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Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:57:45 JST Richard Stallman

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US citizens: call on Biden to give clemency to Leonard Peltier. If you phone, please spread the word! White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213 Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.) First, make
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  Urge President Biden: Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency Now
  
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  There's big news and new momentum in the fight to free Leonard Peltier, the oldest living Indigenous political prisoner in American history. Since the election, in addition to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seven U.S. senators and 26 representatives have signed a letter urging President Biden to grant clemency. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) joined the already existing calls for clemency by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch; Pope Francis, Saint Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Coretta Scott King. Even James Reynolds, the former U.S. Attorney whose office oversaw Mr. Peltier’s prosecution and appeal, says, “I have realized that the prosecution and continued incarceration of Mr. Peltier was and is unjust. We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation.” In October, President Biden became the first U.S. president in history to formally apologize for the Federal Indian boarding school policy that stole thousands of Native children from their parents, tribes, and homelands. In December, just days after President Biden followed up the apology by announcing the establishment of a national monument in recognition of the harms caused by these policies, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition called for one more step in the process of healing: Use your executive authority to free Wahpeton Indian Boarding School survivor Leonard Peltier now. NACDL President James Wellborn notes that not only was crucial ballistics evidence withheld by the FBI at trial, but that today, fifty years later, “Surely compassion dictates that Mr. Peltier poses no danger to society and no good comes from his strangely prolonged imprisonment... I implore you to act with courage and compassion and release Leonard Peltier. His freedom would be a beacon of hope for countless others who have suffered injustice.” In response to President Biden’s formal apology for the abuses suffered in boarding schools, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition notes that Leonard Peltier’s incarceration did not begin in 1977 but in 1952, when he was just nine years old. As a young child, Peltier was forcibly taken to Wahpeton Indian Boarding School and forced to assimilate to non-Native culture. To survive, Peltier sang his traditional songs and spoke his language secretly with other Native youth. Now, the Coalition writes to President Biden: “By ending his incarceration, you can honor that solemn responsibility and can make steps toward restoring the dignity of Mr. Peltier, his relatives, his Tribal Nation, and Indian Country. President Biden, we call on you to use your executive authority to Free Leonard Peltier.” At 80, Leonard Peltier deserves to be reunited with his family and to hug his grandchildren while he still can. With only days left before President Biden leaves office, this is Leonard Peltier's last chance for clemency before the next administration takes over. Please sign and send your direct message to the White House urging President Biden to take action now.>>
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  Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:57:49 JST Richard Stallman
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  [4/5] Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done. This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is
  
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  [3/5] answers in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter. Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows: First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'.
  
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  Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:57:52 JST Richard Stallman
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  [2/5] sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in. I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without javascript!" They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one. To start, fill in the personal information
  
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  Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:57:59 JST Richard Stallman
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  [5/5] a small effort for the result of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.
  
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