denied parole last month at a penitentiary in Coleman, Fla.