This fall, Leonard Peltier will turn 78 years old, and despite being the subject of what’s widely known as one of the most corrupt court proceedings in U.S. history, has spent nearly 46 of those years in jail.

A year after demanding his release outside Wildwood’s  Coleman Penitentiary, activists gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown last Sunday to again demand clemency for the political prisoner (Biden could do it with a snap of his finger).

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Activists outside Sam M. Gibbons United States Courthouse in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 5, 2023. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...