To commemorate July 4, 2020, President Trump is traveling to the Black Hills of South Dakota to give a speech in front of Mount Rushmore. But for the Lakota, the Black Hills are sacred. And the carvings of the four Presidents represent a desecration of their history and culture. As Edgar Bear Runner, a Lakota tribal historian, puts it: “Mount Rushmore is a shrine to racism. A shrine to genocide.”
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Amnesty International Group 30 (San Francisco) and the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (ILPDC) hosted a Zoom Premiere on Commemoration Day, Friday, June 26 for the launch of Ep1 "June 26, 1975" of our new podcast series "LEONARD: Political Prisoner."
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