Leonard Peltier Arrested February 6, 1976

Free Leonard Peltier!!!


http://www.onthisdeity.com/6th-february-1976-%E2%80%93-leonard-peltier-illegally-arrested/

February 27, 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation by American Indian Movement fighters begins

The American Indian Movement’s (AIM) best known and most controversial protest began in February 1973 in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a small town on the Pine Ridge reservation. Wounded Knee Two began as a conflict within the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) tribe between the supporters of the tribal Chairman Richard Wilson and other tribal members who considered him to be a corrupt puppet of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

Like many other such conflicts, it had simmered for a while. In 1973, the disagreements between the two segments of the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux created so much anger and division that both sides ended up arming themselves. The forces allied with Wilson, along with Federal law enforcement officials and U.S. military, entered into a 71-day siege of the AIM forces.

The AIM group included local citizens, national AIM members, prominent entertainment figures, and members of national philanthropic, religious, and legal organizations. National news organizations covered the entire 71 days of the siege and its aftermath.

When the siege ended on May 9, 1973, two Native American members of AIM were dead and an unknown number were wounded on both sides. Richard Wilson remained in office and was challenged in the next election. Many AIM members spent the next years in litigation, in exile, and in prison.

Several more armed conflicts erupted in the wake of the siege, in large part due to continuing counterintelligence programs and vigorous prosecutions that targeted AIM members. The most well-known of these cases is that of Leonard Peltier who remains in prison because of an at-best questionable conviction in the death of an FBI agent in 1975.

Although I was living in Germany at the time, the occupation came close to home. A classmate of mine whose family was connected to Pine Ridge left his senior year in early March to participate. His father was supportive, despite his rather contradictory role as part of the U.S. Army’s infantry. Indeed, it is likely that while he was in Vietnam he participated in campaigns named after earlier military actions against his own people.

Here is a book put together by the Akwesasne Notes on the Occupation....

Berrigan Brothers and Others Indicted

In a supposed plot to kidnap war criminal Henry Kissinger....

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Berrigans-Harrisburg%20Six/Berrigans%20012.pdf

New Orleans Police Attack Panther HQ

Using a US Army tank, the New Orleans police attacked the local party headquarters of the Blank Panthers.  The link below describes the situation and the results...

http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/pdf/New_Orleans/New_Orleans_Chapter_History.pdf

Jonathan Jackson Marin County Courthouse August 7, 1970

On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, the 17-year-old brother of prison revolutionary
George Jackson, entered the Marin County courthouse armed with a submachine gun. He
hoped to force the release of the Soledad Brothers— George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and
John Clutchette, who were charged with the murder of two guards at Soledad Prison after
guards had killed another prisoner. Jonathan gave guns to three prisoners who were present
in court— Ruchell Magee, a jailhouse lawyer who was testifying at the trial of fellow prisoner
James McClain, and William Christmas. The three then took the judge, the prosecutor, and
three jurors hostage. They left the courthouse and placed the hostages in a county van.
Before the armed men and their hostages left the courthouse, the Marin County sheriff had
ordered his men not to shoot, but the van was hit by a hail of gunfire from San Quentin
prison guards and other law-enforcement personnel immediately after it left the building's
garage. Jackson, Judge Haley, McClain, and Christmas were all killed.--from The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground

https://diva.sfsu.edu/bundles/228276

February 28, 1972: Angela Davis Goes on Trial

On February 28, 1972 Angela Davis went on trial for murder......

Here is a link to a relatively objective look at the case (for a mainstream news presentation) and the worldwide movement to free Angela..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUUdOdGI70

Here is a link to a page from the Berkeley Tribe underground newspaper about the opening of the trial..

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B01dj5QyuLDeQVRRbVpzNUo0Qmc

I wrote about Angela Davis in my books The Way the Wind Blew and Daydream Sunset.

The Free Angela movement in Germany is part of the context in my novel All the Sinners Saints

The Seattle Liberation Front

a short lived but fiery organization

http://www.historylink.org/File/2131

https://radsearem.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/april-16-1970-the-birth-of-the-seattle-seven/

Angela Davis Awaits Verdict--1972

This video was taken on June 3, 1972.  On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted of all charges. This victory was the result of an international popular struggle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRmjX5cH5-A

The Spring Offensive Against the War in 1971--Noam Chomsky Checks In

From the New York Review of Books (when it was a leftish journal)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/06/17/a-special-supplement-mayday-the-case-for-civil-dis/

Seasoned Veteran:Journey of a Winter Soldier

Discussed in Daydream Sunset....

Kathleen Cleaver Speaks in Frankfurt am Main 1971

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/248401735669822868/

The Story of the Late and Great Washington Free Press

Authorities took the challenge represented by the underground media seriously.  This article from the Spark website composed and maintained by Craig Simpson tells the story of a campaign of police and judicial harassment in the Washington DC area.

https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/washington-free-press-battles-suppression-1969-70/#comment-1679