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Congratulations to all of the award recipients at the NCADP awards dinner, including Ajamu Baraka, who was recognized as "Abolitionist of the Year." Ajamu had everyone laughing as he related a discussion he had recently with his son. Ajamu was asked, "Dad, what are you going to do about the death penalty after September 11th." He responded that the struggle will go on and will eventually be successful. "You're crazy!" his son replied. And Ajamu used that as a lead in to call out various other "crazies" who were present at the dinner, including Rick Halperin, who teaches a night so that he can spend his days disseminating human rights news items to the movement, Dick Dieter, who runs the Death Penalty Information Center, and Ed and Mary Ruth Weir, who left their jobs at the CIA in 1988 to start New Hope House, an agency which monitors capital trials and provides support to death row families in Georgia.

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