July 3, 2022
Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
The Journal Times & Courier Gazette has run the following article about Russel Means. Excerpt below:
As examples of the organization’s protests, they first occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969. On Thanksgiving Day 1970, Means and other AIM activists staged their first protest in Boston when they seized the Mayflower, to protest the Puritans’ and the United States mistreatment of Native Americans.
From the Rapid City Journal:
Russell Means has looked death in the face before.
The former American Indian Movement leader counts nine assassination attempts on his life. He has survived danger, violence and numerous encounters with mortality — from the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation to guerilla wars in Nicaragua — in what he calls his “72 winters” of life.
This weekend’s Washington Post Magazine has a 7,500-word profile of 1988 Libertarian presidential contender Russell Means, who, “along with three other Lakota Indians,” recently “severed his ties with the United States and declared himself a founding member of a new, autonomous nation — the Republic of Lakotah.… Read more ...
Chuck Baldwin was recently interviewed by Revolution Broadcasting, which is a Ron Paul-friendly radio show that has interviewed various members of the “Freedom Movement” like G. Edward Griffin, Russell Means, Mike Gravel, and Kent Snyder. The interview can be found here.… Read more ...