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December 04-06, 2001

National and International

SOLIDARITY ACTION: Join the FAST!
A Call to Activists Everywhere to Mark the "Year of Death"

THREE executions are scheduled in JUST 72 HOURS next week (December 4th and 6th) with two more set for December 11th (Georgia) and 12th (Texas).
To protest the killing machine and to express solidarity with all those harmed by murder, The Abolitionist Action Committee calls on activists around the world to join together in a fast during the period December 4-6. This is an action which may be taken by individuals and/or groups of any sort.

For information on the scheduled killings go to the respective states in the events calendar.
For information on the proposed action, go to www.abolition.org
Groups and individuals participating in this action who contact pam@cuadp.org will receive sample press materials specific to this action by e-mail Sunday evening (December 2nd).

January 17, 2002

Washington DC

Call to Action - 25th Anniversay of Gary Gilmore Execution

January 17, 2002 will mark the 25th anniversary of the first prisoner-killing under current laws.
Gary Gilmore was killed in revenge for his murders of Max Jensen and Ben Bushnell on January 17, 1977.
On the 20th anniversary of this date in 1997, 18 abolitionists were arrested for unfurling a banner reading "STOP EXECUTIONS" at the top of the steps leading into the Supreme Court.
In 2002, you are invited to join the Abolitionist Action Committee (AAC) for a peaceful and nonviolent demonstration in Washington DC to decry this shameful anniversary, and to renew the call to: END ALL EXECUTIONS!
For further information on this and other activities to mark the 25th anniversary, visit: www.abolition.org

March 01, 2002

Nationwide and International

First Fast - Fast for Life
Wherever you are on the First Day of Every Month

It doesn't matter where you are! You are all invited to join in a Fast for Life on the first day of each month.
Just whatever you are doing (besides eating) fast to raise awareness about the death penalty!
If a strict fast is difficult or impossible for you, just do juices or avoid animal products or don't eat chocolate!
Then, simply tell folks around you what you are doing and why.
This is an easy as well as spiritual and healthy way to spread some hope and educate at the same time!

Sponsored by individuals opposed to capital punishment
E-mail: firstfast@abolition.org
(Please put "firstfast" in the subject line of your message)

March 03, 2002

National

Crossed Over - The Karla Faye Tucker Story based on the book by Barbara Lowery.
CBS Television 9:00 pm EST (Check local listings for variations in time or channel.)

Academy Award winner Diane Keaton and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in this drama based on the true story of Beverly Lowry, a woman whose unusual friendship with death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker helps her come to terms with the untimely death of her rebellious teenage son.

You can read a brief description and watch a video preview at CBS website:
www.cbs.com/primetime/movies_specials/mov_crossed_over.shtml

March 17, 2002

Nationwide

"The Killing of Wanda Jean"
10:00 pm EST on HBO

HBO will carry the documentary, "The Killing of Wanda Jean", the story of Wanda Jean Allen, executed in Oklahoma on January 11, 2001.
Check your local times and listings for possible variations.

March 21 and March 27, 2002

National and International

Digital Freedom Network (DFN) - On Line Meetings with Anti-Death Penalty Activist AJAMU BARAKA and Dead Man Walking Author SR. HELEN PREJEAN

In conjunction with Amnesty International's two-week online event focused on stopping the death penalty, the Digital Freedom Network (DFN) will host online meetings with Ajamu Baraka and Sr. Helen Prejean.
The online meetings, which free and open to the public, will take place on DFN's Web site at http://dfn.org/chat.
No registration is required. Anyone may attend the moderated forums and post questions to the guests. The chats will be in English.

Currently the director of Amnesty International USA's Southern Regional Office in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Baraka has worked for 15 years to abolish the death penalty. Last year, Mr. Baraka received the Abolitionist of the Year Award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
He will discuss the current state of the death penalty and why it should be abolished on Thursday, March 21, 2002 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM New York Time (5:00-6:00 PM GMT).

To give an additional perspective on the issue and in honor of women working in the field of human rights, Sr. Helen will talk about her work with the Moratorium Campaign on Wednesday, March 27, 2002 from 3:00 to 4:00 PM New York Time (8:00-9:00 PM GMT).

The online meeting will be accessible to anyone running a Java-enabled Web browser or an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client application. Those unable to attend the chats can submit questions in advance to Mr. Baraka or Sister Helen using our Web form.

For more information about these events, please contact Jacqueline Kozin via email at jkozin@dfn.org.

March 25 - April 08, 2002

National and International

Special Online Event - Abolishing the Death Penalty

It has recently been suggested that support for the death penalty is in decline. Are we at a crucial juncture in the abolition movement? How do we abolish the death penalty? Should we support moratoria? Focus on incremental measures, or should we hold out for complete abolition?

Join activists from across the US and around the world to discuss these issues and more during Amnesty International USA's first online virtual meeting focusing on the death penalty. Sign up now for this free online event.
Learn the facts, test your knowledge and join the discussion.
Go to: www.care2.com/go/redirect/2/3562

April 01, 2002

April 01-08, 2002

Nationwide

Amnesty International USA National Week of Student Action
Click here to read report.

Each year Amnesty Campus Chapters throughout the US engage in a week of coordinated action on an issue of urgent concern to the human rights movement. This year, your group can join the 2002 National Week of Student Action (NWSA) to help educate your group and others in your community about this grave violation of human rights, while taking action to end the death penalty in the US and abroad.

Register now to receive the following materials:
-- Organizing kit with creative action ideas
-- Posters and other cool tools
-- Resources to educate your group and community such as "Answering Tough Questions" and "Death Penalty 101"

Register online at : www.amnestyusa.org/nwsa

April 04, 2002

Worldwide

Candlelight Vigil
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM YOUR TIME

Tucson Abolitionists are encouraging and inviting all groups everywhere to please participate, IN SOLIDARITY with as many people as possible, in a WORLD CANDLELIGHT VIGIL on 4/04/02 in the evening between 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM your time.
This united, serene demonstration is to speak the loathing "WE" feel by the act of EVERY person/state sanctioned murder, and our distaste of the unpatriotic, shabby path chosen by "OUR" leaders, world wide.

Contact Israel for more details: 520-323-1351 israelcarpenter@aol.com

April 08, 2002

Eastern United States

GET ON THE BUS 2002!!
in conjunction with Amnesty International's National Week of Student Action

TAKE A STAND IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY! Join us for actions involving human rights in Tibet, the death penalty, guest speakers, and much more!

For the seventh consecutive year, "Get on the Bus" will head to New York City on April 8th for a day of human rights action.
While the events of September 11 have changed much about our world, our country, and New York City, our desire to carry on in the pursuit of human rights has not been quieted. In fact, the need is greater than ever not be silenced but to speak up and to stand up for our rights and for the rights of all people around the world.

ABOUT BUSING: AI Group 133 will help coordinate bus pick-ups in the Northeast states (MA, RI, CT, ME, NH, VT, etc.). You will be contacted after March 8 with this information.
If you live in the mid-Atlatic states (NJ, PA, DC, VA, WV, etc.) then you are responsible for getting to NYC on your own. The GOTB coordinators will provide you with a list (after March 8) of other groups/individuals in your state/area so that you may work together to coordinate rides to NYC (bus/van rentals, carpooling, etc.)

For more information or to register visit: www.gotb.org

April 11, 2002

National

"Requiem for Frank Lee Smith"Television Programming Note
9 p.m. EDT on PBS (Check local listings for variations in time or channel.)

Frontline will broadcast the documentary, "Requiem for Frank Lee Smith." This investigates the case of a man who spent 14 years on Florida's death row, but died of cancer just months before being exonerated by DNA evidence.

For more information, visit the Frontline website at:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/smith/
Frontline is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS.

April 11-22, 2002

Nationwide

CUADP Fund Raiser - Auction of Don Nedobeck Print

Don Nedobeck's imagination is rooted in a love of life and peace, and this comes through in his many images of creatures more often seen as the hunter and pray, like birds and a cat in the piece being auctioned. This print is available at auction to the highest bidder by midnight on April 22, 2002. Your bid includes the cost of shipping.

To see the print and make a bid, visit: www.cuadp.org/nedobeck.html

April 14-21, 2002

Communities Across the US

Restorative Justice Week 2002

The Theme for this event is Visionary Law. This is an opportunity for the community to come forward and accept an active role in the process of restorative justice. We are in the process of developing a calendar of community activities, drafting a list of sponsors and deciding interest in creating a National Restorative Justice award and other activities. We welcome your participation in this event as a presenter, sponsor, participant or whatever other role you feel led to pursue.
For more information you can contact Tony Brown at (208) 882-5416 -or- tony@fcrjquaker.org.
We attempt to do most planning via email, but we do have a limited number of conference calls. The next of which will be forthcoming the last week in February.

Our vision is to have a select number of major centers where we will have the bulk of programs and than ask communities to include their events as they feel called. In other words, if you already have something planned than maybe you would feel lead to include it under the heading of restorative justice. Or perhaps you want to do something special that you feel will work in your community. Visionary Law is a very inclusive theme as you will see based on the events that are already on the calendar. We have received a specific request to include some form of AVP training or workshop during this program.

Sponsorship will be open at least until March 15, 2002. We ask sponsors to decide what they feel they can do to make restorative justice a successful event. Some might be able to contribute money, others may have a mailing list they can make available or related promotional material, and others may support the idea but are not called to come play any role other than the lending of the name. We ask you to tell us what you feel is your gift for the week.
Sponsors to date include: Friends Committee on Restorative Justice; Renaissance Lawyer, Restorative Justice Ministry Network, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, Citizens United for the Rehablitation of Errants (CURE) and the Center for Restorative Justice (Suffolk University; Boston, MA), Campaign for Equity and Restorative Justice (CERJ), Healing of Persons Exceptional (H.O.P.E).

TENTATIVE CALENDAR AND LOCATION OF EVENTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE)

Portland, OR
J. Kim Wright, Renaissance Lawyer -- Visionary Law
Terri Kelly-- Portland State-- Hate Crimes (Unconfirmed)
Facilitator Training - Tony Nocella-- Radical Peace Community and how it relates to Restorative Justice (may move to California).

College Station, TX
Restorative Justice Ministry Network Conference (April 19-20)

Virginia
Events still being planned

Boston, MA
Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University (Elise Boulding "building peaceful communities")

Maine
Ken Hamilton (HOPE) is looking at options across Maine and New England

OTHER EVENTS BEING DISCUSSED

Nightly conference calls on topics related to restorative justice
Relationship of Restorative Justice to School Community
Relationship between various factions of restorative justice movement
Reintegration of Offender into communities (how are we doing?)
Forgiveness

Contact Tony Brown tony@fcrjquaker.org

April 24, 2002

National

"An Execution in Doubt" Television Programming Note
American Justice with Bill Kurtis on A&E at 9 p.m. EDT (repeat at 1:00 a.m.) Check local listings for variations in time or channel.

This program will look at the controversial case of Roger Keith Coleman, who was executed in Virginia in 1992 for the brutal rape and murder of his sister-in-law. Now, in an attempt to exonerate him, Coleman's defenders want to conduct DNA tests, which were still under development at the time of Coleman's execution. Will the state be willing to put the DNA, and its own legal system, to the test?

April 27, 2002

Frankfurt, Germany

Sam Reese Sheppard on German Television

Abe Bonowitz and Sam Reese Sheppard will be traveling to Germany in late April, where Sam will be a guest on the Saturday evening television program called "Menschen der Woche" ("Personality of the Week").

For more information, or to arrange additional events during Sam and Abe's trip to Europe (April 28-May 03): E-mail: abe@cuadp.org, or Tel: 1-800-973-6548
To learn more about Sam Reese Sheppard, visit www.samreesesheppard.org

April 28 - May 03, 2002

Germany and Nearby

Abe Bonowitz and Sam Reese Sheppard traveling in Europe

Abe Bonowitz (director of Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty) and Sam Reese Sheppard founding board member of the Journey of Hope ...From Violence to Healing, Inc. , and also a founding board member of Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation will be traveling to Germany in late April and are available to meet with and work with abolitionists in Germany and nearby areas from April 28 to May 3.

Currently schduled events:

MUNICH Monday, April 29 at 6.30 p.m.
Institute of American Culture and Sciences
Contact: Katrin Otremba Cupresa@aol.com
Visit: www.amnesty.de
DUSSELDORF Tuesday, April 30 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
At the offices of Amnesty International, Neusser Strasse 86, 40219 Dusseldorf
Wednesday, May 1 -- at the May Day rally in Dusseldorf
Contact: Astrid Weber Astrid-Weber@gmx.de
Visit: www.amnesty.de
BERLIN Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m.
University of Berlin
Contact: Dieter Wenderlein (of Sant'Egido ) dwenderlein@t-online.de
Visit: http://www.santegidio.org/de/solidarieta/senzadimora/guida.htm

ADDITIONAL CONTACT REGARDING DEATH PENALTY ISSUES
Initiative gegen die Todesstrafe e.V.
German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
www.initiative-gegen-die-todesstrafe.de
www.gcadp.org
Karl H. Rodenberg
Phone 05722-71507/913729
email Karl.Rodenberg@t-online.de
For more information, or to arrange events during Sam and Abe's trip to Europe: E-mail: abe@cuadp.org, or Tel: 1-800-973-6548

May 01, 2002

May 26, 2002

Paris, France

Four Hours Against the Death Penalty in the USA
11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Fleche d'or cafe, 120 bis rue de Bagnolet.

European death penalty foes will mark George W. Bush's visit to Paris with a a symbolic event condemning the 154 executions carried out under his authority while Governor of Texas.

This event is organized by Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), French Ligue des droits de l'Homme, Struggle for Justice and Action of Christians for the Abolition of Torture,

Contact info ECPM:
E-mail: ecpm@abolition-ecpm.org
Web Site: www.abolition-ecpm.org

June 01, 2002

June 29 - July 2, 2002

Washington D.C.

Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty at the U.S. Supreme Court. See www.abolition.org/annual.html for details on the 2001 event

June 29th is the anniversary of the Furman v. Georgia decision in 1972, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found the death penalty to be arbitrary and capricious. More than 600 condemned inmates had their death sentences reduced to life. All states were required to re-write their death penalty laws.

July 2nd is the anniversary of the Gregg v. Georgia decision in 1976 which allowed the resumption of executions in the United States.

2001 MARKS THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF FURMAN - WATCH FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS MAJOR EVENT

July 01, 2002

July 11-14, 2002

Columbus, OH

CURE 2002 Federal Chapter Convention
Dominican College, 1216 Sunbury Road

CURE's Fourth Convention of its federal prison chapter will begin Thursday evening, July 11th, and end Sunday morning, July 14th.
The theme of this year's conference is "Preparing for Reentry: Maintaining Family Ties"
On Friday morning, July 12th, Dr. Kathleen Hawk Sawyer (left) Director of the Bureau of Prisons, will speak.
The rest of the conference will be devoted to the role of families in the reentry of federal prisoners. So far, our list of topics on preparing for this reentry include inmate phones, visiting, medical care, prison industries, drug treatment, and education. In the same way, topics on actual reentry are furloughs, home confinement, community corrections centers, parole and supervised release.
Speakers with expertise in these areas are being invited.

For more information: TEL: (202) 789-2126
FAX: (413) 845-9787
Web Site: www.curenational.org
E-mail: cure-usa@erols.com

July 25, 2002

Worlwide

Anti-Death Penalty Activists MEETUP
National Abolish The Death Penalty MEETUP Day has been designated as the fourth Thursday of every month

MEETUPs are informal local, face-to-face gatherings - that create an opportunity for people who share an interest or passion to get together and talk, debate, gossip or plan something cool.
Anti-Death Penalty Activists everywhere -- up to 540 cities worldwide -- can meet face to face with other Anti-Death Penalty Activists in their town.

To find the location near you, visit the Abolish the Death Penalty MEETUP page at:
http://antideathpen.meetup.com

July 31, 2002

National

Dr. Cathleen Burnett on The Nick Kasoff Show
Death Penalty Radio Program

Dr. Cathleen Burnett, President of the Western Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and author of Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals in Death Penalty Cases, will be a guest on The Nick Kasoff Show. She will be on for a full hour, and there will be opportunity to call in and discuss with her live.

Date/Time:	Tuesday, July 31, 5:00 pm central

How to listen:	On-line @ www.wgnu.net
	St. Louis, Missouri @ 920 am

How to call:	(888) 920-WGNU toll free line
	(314) 454-0400 local lines

August 01, 2002

August 22, 2002

Worldwide

Anti-Death Penalty Activists MEETUP
National Abolish The Death Penalty MEETUP Day has been designated as the fourth Thursday of every month

MEETUPs are informal local, face-to-face gatherings - that create an opportunity for people who share an interest or passion to get together and talk, debate, gossip or plan something cool.
Anti-Death Penalty Activists everywhere -- up to 540 cities worldwide -- can meet face to face with other Anti-Death Penalty Activists in their town.

To find the location near you, visit the Abolish the Death Penalty MEETUP page at:
http://antideathpen.meetup.com

August 31, 2002

Nationwide

THE USA PATRIOT ACT: A Legal Briefing
Tune in at 9:00 PM on CAN TV21

The Patriot Act was passed with no hearings, no testimony, and little public discussion. The Legal Community sponsors a debate on what may be the single most concentrated assault in history on core civil liberties that has concerned experts across the political system.

September 01, 2002

September 11, 2002

Nationwide

Sept. 11 Commemoration Events for Peace and Healing

More than 170 peace events have been organized throughout the United States in response to a call by Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and United for Peace, a coalition of U.S. peace and human rights organizations.

In New York City, Sept. 11 Families will co-sponsor a dusk to dawn vigil at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, which will feature speakers, music, poetry--and silence.

Similar events are planned in cities from Washington, DC and Philadelphia to Boise, Idaho and Hood River, Oregon. The event titles range from "work a day for peace" to "our grief is not a cry for war" to "from ground zero to common ground", but what ties them together is their theme: working for a world without war and violence.

For a full listing of Sept. 11 peace events throughout the United States and the world, see www.unitedforpeace.org.

September 21, 2002

Arlington, VA

15th Annual Meeting of Virginia CURE
9:00 am to 4:00pm, George Mason University�s Arlington Campus, Professional Center, Room 329.

Responsible Justice
Topics and panel discussions will include:
The Disabled and Our Criminal Justice System - The Death Penalty in America - The Innocence Protection Act - The Prison Rape Reduction Act
Guest speakers will include:
Robert Crouch, Deputy Secretary of Public Safety - Johnathan G. Martinis, Managing Attorney from the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy - Professor Jon B. Gould, George Mason University�s Administration of Justice Program - Members of the Virginia General Assembly - Members of the 107th U.S. Congress.
Special musical performances by Walter James and the youth from Cases for Kids.

MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT . . . take personal responsibility by developing advocacy skills to achieve constructive and positive change on problems that affect you, your family and your community . . . gather information on the issues from our informative speakers and guests . . . meet the legislators . . . join with others who share your concerns . . . and enjoy a day that will include instructive presentations and musical entertainment!!!

Everyone is welcome to attend.
A $10 donation will help defer the cost of food and facility rental.

Sponsored by: Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants � Virginia, Inc.
P.O. Box 19453 - Alexandria - Virginia - 22320-0453
Phone: 703-765-6539 Fax: 703-765-6549
Email: virginiacure@erols.com
Website: www.vacure.org

September 26, 2002

October 01, 2002

October 07-16, 2002

Nationwide

ON LINE EVENT - Faith in Action -- Working to Abolish the Death Penalty

Amnesty International USA will be holding an online event in conjunction with its 5th Annual National Weekend of Faith in Action on the Death Penalty. This 10-day event will feature audio interviews with key religious leaders, discussion boards, live audio chats, and more, all focused on the role of the faith community in the movement to abolish the death penalty.

To Sign up today, go to: www.care2.com/go/z/2811

October 11-13, 2002

Nationwide

Annual National Weekend of Faith in Action on the Death Penalty

Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty invites individuals of all faiths, local congregations, and national religious organizations to participate in the 5th Annual National Weekend of Faith in Action on the Death Penalty. This initiative seeks to engage faith communities throughout the country to devote a nationally designated weekend to reflect, discuss, and take action on the death penalty within a faith-based framework.

Initiated in 1998, the National Weekend of Faith in Action attracted over one thousand congregations in its first year. Since that auspicious beginning, the Weekend has continued to attract faith communities from all walks of life and from all traditions as they journey on the path from the newly involved to the experienced abolitionist.

Goals for the Weekend of Faith in Action:

To engage a broad spectrum of faith communities in activities to abolish the death penalty, to be initiated on this weekend and continued throughout the year.
To affirmatively engage faith communities of color in AIUSA's death penalty abolition efforts.
To provide faith communities with appropriate organizing tools and resources for addressing the death penalty and taking actions that advance abolition.
To support the unique role that faith communities can play in promoting reconciliation as an alternative to violence in all its variations.
To build sustainable links between faith communities and Amnesty
To enhance the grassroots involvement of faith communities in local, state, and federal abolition efforts throughout the year.

To sign up or to obtain additional information, contact:
Kristin Houl� khoule@aiusa.org
Tel: 202-544-0200 ext. 496.
All participants will receive a comprehensive Resource Guidebook, which contains organizing tools and ideas for working on the death penalty during the Weekend and beyond. Interested participants can also sign up to receive the Lethal Injustice comic strip, which is particularly well suited for activities involving young people and/or students."

For information on AIUSA PADP events, including sign up form, visit their website at:
http://amnestyusa.org/abolish/faithinaction.html

October 13, 2002

International

"On Death Row" Radio Documentary
BBC Broadcasting, 12 noon (UK time)

Thos program may be heard on the web at:
www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/ click on link "listen"
The program will apparently remain available on the web for a week following the live broadcast.

October 14-18, 2002

Nationwide

Anti Death Penalty Week - a national initiative of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)

Illinois Plans are underway to hold a press conference/rally on October 16 to present Governor George Ryan with the signatures that have been collected calling for blanket commutations in Illinois.
Atlanta the chapter will be tabling Monday through Friday on the Georgia State University campus and will hold a yard sale on Saturday.
Georgetown Sen. Russell Feingold has agreed to speak as part of their anti-death penalty awareness week.

E-mail noreen@nodeathpenalty.org

October 19, 2002

Nationwide

Prison Reform Unity Project (PRUP) Rally

Every year the Prison Reform Unity Project - PRUP puts on a rally in each state across the nation. Activists and concerned citizens in every state gather either at a prison or at the state capitol, or other determined location to support prison reform. We hope this will be the best PRUP event we've had so far. Alabama is gearing up. So are California and the rest of the states - like Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Washington D.C., Washington State, Colorado, and others.
See below for details as they become available.

Alabama
2:00 pm - Alabama State Capitol Building, Dexter Ave. Montgomery
The theme for this rally is Human Rights for Prisoners. Click here to download a PDF flyer.
Sponsored by: P.A.T.R.I.C.K.

Florida
12:00 noon - State Capitol, Tallahassee
E-mail Juana juanakelly@netzero.net for additional information

If you plan to organize or participate in a Prison Reform Unity Day observance, won't you please write and tell PRUP why you are inspired to do this? Your message will be posted on the PRUP web site. YOUR words might inspire others to join this desperately needed grassroots movement!
E-mail: Linda C. Miller
Web Site: www.prup.net.

October 24, 2002

October 24-27, 2002

Chicago, IL

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Annual Conference
The Raddison Hotel and Suites, 160 East Huron St.

Restoring Justice, Reclaiming Humanity

Invited Speakers:
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
The Honorable George Ryan, Governor of Illinois
Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking, Former Chair, NCADP Board of Directors

Workshops:
- Kitchen Table Discussion: Influencing your Local Media
- Building Allies: Working with State Legislators
- International Organizing around the Death Penalty
- Moratorium Momentum: Your State Can be Next
- From Fury to Forgiveness: Working with Murder Victims Family Members
- From Abstract to Personal: Making the Human Link to Death Row
- Building A Strong Youth Movement Against the Death Penalty
- Creative Activism: Effective Uses of Art in Resistance
- From Lynching to Lethal Injection: The Death Penalty and Civil Rights Advocacy
- Forging Alliances: Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities
- Creating Alliances within the Labor Movement
- Prescribing Death: Stopping Drug Company Involvement in Lethal Injections
- Building Communities of Restorative Justice
- Keeping the Faith: Organizing your Faith Community around the Death Penalty
- States Rights Now: Keeping the Federal Death Penalty out of Non-Death Penalty States
- Cyber Activism: Using Information Technology to the Movement's Advantage
- Capital Punishment 101: Understanding and Articulating the Anti-Death Penalty Movement
- Funding the Movement: Strategies for Successful Fundraising
- Delivering the Message: Organizing a Journey of Hope in Your State
- Breaking Barriers: Organizing in Communities of Color
- Working with Feminists Against the Death Penalty

The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and our allies in Illinois have secured additional, low-cost housing for the upcoming conference.
Approximately 50 beds are available for $18 per night. To reserve a bed or for more information, please contact Leona Martin at lmartin@ncadp.org

For further information or questions, special requests, scholarship information, please contact Leona Martin at (202)-543-9577 or email her at lmartin@ncadp.org.
For registration, schedule & travel accomodations, please see the link below: www.ncadp.org/html/conference.html

October 26, 2002

Nationwide and International

Internationally Coordinated Day of Mass Actions
Call to action by International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)

On Saturday, October 26, 2002, the first anniversary of the signing of the so-called Patriot Act bill, anti-war and civil rights forces are joining together to launch a massive international mobilization in opposition to a new war against the people of Iraq.
The A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition is calling on organizers from campuses and communities around the U.S. and the world to hold picket-lines, rallies, vigils, teach-ins and more in their local areas on this day.

Web Site: www.InternationalANSWER.org
Contact:
E-mail: Edc@internationalanswer.org
New York 212-633-6646
Washington 202-332-5757
Chicago 773-878-0166
San Francisco 415-821-6545

November 01, 2002

November 09-10, 2002

Chicago, IL

ABOLISH THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY - Second National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
The Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Stephen Bright, Director, Southern Center on Human Rights on "Race, Class, and the Death Penalty"

CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS:
"The Face of Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System"
--Angola Three Member Robert "King" Wilkerson who spent 29 years in solitary confinement
--Shujaa Graham, an exonerated death row prisoner from California
--Angel Rodr�guez of Comite Exigimos Justicia, who spent four years in prison for a crime he didn't commit (invited)
--Member of the Death Row 10 calling in via speakerphone from death row in Illinois

Other convention highlights include meetings on "Legal Lynching: Then and Now," "Why Reforms Can Never Fix the Death Penalty," and "Organizing From the Inside Out: Making a Connection to Death Row." Plus a Saturday night Jam for Justice, including hip hop, dancing, poetry and remarks from former death row inmates, family members and others.

Registration $35.00
For more information: Call our national office at 773-955-4841,
E-mail noreen@nodeathpenalty.org,
or visit our Web site at www.nodeathpenalty.org/convention.htm

November 10, 2002

Broadcast from Boston University

Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
Tune in at 9:00 pm ET to 90.9 FM WBUR and 1240 AM WRNI or online at the show's website.

We will be broadcasting the 13th Great Debate held as part of the biannual Great Debate Series that Boston University's College of Communications began in 1996. The topic of the 13th Great Debate is "Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?"

Arguing in favor of abolishing the death penalty will be Steven Hawkins, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Sandhya Ganapathy, International Relations and Economics student at Boston University, and Dianna Rust-Tierney, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project and former Abolitionist of the Year. Their arguments will focus on the ethical and moral questions linked with taking a human's life as well as the bias and financial costs behind the application of capital punishment.

The team arguing against the abolishment of capital punishment includes John McAdams, Associate Professor at Marquette University and author of several articles supporting the death penalty, Zachary Coseglia, student at the School of Law at Boston University, and Ronald Rychlak, Associate Dean and Professor at the University of Mississippi Law Center. Issues they will tackle in their arguments will be the deterrence effects of capital punishment on crime, and the rights of crime victims.

Following the arguments from both sides, we will hear comments from the participating audience and the voting results on who won the debate.

Thanks for listening

November 14-16, 2002

Brussels, Belgium

Making Sense of Death and Dying
Location - TBA
Sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net and Learning Solutions

Interdisciplinary international conference on death and dying, including philosophical, ethical, and legal issues relating to the death penalty.

Contact: Dr Rob Fisher
E-mail: rf@inter-disciplinary.net
Web Site: www.inter-disciplinary.net

November 15-17, 2002

Toronto, ON, Canada

Association In Defense Of The Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) - Conference and Benefit Concert
Conference opens with keynote speaker Johnnie Cochran followed by a Benefit Concert - November 15th, York Event Theatre, Toronto

Conference continues - November 16th - 17th, Upper Canada Law Society, Toronto

"Wrongful convictions are not exclusive to Canada. Since its founding, AIDWYC has maintained ongoing association with a number of like-interested bodies in other jurisdictions. These include Centurion Ministries in New Jersey, the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Alliance for Prison Justice in Boston Massachusetts. AIDWYC has developed professional relationships with several individual counsel and academics in the United States and in the United Kingdom who have worked on cases of notorious miscarriages of justice."

Click here to view/print conference brochure

Web Site: http://www.aidwyc.org/
For additional information and registration form, contact: aidwyc@on.aibn.com

November 28 - December 10, 2002

Berlin, Germany

ALIVE Exhibition - Furman v. Georgia 1972 - 2002 - 30th anniversary of capital punishment in the USA
House of Human Rights and Democracy (Haus der Menschenrechte und Demokratie)

Taking the case Furman v. Georgia as a starting point, in which the Supreme Court ruled in an historically decision by 5 votes to 4 on June 29, 1972 to suspend the death penalty, this exhibition shows a brief outline of what happened in the thirty years afterwards.
Gradually 38 states revived the death penalty. In January 1977 a 10 years long execution moratorium ended with the execution of Garry Gilmore. Since that time more than 800 people in the USA died in the gas chambers, on the electrical chair or through lethal injection. Amongst them were juveniles, foreign citizens, mentally disturbed persons and people with reasonable doubts on their guilt.
Since the death penalty was revived 102 people were exonerated from death row.

With this exhibition ALIVE wants to inform and encourage involvement in the fight against the death penalty.
ALIVE is a non-profit organization that supports the worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

For more information, contact:
mailto:info@alive-gegen-todesstrafe.de

December 01, 2002

December 02, 2002

International

International Day for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in China

The death penalty is used extensively, arbitrarily and frequently in China. Execution can occur within weeks of the alleged crime and within hours of final approval.
According to Amnesty International's study, 3048 prisoner were executed in 31 countries in year 2001, 80% of them happened in China. However, it is believed that the true figure is much higher.

Being NGOs and individuals based in Hong Kong, we are also concern about an increase in the death penalty sentence for HK citizens who are tried in China. According to our record, nearly 70 Hong Kong people have been sentenced to death, or death with a 2-year reprieve during the past four years. Yet this is just the tip of the iceberg. From June to August this year, at least eleven more HK citizens, charged with drug crime, were sentenced to death, or death with a 2-year reprieve.

Although this information comes quite late, we are inviting and encouraging the international community to start a signature campaign or any other feasible initiatives.

For contact and information:
Franco Mella,
Tel. 852- 97566604
or
Gianni Criveller
Tel. 852- 6226 3531
giannicriveller@hotmail.com

Sponsored by:
Hong Kong United Committee for the abolition of the death penalty in China (founded in 1998)
Amnesty International, Hong Kong Section
Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese
Human Rights in China, Hong Kong Office

December 10, 2002

London, UK

'My Rights, Your Rights, Human Rights'
10:00 am to 16:30 pm, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, just off Whitehall.

This event is being held by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to mark International Human Rights Day to illustrate and explain why Human Rights are so important and showing how the FCO works, in co-operation with NGOs and others to promote them around the world
There will be exhibits, thematic displays, talks, music, drama, films etc on various human rights issues, including the death penalty. FCO staff and colleagues from NGOs will be on hand to describe their work.
Admission is free and there is no need to book (except for large groups of 40+).

Contact:
James Dunlop
Tel: 07771 522269 (mobile)
Fax: 020 7008 5969
Email: james.dunlop@fco.gov.uk

December 13-15, 2002

Dallas, TX

National Steering Committee Meeting
Amnesty International USA, Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, National Steering Committee, Meeting.

January 01, 2003

January 18, 2003

Washington, DC

March on the White House
Call to action by International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)

Martin Luther King Jr. spent the last year before his assassination linking the mass movements for civil rights and freedom at home with the growing opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam. This courageous stand constituted a major political threat to the war makers. Dr. King came to the conclusion that the "greatest purveyor of violence on the planet is my own government."
There is no better way than to truly remember the spirit and legacy of Dr. King than to organize a bold, visible protest against war and racism in Washington DC on the anniversary of his birthday. We will not allow the war makers in the Bush administration and on Wall Street to turn Dr. King into a harmless icon, rather than an inspiration for struggle.

Web Site: www.InternationalANSWER.org
Contact:
E-mail: Edc@internationalanswer.org
New York 212-633-6646
Washington 202-332-5757
Chicago 773-878-0166
San Francisco 415-821-6545

February 01, 2003

February 05, 2003

Kingston, Jamaica

Death Penalty Discussion
5:30 pm, Stella Maris Church Hall, 62 Shortwood Road, Kingston 8, Jamaica

Among the speakers at the public meeting will be:
# Delbert Tibbs - a former death row inmate from the USA, who will be talking about his experience as someone sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit
# Rev Maddix - Chaplain in the Correctional Services, who ministers to prisoners, including those on death row

This public meeting is hosted by Amnesty International Jamaica
Contact Caribbean Justice for additional information

February 07, 2003

Nationwide

Don't Miss This Weeks Episode of "Hack"
CBS - 9 p.m. PST

This Friday's hour-long episode of "Hack" on CBS takes an unusual -- and unusually realistic -- approach to the death penalty. "Hack," played by David Morse, is a former police officer who now drives a cab in Philadelphia. The day before the scheduled execution of a man he helped send to death row, the condemned man's brother kidnaps him and makes him go through all the rituals and psychological torments leading up to an execution at a makeshift jail in an abandoned warehouse in Philly. The show goes back and forth from the real execution to the kidnapped hero, building suspense as to whether the kidnapper will kill him or not -- which is part of the psychological torture a condemned man goes through, always hoping for that midnight call from the Governor.

It's an extremely well-informed and realistic script written by Eugenie Ross-Leming, a television writer and producer who is a member of the Board of Directors of Death Penalty Focus. The show is about the interlocking cycles of violence in American society, and one obvious solution to breaking that cycle -- ending the death penalty.

It's interesting television, with an unusually strong political point of view.

February 22, 2003

Washington, DC

Death Penalty Youth Conference - DC/MD/VA Student Convention
11am -5pm at the Howard Law School

The conference's purpose is to bring youth together, educate them about the death penalty, and start planning for youth action in these states and on key issues like the juvenile death penalty.
If you would like to attend, help with the conference or help mobilize students to attend (high school, college and grad school students) please contact:
Josh Noble at the ACLU Capital Punishment Project
E-Mail dpconf2003@hotmail.com
TEL: 202-675-2319
To register, visit: www.jhu.edu/~aclu/registration.html.

February 24 - March 02, 2002

Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark, Boston

Is the Death Penalty an Appropriate Response to Hate Violence - Ross Byrd, Northeast Tour
Check individual State Listings for details on New Jersey and Pennsylvania Events

In 1998, two white men were sentenced to death, another to life in prison for the murder of James Byrd Jr. - an African American who was dragged to his death behind a truck in Jasper, Texas. Two of the men had connections with the Aryan Nation.
Since that time Ross Byrd, who was only 18 at the time of his father's murder, has become a hip-hop artist and anti-death penalty activist.
The American Friends Service Committee National and Regional Offices, along with numerous local co-sponsors, have put together this week long tour of four cities in the Northeast.

Contact Brooke Matschek (TEL: 215-241-7137) for scheduling information.

February 27 - March 01, 2003

London, ENGLAND

Big Pete Pearson, a bluesman from Phoenix, AZ
"Ain't Nothin But" The Blues Bar, 20 Kingly St. Soho (Tel: 020 7287 0514)

Big Pete is on the Blue Witch Records label which is co-owned by Dale Baich, a Federal Public Defender in AZ who does death penalty cases. The liner notes for Pete's CD contain the phrase "Stop The Death Penalty" and special thanks were made to "The guys on the row in Arizona and Ohio."

Come on out and support this musician.

AND, if you would like to meet Dale Baich, a man on the front lines of the death penalty fight in the United States, he can be available for an informal (or possibly, formal) meeting and brief presentation/discussion on the 28th or the 1st. If this interests you, and especially if you would be willing to host and publicize such a gathering, please e-mail abe@cuadp.org as soon as possible.

March 01, 2003

Nationwide and International

International Death Penalty Abolition Day - First Fast - Fast for Life
Wherever you are on the First Day of this Month and Every Month
For information on other Abolition day events, please visit www.cuadp.org/abday2003.html

It doesn't matter where you are! You are all invited to join in a Fast for Life on the first day of each month.
Just whatever you are doing (besides eating) fast to raise awareness about the death penalty!
If a strict fast is difficult or impossible for you, just do juices or avoid animal products or don't eat chocolate!
Then, simply tell folks around you what you are doing and why.
This is an easy as well as spiritual and healthy way to spread some hope and educate at the same time!

Sponsored by individuals opposed to capital punishment
E-mail: firstfast@abolition.org
(Please put "firstfast" in the subject line of your message)

March 14-16, 2003

Atlanta, GA

AIUSA's Ninth Annual Death Penalty Abolition Institute 2003
Bringing Human Rights Home: Ending U.S. Exceptionalism
The Westin Atlanta North Hotel

The Death Penalty Abolition Institute, which began in 1994 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, is an annual project of Amnesty International USA�s Southern Regional Office. The Institute is a training ground for both new and veteran opponents to the death penalty, as well as an opportunity to gain more knowledge about the many injustices that are rampant in the death penalty system of the United States. The conference this year will be held in conjunction with AIUSA�s Program to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Each year, the Institute is co-sponsored by local activists and organizations where it is being held. This year the conference will be held in Atlanta together with Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) in recognition of the committed and organized individuals who are actively fighting to end the death penalty in Georgia. The theme of this year�s Institute is: Bringing Human Rights Home: Ending U.S. Exceptionalism.

click here to download Conference Flyer in PDF (includes information on Plenary Panel Discussions, Workshops, Group Discussions, Registration Information, Hotel Information, etc.
or visit www.amnestyusa.org/events/southern/0314-162003dpinstitute.html
or contact:
Trinie Parker
Amnesty International's Southern Regional Office
131 Ponce de Leon Avenue, NE,
Suite 220,
Atlanta, GA 30308
Tel.: 404-876-5661, ext. 17
Fax: 404-876-2276.
E-mail: srdp@aiusa.org

March 18, 2003

Terre Haute, IN

Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here for additional information.
Louis Jones was killed by the people of the United States of America at 7:08 a.m. (EST) in retribution for the 1995 killing of Tracie Joy McBride.
Click here for information regarding vigils and other events commencing the 17th March.

April 01, 2003

April 10-29, 2002

Nationwide

The Campaign to End the Death Penalty - "Free at Last" Speaking Tour

April 10, Brooklyn Law School and New York University
April 11, New York City Riverside Church
Speakers will include Madison Hobley, the recently pardoned Illinois death row prisoner; writer, actor and activist Ossie Davis; one of the wrongfully convicted defendants in the Central Park jogger case and his mother, and Joan Parkin, co-author of the Death Row 10 pamphlet. This will no doubt be a very exciting meeting.
Also joining us on other tour stops will be Mike Gray, documentary filmmaker and author of the new book The Death Game; Rob Owen, law professor at the University of Texas; and Rob Warden, executive director of Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions.
Other stops planned include:
April 22, University of California, Berkeley, Location TBA
Speakers: Madison Hobley, Mike Gray, Robin Hobley, Alice Kim
For information email: cbybee@mills.edu
April 23, University of California - Davis, Young Hall, Room 198,
Speakers: Madison Hobley, Robin Hobley, Alice Kim, and more!
For directions, contact Miriam at mfaris@ucdavis.org or (530) 574-1260
April 29, University of Texas-Austin,
We also plan to have a few more stops in the Chicago area.

If any group would like to host a tour stop, please contact the national tour coordinator Alice Kim.
It's not too late to organize a stop in your area.

May 01, 2003

Nationwide

Frontline: "Burden of Innocence" (Program Notice)
9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)

More and more we hear about people who spent many years in prison, even on death row, only to be found not guilty, and then go free. What happens to them?
FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel traces the stories of five exonerated men as they try to reclaim their lives.

May 01, 2003

June 01, 2003

June 25, 2003

Puerto Rico

Vigil Against the Death Penalty
6 p.m. Wednesday in front of the federal court in Hato Rey.

The vigil which will reflect on human life, will be held as a jury is being chosen for the 1st case seeking the death penalty against 2 Puerto Ricans accused of killing a businessman in a carjacking.

Organized by The Citizens Against the Death Penalty Group

June 26, 2003

North America and Worldwide

National Abolish The Death Penalty Meetup Day
(fourth Thursday of each month)
Location and time established by participants in each city

Meetup with local activists to discuss Dealth Penalty issues.
So far, 231 Anti-Death Penalty Activists Worldwide have signed up!
Visit http://antideathpen.meetup.com/ to sign up

June 29 - July 2, 2003

Washington D.C.

10th Annual Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)
See www.abolition.org/annual.html for information on the 2003 event as it becomes available and a retrospective of the 2002 event.

June 29th is the anniversary of the Furman v. Georgia decision in 1972, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found the death penalty to be arbitrary and capricious. More than 600 condemned inmates had their death sentences reduced to life. All states were required to re-write their death penalty laws.

July 2nd is the anniversary of the Gregg v. Georgia decision in 1976 which allowed the resumption of executions in the United States.

July 01, 2003

July 24, 2003

August 01, 2003

August 01-03, 2003

Jamaica, NY

Pax Christi USA National Assembly 2003: A World on the Brink - A Gated Empire of Global Solidarity
St John's University

Come and join us for this year's National Assembly.

For full information on speakers, seminars, schedule, display tables and registration, visit:
www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=503

August 28, 2003

September 01, 2003

September 25, 2003

September 26-28, 2003

Oxford, England

Cultures of Violence - 4th Global Conference - Divesity within Unity
St Catherine's College

This multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary conference aims at identifying and understanding the prevailing extent of violence in contemporary life. It likewise aims
at probing the representation of violence in media, art and literature. Violence has been part of societies purporting to unite people, e.g., totalitarian regimes. It has been no less part of societies that set great store on diversity. It remains a horrifying feature of today's world.

Contact: Dr Rob Fisher
E-mail: rf@inter-disciplinary.net
Web Site: www.inter-disciplinary.net/violence/du4cv2cfp.htm

September 26 -
October 12, 2003

Ohio

Journey of Hope - From Violence to Healing

Click here for the itinerary and schedule of events. (Check back frequently, this schedule is subject to change as the planning for the journey continues)

The Ohio Journey will be a 17 day tour of an amazing group of murder victim family members who oppose capital punishment, death row families, innocent persons freed from death row and other supporters who will travel across the state of Ohio to share their incredible messages of love, forgiveness and healing.

Through public speaking events, rallies, marches, concerts, tree plantings, media interviews, and other activities, the Journey of Hope will touch thousands of people. We believe that the Journey of Hope's inspirational message of compassion and healing will open the hearts and minds of the citizens of Ohio to have a greater respect for the dignity of human life and lead this state toward abolition of the death penalty!

Won't you join us on the Journey? Experience an unforgettable event!

Contact:
Jana L. Schroeder Ohio Journey of Hope Statewide Coordinator
E-mail: jschroeder@afsc.org
Phone: (937) 278-4225, Ext. 107
American Friends Service Committee
915 Salem Ave.
Dayton, OH 45406

Explore our web site for further details about how you can support and participate in the Ohio Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing!
Visit: www.journeyofhope.org/Ohio/

September 26 - October 18, 2003

London, England

Reprieve and Amicus US Death Penalty Training
New practical programme

Amicus and Reprieve are charities that assist those representing impoverished people facing execution in the United States and Caribbean. They offer legal and humanitarian assistance by placing individuals in capital defence offices throughout the United States.
The charities are joining together to present a new training programme that will provide practical as well as theoretical skills to assist defence counsel with the representation of those facing execution in the US. The training will be run with the Louisiana based organisation, Fighting Chance, along with practitioners and academics from the UK. The program will give practical tools to those considering internships and to those wanting to assist with the work in the UK. It will help individuals develop the specific skills required for this kind of work, as well as orienting them to the various issues they will be confronting.

This comprehensive programme is divided into evening and weekend sessions, as detailed below.

26th September, 6.30-9pm	Introductory Evening
27th September, 9am-5pm	Trial and Appeal: Constitutional Standard
3rd - 5th October	Practical Training weekend Friday, 6.30-9pm - Ethics Saturday, 9:30am-5pm - Research and Investigation Skills Sunday, 9.30am-5pm - Interviewing skills
18th October, 9.30am -5pm	International Human Rights Law

Participation in the course entitles you to free tickets for two upcoming lectures.
10th October - Juveniles and the death penalty:
, Family members of juveniles on death row together with Clive Stafford Smith will discuss the realities of executing children.
16th October - Innocence and the death Penalty:
Judge Baird from Texas will discuss the dangers of executing the innocent and the legal restrictions.

To apply for a place on the course, please email the Amicus administrator for a booking form: admin@amicus-alj.org.
The closing date for applications is 15th September, however we expect the places to be filled earlier than this date.
Those applicants who have arranged a placement in the USA will be given priority, further places will be allocated according to application date.

October 01, 2003

Ongoing

Nationwide

"The Exonerated"

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's controversial drama The Exonerated dramatizes the harrowing experiences of six innocent people who were accused of heinous crimes they did NOT commit; were sentenced to death; languished on death row for years, and then were mercifully freed -- their innocence proclaimed, their lives regained.

The following is the itinerary for the national tour of this critically acclaimed play:

10/7-10/19	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	Broward Pac
10/28-11/02	Philadelphia, PA	Merriam Theatre
11/04-11/09	New Orleans, LA	Saenger Theatre
11/11-11/23	Baltimore, MD	Morris Mechanic
11/25-12/21	San Francisco, CA	The Curran
01/13-01/18	Seattle, WA	The Moore
01/20-01/25	New Haven, CT	The Shubert
01/27-02/01	Tempe, AZ	Gammage Auditorium
02/03-02/08	Little Rock, AS	Robinson Auditorium
02/17-02/22	Ft. Worth, TX	Casa Manana Pac
02/24-03/14	Detroit, MI	The Fisher
03/23-03/28	Atlanta, GA/Naples, FL	Ferst Center/Naples Philharmonic
03/30-04/04	Orlando, FL	Bob Carr
04/06-04/11	Minneapolis, MN	State Theatre

October 09-11, 2003

Atlanta, GA

Human Rights at Home: International Law in U.S. Courts
ACLU Hosted Training Conference at the Carter Presidential Center

The national office of the American Civil Liberties Union is pleased to announce a national training conference for lawyers on new strategies to advance human rights struggles in the United States. The conference will familiarize lawyers and advocates with international human rights treaties, laws and organizing strategies that can strengthen domestic social justice work by:

Ensuring U.S. accountability for violating international human rights principles in additional to domestic constitutional ones
Providing new, affirmative protections for workers, poor people, immigrants, and victims of discrimination
Linking multiple issues to address problems that intersect race, gender, and poverty
Connecting local advocacy to global struggles

For a preliminary program schedule, Click here.
The conference is being hosted at the Carter Presidential Center on its 37-acre site in Atlanta, Georgia. See www.cartercenter.org for further information. Blocks of rooms have been reserved for $119.00 per night at the Georgian Terrace Hotel, a landmark hotel located in midtown Atlanta. Hotel accommodations can be booked directly through the Georgian Terrace by calling (800) 651-2316, or by booking on-line at www.thegeorgianterrace.com; click on reservations, and type in �ACLUGR� at the password prompt. You must specify that you are with the ACLU Human Rights Conference to receive the special rate of $119.00 per night.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit will be offered. Travel and accommodation scholarships are available on a needs basis.

For full information, including registration, Click here

October 10-12, 2003

Nationwide

Amnesty International USA's National Weekend of Faith in Action on the Death Penalty

Contact Kristin Houl� at 202-544-0200 ext. 496 or khoule@aiusa.org for more information.

October 13-17, 2003

Nationwide

Death Penalty Awareness Week - a national initiative of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)

E-mail noreen@nodeathpenalty.org

October 16-19, 2003

Nashville, TN

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Annual Conference
Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel, 623 Union Street

The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has announced that it will hold its 2003 annual death penalty conference in Nashville.
Randy Tatel, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing, said Tennessee is a logical state to host the national conference because it reflects the growing national debate over the death penalty. "Many people who end up on Tennessee�s death row get there because of ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, reliance on an unconstitutional aggravating factor, or because of convictions based on the self-interested testimony of a jailhouse informant," Tatel said. "These are problems that are currently being addressed in Illinois and in other states, and need to be discussed and debated in Tennessee as well."

Click here to see the schedule

Early Bird Registrations now available
Web Site: www.ncadp.org/html/conference.html
Tel: Leona Martin (202)-543-9577
E-mail: nationalconference@ncadp.org

October 23, 2003

October 24-26, 2003

MN

Amnesty International USA - Regional Conference - Mid-West Regional Office

Visit www.amnestyusa.org/events/Midwestern for additional information as it becomes available.

October 31 - November 02, 2003

Los Angeles, CA

Amnesty International USA - Regional Conference - Western Regional Office

Visit www.amnestyusa.org/events/Western for additional information as it becomes available.

November 01, 2003

November 07-09, 2003

Shepherdstown, WV

Amnesty International USA - Regional Conference - Mid-Atlantic Regional Office

Visit www.amnestyusa.org/events/mid-atlantic for additional information as it becomes available.

November 07-09, 2003

North Birmingham, AL

Amnesty International USA - Regional Conference - Southern Regional Office

Visit www.amnestyusa.org/events/Southern for additional information as it becomes available.

November 08-09, 2003

Chicago, IL

On The Road to Abolition: Stop All Executions
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty - Third Annual National Convention
The Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St.

We hope you will join activists from across the country for a weekend of lively panel discussions and workshops.
CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS:
This year, the convention will hear from two Death Row 10 members -- Madison Hobley and Leroy Orange (invited), who were pardoned last year by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan. We will also hear from veterans of the movement, like Shujaa Graham, the former Black Panther and exonerated California death row prisoner, and Darby Tillis, another former Illinois death row prisoner who was exonerated and freed. We will also hear from family members of those on death row -- how they cope, how they fight and how the death penalty affects them.
We are also proud to feature Clive Stafford Smith, director of the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, who will speak during the session on "Race, Class and the Case of Ryan Matthews." Plus Northwestern University's Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, will also join us for a panel discussion titled "Inside the Police Interrogation Room."
SESSION TOPICS AND FEATURED EVENTS:
Where We Are and Where We're Headed * False Confessions: Inside the Police Interrogation Room * Paving the Road Ahead * Race, Class and the Ryan Matthews Case * Sharing Chapter Experiences * Mothers, Daughters and Sisters of Those on Death Row Speak Out * Tribute to Costella Cannon
Each session and workshop will be followed by a discussion for convention attendees to participate in. In addition to these discussions, we will have sessions on Campaign business. And keep in mind the convention's Saturday night dinner, which will be a great way to meet and chat with others in an informal setting.

For more information: contact our national office at 773-955-4841,
E-mail noreen@nodeathpenalty.org,
or visit our Web site at www.nodeathpenalty.org

November 08-09, 2003

Boston, MA

Amnesty International USA - Regional Conference - Northeast Regional Office
Boston University

Visit www.amnestyusa.org/events/Northeastern for additional information as it becomes available.

November 27, 2003

November 30, 2003

International

Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty
Select a symbolic monument in your City and light it up in a special way to say out loud: STOP THE DEATH PENALTY

The fight against the death penalty has become an important issue in the realm of international relations. In much of the world, the struggle is associated with the search for true justice, which does not seek vengeance but rather rehabilitation. It also aims at a higher level of civility and the defence of the human rights of all people, including the victims of crime and those found guilty of committing them. The battle against the death penalty is a way for states and society to defend themselves from the risk of sinking to the same level of those who have committed serious crimes against others.

In 2002, the Community of Sant'Egidio promoted November 30th as the first World Day Against the Death Penalty as well as launching the initiative "Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty" .

With spectacular initiatives involving the monuments or public squares that have come to symbolize their towns, and with special efforts to educate the public, more than 80 cities -- from Santiago de Chile to Stockholm to Canberra -- participated in the 2002 observance. The city of Rome chose the Colosseum; in Brussels, it was the Atomium; and in Barcelona, Cathedral Square was the focus.

Preparations are now underway for the great "World Day of Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty 2003."

The organization of events to be televised globally and to be available on the Internet has already begun for the second "World Day of Cities for Life -- Cities Against the Death Penalty" November 30th, 2003. Under the coordination of the organizing committee, each city joining the initiative before October 30th, 2003 will be able to have its own contribution featured on the program.

We invite your city and its residents to contribute to the struggle for civility and to join the "Cities of Life -- Cities Against the Death Penalty" campaign.

For information on joining the World "Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty" campaign, contact:
E-mail: m.marazziti@fastwebnet.it
Web Site: www.santegidio.org/en/pdm/index.htm

December 01, 2003

January 01, 2004

January 21, 2004

Washington DC

Launch of Stop Child Executions! Campaign
5:30 - 8:00 p.m. AIUSA Washington DC Office, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, 5th Floor

Please join AIUSA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty and Mid-Atlantic regional activists at an upcoming event to launch Amnesty's worldwide campaign to abolish the juvenile death penalty.
We will be exhibiting the work of Toshi Kazama, a renowned photographer from New York, whose pictures poignantly capture the tragedy of juveniles on death row in the United States. Mr. Kazama will also recount his own personal experiences in taking the photographs and meeting these child offenders and their families.

Light refreshments will be served. RSVP required.
Please RSVP no later than Monday, January 19th to Eileen Welch at ewelch@aiusa.org with RSVP Launch of Stop Child Executions! Campaign in the subject line.

February 01, 2004

February 11, 2004

Toronto, ON (Canada)

"Aileen - The Life and Death of a Serial Killer"
plus a special presentation of "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria Universit