Invitation: Reading in Göttingen (September 26)

The innocent indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been in jail in the United States for 48 years, and he turned 80 this month. On this occasion, author Michael Koch will read from his book “Leonard Peltier – Ein Leben für die Freiheit” (“Leonard Peltier – a life for freedom”). You are cordially invited.

Thursday, September 26, 2024,

starting at 7 pm 

at Victor-Gollancz-Haus, Geiststraße 7, Göttingen.

Admission is free.

According to the European Alliance for the Self-Determination of Indigenous PeopleS and the Europe for Peltier Coalition, of which the STP is a member, Peltier’s health is deteriorating rapidly. Thus, the organizations are demanding Peltier to be released immediately. Further, the human rights activist should be pardoned by US President Joe Biden. 

In 1977, Peltier was sentenced to twice life for the alleged murder of two FBI agents, following a shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation in the state of South Dakota on June 26, 1975. Back then, he was a well-known activist of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which campaigned for indigenous rights. Later, it became known that the FBI had extorted eyewitness reports, and ballistic tests had shown that the shots were not fired from his weapon. There is – and was – no proof for his guilt.