The 2017 Red Sun Press calendar featured the story of Leaonard Peltier, Native American activist unjustly imprisoned for forty years.

Fulfilling a mission that combines printing and social justice provides fascinating challenges for us a Red Sun Press, where activism has been running through the presses since 1974. Taking up the flag of Leonard Peltier seemed like natural fit. A native American activist struggling for the rights of his people and the land of his origins, Peltier’s case has been a rallying point for the social justice movement since 1977.

Peltier is a former member of the American Indian Movement. He has been in Federal prison for nearly forty years following a shootout on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that left two FBI agents dead. The case for his innocence and exoneration has been pursued by Amnesty International, the UN High Commission for Human Rights, the Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama),  Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and many other groups and organizations.

Peltier’s passion and work – Native American civil rights, sovereignty and spirituality – remain landmark issues among US and global liberation movements.

Our calendar places a memorable quote from Peltier against a stylized backdrop with a natural landscape that echoes Red Sun’s co-op and environmental brand.

“No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her…never forget that.”

– Leonard Peltier (1944 –  )

For more information, see whoisleonardpeltier.info
or call the White House
202-456-1111 to support executive clemency.