![]() We’ve only need one yard of fabric for each shot at this point, which helps keep the cost of the project down.Clara wears a plain white onesie (so far the same one, although she’s about to outgrow it) and we use Photoshop to add the text later.We’re not professional photographers, expert photoshoppers, or even seasoned baby wranglers… but after twelve weeks of taking shots of Clara on a fabric background and adding her age to her onesie “in post” we’ve developed a system that seems to work pretty well. And documenting photos of your family can definitely fall under DIY art and decor – especially if they’re framed or even collected in a big coffee table book (which we eventually plan to do). You know we love a step by step tutorial. After answering a bunch of you individually, we figured the topic deserved a quickie “how to” post to collectively take care of anyone else out there who’s been pondering how we end up with images like this. ![]() Peltier’s continued imprisonment, and strongly urge you to allow for his compassionate release under the BOP’s procedures.Many of you have asked questions here, on Flickr, and on Facebook about how the weekly photos that we’re taking to document Clara’s first year are really done. Now, it is time that the federal government rectifies the grave injustice of Mr. We commend the steps that the Biden-Harris Administration has taken to right past wrongs of our federal government’s treatment of Native Americans, and the steps you have taken to uphold the American values of liberty and justice, including rectifying inequities in our nation’s criminal justice system. If the Director of the BOP approves a compassionate release, and the Parole Commission agrees, Mr. Peltier is nearly 80 years old and suffers from numerous health conditions, including a potentially fatal abdominal aortic aneurysm. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) procedures allow its Director to grant a reduction in sentence, or compassionate release, to prisoners that meet certain criteria, including advanced age and deteriorating health Mr. Peltier’s trial and proclaiming that “a healing process must begin.” Peltier’s release – first in 1991 and again in 2000, detailing the injustice of Mr. Peltier’s 1986 appeal in the Eighth Circuit also publicly called for Mr. Peltier’s case, concluding that he “continues to be detained because he is Native American.” And the late Judge Gerald Heaney, who presided over Mr. Peltier has served his sentence “on the basis of minimal evidence, a result that strongly doubt would be upheld in any court today.” The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a 17-page legal opinion reviewing Mr. Peltier’s “conviction and continued incarceration is a testament to a time and a system of justice that no longer has a place in our society.” He further explained that Mr. Peltier’s case, previously stated that Mr. Attorney who handled the prosecution and appeal of Mr. Peltier’s federal incarceration, calls for his release have received widespread and growing support from both faith and human rights leaders – including Pope Francis, Saint Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Coretta Scott King – as well as those previously involved in his prosecution. Peltier, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was arrested and later convicted for his alleged involvement in the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, despite evidence of prosecutorial misconduct and due process violations mounted throughout his trial. Peltier, who has been imprisoned for the past 49 years and is suffering from severe health conditions, should be able to return home and live out his remaining days among his own people. We write to urge you to allow for the compassionate release of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier pursuant to the Bureau of Prison’s procedures. Text of the full letter sent to Attorney General Garland can be found below. Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawai’i), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Peter Welch (D- Vt.). Peltier’s continued imprisonment, and strongly urge you to allow for his compassionate release.” “It is time that the federal government rectifies the grave injustice of Mr. ![]() Peltier, who has been imprisoned for the past 49 years and is suffering from severe health conditions, should be able to return home and live out his remaining days among his own people,” the senators wrote in the letter to Attorney General Garland. ![]() Attorney General Merrick Garland to allow for the compassionate release of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, led a group of senators urging U.S. Attorney General Garland to Allow for the Compassionate Release of Leonard Peltier Mike Inacay (Schatz) at Leads Group of Senators Urging U.S. ![]()
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