Class blog for SUNY Fredonia HIST/WOST 359 Ethnicity and Race, Meeting TR 12:30-1:50 p.m., Spring 2011. Taught by professor Jeffry J. Iovannone.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Leonard Peltier release
In class on both Tuesday and Thursday we discussed the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. Since there have been multiple attempts to get him out of jail. But when I was reading up on in I found an interesting article about how the billionaire David Geffin who is a supporter of Leonard Peltier and is vocal about getting him out of prison switched his economic support from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the 2008 elections. His decision to do this was based on Bill Clinton's refusal to give Peltier a presidential pardon while he was in office. So do you think Obama will now seriously concider giving Peltier a presidential pardon due to the economic support he received from David Geffin?
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