Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life prison sentence of Leonard Peltier , the elderly American Indian Movement activist who supporters say was framed for the murder of two federal agents during a 1975 reservation shootout. 'It's finally over, I'm going home,' Peltier, who is 80 years old, said in a statement released by the Indigenous -led activist group NDN Collective. 'I want to show the world I'm a good person with a good heart.
' NDN Collective founder and CEO Nick Tilsen said Monday that 'Leonard Peltier's freedom today is the result of 50 years of intergenerational resistance, organizing, and advocacy.' 'Leonard Peltier's liberation is our liberation—we will honor him by bringing him back to his homelands to live out the rest of his days surrounded by loved ones, healing, and reconnecting with his land and culture,' Tilsen continued.
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