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Michael Moore's Poetic Plea to Obama: "Mr. President, Please Let Leonard Peltier Come Home"

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December 19, 2012

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DemocracyNow.org - Singers Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger hosted the "Bring Leonard Peltier Home In 2012 Concert" at the Beacon Theater in New York City on Friday to raise awareness of Peltier's 37-year ordeal and plea for executive clemency from President Obama. Peltier is the Native American activist and former member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted of aiding in the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Among those who spoke was Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, who read a poem he wrote urging Peltier's release.

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