Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.
After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
As detailed by "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse", Peltier's trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.
On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier's application for clemency.
"You must understand...I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn't modesty. This is fact. Maybe you're ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary."
- Leonard Peltier
An Interview with Leonard Peltier
Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
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Comrades I have my first ever job interview tomorrow, any advice? It's for a pretty big tech/finance company and I am qualified, but I'm also socially anxious and a fresh graduate.
What do you wear? I have a black button up, a white button up, and a short sleeved blue button up, but that's it. Do you wear a tie? How much am I going to be fucked over for being a butch? I mean, I couldn't "dress as a woman" even if I wanted to because I haven't owned makeup or women's clothes since adults stopped being able to physically force me into them, so a "male" outfit is really my only option anyway. I have a full suit, but that would be overkill for a zoom interview, right?
My friends in tech (all men) have said that companies generally want women and lgbt people for the sake of quotas so I should have an advantage, but personally I can't help but assume the opposite. idk
Yea don't put any weight into this. Companies definitely do put more effort into recruiting underrepresented groups into the hiring pipeline but many interviewers have negative connotations and will mark you worse than a white male with a clean corporate look
Can you tell DM the company or competitors of that company? I can give you more accurate advice that way. I'm stupidly plugged into the tech interviewing culture
I'm not in tech or anything, but I agree full suit is too much for a Zoom interview. Imo depends on the white button-up. If it's a dress shirt that looks weird without a tie then go with the blue. Otherwise the white. I also would not bother with a tie in this situation, if you're not going all the way to wearing a suit. If you have a blazer or a nice cardigan/sweater, you could throw it on over it to dress it up a bit.