(Reposted from Prison Radio)

As we prepare and emerge from a long winter, we want to take a moment to reflect on struggle, hope, and freedom realized.

Leonard Peltier is home! This journey has been decades in the making: native sovereignty, acknowledgement, dignity and justice have been the messages carried by a generation of organizers. Thank you for everyone who carried Leonard’s freedom in their heart.

Prison Radio has stood alongside Leonard for 33 years. Our first series on KPFA Radio was a 13 part series on US political prisoners “You Can’t Jail the Spirit.” It was named after the brilliant collection of writings from the Puerto Rican community that guided us during those early years. We featured indigenous political and politicized prisoners Leonard Peltier, Yvonne Wanrow Swan (who hosted our show), Eddie Hatcher, and others.

We understand that we must listen, and act, when indigenous people are targeted. COINTELPRO might appear to be in the distant past, but it is clear that there remain robust systems of repression arrayed against liberation-loving people. We are all engaged in a collective fight for abolition; a world beyond prisons is a world beyond colonialism.