{"id":32153,"date":"2023-09-12T12:50:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=32153"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:05:56","slug":"free-leonard-now-fawn-sharp-at-white-house-rally-for-leonard-peltier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/09\/12\/free-leonard-now-fawn-sharp-at-white-house-rally-for-leonard-peltier\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Free Leonard Now&#8217;: Fawn Sharp at White House Rally for Leonard Peltier"},"content":{"rendered":"Fawn Sharp, the president of the <a href=https:\/\/www.ncai.org\/>National Congress of American Indians<\/a>, speaks at a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jCpvc-hMcXM\">rally in support of imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPeltier, who is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, is serving two life sentences for the murders of two U.S. government agents. Sharp and other speakers called on <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/09\/12\/release-leonard-now-rally-demands-president-biden-free-imprisoned-american-indian-movement-activist\/>President Joe Biden to release the activist from federal prison<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe rally took place in front of the White House on September 12, 2023. Peltier turned 79 on the day of the event.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"h4-responsive\">Related Stories<\/div><div class=\"related-story\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2023\/09\/12\/release-leonard-now-rally-demands-president-biden-free-imprisoned-american-indian-movement-activist\/\" title=\"\u2018Release Leonard Now\u2019: Rally demands President Biden free imprisoned American Indian Movement activist\">\u2018Release Leonard Now\u2019: Rally demands President Biden free imprisoned American Indian Movement activist<\/a> (September 12, 2023)<\/div>\r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/19\/FawnSharpLeonardPeltier.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Free Leonard Now\u2019: Fawn Sharp at White House Rally for Leonard Peltier\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fawn Sharp, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, speaks at a rally in support of imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-video-entry.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,14,334],"tags":[955,101,346,223,53,1654,7],"class_list":["post-32153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-national","category-politics","category-video","tag-aim","tag-crime","tag-dc","tag-fawn-sharp","tag-joe-biden","tag-leonard-peltier","tag-ncai","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/19\/FawnSharpLeonardPeltier.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-8mB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}