DATE: January 23, 2009
TO: President Obama
FROM: Claudia Krenz, Ph.D

Thank you for so quickly coming to the rescue of millions of women and their families, for repealing the global gag rule!

One more thing: it is time to stand up for Our First Nations, people whom we have treated horrendously.

You can and should pardon Leonard Peltier (unjustly #89637-132 in the penal system). He has been imprisoned for over 30 years for a crime the FBI's own ballistics test in the 1980s proved he did not commit. Although Peltier's weapon did not discharge the shots that killed the two officers, he has not been given a new trial but is transferred from one prisoner to another (most recently one where he was severely beaten, one where, despite being diabetic, he was put on one meal a day, one which took 6 days to deliver a message to his attorneys).

It is long past time to free Leonard Peltier! Make it so, number one!