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Jon Jost, {1993} Frameup

The “Walk to Justice” to demand freedom for Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier culminated in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13. Organized by the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council, its participants trekked 1,103 miles, beginning on Sept. 1 in Minnesota, AIM’s birthplace.

“There aren’t even two sides,” said Leonard Peltier's attorney Kevin Sharp. “We know that the witnesses were intimidated. We know that witnesses were threatened. We know that affidavits knowingly false affidavits were submitted to the courts. We know that when the trial took place and the prosecutor said, we only have this one piece of evidence, this shell casing, this ties Leonard too, to this shooting. We know now that they knew that wasn’t true. And we only learned years later after his conviction, that there had been a ballistics test that showed it wasn’t his weapon.”

Because after 40 years, bribed witnesses and secret deals are still not justice.

An important people’s victory has been won in the small but strategic eastern European country of Moldova. After six long years, a group of socialist and anti-fascist activists known as the Petrenko Group have finally been exonerated of trumped-up charges.

Chicago’s Criminal Justice System has once again distinguished itself with the legal lynching of a Black Gay person, Jussie Smollett. The mostly white jury found Smollett guilty on five counts after nine hours of deliberation. This has been the most expensively prosecuted low grade felony case in Chicago history. And in addition to being an incredible waste of taxpayers’ dollars it was the greatest mockery of a trial I have ever seen.

All Out for Mumia Abu-Jamal