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| Date |
Event Description |
| | March 10, 2001 | Dallas, Texas
White Rock/Lake Highlands Democrats - Monthly Meeting
Featuring Rick Helperin (Amnesty International) as speaker
CONTACT: Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu OR Annette Spanhel (214) 381-7851
E-mail: aspanhel@airmail.net
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| | April 02, 2001 | New England/New York City
Amnesty International Group 133 is hosting the 6th annual "Get on the Bus" day of action in New York City, where we will honor and thank representatives of Italy for the country's efforts to abolish the death penalty worldwide.
A small select group of various anti-death penalty activists will convene at 12:30pm on Monday April 2 at the Italian Consulate General's offices in NYC to offer a token of appreciation for Italy's efforts in the last few years against capital punishment. We have chosen to thank Italy as a whole, citing specific efforts of various NGO's, active citizens, and certain civic/parliamentary works which have stood out in the death penalty abolition and moratorium movements.
Contact: Scott Langley, Death Penalty Coordinator, AI USA Group 133, Tel: 617-497-2565
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| June 18, 2001 | Santa Ana
, CA
Public Witness to Oppose the Execution of Juan Raul Garza and to Support the Victims' Families
Juan Garza will be executed on Tuesday morning, June 19th at 5:00 AM Pacific Time. To oppose this execution and support the
victims' families, a series of events has been organized by Death Penalty Focus,
ACLU, Amnesty International, Orange County Death Penalty
Watch, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Micah 6:8, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, the Orange County Catholic Worker, and the
Sisters of St. Joseph
On Monday, June 18th from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, religious and civic leaders will gather in public witness at the Ronald Reagan Federal
Building in Santa Ana. During this time, speakers will share their experiences with the death penalty or their group's stand on capital
punishment.
From 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, a public witness will occur at Main Place Mall (at the corner of Main St. and Town and Country). The participants
will stand in solidarity with all those opposed to the death penalty and more specifically, the execution of Juan Garza. To remember the tragic
effect of violence in our society, the names of the victims will be read.
For more information about the public witness, vigil, speakers, or participating organizations, please contact:
Catherine Vallejo at (714) 524-2489
E-mail: dpfocc@aol.com
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| July 4, 2001 |
Nashville,TN
March in Opposition to the Death Penalty
This event will start at 8 a.m. at the state Capitol. From there,
participants will walk north across the Bicentennial Capitol Mall to
Jefferson Street, following it west to Hadley Park at 28th Avenue North.
The Hadley Park event will feature the Ross Brothers gospel group and 2
representatives of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, an anti-violence
group, speakers will include Randy Tatel of Amnesty International, who will talk about the Death Penalty Institute to be held in
Nashville July 20-22, and Brad MacLean, an attorney who represents Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, a Tennessee death row inmate.
Sponsored by: the Tennessee Fellowship of
Reconciliation, an interfaith peace organization, and the Christian
Peacemaker Teams
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| July 17, 2001 |
Austin, TX
Texas-Style Justice?
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty will host a public panel discussion
about the Yogurt Shop case on Tuesday, July 17 at 7 p.m. The meeting will
take place on the University of Texas Campus at the LBJ School's Sid
Richardson Hall (26th and Red River), Room 3.111. The panel will feature
family members of the three Yogurt Shop defendants, Robert Springsteen,
Michael Scott, and Maurice Pierce
Ten years ago, four young women were killed in an Austin yogurt shop. After
eight years of an investigation plagued with leaks, false confessions, and
insufficient evidence, four young men were arrested and charged with the
murders. One was released. One, Robert Springsteen, was convicted in spite
of a complete lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime and
sentenced to death. Two other young men--Michael Scott and Maurice
Pierce--are awaiting trial.
Throughout the investigation of the yogurt shop murders and throughout
Springsteen's trial, police and prosecutors have engaged in questionable
conduct, playing on public horror over the murders to compensate for a lack
of evidence linking the men to the crime.
As the recent release of Christopher Ochoa and Richard Danziger (convicted
for a murder they did not commit and exonerated by DNA evidence) shows,
Texas' criminal justice system is plagued by police and prosecutorial
misconduct. Confessions are coerced, defense is inadequate, and prosecutors
play on public fear and outrage to railroad defendants into jail--often all
the way to Death Row.
"I'm having an incredible sense of deja vu," said Jeannette Popp, mother of
Nancy De Priest, of whose murder Ochoa and Danziger were wrongfully
convicted. "It's like watching instant replay. These boys in the yogurt
shop case had the same interrogator as Ochoa and Danziger. They have the
same prosecutor. And they are getting the same Texas-style justice."
In addition to Popp, Tuesday's panel includes Jeannine Scott, wife of
Michael Scott; Lisa McClain, Michael Scott's mother; Annette Castellanos,
Maurice Pierce's sister; and Brett Thompson, Robert Springsteen's stepfather.
"These young men have had all of their civil rights violated," said
Kathleen Feyh, a member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. "We need
to get educated about how our injustice system can lead to wrongful
convictions and even executions. We need to raise these questions about the
yogurt shop case and speak out against how it's being handled."
The public and news reporters are cordially invited to attend this
educational event. There will be time for questions and answers and
opportunities for interviews with family members of yogurt shop defendants.
For more information, call 512-707-8778 or contact:
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Dana Cloud, 512-731-1025, E-mail:
dcloud@mail.utexas.edu
Lily Hughes, 512-494-0667
Jeannine Scott, 512-470-5461
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| July 20-22, 2001 |
Nashville, TN
Amnesty International Death Penalty Institute
A Training School for Death Penalty Activists, Fisk University
Tennessee activists are proud to be the hosts for the 8th
annual AIUSA Death Penalty Institute (DPI). This year's theme is, appropriately, crisis and opportunity
At a time of crisis (216 executions in 29 months) the Death Penalty Institute is structured to take advantage of a welcome
opportunity (lowest statistical support for the death penalty in some 20 years). Our goal is to offer YOU both a networking
occasion and an exciting, substantive series of sessions that will empower you to have an immediate impact upon
your community.
Schedule and Registration
Friday - Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Penny White will speak at an opening evening reception. (7:00 -
8:30pm)
Saturday - 9:00 - 6:15; break for dinner; A cultural event featuring local artists will take place from 8:00 to 9:30.
Panels
Death Penalty: Race & Social Justice (9:00)
Death Penalty: Historical Framework (2:45)
Workshops
AIUSA Training for State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinators (10:30)
Framing Your Message (What messages reach the public. How to convey those messages effectively)
(10:30 & 1:15)
Death Penalty Facts - entry level (10:30)
Personal & Interpersonal Effects of the Death Penalty (1:15)
State & Local Death Penalty Advocacy (1:15)
Faith Communities and the Death Penalty (4:00)
Legal Anatomy of a Capital Case (4:00)
10 Things Anyone Can Do to Oppose the Death Penalty - entry level (4:00)
Moratorium Strategy and History (5:15)
Restorative Justice (5:15)
Youth Empowerment -entry level (5:15)
Sunday - 9:00 - Noon: There will be a closing session on Strategic Issues, Challenges and Plans for taking advantage of
the new climate. This session will split into smaller, "break-out" substantive issue groups and return with reports. Naomi Tutu
(Program Director Race Relations Institute at Fisk University)is the closing keynote speaker (12 - 1).
Registration will be on a sliding scale basis as follows:
Regular: $30
Fixed Income: $15
Hardship: Full Scholarship
To register and for more information including details on panellists and facilitators, contact:
Amnesty International USA Southern Regional Office
RJ Thompson 404-876-5661 ext. 17
rthompson@aiusa.org
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| Aug 24-27, 2001 |
WA
List of Events Marking the Scheduled Execution of James Elledge on
August 28, 2001, 12:01 a.m.
Friday, August 24 - Seattle - Press Conference
The Archdiocese of Seattle will be holding a press conference to talk
about its reasons for opposing the execution of James Elledge.
10:00 a.m. at the Chancery Contact:
Kevin Glackin-Coley, Director of Detention Ministry,
Archdiocese of Seattle, 910 Marion Street, Seattle, WA 98104 E-mail: keving@seattlearch.org
Sunday, August 26 - Spokane - Worship Service
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, 33rd and Perry, 7:30pm.
This is planned by the church and by the social justice ministry of
Catholic Charities.
Protests and Vigils
Monday August 27 - Longview/Kelso - Vigil
Vigil at the new bridge on the Longview side at 11:00 a.m
Everyone is invited to come and participate in all or part of the vigil, sponsored by Cowlitz County Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Cowlitz FOR will provide signs or
bring your own.
Contact Janey Austin 360-431-3094
or Dan Austin-Smith at dsmith98632@yahoo.com
Monday August 27 - Spokane - Vigil
7:30pm at the local office of the WA Attorney General, 1116 W. Riverside.
After that brief vigil, there will be a walk to the Community Building at
35 W. Main. The building will remain open until midnight with a video at
9:00, music and readings at 10, and comments on legal elements of the
execution from Mary Pat Treuthart at 11:00.
A brief service and lighting of candles just before midnight.
Contact: Rusty Nelson, Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
Community Building, 35 W. Main #120M
Spokane, WA 99201-0107
Tel: 509-838-7870
E-mail: pjals@icehouse.net
Monday August 27 - Seattle - Vigil/protest/leafleting
Across from Westlake Mall, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Public welcome.
Sponsor; Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Contact: Mary Robinson (206) 622- 8952
E-mail: mrobinson140@home.com
Monday August 27 - Olympia - Vigil
Execution-eve vigil on the steps of the State Capitol Building from 7:00
p.m. Monday evening August 27 to a few minutes past midnight Tuesday
morning August 28.
Co-sponsored by WCADP and FOR. Contact: Glen Anderson, Olympia Fellowship
of Reconciliation
5015 15th Ave SE, Lacey WA 98503
Tel: (360) 664-6252 work, (360) 491-9093 home
or Alice Curtis, (360) 943-4076, E-mail aliscurtis@aol.com
Web Site:
www.scn.org/wwfor/DeathPenalty.html
Monday August 27 - Walla Walla - Vigil
Death Penalty Forum at Whitman College beginning at 4 p.m.
Vigil at Washington State Penitentiary, site of the execution, approx. 9 PM to midnight.
Contact Kevin Glackin-Coley at 206-382-4236 for more information
Monday August 27 - Tacoma - Vigil
the University of Puget Sound will host a vigil for James Elledge on Monday, August 27th at 8:30 p.m. at the Kilworth Memorial
Chapel (on N. 18th St. east of N. Union Avenue).
It will be student-led. The vigil is free and open to the public
Prayer Vigils
Monday August 27 - Seattle - Prayer Vigil
Immaculate Conception, 820 18th Ave. 7pm
Contact: Denise Stewart 206-382-4868
Monday August 27 - Bellevue - Prayer Vigil
St. Madeline Sophie, 7pm
Contact Colleen Fox 425-747-6770
Monday August 27 - Tacoma - Prayer Vigil
St. Leo, 6pm
Contact Erica Cohen 253-627-2720 or
E-mail ericac@seattlearch.org
Monday August 27 - Friday Harbor - Prayer Vigil
St. Francis, 7:30pm
Contact St. Francis Church 360-378-2910 or
E-mail stfrancis@interisland.net
Monday August 27 - Lynnwood - Prayer Vigil
St. Thomas More, TBA
Kevin Glackin-Coley at 206-382-4236
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| September 07 - October 07 |
San Francisco, CA
Capital (Culture / Media) Punishment - Witness Room - An Installation
by Victor Cartegena
Ampersand International Arts, 1001 Tennesee St.
This is a parallel exibition to the September 12 - October 20, exhibition
at the Intersection for the Arts Gallery.
"In Victor Cartagena's mixed-media works, the effect is piercing and
poignant." - Sarah Coleman, SF Bay Guardian.
Sponsored by Intersection for the Arts
Tel: 415-285-0170
E-mail: andartsf@aol.com
Web Site: www.ampersandintlarts.com
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| September 10-18 |
Bexley, OH
Nightly Vigils to Protest the Execution of John Byrd Jr.
6:00 - 8:00 pm, Governor's Mansion, 358 N. Parkview.
Nightly vigils will be held to protest the execution of John Byrd, Jr.
(currently scheduled for 10:00 AM on Tuesday, Sept. 18)
For status of these vigils given current events, please contact: Michael Manley, Tel: (614) 263-5914
Sponsored by Central Ohioans to Stop Executions
For execution day vigils Click
Here
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| September 12 - October 20 |
San Francisco, CA
Capital (Culture / Media) Punishment - An Installation by Victor
Cartagena
Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street,
Wednesday, September 12th, 6:00 pm - Opening Reception
Saturday, September 22, 2:00 pm - Truthkeepers and Newsmakers:
A Roundtable Discussion of the role the media plays in the most important
debates of our times,
Gallery hours: Wed - Sat, 12 - 5 PM; Tues by appointment
Cartagena - utilizing sculpture, video, audio collage, and mixed media
amassed over 18 months - vividly demonstrates how media-saturated our
culture has become and asks where the “truth” can be found in the
context of one of our most important human debates – capital punishment.
Adopting the role of a media glutton, Cartegena asks if we, in fact,
approach the six o'clock news and the next issue of Time Magazine with the
same expectations we have of entertainment media.
A parallel exhibition of Cartagena’s mixed media works will also be on
view at Ampersand International Arts.
Sponsored by Intersection for the Arts
Phone 415-626-2787
Fax 415-626-1636
Reservations 415-626-3311
Web Site: www.theintersection.org
E-mail: info@theintersection.org
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| September 17, 2001 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, (617) 864-5342
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| September 20, 2001 |
Dallas, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Dallas Chapter - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, Paperback Plus Bookstore, 6115 La Vista Dr., Live Oak at La
Vista, 2nd FLOOR (between Skillman and Abrams in Lakewood)
Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| September 23, 2001 |
Arlington Area, VA
Bud Welch to Speak at Bishop Ireton High School
7:00 pm, Bishop Ireton High School, 201 Cambridge Road, Alexandria
The program is free and open to the public.
Bud Welch, whose daughter Julie Marie Welch was killed in the Oklahoma
City Bombing, will speak about his experiences in dealing with the aftermath of
terrorism.
Interrupted Tuesday (9/11/01) in his journey to D.C. for an anti-death
penalty rally which was scheduled for that afternoon, Bud Welch watched yet
another story of terror unfold on TV screens and relived his worst
nightmare, but he remains unshaken in his quest to remove revenge from the
equation of responses to the horrific events.
The September 23rd engagement was scheduled prior to September 11,
but the events of that day have rendered the topic significantly more urgent.
For further information, please contact:
Anne V. Hamilton, Tel: 703-522-7757,
E-mail: annet@erols.com
or, Eileen or Dick Melia, Tel: 703-892-6891, E-mail: richard_melia@prodigy.net
The program at Bishop Ireton is sponsored by Bishop Ireton High School,
Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Arlington;
the Arlington Unitarian Church; Virginians for Alternatives
to the Death Penalty; and MVFR.
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| September 23, 2001 |
Lexington, KY
Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Central Chapter
Picnic
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. at Shelter #3 in Shillito Park, Lexington.
Please bring a dish to share: baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw, potato
chips, salad, etc.
The Chapter will provide hamburgers, hotdogs, and soft drinks. A reminder:
alcohol is not permitted at Shillito Park.
If you plan to attend, please let Roberta Harding know by e-mailing her at:
E-mail: rharding@pop.uky.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Web Site: www.kcadp.org/events.htm
For further information and directions, E-mail: Will Warner: tortilla@iglou.com
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| September 23 - 30 |
NJ
Journey of Hope
Churches, colleges and community centers at 25 locations throughout New
Jersey.
In this period of profound grief for victims of violence at New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.,
New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium has postponed "Journey of Hope, from Violence to Healing,"
a statewide speaking tour featuring loved ones of murder victims, originally scheduled for September 23 -30
Call 1-800-257-6204 or visit the web site below for further information.
This event was sponsored by: New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium
Contact: Lorry Post, 23 Crane Fly Circle, Cape May, NJ 08204
Tel: 1-800-257-6204
E-mail: Lorry_Post@njmoratorium.org
Web Site: www.journeyofhope.org
or www.njmoratorium.org
E-mail: njdpm@bellatlantic.net
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| September 24, 2001 |
New York, NY
Forum on Capital Punishment: What Are the Political and Ethical Issues
Reception at 5:30pm; Program at 6pm ($15 fee).
Empire State Bldg, 350 Fifth Ave., Room 2925 (between 33 & 34 Sts.)
Whatever your views on this critical issue, come join us to learn more
about how the death penalty system currently operates: What are the
politics of the process? What are the fairness issues? What are the costs
to society?
Moderator: Ronald J. Tabak, Special Counsel, Skadden, Arps; Co-Chair,
Death Penalty Committee, American Bar Association Section of Individual
Rights & Responsibilities.
Panelists: Vivian Berger, Nash Professor of Law Emerita, Columbia Law
School; General Counsel and Advisory Committee Member, ACLU Capital
Punishment Project
Julia Tarver, Litigation Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and
Garrison; past Secretary, New York City Bar Association Committee on
Capital Punishment
Introductions by Eleanor Jackson Piel
Sponsored by The Women's City Club of New York
Space is limited. Preregistration & prepayment are required.
Call (212) 353-8070 or email info@wccny.org
to register, & mail checks made out to Women's City Club to 33 West
60th Street, 5th Fl., New York, NY 10023.
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| September 25, 2001 |
Worcester, MA
Sister Helen Prejean at The College of the Holy Cross (Students for
Life)
1 College St. Box 16A, Worcester, MA 01610
Contact: Peter Ghiloni
E-mail: pghiloni@holycross.edu
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| September 25, 2001 |
New York City, NY
Ethics of Death: the Impact of Ethical Rules in Death Penalty Cases
6:00 - 9:00 pm, at The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th
Street, Tel: (212) 382-6663
CLE Credit: 3 credit hours in ethics. This program provides transitional
credit for newly admitted attorneys.
Death is different, but does that apply to ethical rules as well? What are
the most important ethical rules in death penalty cases? How should they
conform to the special practice of death penalty litigation and to care given
capital defendants by the medical profession? Are ethical rules to be more
or less strictly observed? What are the moral implications for the jurist
and physician in the face of growing calls for abolition or moratorium,
including judicial distancing, judging against conscience, and judicial
compliance or resistance?
To register: Call (212) 382-6663; FAX (212) 869-4451;
MAIL to the CityBar
Center for CLE, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
or register ONLINE at www.abcny.org
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| September 26 - November 05, 2001 |
Sante Fe, NM
Time for Reflection - a 41-day Vigil in Opposition to the Death penalty
A press conference on Wednesday, September 26 at noon at the State Capitol,
will kick off a constant peaceful presence at the Capitol
until the state's first execution in 41 years.
Forty one (41) New Mexicans will stand vigil, in front of the New Mexico State Capitol,
from Wednesday Sept. 26th through Monday November 5th to nurture the service of life,
instead of enhancing a culture of violence. Each day from 7am to 7pm,
a different New Mexican will sit in a circle of candles to meditate, pray,
contemplate, reflect and fast.
The community at large is invited to participate, and support the person fasting,
or write comments on the wall of grief and hope that will be present at the site.
For more information on this vigil call Dr. V. LaCerva at 505-476-8904
You can also stop at the front of the east side of the Capitol during the vigil to
obtain more information, or participate directly
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| September 30, 2001 |
Birmingham, AL
"Corrections" - a film by Ashley Hunt
Critically acclaimed documentary on for-profit private prisons comes to the Sidewalk Film Festival
3:30 p.m. Carver Theater, Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, 1631 4th Ave. North
Not since 1928 with the end of the convict lease system has Alabama housed prisoners
in the "for-profit" sector. This movie uncovers the danger behind mixing corrections
with a for profit motive. Come to learn more about the private prison industry and
the impact it could have on the State of Alabama today.
The Southern Center for Human Rights will sponsor a reception immediately following the film.
Contact Lisa Zahren
Tel: (404) 688-1202
Web Site: www.schr.org
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| October 01, 2001 |
Los Angeles, CA
Moratorium Now! Los Angeles - Next Meeting
The next Moratorium Now! Los Angeles meeting will take place on Monday
at 7:30pm at the Crescent Heights United Methodist Church in West
Hollywood.
The address is 1296 North Fairfax Avenue (Fountain x Fairfax).
(Tel: 323-656 5336)
We will be meeting in the auditorium located upstairs.
Shari Silberstein, an organizer for Moratorium Now! at the Quixote Center,
will be present and we can look forward to a very productive meeting.
Contact: Elisabeth Tel: 310-393 5969
E-mail: Elisabeth1036@aol.com
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| October 01, 2001 |
Jacksonville, NC
Rally for Robert Bacon
A group of prominent Jacksonville citizens will call for clemency for
Robert Bacon at a rally on Monday at noon at First Baptist Church
(153 Broadhurst Rd. across from the Onslow County Board of Education and near
the county fairgrounds.)
Community leaders from throughout the area expect a
large crowd to join the call for clemency.
A van to the rally will leave People of Faith Against the Death Penalty's Carrboro office at 8:30 a.m. Monday
morning. It will pass through Raleigh.
Anyone wanting a ride to the rally in Jacksonville should call PFADP at 919-933-7567 or E-mail: sdear@pfadp.org.
Web Site: www.pfadp.org
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| October 02, 2001 |
Raleigh, NC
Prayer Vigil for Robert Bacon
A prayer vigil for clemency
will be held on Tuesday at noon at the State Capitol (Morgan St. side) in
downtown Raleigh.
Robert Bacon's case has attracted international attention to the racism that
weaved throughout the trial and sentencing and the disproportionate nature of
the sentencing between the two defendants. A federal judge says Bacon got
ineffective legal representation
For additional information, call PFADP at 919-933-7567
or E-mail: sdear@pfadp.org
Web Site: www.pfadp.org
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| October 5, 2001 |
Worcester, MA
Good Thief Gala
The College of the Holy Cross - Hogan Center Ballroom from 6:30-10:00pm
Dismas House is hosting our Second Annual Good Thief Gala featuring former Governor Michael Dukakis.
Bishop Daniel Reilly will present the Father Jack Hickey Award to the Worcester Legislative Delegation, represented by Senator Guy Glodis and Representative John Binienda.
The emcee will be Michael Hussey, Esq., head of the Worcester Public Defenders. Joe O'Brien will be the live auctioneer.
The Susan Curtis Spirit Award will be presented to Brother John Doyle of St. John's High School. Also honored with a special lifetime acheivement award are Margaret Guzman, Stephen Meltzer, and Ray Raboin for board stewardship.
Tickets are $50, and $500 for a table of ten.
There will be an open cocktail hour with free drinks/silent auction from 6:30-8:00pm. From 8:00-10:00pm, dinner will be served with during evening's program.
Dismas House is a project to reconcile former prisoners to society and
society to former prisoners, through the development of a supportive
community which sees students and former prisoners living together in a
family setting.
Contact: David M. McMahon
Dismas House Massachusetts
Post Office Box 30125
Worcester, Massachusetts 01603
Tel: (508)799-9389
Fax: (508)767-9930
Email: dmcmahon32@hotmail.com
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| October 05, 2001 |
NC
Execution Vigils and Protests
Robert Bacon is now scheduled to be killed by the State of North Carolina at
02:00 am local time.
Click Here
for vigil information
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| October 05 - 06, 2001 |
Charlottesville, VA
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (VADP) - 10th
Anniversary Events
Virginians Against State Killing (later to be changed to Virginians for
Alternatives to the Death Penalty) was formed in the Charlottesville
Quaker Friends Meeting House on September 29, 1991,
We have accomplished much through these 10 years, and a decades worth of
activism is cause for celebration.
On Friday evening (Oct 05) there will be a presentation of the nationally
renowned play, "The Exonerated". The Culture Project theater
group in NY has agreed to allow us to present this production of actors
telling the stories, in narrative, of 10 of the 98 (and growing) people
who have been exonerated from Death Rows across the country.
This powerful production first presented in NY was presented at the UN in
the spring, and will be presented on Capitol Hill in Washington this
October. Among those participating as Readers are poet Rita Dove, writers
John Casey and Ann Beattie, film-director Hugh Wilson, Vice-Mayor Maurice
Cox, and dean of African-American Studies at UVA Rick Turner. Sonia Jacobs
one of the exonorees who spent 15 years in prison- 5 on Death Row in
Florida will be in attendance along with John Artis, who was the
co-defendant in the Hurricane Carter case, and was released after 15 years
in prison, after his innocence was proven.
On Saturday we will have our annual conference from 9-4.
Our main focus will be how to keep the pressure up on our legislators and
keep our issue in the news. We will hear from professional organizers on
how to best get our message across and keep the momentum going in your
locale and statewide.
We will also hear from Abraham Bonowitz, Executive Director of Citizens
United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, who will speak about the
national and other states embracing the movement for alternatives to the
death penalty. And we will also hear from John Artis, the co-defendant in
the Hurricane Carter case, who now works in Portsmouth as a youth
counselor.
In the evening we will have our Awards Banquet when we will present Walter
F. Sullivan, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond and
Charlottesville attorney J Lloyd Snook who represented a number of the men
on Death Row in the late 70's and early 80's, including Joe Giarratano,
with the Joseph M. Giarratano Award for Truth in Action.
Both of these events will take place at the Omni Hotel.
For more information, go to our web site www.vadp.org/
or call us at 263-8148 (Charlottesville area) or toll-free at
1-888-567-8237(VADP).
If you or your organization would like to support VADP and the honorees,
please consider taking out an ad in the Awards Banquet program booklet.
Contact us for information.
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| October 06, 2001 |
San Antonio, TX
Making Your Case: A Message Developement and Media Training Seminar for Anti-Death
Penalty Activists
10:00am-4:30pm at the Tried Stone Baptist Church, 2434 East Houston Street
Free Media Training for Anti-Death Penalty Activists
by the Death Penalty Information Center (Washington, DC)
For attorneys, moratorium coalitions, family members of death row
inmates, death penalty abolitionists and anyone else who wants to learn more
about using media to strengthen the movement and better publicize local
events, cases, and campaigns
Learn how to:
Craft a message that all factions in the death penalty debate
can hear
Make your message media friendly without compromising
your position
Develop materials that explain your goal, the reasoning behind it, and the reasons it should be adopted
Organize media events
Compose and place opinion or editorial pieces
Formulate and deliver a sound bite and develop relationships with print, TV, and radio
journalists
…and more!
Sponsored by the Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Lunch provided.
Rides being organized for folks coming from Austin
Please register locally with Lawrence Foster 210-684-4279
or contact Eva Owens at 512-441-8123, E-mail evaowens@swbell.net
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| October 06-07, 2001 |
Hampton, FL
Honoring Stetson Kennedy Event
2:00-8:00pm at the Peace Education Center of the FCPJ Teaching Farm
10665 SW 89th Ave. (C.R. 18)
Tel: (352) 468-3295
The Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice proudly presents to
author, activist, and folk hero Stetson Kennedy the Dr. Benjamin Spock
Peacemaker of the Year Award on the occasion of his 85th birthday.
In light of the recent tragedies and the threat of war being what it is,
the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice debated whether to go forth
with the celebration to honor the lifetime of fighting racism of author, activist, and folk hero, Stetson Kennedy.
After all, who feels like celebrating with so much potential for even greater
destruction and injustice looming over us?
However, celebration feeds us the strength and impetus to keep stepping. We who work for peace
and justice need both right now. FCPJ has decided it is important that
this celebration go on.
So, we will extend the Honoring Stetson Kennedy event through the
weekend until Sunday afternoon, to include an EXPRESSION OF
PEACE POTLUCK LUNCH, MUSIC FEST, AND TEACH-IN from 11am - 3pm. on Sunday.
For additional information, schedule of events or to register, contact:
E-mail: fcpj@juno.com
Web Site: www.fcpj.org
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| October 07, 2001 |
Houston, TX
Making Your Case: A Message Developement and Media Training Seminar for Anti-Death
Penalty Activists
2:00pm-7:00pm SHAPE Center (main building) 3815 Live Oak in the Meeting hall
Free Media Training for Anti-Death Penalty Activists
by the Death Penalty Information Center (Washington, DC)
For attorneys, moratorium coalitions, family members of death row
inmates, death penalty abolitionists and anyone else who wants to learn more
about using media to strengthen the movement and better publicize local
events, cases, and campaigns
Learn how to:
Craft a message that all factions in the death penalty debate
can hear
Make your message media friendly without compromising
your position
Develop materials that explain your goal, the reasoning behind it, and the reasons it should be adopted
Organize media events
Compose and place opinion or editorial pieces
Formulate and deliver a sound bite and develop relationships with print, TV, and radio
journalists
…and more!
Sponsored by the Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Dinner catered by "NINA".
Please register locally with Gloria Rubac at 713-861-5965
or contact Eva Owens at 512-441-8123, E-mail evaowens@swbell.net
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| October 08, 2001 |
Mesa, AZ
Sister Helen Prejean
7:00pm, St. Timothy's Catholic Church.
1730 W. Guadalupe Rd. Mesa, Arizona
Tel: Ann at 520-884-5507, x12 or Claudia at 520-792-9867
Web Site: www.caadp.org/
E-mail: Ann.Nichols@asu.edu
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| October 08, 2001 |
OH
Execution Vigils and Protests
John Byrd Jr. Execution has been stayed until October the 8th.
Whenever the stay is listed, the state Attorney General will ask the
Supreme Court of Ohio to set a new execution date.
Click
Here for further information.
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| October 09, 2001 |
Tucson, AZ
"Childhood's End: Juveniles and the Death Penalty" - Talk by
Sister Helen Prejean (author of Dead Man Walking)
7:00pm, Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, 1800 S. Kolb Rd. There will
be refreshments and music.
A free showing of the movie "Dead Man Walking" will take place
Fri., Oct. 5, 7 pm at St. Phillips in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N.
River Rd. Sponsors still needed to help underwrite the cost of this event.
Donors of cookies & punch, too.
for more information: call Kathy 520-325-6240
Web Site: www.caadp.org/
E-mail: Ann.Nichols@asu.edu
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| October 10, 2001 |
Nashville, TN
Benefit Concert with Tom Kimmel
8:00 pm, Dark Horse Theatre, 4610 Charlotte Ave.
Nashville singer-songwriter Tom Kimmel will perform at a benefit concert to help fund an information campaign
on Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman.
Abdur'Rahman may become the first African-American to be put to death in Tennessee since 1960. An execution date could be set early
this week.
Anyone wishing to help can visit www.abu-ali.org, or donations can be
sent to:
The Abu-Ali Fund, P.O. Box 121754, Nashville, TN 37212
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| October 12, 2001 |
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Demonstration for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
A peaceful and orderly demonstration for the Abolition of the Death
Penalty will be held from 4:30PM to 6:00PM in front
of The Federal Couthouse on Broward Blvd.
please let us know if you will participate so we can assure enough signs.
Homemade signs are always welcome! Express yourself.
Please come and help save a life. Bring a friend.
Contact: Henri Breitenkam, Tel: (954) 979-6992
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| October 12, 2001 |
NC
Execution Vigils and Protests
David Ward is scheduled to be killed by the State of North Carolina at
2:00 am local time.
Protest Events in 10 Cities Thursday Oct. 11, 2001. Click Here
for vigil information
PLEASE CALL Gov. Mike Easley and urge clemency for David Ward. Call
919-733-4240 or 800-662-7952 or Email clemency@ncmail.net.
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| October 12, 2001 |
Rapid City, SD
Bud Welch Speaking Engagement
7:00 pm, at Calvary Lutheran Church, 3402 Cottonwood St.
Bud Welch's only daughter, Julie Marie, was murdered in the
April 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City. The retired small business owner
will share the story of his own personal journey in the wake
of that event.
Mr. Welch will be introduced by Mike R. McNulty of
Sioux Falls, who will also facilitate informal discussion
with the speaker after the formal presentation.
McNulty is a member of a South Dakota group that opposes
judicial killing, Interfaith Task Force Against the Death
Penalty.
A coffee social will follow the program. Notaries and
witnesses will be present to serve any who would like to
sign the Declaration of Life. The declaration is a
formal, witnessed affidavit by which signatories abjure
the death penalty for the killer in the event of their
own murder.
A donation is suggested to help defray the cost
of Mr. Welch's appearance, but none will be turned
away for inability to donate.
For more information, contact the Peace & Justice Center at:
(605)882-2822 or sdpjc@dailypost.com
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| October 14,2001 |
Orange County, CA
Orange County Witness Against the Death Penalty
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at the Circle in downtown Orange (Glassell and Chapman)
The weekend of October 12-14 is National Weekend of Faith in Action
sponsored by Amnesty International USA. Across the nation on this
weekend, congregations of all different faiths will publicly declare and
celebrate their unconditional opposition to the death penalty. Our local
Coalition wants to stand in solidarity by hosting a local event:
Come join us on and the Orange County Coalition Against the Death Penalty on Sunday 14th
as we return to the Circle of Orange to raise our voices in non-violent
witness against the death penalty.
Contact: Jan Urban
E-mail: jan.urban@home.com
If you wish to be added to our mailing list,
E-mail us at OCDPW@hotmail.com
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| October 14, 2001 |
New York City, NY
"Race, Prisons, and Politics" and "The Death Penalty: A Question of
Justice"
October 12-14 is Amnesty International USA's ("AI's") National Weekend of
Faith in Action on the Death Penalty. The New York Society for Ethical
Culture has been observing that weekend annually. The October 14 program at
the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York, NY
will be as follows:
At 11:30 am, the Society's Sunday Morning Meeting will feature Robert
Gangi, Executive Director of the Corrrectional Association of New York, who
will speak on "Race, Prisons, and Politics." Bob will discuss policies and
practices of the criminal justice system in New York - how they affect
racial issues and how they are affected by political considerations.
At 12:45, be a cafeteria lunch, a time for making and renewing acquaintances and socializing.
At 1:30, David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the
Death Penalty, will speak about "The Death Penalty: A Question of
Justice." David will tell his personal story and will give an ethical
analysis of the death penalty.
Admission to the morning and afternoon events is free and the public is
invited.
Further information is available at the Society's Website, www.nysec.org
or by e-mail at office@nysec.org, or by telephone at (212)
874-5210.
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| October 14 - 21, 2001 |
PA
Death Penalty Moratorium Week in Pennsylvania
Sunday Oct 14 Bells will toll to open Moratorium Week between the hours of
noon and 1PM. Houses of Worship that do not have bells will dim lights
and/or hold a brief service.
Monday Oct 15 White Dog Cafe, Table Talk: Sleeping Giant: Death
Penalty in PA, 3420 Sansom St. Information & Reservations:
www.whitedog.com/10152001.html
Contact: (215) 386-9224
Tuesday Oct 16 District Attorney Candidates Forum,Temple University School of Law, Broad Street & Cecil
B. Moore Avenue
(All of the candidates for District Attorney of Philadelphia have made
known their positions on the death penalty ranging from full
support for its use to calls for complete abolition. The issue has
become central to the current campaign, and will be discussed at the
forum.)
Contact: (215) 746-7370 or scotti_r@trc.upenn.edu.
Wednesday Oct 17 Public Forum with William Nieves, former
Pa. Death Row Prisoner, at University of Pennsylvania (Amnesty
International)
Contact: Brian Kelly at(215) 898-4831; briankel@wharton.upenn.edu
Thursday Oct 18 Death Penalty
Teach-In at Community College of Philadelphia (Various speakers and
panels throughout the day).
Contact: Carolyn Birden at (215) 751 8335; cmcb007@earthlink.net
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm ACLU of Pennsylvania 20th Annual Dinner
at the Academy of Natural Sciences: "Defending Freedom" - Honoring the
Defender Association of Philadelphia for outstanding work in
representing individuals facing the death penalty.
Reservations accepted through October 10th. Contact: (215) 592-1513
extension 3.
Saturday Oct 20 Rally at Death Row, SCI Graterford, Montgomery County
(Southeast Pa.) See separate listing for October 20th
Sunday, Oct 21 Toll bells! Bells will ring to close Moratorium Week between
the hours of noon and 1PM. Houses of Worship that do not have bells can
dim lights and/or hold a brief service.
Contact: PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS
United Against the Death
Penalty
P.O. Box 58128, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215-724-6120
Fax: 215-729-6189
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
E-mail: PAUADP@aol.com
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| October 15, 2001 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, (617) 864-5342
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| October 16 - November 10, 2001 |
London, England
"This is a True Story" a theatrical monologue from Death Row, USA
Man in the Moon Theatre, Chelsea
Tickets cost eleven pounds and nine pounds concessionary rate
and can be reserved by calling 020 7351 2876
Early booking is advisable due to a substantial amount of interest in
the play.
The monologue was devised using the narrative of Howard Neal. Howard is
mentally retarded man, who has been facing execution
in
Mississippi for almost 20 years. The only evidence linking him to the murders was
a
confession, allegedly made to a policeman after more than 15 hours of
interrogation. The "confession" was neither written, signed nor
recorded.
The London season will focus on other issues surrounding the
responsibility
of the British Government in helping to ensure respect for human rights
particularly in these difficult times.
Timetable of Confirmed Events:
Tues 16th Oct - Opening/Press night - with Jon Snow, Clive Stafford Smith,
Jim
Craig (Howard's lawyer) and other guests.
Weds 17th Oct - Krishna Maharaj night - hosted by Freshfields with guest
speakers
Thurs 18th Oct - Mental Competency - hosted by Amnesty International with
guest speakers
Sat 20th Oct - Tracy Housel night - hosted by Amicus with Tracy's UK and
US
lawyers
Sun 21st Oct - Intern evening - talk given by an ex Reprieve intern on her
experiences in a capital defence office in Louisiana and the importance
of
the work an intern does.
Tues 23rd Oct - Evening hosted by the Howard League for Penal Reform
Thurs 25th Oct Children and the death penalty hosted by Amnesty
International with guest speakers including Clive Stafford Smith
Fri 26th Oct Jackie Elliot night - with guest speakers including
Jackie's US
lawyers and Clive Stafford Smith
Sat 27th Oct - Evening hosted by Human Writes
Sun 28th Oct - Kenny Richey night - with guest speakers
Tues 30th Oct - Evening hosted by Amicus
Weds 7th Nov - Evening hosted by LifeLines
Fri 9th Nov - Evening hosted by Caribbean Justice with Piers Bannister
(AI),
and Saul Lehrfreund (Commonwealth Caribbean Death Penalty Project)
E-mail: Andie Lambecontactreprieve@hotmail.com
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| October 18, 2001 |
OK
Execution Vigils and Protests
Alvie Hale Jr. is scheduled to be killed by the State of Oklahoma at
9:00 pm local time. Click Here
for vigil information
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| October 18, 2001 |
VA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Christopher Beck is scheduled to be killed by the State of Virginia at
9:00 pm local time.
Click Here for full vigil
information
The 18th of October is the first day of the NCADP Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. The execution site is only about two hours away from Raleigh. A special web site has been set up for conferenece participants interested in supporting the vigil. Please visit:
www.uuadp.org/october18.
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| October 18-21, 2001 |
Raleigh, NC
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Annual Conference
It has been 25 years since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death
penalty and 25 years since the National Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty and its member affiliates have been working to build the
constituencies necessary to reverse that awful decision. Come celebrate
our accomplishments and learn how you can create more at the NCADP's 25th
anniversary conference in Raleigh from October 18-21, 2001.
The theme of the conference is Building Communities of Justice and Hope.
More and more, Americans are taking personal responsibility to act to stop
our society from killing our own. Communities across the nation are
re-evaluating their involvement in the administration of the death penalty
and are calling for a moratorium on executions. Now is the time to build
on this momentum, to come together, to learn, dialogue, celebrate, plan,
and take action.
The conference will start on Thursday, October 18, 2001 with a special
plenary session on the movement for a moratorium on executions, a clergy
roundtable for African-American community leaders, and time for NCADP
affiliates to hold their own meetings.
Please note that the State of Virginia is scheduled to execute Christopher Beck at 9:00pm local time on Thurday, October 18th.
The execution site is barely 2 1/2 hrs from Raleigh. A special web site has been set up for those Conference attendees (and others)
interested in attending the vigil.
Please visit www.uuadp.org/october18 for informatiom
Actor Danny Glover will be the keynote speaker at a march and rally against
the death penalty Friday, Oct. 19 at 1:45 p.m. in downtown Raleigh, NC. The
march will proceed from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
conference site at the Brownstone Hotel (1707 Hillsborough St.) to Central
Prison. It will also make stops at the N.C. Supreme Court, State Capitol,
General Assembly, and Executive Mansion. Return transportation will be
available.
There is also a rumor that Danny Glover will join the poetry slam and read his own poetry
later Friday evening after the march and rally!
The awards dinner Saturday night will feature special guests who you will
not want to miss.
Included in the conference will be keynote speeches by Nation journalist Bruce Shapiro; Sister Helen Prejean,
author of "Dead Man Walking"; and Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg and director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.
The conference will also include a clergy breakfast
Friday morning and an interfaith service Sunday morning. "Dead Man
Walking" author Sr. Helen Prejean will be on hand.
The conference is cosponsored by People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
and North Carolinians Against the Death Penalty.
For complete information, including schedule, registration, travel
discounts, hotel accommodation, etc. visit our Web Site: http://www.ncadp.org/html/conference.html
If you or your organization would like to be a financial sponsor please contact Steve Dear:
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
919-933-7567
E-mail: sjdear1@aol.com
The conference will be preceded by a state-wide speaking tour of North
Carolina by the Journey of Hope... from Violence to Healing (see separate
Journey of Hope listing in "Upcoming Events").
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| October 19, 2001 |
Tucson, AZ
6:30-9:00 p.m., 4831 E. 22nd St. Tucson (Unitarian Church hall).
CAADP Banquet to Honor Andy Silverman, Abolitionist of the Year
Not only
plan to attend to honor Andy, but have the opportunity to hear Marietta
Jaeger, one of the founders of Murder Victims' Families for
Reconiciliation, as she shares her inspiring story about how she has dealt
with her 7 year old daughter's murder by reaching out to other victims'
families and working for abolition of the death penalty.
The cost of the
banquet including a catered Guatealan meal is $35.
Reservations to SOLPAE, c/o CAADP, P. O. Box 42465, Tucson 85733-2465
Tel: Claudia at 520-792-9867 or Kathy 20-325-6240
Web Site: www.caadp.org/
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| October 19, 2001 |
Newark, DE
The Mercy Concert - Musicians Encouraging Repeal of Capital Punishment
7:30 p.m., Mitchell Hall, University of Delaware
Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty will be putting on
"The Mercy Concert" with:
Tom Chapin Mary Arden Collins John Flynn Kim & Reggie Harris The
Kennedys Jennifer Kimball Charlie King & Karen Brandow John McCutcheon
Tao Rodriguez-Seeger Greg Simon Sonia (of disappear fear) And Special
Guest Sister Helen Prejean
Tickets $12 adv./$15 door
Note: 100% of ticket sales go to Delaware Citizens Opposed to the
Death Penalty & Survivors/Families of Murder Victims.
Ticket Information: David Broida, Tel: (610) 296-7588
E-mail: dbroida@voicenet.com or
Kevin O'Connell, Tel: (302) -984-3355 E-mail: kjoc@delanet.com
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| October 19, 2001 |
Raleigh, NC
Death Penalty Abolition Rally and March
Join the Largest Death Penalty Abolition Rally in NC History
Actor Danny Glover will be the keynote speaker at a march and rally against
the death penalty Friday, Oct. 19 at 1:45 p.m. in downtown Raleigh, NC. The
march will proceed from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
conference site at the Brownstone Hotel (1707 Hillsborough St.) to Central
Prison. It will also make stops at the N.C. Supreme Court, State Capitol,
General Assembly, and Executive Mansion. Return transportation will be
available.
In addition to master of ceremonies Danny Glover, speakers will include
representatives of state and national death penalty organizations,
legislators, religious leaders, students, attorneys, and members of the
Journey of Hope... from Violence to Healing, a group of murder victim family
members who will be nearing the end of a 17-day speaking tour of North
Carolina.
Organizers hope that this will be the largest march and rally for abolition
of the death penalty in the history of North Carolina. The powers that be
will hear a strong message that the death penalty's time has come - and gone.
The march is part of a four-day 25th anniversary conference of the National
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. This is the first time the conference
is being held in North Carolina. Conference cosponsors include North
Carolinians Against the Death Penalty and People of Faith Against the Death
Penalty.
For more information on the conference visit: www.ncadp.org
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| October 20, 2001 |
Tucson, AZ
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 4831 #. 22nd St. Registration $15 ($10 for CAADP members).
CAADP State Conference - "Victims of Execution: A Look in the Mirror."
Features include a workshop by Marietta
Jaeger, a nationally known victim-advocate and abolitionist; Dr. Brackette
Williams, McArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient/victim family member;
Leslie Delk, Oklahoma capital case defense lawyer whose executed client was
among those exonerated later by forensic testimony; Jan Christian, leader
in the Restorative Justice Project; Andy Silverman, John Salmon.
A pizza
lunch contributed by Bob Hirsch, and many surprises
Come and learn about the death penalty. Bring a friend and meet new ones.
For more information, Tel: 520-327-7544
Web Site: www.caadp.org/
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| October 20, 2001 |
Baltimore, MD
Conference: "Murder or Life: Dialogue on The Death Penalty"
Diocesan Center, 4 East University Parkway, Baltimore MD 21218
Keynote speaker is Kitty Irwin who prays for the sparing of the life of
her daughter's killer, now on death row in Virginia. A panel discussion
and fair of prison ministries are included.
The conference is from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., with registration at 8:30 a.m. The
cost: $20 includes a box lunch
To print out a registration form, visit www.ang-md.org
or www.sudley.com/prismin
Val Hymes, Coordinator, Prison Ministry Task Force, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
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| October 20, 2001 |
Montgomery County, PA
Rally For A Death Penalty Moratorium
Death Row, SCI-Graterford, 12 Noon - 1:00 PM
The Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty is sponsoring a rally for a death penalty moratorium
outside Graterford Prison in Montgomery County. This rally is part of the actions and events of Death Penalty Moratorium Week in
Pennsylvania. Thousands of people will be demanding an immediate halt to
executions in Pennsylvania.
Driving Directions from Philadelphia: Take I-76 West to I-476 North;
Follow I-476 North to Germantown Pike West; Take Germantown Pike west to Collegeville; Turn Right onto Route 29 North; Go approximately 2 miles
on Route 29; Parking and gathering point will be on the right at the
Graterford Ball Field (Montgomery Co. Park), directly across from the Fire Hall.
We will assemble at 11:45 a.m. and march 4/10ths of a mile to the entrance of the prison - Shuttle service will be available.
Bus Departs from Friends Center, 15th and Cherry Street, Philadelphia 11AM Sharp
$10 Donation Requested (Pay what you can afford - no one turned away)
To RSVP for the Bus or for information on other local events during
Moratorium Week, call 215-724-6120
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
E-mail: PAUADP@aol.com
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| October 20, 2001 |
Cedar Bluff/Tazewell, VA
The First Annual Truth in Action Day -- Benefit & Rally
From 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. For exact directions, please
E-mail Tamela@truthinaction.net
You are invited to the First Annual Truth in Action Day -- Benefit &
Rally.
Expected guests who have already confirmed include John Artis and Father
Nolte. Currently, we have invitations out and are waiting for confirmation
from Mark Warner and others. A number of high powered people are expected as
well as representatives from various activist organizations such as Justice:
Denied Magazine. Tamela Carey, who has worked very hard to bring this entire
event together, will be there to answer questions about wrongful convictions,
and Miranda Barker will be answering questions about the goals and actions of
Truth in Action. Other guests include Warden Braxton from Red Onion State
Prison and the Sheriff of Tazewell County. Food will be available and there
will be music provided by The Messengers.
For additional information, E-mail: Barbara Jean Sidg@aol.com,
Tamela@truthinaction.net or Miranda@truthinaction.net
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| October 21, 2001 |
Hollywood, CA
Let your voice be heard! Death or Life: Capital Punishment Examined
5:00 pm, Hollywood American Legion Hall, 2135 N Highland Ave.
Provocative Performance
Panel Discussion
Open Discussion
Followed by a Reception
Express your opinion. Examine the other side of the issue.
Be informed on the Death Penalty and how it affects our world.
E-mail: HellerupS@cs.com
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| October 22-26, 2001 |
Washington DC
Death Penalty Awareness Week
Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets,
Keynote Event: Live From Death Row, Wed Oct 24, 8pm Georgetown University ICC 115
(The InterCultural Center (ICC) is located on the northwest corner of the main lawn
- head towards the right after entering the main gates. It is a redbrick building with a large redbrick patio in front.)
Speak with Death Row Inmate Live via Speakerphone
Also Speaking:
David Bates, Victim of Police Torture and
Marlene Martin, Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Other Events:
Live Visual Representation of Innocence on Death Row
Monday, Oct 22 11:45-1:15pm in Red Square
Interfaith Discussion on Life and Death with University Chaplains
Thursday, Oct 25 7:30 pm Healy 103
In addition, displays on the following Pressing Issues can be seen all week long in Red Square:
Innocence, Inequalities, Cruel & Unusual Punishment,
Religious Perspectives, and Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Sponsored by Georgetown University Campaign to End the Death Penalty, together with Georgetown Solidarity Committe, Amnesty International, Oakhill Tutors, Progressive Coalition & Right to Life
Contact: Katie at
hydrokates@aol.com
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| October 24, 2001 |
MO
Execution Vigils and Protests
Stephen Johns is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| October 24, 2001 |
Manhattanville, NY
Henry Schwarzschild Lecture - featuring Professor Hugo Adam Bedau and David Kaczyinski
The Westchester chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union is holding
its third annual Henry Schwarzschild Lecture.
The lecturer will be Professor Hugo Adam Bedau (perhaps the leading
chronicler and philosopher regarding the death penalty's application in
the U.S.). David Kaczyinski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against
the Death Penalty will also speak.
The program is at 7:30 and is free and
open to the public (including students). There is a reception and food
available an hour earlier, with a video of Henry for background, for those
who donate $100. or more to support the event (Checks to Westchester Civil
Liberties Union).
You can bring your donation on the evening of the
event.
For exact details on the site, and how to get there, contact Arlene
Popkin, at ARPopkin@SoftHome.net
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| October 25, 2001 |
GA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Terry Mincey is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at 7.00pm local time in revenge for the killing of Paulette Riggs.
Vigil/protest information will be provided as soon as it becomes available
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| October 28, 2001 |
Des Moines, IA
Iowans Against the Death Penalty Annual Meeting
1 p.m. in the lower level of the St. Augustin parish hall (545-42nd Street).
Agenda items for the meeting include election of
officers, financial report of the organization, and discussing the mission
and future activities of the organization
E-Mail: iadp_iadp@hotmail.com
Web Site:www.iadp.org
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| October 30, 2001 |
Concord, MA
Amnesty International - Group 15 - Meeting (open to the public)
First Parish, Lexington Road
Contact:
Nancy Lyons
63 Lexington Road, Concord, MA 01742
Tel: 978-369-6109
E-mail: nancy.lyons@inc.com
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| November 3, 2001 |
Bothell, WA
Building Bridges Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (WCADP) Statewide Conference
9:45 am - 4:00 pm
Cedar Park Assembly of God Church, 16300 112th Avenue NE, Bothell
The Steering Committee of the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty warmly invites members and their friends to spend a day learning,
teaching, networking and thinking about how to abolish the death penalty in
Washington.
Featured Speakers
Don Cabana, retired warden of Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary, and
author of, Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner, in which he
describes his rise to warden of the nation's largest prison, and his final
turning away from that institution when he could no longer execute the
inmates he had gotten to know and befriend.
Kate Lowenstein, National Organizer for Murder Victims' Families for
Reconciliation, whose father, United States Congressman Allard Lowenstein,
was murdered when she was nine years old.
Workshops
Participatory workshops include:
How to Answer the Hard Questions. Participants will be coached to respond
effectively to those questions that abolitionists often have the most
trouble handling.
Conditions on Death Row in Walla Walla. Hear from counselors and family
members of the condemned what it means to live on death row in Washington
State, and what abolitionists can do to improve conditions.
Speaking with Prosecutors and Members of the Media. Attendees will
role-play the most effective methods of communicating with those in
Washington State who decide whether or not to seek the death penalty and/or
have the power to sway public opinion.
Fundamentalist Christians and the Fight Against the Death Penalty in
Washington State. Fundamentalist Christians will speak about why they
support the stateąs right to take life and what can be done to move them
towards an abolitionist position.
Representing Clients who Face Death. Defense attorneys will describe how
their clients altered their personal and professional lives, and tell
abolitionists what they can do to help ensure that prosecutors do not ask
for death.
Box Lunch and Conversation with WCADP Committee Leaders.
Light Lunch Provided, $15 Donation Requested
DIRECTIONS
Traveling on Interstate 405 north or southbound, use Exit #22, 160th Street.
Go west towards Bothell. Turn right onto 112th Avenue, and travel
approximately 1/2 mile. The church is located on the right-hand side of the
road. www.cedarpark.org/map.htm
Planning to attend, please e-mail mrobinson140@home.com
or wcadp@scn.org
WCADP will be commemorating its 15th year and looks forward to this meeting to build bridges with those who have historically
supported capital punishment while clarifying strategies with longtime opponents.
For more information call: 206-622-8952
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| November 03-04, 2001 |
Chicago, IL
First National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
You are all invited to the First National Convention of the Campaign
to End the Death Penalty. There will be workshops both days and a rally on Saturday night. This convention is for everyone in the abolitionist movement. Please
consider joining us!
Convention Highlights
--The questions facing our movement
--What does it mean to be grassroots?
--Making a connection to death row
--The human face of the death penalty: Who is on death row?
--Chapter building: Strategies that work
--"Justice for the Death Row 10" national tour
--The courtroom: A place for justice?
Plus a Saturday night INDOOR RALLY with exonerated inmates, family
members of Death row inmates, and activists from across the US.
Housing: A list of accommodations in the area will be mailed to you
when you register (see Web Site below for Registration form). Housing with local Campaign members will also be
provided.
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
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| November 04, 2001 |
Los Angeles, CA
Death or Life: Capital Punishment Examined
5:00 pm, Sportivo, 8471 Beverly Boulevard, Second Floor
Provocative Performance
Panel Discussion
Open Discussion
Followed by a Reception
Express your opinion. Examine the other side of the issue.
Be informed on the Death Penalty and how it affects our world.
There is ample free parking. A donation of $10.00 will help defray expenses
and will facilitate future programs
Contact: Soren Hellerup 323-469-2975
E-mail: HellerupS@cs.com
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| November 05, 2001 |
Cambridge, MA
1:00-2:00 pm, Institute of Politics Conference Room,
First Floor of Littauer at the John F. Kennedy School.
79 John F. Kennedy Street.
Life on the Line: Case of an Innocent Death Row Inmate
Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Bernard E. Harcourt,
formerly an attorney with the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery,
Alabama, will talk about his work on the case of Walter McMillian, an
innocent man who spent six years of his life on Alabama's death row. Mr.
McMillian was wrongly convicted of capital murder in Monroeville,
Alabama---the small town where To Kill a Mockingbird was written---and,
despite a jury recommendation for life imprisonment without parole, he was
sentenced to death on a judicial override by Judge Robert E. Lee Key, Jr.
A portion of the news documentary produced by 60 Minutes on the case will be
shown and discussed. A question-and-answer session will follow the
presentation.
Refreshments will be provided.
Co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights, the Kennedy School's
Criminal Justice Professional Interest Council, the Institute of Politics,
and the Kennedy School's Criminal Justice Policy and Management Program.
For additional information Contact Jennifer Adger, 617-256-435, E-mail JenAdger@aol.com
Web Site: www.nodp.org/madpen
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| November 05, 2001 |
Boston, MA
An evening with an exonerated death row inmate
7:00pm at the Paulist Center, 5 Park Street
Paris Carriger was convicted in July 1978 for a crime he did not commit, or
even have knowledge of. With his conviction came a death sentence that put
him on Arizona's death row for nearly 21 years. After facing six execution
dates, Paris was freed January 15th, 1999, and he now dedicates his free
years to actively speaking out against the death penalty as well as offering
his views on U.S. prison practices and reform, and the judicial system in
general
Come hear his thoughts on the criminal justice system and the death penalty.
The Paulist Center is located near the Park St. T stop and is
handicapped accessible. The event is sponsored by the Paulist Center,
the Jesuit Urban Center and Pax Christi, Boston.
For additional information contact: Mairead Nolan at 617 524 4976
E-mail: mnolan@hernandez.boston.k12.ma.us
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| November 06, 2001 |
Jackson, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Jose Martinez High is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at 7.00pm local time.
Vigil/protest information will be provided as soon as it becomes available
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| November 06, 2001 |
Somerville, MA
An evening with an exonerated death row inmate and Amnesty International
8:00 to 9:30pm, 58 Day Street, 4th Floor, Davis Square, Somerville
Paris Carriger was convicted in July 1978 for a crime he did not commit, or
even have knowledge of. With his conviction came a death sentence that put
him on Arizona's death row for nearly 21 years. After facing six execution
dates, Paris was freed January 15th, 1999, and he now dedicates his free
years to actively speaking out against the death penalty as well as offering
his views on U.S. prison practices and reform, and the judicial system in
general
Come to the Amnesty International Regional Office at 8:00pm to hear Paris's
story and to participate in a discussion with him about his experience with
the death penalty.
Sponsored by Amnesty International Death Penalty Action Team of
Somerville and the AIUSA Northeast Regional Office.
Web Site:
www.amnesty133.org
Directions to the location are available at
www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
For additional information contact: Scott Langley, 617-864-5342
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
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| November 06, 2001 |
Santa Fe, NM
Execution Vigils and Protests
Terry Clark is scheduled to be killed by the State of New Mexico at 7:00 pm local time, for the 1986 killing of Dena Lynn Gore
Click
Here for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere as it becomes available
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| November 06, 2001 |
London, England
The Death Penalty: From Rage to Reconciliation
5:30 pm, British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace.
The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics presents Human Rights Lecture Number One.
Main speaker will be Bud Welch, of Victims Families for Reconciliation.
Bud lost his daughter in the Oklahoma city bombing but campaigns against
the Death Penalty.
This is the first of six lectures and is timed to coincide with the execution of Terry Clark in New Mexico.
Mr. Clark's execution will be the first in that state in 41 years and represents a step backwards for a state where the support for the death penalty has generally been on the low side.
For additional information, contact Helen Harris
Tel: 0121 414 4986 Fax: 0121 414 4989
Web Site: www.bham.ac.uk/globalethics
E-mail: globalethics@spp5.bham.ac.uk
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| November 07, 2001 |
Gainsville, FL
Moratorium March - Organizing Meeting
4:00pm Catholic Student Center at St. Augustine's Church, across from UF
We ask that every organized Floridian abolitionist group try to send two
people to this meeting.
In addition, anyone interested in helping to
organize this event, including solidarity actions throughout the state,
are
invited to attend the meeting, and also to join the Walk Organizers
discussion group (join even if you cannot make the meeting) by sending an
e-mail to: fmwalk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Following the meeting at 6:30 Dale Recinella will give some
theological perspectives on the death penalty.
For additional information,
E-mail abe@fadp.org
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| November 07, 2001 |
Cambridge, MA
6:00 pm, ARCO Forum,
First Floor of Littauer at the John F. Kennedy School.
79 John F. Kennedy Street.
The Death Penalty: Come Hear the Verdict
Moderator: Carol Steiker, Associate Dean and Professor, Harvard Law School
Presenting the arguments against the death penalty:
Hugo A. Bedeau, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University; Recent
Chair, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Stephen B. Bright, Director for the Southern Center for Human Rights;
Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Presenting the arguments in support of the death penalty:
Jeff Jacoby, Columnist, The Boston Globe
David Schaefer, Professor of Political Science, Holy Cross College
Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School's Malcolm
Weiner Center for Social Policy, Kennedy School's Criminal Justice
Professional Interest Council, the Institute of Politics Student Advisory
Committee, Harvard College's Republican Club, and Harvard Students for
Prison Reform
For additional information contact Jennifer Adger, 617-256-435, E-mail JenAdger@aol.com
Web Site: www.iop.harvard.edu/calendar-forum.html
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| November 07, 2001 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Clemency Hearing - Lois Nadean Smith
The clemency hearing for Lois Nadean Smith will be Wednesday, November 7,
2001 at 2:30 p.m. at the main headquarters for the Oklahoma Department of
Corrections in Oklahoma City.
Ms. Smith will not make an appearance
at the hearing.
If you are able to attend, the Department of Corrections is located on
Martin Luther King, Jr. adjacent to Mabel Bassett Correctional Center.
E-mail: jlstamps@EARTHLINK.NET
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| November 07-09, 2001 |
Boulder, CO
Death Penalty Conference
University of Colorado in Boulder
Wednesday Nov 7th
7pm Math 100 Opening Keynote Address
Richard Dieter, Executive Director Death Penalty Information
Center. Reception to follow in UMC 305 (Dennis Small Cultural
Center)
Thursday Nov 8th
11am: UMC Forum Room Social Sciences and Trends Towards Abolition Richard Dieter, Michael Radelet
12:15-1:15: UMC Fountain Area (Will relocate to UMC dining area
in event of poor weather) Rally: A Moratorium on the Death Penalty Ann Aber, Barry Satlow, Jim Sunderland (There will probably be more speakers)
2pm UMC Forum Room Race, Class and the Death Penalty Richard Dieter, Michael Radelet, Douglas Wilson
7pm UMC Forum Room Death Penalty Debate Bob Grant & Douglas Wilson. Reception to follow in UMC 305
Friday, Nov 9th
10am UMC Forum Room Other Perspectives on the Death Penalty Jim Sunderland, Gary Jackson, Dianne Tramutola-Lawson
12pm UMC Forum Room Ethics of the Death Penalty Ira Chernus, David Boonin, Mary Malatesta
2pm UMC Forum Room Mechanics of the Death Penalty Sharlene Reynolds, Steve Bernard, Jim Castle
7pm Math 100 Closing Key Note Address Elisabeth Semel; American Bar Association Death Penalty
Representation Project, Boalt Hall Death Penalty Clinic. Reception to follow in the UMC Aspen Rooms on the second
floor of the UMC.
For biographies of the speakers, see www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/ACLU
For questions contact
Jess Sucherman at sucherma@colorado.edu or
aclu_student@hotmail.com
For more information or maps, visit the Coloradans Against
the Death Penalty Web site at www.coadp.org
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| November 11, 2001 |
New York City, NY
Capital Punishment in Biblical & Modern Times: Moral, Religous, Historical & Legal Perspectives on the State's Power to Destroy Life
1:45 p.m. - Unitarian Church of All Souls, 1157 Lexington Avenue (at 80th St.)
A panel discussion re capital punishment from moral, religious, historical & legal perspectives in an era of heightened security concerns, the exoneration of death row inmates, the decline in the belief of an afterlife, & the rise of maximum security prisons.
Free and open to the public
Participants: Rabbi David Adelson, spiritual leader of East End Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation in Manhattan. He was ordained at the Hebrew Union College in New York, and has also trained and worked as a hospital chaplain.
The Rev. Dr. Jan Carlsson-Bull, Assistant Minister at the Unitarian
Church of All Souls and pastoral advisor to the church's Task Force to End the Death Penalty.
Norman L. Greenej, Chair of the Committee on Capital Punishment at the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a member of the law firm Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP, and a member of East End Temple.
Moderator: Alex Lesman, Chair of the All Souls Task Force to End the Death Penalty
For additional information contact:
alexlesman@earthlink.net
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| November 13, 2001 |
Somerville, MA
Hugo Bedau, Ph.D., international expert on the death penalty, will be
speaking at Amnesty International Group 133's November monthly meeting
7:00 to 9:30pm, 58 Day Street, 4th Floor, Davis Square, Somerville
Hugo Bedau is author of many well known and influential books, including The
Death Penalty in America (4th ed. 1997). Dr. Bedau is currently Professor
Emeritus at Tufts University. He was recently the chairman of the board for
the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and member of the board
for ACLU-Massachusetts. Dr. Bedau offers an intellectual dialogue with
concentration on issues in political and legal philosophy as related to
capital punishment.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear a renowned scholar and leading voice in
the anti-death penalty movement.
Sponsored by Amnesty International Death Penalty Action Team of
Somerville and the AIUSA Northeast Regional Office.
Web Site:
www.amnesty133.org
Directions to the location are available at
www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
For additional information contact: Scott Langley, 617-864-5342
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
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| November 14, 2001 |
Broward County, FL
Broward County Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty - Monthly Meeting
7:00 pm at Henri Breitenkam's home.
Kathy Young will speak on "Forgiveness". Kathy was the victim
of a brutal attack.
Baked Ziti, Salad and Refreshments will be provided by The Breitenkams
RSVP to Henri at (954) 979-6992 for directions.
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| November 14, 2001 |
Jackson, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Fred Marion Gilreath is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at
7:00 pm local time.
Vigil/protest information will be provided as soon as it becomes available
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| November 14, 2001 |
Dallas, TX
Protest the Killing of Jeffrey Tucker and Emerson Rudd
5:30 - 6:30 pm Wednesday, Northwest corner of Coit & LBJ.
This is a heavy traffic intersection where we hope to make a highly visible demonstration.
A moment of silence will be observed at the end.
Sponsored by TCADP - Dallas (214) 768-3284
Web Site www.tcadp.org
E-mail rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
For information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere in Texas, Click Here.
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| November 14, 2001 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Jeffery Tucker is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1998 killing of Wilton
Humphries.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| November 15, 2001 |
Jackson, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Fred Marion Gilreath originally scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia on November 14th was granted a temporary stay. His killing is now set for
7:00 pm local time Thursday.
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| November 15, 2001 |
Princeton, NJ
Danny Glover at Princeton University
8:00pm, at McCosh 50
Danny Glover will be speaking on the death penalty at Princeton
University in an Amnesty International event.
Mark your calendars. Let's help pack the hall
Web Site: http://njmoratorium.org
E-mail: JSMann814@aol.com
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| November 15, 2001 |
Philadelphia, PA
Bin Laden, Bombs, and Bio Attacks... How Does 911 and The War Impact the Anti-Death Penalty Movement?
7:00 pm at The PA Aboltionists Office, 4708 Baltimore Avenue
An Informal Discussion
Pizza, beer, and bull session
All anti-death penalty activists invited
For more info contact: Terry Rumsey 610-891-6614
E-mail: greenseed2@aol.com
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| November 15, 2001 |
Memphis, TN
Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
7:00 p.m - Room 123, Fogelman Executive Center, University of Memphis
Panel discussion on mental illness and the death penalty, with a focus on the case of Abu-Ali Abdur
Rahman.
Sponsored by Memphis chapter of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish
State Killing, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill,
Memphis Affiliate, the American Criminal Justice
Association, Univ. of Memphis chapter, and the
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center.
For additional information contact:
Margaret Vandiver (901) 324-8499
E-mail: vandiver@memphis.edu
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| November 15, 2001 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Emerson Rudd is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time, for the 1988 killing of Steve Morgan.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| November 16, 2001 |
Kettering, OH
"The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Sheppard Case" - book signing
Meet author James Neff, 7:00 pm at Books and Company
For more information on the Sam Sheppard case and the book, go to:
www.samreesesheppard.org
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| November 16-17, 2001 |
Portland/Salem/Eugene, OR
Sister Helen Prejean visits Oregon on behalf of Life for a Life 2002
Best known as author of the award-winning book Dead Man Walking, SR. Helen will share stories and relate some of her insight gained whiled traveling the world as an advocate against the death penalty.
The following is a listing of events during her visit.
For tickets or information call 503-249-1556.
Friday - November 16
7:30 am - Breakfast at the Heathman Hotel. Join us for breakfast with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Sister Helen Prejean. Tickets are limited to 75 guests.
5:30 pm - Dinner at the Heathman Hotel. This
event, hosted by Chancellor Mary Jo Tully, is
limited to 50 guests.
8:00 pm - Public Speaking Engagement at First
Unitarian Church, downtown Portland. Tickets
$12, $8 students.
Saturday - November 17
9:00 am - Breakfast, Salem, Goudy Commons.
11:00 am - Public Speaking Engagement,
Willamette University. Tickets $5.
5:00 pm - Dinner at the Downtown Athletic Club,
Eugene. Join us for dinner to benefit Life for
a Life 2002. Tickets are limited to 50 guests.
7:30 pm - Public Speaking Engagement at McDonald
Theater, downtown Eugene. Tickets available at
the door, suggested donation of $5 to benefit
Life for a Life 2002.
Web Site: www.lifeforalife.org
E-mail: angela@lifeforalife.org
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| November 17, 2001 |
Worcester, MA
MCADP Chapter Development Conference The Death Penalty in Massachusetts and in the United States: How can you be involved?
Holy Cross - Worcester, Hogan Campus Center, Room 401
Program:
10:30 AM Coffee and danish
11:00 AM Introduction: Martina Jackson, Executive director, MCADP
11:15 AM Different ways to form Chapters- Presentation and Questions
11:30 AM Speaker- Robert Meeropol
11:45 AM Invited guests, State representatives: David bunker, James leary, Harold Naughton, Robert "Bob" Spellane
12:15 PM Lunch
1:00 PM The relationship between MCADP and the Chapters... and more
Registration by November 12th, Cost $20 (covers registration, refreshments and lunch)
For further information including registration, contact:
Ron Madnick at 1-508-752-5363
E-mail:
wcaclum@earthlink.net
Visit the MADPEN Calendar at:
www.nodp.org/madpen/
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| November 19,2001 |
Amarillo, TX
Distinguished Lecture series featuring Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John
Artis
7:30 pm Amarillo Civic Center (a reception will be held before the lecture at 6:00 pm at the Bank
of America downtown lobby)
Rubin Carter, a former professional boxer, and John Artis were arrested
in 1966 for the murder of three white men in a New Jersey bar.
The pair were convicted while steadfastly maintaining their
innocence.
Rubin Carter, the subject of "The Hurricane," a movie staring Denzel
Washington, was released from prison in 1985 and the indictment against
him was dismissed. The court ruled Carter's conviction was based on racism
rather than reason.
John Artis was offered less jail time if he linked Carter to the murders,
but wouldn't lie about Carter's involvement. He was paroled in 1981.
Carter now works the lecture circuit, speaking about literacy, education,
wrongful convictions and the death penalty.
Artis is the executive director of Creating Youth Awareness, a group
dedicated to counseling and guiding at-risk youth.
Tickets are still available at the student service centers on the Washington
Street, Amarillo Technical Center, West, and Moore County
campuses.
Tickets are $50 for the reception and lecture, $15 for the lecture only, and
$7 for AC students.
sponsored by Amarillo College Student Government Association.
The Student Government Association uses the series as a fundraiser for
scholarships given each semester.
For more information, call 806-371-5322.
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| November 19, 2001 |
Seattle, WA
"The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Sheppard Case" - talk and book signing
Meet author James Neff, 7:00 pm at University Books, near the Univ. of Washington Campus
For more information on the Sam Sheppard case and the book, go to:
www.samreesesheppard.org
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| November 24, 2001 |
Tucson, AZ
Yardsale to Benefit CAADP
Donations and buyers are needed for a yard sale in the parking lot of First Christian, corner Speedway and First Avenue.
There will also be items from the church and WILPF, so please mark your items CAADP and the price. Items may be
delivered to the parking lot at 7 am.
If you need to leave them somewhere Friday afternoon or evening, Claudia's yard is
available at 1240 N. 3rd Avenue or contact gretchenn@mymailstation.com.
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| November 26, 2001 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, (617) 864-5342
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| November 26, 2001 |
Asheville, NC
PFADP-WNC Chapter meeting
7:00 - 8:30 pm, at the First Congregational UCC
For more information call Scott Barber 828-253-6287,
E-mail: ncvp@bellsouth.net
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| November 26, 2001 |
Austin, TX
Sen. Feingold to speak at UT-Austin
7:30 pm, Hogg Auditorium UT-Austin Campus
Senator Russell Feingold, an opponent of the death
penalty, will be speaking.
Admission is free. However, they are distributing
tickets around campus that guarantee admission if you
are there by 7:15 PM.
For more info call UT at 512-475-6630.
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| November 26-30, 2001 |
Chapel Hill, NC
Raising Awareness for the Scheduled Killing of John Rose Hardy
Tabling in the Pit at UNC-CH to raise awareness about the scheduled execution of John Rose and collect
signatures for clemency and a moratorium on executions in N.C.
Sponsored by UNC Campaign to End the Death Penalty
For more information call John Johnson and Brock Towler, 919-914-7102
E-mail: jhj@email.unc.edu or towler@email.unc.edu
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| November 30, 2001 |
NC
Execution Vigils and Protests
John Hardy Rose is scheduled to be killed by the State of North Carolina at
2:00 am local time for the killing of Patricia Stewart.
Click Here
for vigil information
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| December 01, 2001 |
College Station, TX
Annual Conference and Meeting of the Texas Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty
College Station - St. Mary's Catholic Center
The day will feature Dianne Rust-Tierney of the ACLU Capital
Punishment Project in Washington D.C. as keynote speaker. Efia Nwangaza,
Amnesty International Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator for South
Carolina, an expert in community organizing and grassroots activist
training, will lead one of the workshops
Workshops will be held on the following subjects: Women on Death Row; The
Faith Community Confronts the Death Penalty; Working with Your Local Media,
Activist Protests and Civil Disobedience; Innocents on Death Row; Reaching
Across Boundries - Building Coalitions and Partnerships; Does Clemency
Exist in Texas - Reforming the Texas Parole Board; and The Other Victims -
Families and Death Row.
Registration fee for the day is $25 ($10 student/low income) if you
register before November 1 and $35 ($15 student/low income) if you register
after November 1. Make checks payable to the TCADP and mail to Sherry
Coombes, TCADP Treasurer, 1604 Garnaas Dr., Austin, Texas 78758.
If you plan to spend an overnight, accomodations are available at
conference rates ($48 + tax) at the Aggieland Kiva Inn. Call 979-846-7333
For additional information, call Marj Loehlin at 512-327-2159
E-mail mloehlin@jump.net
Web Site: www.tcadp.org/
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| December 04, 2001 |
Gainesville, FL
Annual December Potluck and Holiday Card Signing
5:30 pm Hurley House (pink building in St. Augustine's parking lot)
Sponsored by Gainesville Citizens for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty (GCADP)
You are invited to join us for our annual December potluck and holiday card signing for
people on death row! Please bring a friend, a good writing pen, a dish to
share and also any moratorium petitions on which you have collected
signatures.
This is a good time to learn more about GCADP and how you can
get involved in local work to abolish the death penalty and to bring a note of holiday
cheer to those on death row
Hope to see you there!
E-mail: gcadp@hotmail.com
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| December 04, 2001 |
McAlester, OK
Execution Vigils and Protests
Lois Nadean Smith is scheduled to be killed by the State of Oklahoma at
9:00 pm local time for the 1982 killing of Cindy Baillee.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| December 04-06, 2001 |
Oklahoma City, OK
A Lethal Year Please mark your calendars and help get the word out
In protest of the scheduled executions of Nadean Smith and Sahib Al-Mosawi, and
in recognition of the end of Oklahoma's most lethal year of executions since
statehood, the following activities are being planned.
FASTING FOR JUSTICE: Tuesday, Dec. 4 - Thursday, Dec. 6
People are invited to participate in fasting during the time period between
December 4 and December 6. Some people may choose to fast for the entire
duration of this time period, breaking their fast after the planned execution
on Dec. 6. Some may choose to fast for only one day during that time period,
while others may choose to fast for one meal per day during all 3 days. This is
a personal decision and a personal action.
WOMEN CROSSING THE LINE: Tuesday, Dec. 4 outside Mabel Bassett Prison in
Oklahoma City
Nadean Smith will be the third woman executed by Oklahoma this year, killing
the entire female death row population of our state within the same 12 month period.
There will be a direct action of peaceful civil disobedience outside the prison where
female death row inmates are housed; gather there around 4:30 p.m.; the action
will take place at 5 p.m.
To emphasize Oklahoma's treatment of women in the
criminal justice system (the nation's highest incarceration rate and,
presumably, the highest execution rate of women) we hope to have a turnout of
women who are willing to be arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges. They
will be bonded out immediately following arrest. In addition to the women being
arrested, a large turn out of supporters of either gender is urged.
DON'T KILL FOR US RALLY (1): protest outside the Governor's Mansion in Oklahoma
City, 5-6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4. This will be followed by a vigil later in the
evening, gathering back at the Governor's Mansion at 8:30 p.m. until the
execution has taken place.
CROSSING THE LINE FOR AL-MOSAWI: Thursday, Dec. 6 outside the state Attorney
General's office, 4545 N. Lincoln, Oklahoma City.
In protest of the last execution of the
year--number 18, the highest number of executions in our state in
history--people are urged to gather outside the Attorney General's office at
4:30 for a direct action of peaceful civil disobedience to take place at 5 p.m. The
year's first action of civil disobedience, with 28 arrests, was the largest. We
would like to see this mirrored with an equally large turn out for the year's
last action of civil disobedience. 91 total arrests have been made during 2001.
DON'T KILL FOR US RALLY (2): protest outside the Governor's Mansion in Oklahoma
City, 5-6 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6. From there, participants are urged to go to
the next event (below).
GATHERING FOR RECONCILIATION--IN REFLECTION OF THE STATE'S DEADLIEST YEAR (and
the most active year for abolitionists).
Voice of Praise Baptist Church on the northwest corner of NE 21 & Kelley (around the corner
from the Governor's Mansion--within walking distance for those who will be coming from the Governor's
Mansion protest)
State Representative Opio Toure will be the main speaker; everyone is invited to join in public
reflection of what this year of unprecedented numbers of executions--and
unprecedented shifts in public thinking on the death penalty. There will be
recognition of some of the progress that has been made, and of the work still
to be done. There will be mournful reflection on all those whose lives have
been lost to violence and to executions in this past year. There will be soup
available for those who are not fasting, and communal support for those who are
fasting until the final execution of the year has been carried out later in
the evening. Approximate
time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Those gathered will march or caravan back to the
Governor's Mansion for the final vigil of the year..
FINAL VIGIL OF 2001: outside the Governor's Mansion, 8:30 p.m. until the death
has been announced.
PLEASE NOTE: All of these plans are subject to change in the event that there
are some wonderful developments that would delay or cancel the scheduled
executions, which would be our greatest hope. Unfortunately, at this point that
does not seem likely.
Contact: Mary hulinst@worldnet.att.net
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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).
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| December 06, 2001 |
Greensboro, NC
North Carolinians Against the Death Penalty meeting
10:30 am, Location TBA
For more information call Chris Fitzsimon, 919-821-9270
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| December 06, 2001 |
New York City, NY
New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty - Cocktail Reception
To be held at 530 West 25 St. #5 - Third Floor. 6:00 - 8:00 pm,
Please join us to honor
New York State Senator Tom Duane for his courageous stand on September
17, when he was the only NY State Senator to vote against the hasty and
misguided expansion of the NY State Death Penalty.
David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death
Penalty (NYADP), will introduce Senator Duane and share his insights on
the urgency of renewing our commitment against the death penalty in
these uncertain times.
This is a fund-raising event. 100% of your tax-deductible donation will
go to NYADP, a state-wide organization dedicated to abolishing capital
punishment in New York.
Suggested contributions: $10 for non-members, $20 for members
Less is fine, but more is welcome.
Please RSVP by email antidp@aol.com or phone (212) 971-5863.
We can accommodate the first 100 guests, so RSVP as soon as you can.
For more information visit: www.nyadp.org
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| December 06, 2001 |
McAlester, OK
Execution Vigils and Protests
Sahib Al- Mosawi is scheduled to be killed by the State of Oklahoma at
9:00 pm local time for the 1992 killings of Inaam Al-Nashi and
Mohammad Al-Nashi.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| December 06, 2001 |
Huntsville, TX
"Have A Seat Please" - book reading
7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Walker Education Center on 19th Street.
Don Reid, an employee of The Huntsville Item for more than 40 years,
witnessed and reported on Texas executions for the newspaper and the
Associated Press from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. The account of his
experiences, originally published in 1973 as a book entitled
"Eyewitness," recently was re-released by the Texas Review Press as
"Have A Seat Please."
Segments of Reid's book will be read by Dennis Longmire, professor in
the College of Criminal Justice at SHSU, and Bill Bridges, chairman of
the Department of English.
The book chronicles Reid's experiences as he witnesses 189 executions in
Texas' infamous electric chair. It also tells of his evolution from a
passive condoner of the death penalty to his militant objection to it.
Books will be on sale in the atrium.
There is no charge for this event, and the public is invited to attend. Donations will be appreciated.
All profits from book sales and all donations will go into the
operating-capital fund of the Texas Review Press. Refreshments will be
served.
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| December 06, 2001 |
Lake Forest Park, WA
"The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Sheppard Case" - talk and book signing
Meet author James Neff, 7:30 pm at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park Towne Center,
17171 Bothell Way NE (Tel: 206-366-3333).
For more information on the Sam Sheppard case and the book, go to:
www.samreesesheppard.org
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| December 08, 2001 |
Louisville, KY
Annual Unity Dinner sponsored by the Ky Alliance Against Racist and
Political Repression
Ky International Convention Center in downtown Louisville.
Social hour: 6 PM; Dinner 7 PM
This year Cornel West is the Keynote Speaker and the Honorees are J. Blaine
Hudson, a U.L professor and activist and George and Jean Edwards, long time
members of KCADP and strong death penalty abolitionists.
Please note, Wednesday, November 28, is the deadline for purchasing tickets
Cost $35. Call 502-778-8130 for more information
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| December 09, 2001 |
Albany, NY
Talk and Book Signing with Kathleen O'Shea
Kathleen O'Shea, author of Women and the Death Penalty in the
United States: 1900-1998 and Women of the Row: Revelations from Both Sides
of the Bars will speak at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of
Albany, 405 Washington Ave. (near Robin ). 10:30 am.
Book signing to follow.
Co-sponsored by the UUS and NYADP.
Call 518-463-7135 for information.
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| décembre 10-14, 2001 |
Strasbourg, France
"Une Semaine contre la Peine de Mort"
organisée ŕ la faculté de droit de l'université Robert Schuman de
Strasbourg en partenariat avec ECPM.
English version
PROGRAMME (sous réserve de confirmation / non désistement
des intervenants):
Lundi 10 décembre
De 19H30 ŕ 22H, Amphitheatre # 3:
Ouverture officielle de la "Semaine contre la peine de mort"
par la doyenne de la Faculté de droit.
"3 situations différentes dans 3 pays différents: Etats-Unis, Chine, Liban".
Orateurs: Marie Holzman, Sandrine Ageorges.
Mardi 11 décembre
De 20H ŕ 22H, Amphitheatre # 3:
Débat autour de la peine de mort avec:
- Michel Taube, président d'ECPM, "Vers l'abolition universelle"
- André Huet, Amnesty International section Strasbourg
- Jean Wiesel, Bâtonnier de Strasbourg, "Justice et Peine de mort"
(Sous réserve : Josiane Bigot-Bloess, présidente de la Cour d'Assise du Bas-Rhin).
Mercredi 12 décembre
De 20H ŕ 23H, amphi de 200 personnes
Projection d'un film sur la peine de mort (entrée 20F)
Jeudi 13 décembre
De 19H ŕ 20H: présentation d'un documentaire sur la peine de mort
De 20H ŕ 21H30: présentation de la pičce de Théâtre "12 hommes en colčre", interprétée par les étudiants du bureau
des arts de l'IEP (entrée 20F)
De 22H ŕ 23H: Concert de Nicolas Galisteo au café "La Salamandre" (entrée 30F)
Vendredi 14 décembre
Débat sur les longues peines et l'ouverture vers les peines alternatives avec:
- Jacques Lerouge, ancien condamné ŕ mort et fondateur de l'association APERI
- Carole Saint-Guilain, sociologue
Clôture par le Président de l'université
Ensemble contre la peine de mort
Tél. : 01.43.43.90.01
Fax : 01.43.43.91.50
Web Site: www.abolition-ecpm.org
E-mail: mailing@abolition-ecpm.org
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December 10-14 |
Strasbourg, France
Please note: the following is not a "professional" translation, but a courtesy to English speaking death penalty opponents who may be interested in what is taking place internationally.
version française
"Une Semaine contre la Peine de Mort" (A week against the Death Penalty)
organized by the Faculté de droit de l'université Robert Schuman of Strasbourg in collaboration with the ECPM.
PROGRAM OF ACTIVITES (subject to confirmation and/or cancellation of some speakers)
Monday, December 10th
From 7:30PM to 10:00PM at the Amphitheatre No 3
Official opening of the "Semaine contre la peine de mort" by the Dean of the Faculté de droit.
Subject: "3 different situations in 3 different countries: United States, China, Lebanon".
Speakers: Marie Holzman, Sandrine Ageorges
Tuesday, December 11th
From 8:00PM to 10:00PM at the Amphitheatre No 3
Debate about the Death Penalty with:
Michel Taube, president of ECPM: "Towards the universal abolition"
André Huet, Amnesty International section Strasbourg
Jean Wiesel, president of Strasbourg's Bar:"Justice and the Death Penalty"
(Subject to confirmation: Josiane Bigot-Bloess, president of "La Cour d'Assise du Bas-Rhin")
Wednesday, December 12th
From 8:00PM to 11:00PM at the Amphitheatre (capacity of 200 persons)
Projection of a film on the Death Penalty (entry fee: 20F)
Thursday, December 13th
From 7:00PM to 8:00PM: presentation of a documentary on the Death Penalty
From 8:00PM to 9:30PM: presentation of the play "12 Angry Men", performed by the students of the "bureau des arts de l'IEP" (entry fee:20F)
From 10:00PM to 11:00PM: Nicolas Galisteo in concert at the "café" " La Salamandre " (entry fee:30F)
Friday December 14th
Debate on "Long Sentences" and a look on alternative sentencing with:
Jacques Lerouge, who was on death row and founder of the association APERI
Carole Saint-Guilain, sociologist.
Closing by the President of the university.
Ensemble contre la peine de mort
Tél. : 01.43.43.90.01
Fax : 01.43.43.91.50
Web Site: www.abolition-ecpm.org
E-mail: mailing@abolition-ecpm.org
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| December 11, 2001 |
Jackson, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Byron Parker is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at
7:00 pm local time for the 1984 murder of Christy Ann Griffith.
Vigil/protest information will be provided as soon as it becomes available
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| December 11, 2001 |
Raleigh, NC
Wake County Coalition for a Moratorium Now meeting
7:00 pm at NC Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1300 Annapolis Dr.
For more information call Margaret Toman, 919-832-5489
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| December 12, 2001 |
Oakland Park, FL
"Wrongfully Convicted"
7:30 PM, Unitarian Universalist Church, 3970 NW 21st Avenue
"Wrongfully Convicted" is a video from the Oprah Winfrey Show. It profiles
former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald Kogen who tells of his conversion
to abolitionist, Kirk Bloodsworth, Dennis Williams, Gary Gauger, lawyer Bryan
Stevenson and Larry Marshall of Northwestern Law School who details his
efforts towards exoneration.
Discussion and refreshments.
Contact Steve: SERochow@aol.com
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| December 12, 2001 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Vincent Cooks is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1988 killing of Gary D. McCarthy.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| December 17, 2001 |
Des Moines, IA
Iowans Against the Death Penalty (Des Moines metro area) - Organizational Meeting
7:00 pm Visitation Catholic Church
All persons interested in working with IADP in fighting any proposed bills
to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa are encouraged to join us.
There has been some discussion among some legislators about presenting
death penalty bills again this year. One bill may be related to terrorism,
the other bill may be related to the murders in Sioux City in August.
Please also pass this message along to others in the Des Moines metro area
who may be interested in participating.
E-mail: iadp@iadp.org
Web Site:http://www.iadp.org
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| December 17, 2001 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, (617) 864-5342
E-mail: slangley2@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| Jan 03, 2002 |
Terre Haute, IN
Terre Haute Abolition Network Regular Meeting and Vigil
(first Thursday of each month)
4:30-5:30 p.m. Terre Haute Abolition Network hosts a monthly vigil against
the death penalty at the Federal Bldg. at 7th & Cherry.
This is followed (5:45 p.m.) by a Network meeting at United Campus
Ministries on the corner of 7th and Chestnut.
Contact: Suzanne Carter
E-mail: matreshka@aol.com
Web Site: www.abolitionnetwork.org
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| January 05, 2002 |
Ithaca, NY
Silent Vigil to end the Death Penalty Sponsored by Ithaca Friends
Meeting - Regular Event
(first Saturday of each month)
12:30-1:30 pm, in front of post office corner of Tioga and Buffalo Streets
Every one is encouraged to join in. Posters and flyers on the Death
Penalty available.
Contact Barbara Barry Tel: (607) 533-7563
E-mail: fb12@cornell.edu
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| January 06, 2002 |
Schenectady, NY
Death Penalty Talk by David Kaczynski
David Kaczynski will speak on the death penalty as a social
justice issue at St. John the Evangelist Church, 816 Union Street,
Schenectady. 6:00 - 7:15 pm.
Call 518-372-3381 for information.
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| January 06, 2002 |
El Paso, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - El Paso - Regular Silent
Vigil
(first Sunday of each month)
6-6:30 p.m. on the southside of San Jacinto Plaza
Vigils are held in memory of victims, offenders, and the families of both.
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| January 07, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| January 07, 2002 |
Cincinnati, OH
Rally For John Byrd Jr. - Help stop the execution of an innocent man
12:00 noon - Fountain Square, 5th & Vine St. (Next to the Federal Building where the 6th Circuit
Federal Court is preparing to make a final decision on John Byrd's appeal.)
John Byrd, Jr. needs all the support he can get now. Help us spread the
word and bring all the people you can. Together, we can show the Federal Court in Cincinnati and the entire state of Ohio just how
much support John has.
Anyone needing a ride down to Cincinnati, please contact:
Dan Cahill, Director
Prisoners Advocacy Network - Ohio
PO Box 218453, Columbus, Ohio 43221
Phone: (614) 261-7140
Email: PanOhio3@aol.com
For more info on John Byrd, visit ACLU-Ohio's death penalty page:
www.acluohio.org/issues/death_penalty/death_penalty.htm
PAN-Ohio and CURE-Ohio (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants-Ohio are organizing this rally with the help of John Byrd's family and local activists in Cincinnati.
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| January 08, 2002 |
San Diego, CA
Death Penalty Focus San Diego - Regular Meeting
(Normally the first Tuesday of each month)
7:00 PM, California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar St.
Ask lobby receptionist for meeting room number
For information call (619) 255-3873
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| January 08, 2002 |
Greensboro, NC
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty (PFADP) - Regular vigil
against the death penalty
(second Tuesday of each month)
4.30-5.30 at Euguene & Market Sts, downtown.
Call Nell at the New Creation Community Presbyterian Church Mission Group
at 336-288-8917
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| January 08, 2002 |
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing (TCASK)
- Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
6:15 p.m. at the Catholic Chancery on Northshore Drive, next to Sacred
Heart Cathedral
The group is an interfaith mix of ministers, lawyers and young people, U.T.
students, and community members committed to educating Knoxvillians and
folks throughout East Tennessee about the death penalty, supporting those
on death row, and working towards an eventual total elimination of the
state sanctioned killing in Tennessee and around the United States. All
are welcome.
For more information contact (865) 540-8348
E-mail: etcask@hotmail.com
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| January 08, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Houston Chapter -
Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, Suite 312, 3400 Montrose
Contact dpatwood@igc.org or call
713-520-0300, Fax: 713-942-8146 for details
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| January 08, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Action Committee - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm at Westminster Presbyterian (13th & N Streets).
Contact:
Chris Hartmire (916) 446-0874 or Tommy Clinkenbeard (916) 874-6411
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| January 09, 2002 |
MO
Execution Vigils and Protests
James Johnson is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time for the 1991 killings of Deputy Les Roark,
Pam Jones, Sheriff Charles Smith and Deputy Sandra Wilson.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| January 09, 2009 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Michael Moore is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1994 killing of Christa Bentley.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 10, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Monthly Meeting of Santa Barbara - Death Penalty Focus
7:00 pm, In the library of Trinty Episcopal Church at 1500 State Street
James B. Robertson 805-967-7283
E-mail: robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| January 10, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Amnesty International - Regular Meeting
(second Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:30 pm, Southern Methodist University, room 138, Dallas Hall
Contact Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| January 11, 2002 |
Raleigh, NC
Execution Vigils and Protests - COMMUTED TO LWOP BY THE GOVERNOR EASLEY
Charlie Alston is scheduled to be killed by the State of North Carolina at
2:00 am local time for the killing of Pamela Renee Perry.
Click Here
for vigil information
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| January 12 - March 3, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - Prison Terms
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, 1030 North Olive Road,
(in the Fine Arts Complex, at SE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Boulevard)
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) will present three exhibitions that explore incarceration, the death
penalty, and the idea of institutionalized punishment:
Lucinda Devlin's The Omega Suites, Morrie Camhi's The Prison Experience,
and Looking into the Collection: Punishment."
"The Omega Suites" provides a stark, color portrait of execution
chambers across the United States. Lucinda Devlin visited penitentiaries
in twenty states during the 1990s, photographing these chilling
interiors that bare the reality of
capital punishment in thirty indelible, formally exquisite compositions.
Morrie Camhi's "The Prison Experience" records the eighteen months he
spent with inmates and staff at California's Vacaville Prison from 1987
to 1988. The series approaches the daily life of prisoners and the
character of their own humanity that survives in the face of both their
sentence and their crimes. It was acquired by CCP in 1999, shortly
before Camhi's death.
The third exhibition in "Prison Terms" presents a broader survey of how
fifteen photographers have documented and interpreted the idea and
practice of punishment in the 20th century. "Looking into the
Collection: Punishment" is part of an ongoing thematic series designed
to complement concurrent exhibitions and showcase known and unknown work
by archive photographers and the many artists represented in the CCP
print collection.
The gallery is open Mon.- Fri., 9 am to 5 pm; Sat.- Sun., 12 noon
to 5 pm (CCP is closed for major holidays).
Exhibitions and events are always FREE and open to the public.
Convenient parking is available at the Park Ave. Garage at the
NE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Blvd. A pedestrian underpass gives you
direct access to CCP.
Contact: Sarah Koenig
520-621-7970 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
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| January 13, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(second Sunday of the month)
3:00-5:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church 1901 N. Douglas
E-mail: hulinst@worldnet.att.net
Web Site: www.ocadp.org
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| January 14, 2002 |
Greensboro, NC
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty (PFADP) - Regular Meeting
(second Monday of the month)
7:00 pm, Presbyterian Church of the Covenant 501 S Mendenhall St. (corner
with Walker)
Call Nell at the New Creation Community Presbyterian Church Mission Group
at 336-288-8917
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| January 15, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - Prison Life: A Documentary Film Series - THE FARM: ANGOLA
5:30 pm, Center for Creative Photography, Auditorium, The University of Arizona, 1030 North Olive Road,
THE FARM is an exploration of Angola Prison in Louisiana, the biggest
maximum-security prison in the country, with the majority of inmates
sentenced to life.
Directed by Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack. 1998, 93
minutes.
Convenient parking is available at the Park Ave. Garage at the
NE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Blvd. A pedestrian underpass gives you
direct access to CCP.
Contact: Sarah Koenig
520-621-7970 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
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| January 16, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Jermarr Arnold is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1983 killing of Marie Sanchez.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 17, 2002 |
St. Louis, MO
Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death penalty - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, 4557 Laclede
Tel: 314-241-8062
E-mail: emcadp@mindspring.com
Web Site: www.mindspring.com/~emcadp
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| January 17, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Dallas Chapter - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, Paperback Plus Bookstore, 6115 La Vista Dr., Live Oak at La
Vista, 2nd FLOOR (between Skillman and Abrams in Lakewood)
Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| 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
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| January 19, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Workshop - Public Speaking on the Death penalty
9:00 am to 3:00 pm, 312 East Sola Street
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara Chapter is planning a workshop with Jeff Ghelardi, on public speaking about the Death Penalty.
Jeff, from San Diego, has been involved in death penalty work for a long
time and donates his time for these workshops.
If you would be interested in participating in this workshop, please confirm your participation by e-mail
or phone.
James B. Robertson (DPF SB Chapter) 805-967-7283
E-mail: robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| January 19, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(third Saturday of each month)
9:30 am, 180 N. Michigan, Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60601.
Please call or e-mail for more information
Doug Dobmeyer or Jane Bohman Tel: (312) 849-2279
E-mail: Jane_Bohman@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.illinoismoratorium.org
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| January 21, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Vigil
(third Monday of each month - except February)
12 Noon to 1pm at the State Capitol, North Steps, 11th & L Streets
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty is a Chapter of
Death Penalty Focus.
Contact: Georgia Lyga, Vigil Committee Volunteer Coordinator
Voice Mail: (916) 457-7640 E-mail: georgiannl@earthlink.net
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| January 21 - 31, 2002 |
FL
Florida Moratorium Walk for a "Time-Out" on Executions
| WHO: | Anyone who wants a fair and accurate legal system |
| WHAT: | A 143 mile, ten day linear walk |
| WHEN: | Start: | Martin Luther King Day (January 21st) |
| | End: | January 31st (Led by Florida death row survivors!) |
| WHERE: | Start: | Death Row, at Union Correctional in Raiford, Florida |
| | End: | Office of Governor Jeb! Bush |
| WHY: | To deliver thousands of petitions calling for a moratorium on executions. |
| HOW: | WITH YOUR HELP! |
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| Everyone is welcome! |
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| Anyone can help in ANY of the following ways: |
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Plan to attend - the entire walk... or just a day or two.
The most important single time to be with us will be January 31st in Tallahassee.
For walk registration information, please visit
www.fadp.org/thewalk.htmlor send a message to walkreg@fadp.org. |
| * Gather Signatures on the NEW moratorium petition:
www.fadp.org/moratoriumpetitions.html
| | * Help spread the word with our flier: www.fadp.org/docs/Flierdraft3.pdf |
| * Become a sponsor: www.fadp.org/thecall.html |
| * Help recruit sponsoring and endorsing organizations: www.fadp.org/thecall.html |
For additional information,
E-mail abe@fadp.org
Web Site: www.fadp.org
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| January 22, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - Prison Life: A Documentary Film Series - 900 WOMEN
5:30 pm, Center for Creative Photography, Auditorium, The University of Arizona, 1030 North Olive Road,
900 WOMEN is a documentary about the Louisiana Correctional Institute
which houses the state's most dangerous female prisoners, 75% of whom
are mothers and 25% of whom are serving sentences of fifteen years or
more.
Directed by Laleh Khadivi. 2000, 72 minutes.
Convenient parking is available at the Park Ave. Garage at the
NE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Blvd. A pedestrian underpass gives you
direct access to CCP.
Contact: Sarah Koenig
520-621-7970 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
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| January 22, 2002 |
Louisville, KY
KCADP Louisville/Jefferson County Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm, Highland Presbyterian Church, 1011 Cherokee Road
New members always welcome
Contact: Ray Schweri
E-mail: joywolf45@aol.com
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| January 22, 2001 |
Endicott, NY
Death Penalty Talk by David Kaczynski
David Kaczynski will speak at St. Anthony Church in Endicott, NY.
7:00 pm.
Contact: Mcurry@binghamton.edu for information
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| January 24, 2002 |
Mobile, AL
Talk by Gary Drinkard
7:00 pm St. Dominic Church, Murphy Center, 4156 Burma Road
You are invited to come and join us to listen to a talk by Gary Drinkard who was released from Alabama's death row.
Sponsored by Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty
Web Site: www.phadp.org
Contact: Esther Brown 334-499-0003
E-mail: BeEsther@earthlink.net
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| January 24, 2002 |
Denver, CO
Annual CADP Dinner
7 p.m. at Montview Presbyterian Church
CADP will present the Abolitionist of the Year award to Bud Welch, whose
daughter Julie Marie died in the Oklahoma City bombing. The award honors his
courageous opposition to the execution of Timothy McVeigh and his work to end
the death penalty.
Michael Radelet, noted sociologist, author and faculty member at CU-Boulder,
will be the keynote speaker. Tickets are $40.00 per person. Add $20.00 for a
private reception with Mr. Welch prior to the dinner. Mail your check today.
Send to: CADP, c/o Randy Canney, 1733 High Street, Denver, CO 80218.
Web Site: www.coadp.org
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| January 24, 2002 |
Starke, FL
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Amos King is scheduled to be killed by the State of Florida at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1977 killing of Natalie Brady.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 24, 2002 |
Jackson, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Ronald Spivey is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at 7:00 pm
local time for the 1976 killing of Billy Watson.
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| January 24, 2002 |
Lexington, KY
KCADP Central Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:00pm, Newman Center, 320 Rose Lane
New members always welcome
Contact: Will Warner
E-mail: tortilla@iglou.com
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| January 24, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
An Evening of Story Telling
7 p.m. in the chapel at Belmont United Methodist Church, Hillsboro Village at Acklen and 21st Ave. South (doors on Acklen across from the post office)
Abu-Ali has never had his story told and the people who know
him best will share the story of the very real human being that he is.
Linda Manning, Abu's spiritual advisor, and Bill Redick and Brad MacLean, his attorneys, want you to know more about this man's warmth, compassion and
generosity.
There is also a great deal of information about his case that has never been considered. We may be on our way to the execution of a person who is very likely innocent, who is mentally ill, and whose case is riddled with prosecutorial misconduct and questionable lawyering.
Contact: Susan McBride 615-579-5392
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| January 25, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty,
9:00 am - 5:00 pm. The University of Chicago Divinity School, Swift Hall 1025 East
58th Street
Death Penalty to be Debated by National Leaders; Politicians, Religious
Leaders, Scholars Offer Diverse Perspectives.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is holding a conference that will bring together diverse panels of scholars and
practitioners, including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former
U.S. Senator Paul Simon, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating and Avery
Cardinal Dulles. Panelists will discuss the broad range of views on the
death penalty offered by representative faiths and traditions in the
United States.
For more information or to attend, visit
Web Site: www.pewforum.org/deathpenalty
or call 773-702-6943.
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| January 25, 2002 |
Austin, TX
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Bi-Monthly Board Meeting open to the public
09:00 am - 12:00 noon, Hyatt Regency, 208 Barton Springs, Tel: (512) 477-1234
Those who are geographically able (anywhere in Texas), are encouraged
to attend the quarterly Texas Department of Criminal Justice Board Meetings.
It is important that we have a presence and that they know that we are there, and that we do indeed care about how our prisons are
run.
We can change things but it will take organization,
teamwork, and determination.
Contact: Nancy Bailey
E-mail: nlbailey@EARTHLINK.NET
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| January 25, 2002 |
Amarillo TX
Talk by Sister Helen Prejean
7 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 4100 Coulter St
Sister Helen Prejean, a well-known opponent of the death penalty and a powerful speaker will talk about her experiences.
A reception at St. Thomas Parish Hall will follow the talk.
The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the social concerns committee of St. Thomas.
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| January 25 - 27, 2002 |
Washington, DC
The 5th National Conference on Organized Resistence
Last year over 1000 people converged on the American University campus in
Washington, DC to discuss, share and learn some of the many faces of
resistance
Speakers from as far away as Chile and as near as our own DC community
will discuss topics ranging from, 'State of the Left; Post September 11th'
to 'Hip Hop Activism', 'Feminist Direct Action' to the EcoVillage in
Southern California.
Mark your calendars for an inspiring and full weekend of
teach-ins, lectures, workshops, sharing, panels, food, community and so much
more.
Pre-registration is
strongly encouraged and table space is going fast so book now. Childcare
and lunch will be provided and an on-site IMC workspace and video screening
room will be open for all to use.
Check the website www.organizedresistance.org for housing and
transportation options and a full schedule of events.
E-mail info@organizedresistance.org
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| January 26,2002 |
Los Angeles, CA
Californians for a Moratorium on Executions Community Activist Training.
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ACLU of Southern California/1616 Beverly Blvd
California's Death Penalty System Isn't Working - issues:
* discrimination
* inadequate representation
* fatal errors
Join us to discuss:
* more about the problems with the death penalty in California
* how you can join an exciting new statewide campaign to call for an immediate suspension of executions
* things you can do in your local community to build support for a how to create an organizing plan
* tips on conducting direct outreach
Lunch will be provided; parking is available in lot behind building.
For more information and to RSVP, call Christopher Calhoun at 213-977-5219 or
E-mail ccalhoun@aclu-sc.org
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| January 26, 2002 |
New York, NY
RIGHTS ON THE LINE: Consequences and Implications of the
USA Patriot Act and Other Anti-Terrorism Laws
A full-day Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program for Attorneys
New York Law School 47 Worth Street, New York, NY
Program
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks - Dana Biberman, Program Chair; President, NYC Chapter of the
National Lawyers Guild
9:15-9:30 Welcoming Remarks -
Ron Daniels, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional
Rights
9:30-10:30 Overview of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and other
Anti-Terrorism Measures
10:30-11:15 Grand Jury Procedure and Ethical Issues in Grand Jury
Practice
11:30-12:15 Substantive Rights Of Grand Jury Witnesses and Possible
Legal Challenges to Subpoenas
12:15-1:00 The New Government Surveillance Powers
2:00-3:30 Special Considerations for Representing Non-Citizens
3:45-5:00 Panel Discussion: The Changed Legal Landscape Since
September 11
Registration information is available on line at www.nlg.org/post911
For additional information about the program or about joining the National
Lawyers Guild, NYC Chapter, please email nyc@nlg.org.
Financial hardship applications are available (Scholarships and fee waivers awarded
by advance application only).
NYLS (47 Worth Street) is between Church St. and West Broadway. Take subways 1&9 to Franklin Street; 1, 2, 3 to Chambers Street; A,C,E to
Chambers Street; R, N to City Hall.
Presented by The National Lawyers Guild-NYC Chapter, Center for Constitutional Rights,
Legal Aid Society of New York, NLG Post 9-11 Project and NY Law School Justice Action Center
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| January 27, 2002 |
South End/Boston, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
- Team Dinner and Meeting
6:30 pm, Haley House, 23 Dartmouth Street
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882 for directions
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| January 28, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting - CANCELLED
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| January 28, 2002 |
Williamsburg, VA
Virginia Death Penalty Awareness Day - Planning Meeting
9:00 p.m. Ecohouse on William and Mary's campus (Unit L in the Fraternity Complex)
We will be meeting to plan for the Awareness Day (Feb 4th) and to brainstorm other ideas for the upcoming semester worth of action.
We'd love to have friends from the Williamsburg community and surrounding areas.
If you need more information or directions, feel free to contact Amy Smith, 757-221-4278
E-mail: aksmit@wm.edu
Sponsored by: Students Against the Death Penalty (a student VADP chapter)
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| January 29, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - Prison Life: A Documentary Film Series - SECURITY, CUSTODY and CONTROL
5:30 pm, Center for Creative Photography, Auditorium, The University of Arizona, 1030 North Olive Road,
A Film and Panel Discussion
Following four recruits through the Arizona Department of Corrections
training academy, and then over their first eight months within the
state prison system, this film explores the complex relationship between
correctional officer and prison inmate.
Directed by Michael Mulcahy. Work-in-progress, 56 minutes.
Following the film screening, ANDY SILVERMAN (professor and Director of
Clinical Studies at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University
of Arizona, where he directs the Criminal Defense Clinic and coordinates
the Justice Project) will moderate a panel discussion about prison
issues with:
ROBIN JOHNSON (former inmate wit the Arizona Department of Corrections),
MICHAEL MULCAHY (director of SECURITY, CUSTODY and CONTROL), Pat MANNING (a volunteer with the Alternatives to Violence program), KATHY NORGARD
(a practicing psychologist, she is among the founders of the statewide
Arizona groups Sanctity of Life: People Against Executions, and
Coalition of Arizonans to Abolish the Death Penalty) and GLEN PARIN
(former warden at Arizona State Prison Complex-Tucson).
Convenient parking is available at the Park Ave. Garage at the
NE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Blvd. A pedestrian underpass gives you
direct access to CCP.
Contact: Sarah Koenig
520-621-7970 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
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| January 29, 2002 |
San Quentin, CA
Execution Vigils and Protests
Stephen Wayne Anderson is scheduled to be killed by the State of California at 12:01 am
local time for the 1980 killing of Elizabeth Lyman.
Click Here for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 29, 2002 |
McAlester, OK
Execution Vigils and Protests
John Joseph Romano is scheduled to be killed by the State of Oklahoma at
9:00 pm local time for his role in the 1985 killing of Roger Joel Sarfaty.
Romano's accomplice is scheduled to be executed on January 31st.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 29, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Rally for a Moratorium on Capital Punishment in Oklahoma
South Steps of State Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 29 (first execution of the year)
4:30 to 6:00 p.m. (Adjourn at 6:00 p.m.)
Preliminary Schedule:
4:00 p.m. Organizers arrive to set up Plaza, P.A. System
4:30 p.m. Welcoming Music Begins
5:00 p.m. Rally begins
Possible Elements
Opio Toure's bill(s) described
VIPs speak for Moratorium
-Legislative cosponsors of Moratorium Bill
-ministers/priests/rabbis
-prominent citizens (reps of co-sponsors)
-released former death row inmates
-info Moratoriums other states
FAST FOR MORATORIUM announced, described
ANNOUNCEMENTS Coming Events:
events Jan 31 (2nd execution)
events Feb 5 (3rd execution)
ACTIONS Invited OF Rally Participants:
-inform your group (leaflets/fliers)
-generate communications to Reps and Sens
-write letters to your newspaper(s)
Closing Song 6:00 p.m.
Organizing Contact: Nathaniel Batchelder, the Peace House - 405-524-5577
Co-Sponsored by multiple Oklahoma organizations
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| January 30, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Windell Broussard is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1992 killing of Dianna Fay Harris Broussard and her son Corey Harris.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 31, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
The Illinois Death Penalty: Too Flawed to Fix!
Click here to read report.
7:00 PM, The United Church of Hyde Park, 1448 E. 53rd St. (53rd and Blackstone)
Indoor Rally to mark the 2nd Anniversary of the Illinois Moratorium on Executions!
Keynote speaker: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
Other Featured speakers and guests:
Exonerated Illinois death row inmates Darby Tillis, Perry Cobb, Gary
Gauger, Steve Smith and Ronald Jones
Exonerated Florida death row inmate Delbert Tibbs
Gricelda Ceja, mother of Raul Ceja - the first person to be sentenced to
death after the moratorium was imposed
Family members of the Death Row 10, victims of Chicago police torture
Tim Lohraff, attorney at the People's Law Office
Alice Kim, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Also featuring art by death row inmates in a multimedia presentation, a
poetry reading by Delbert Tibbs, Death Row Blues on the harmonica by Darby
Tillis, and inspirational song by the Rainbow/PUSH choir!
Sponsored by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
For more information call call 773 955 4841 visit the Campaign's website at
nodeathpenalty.org
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| January 31, 2002 |
McAlester, OK
Execution Vigils and Protests
David Wayne Woodruff is scheduled to be killed by the State of Oklahoma at
9:00 pm local time for his role in the 1985 killing of Roger Joel Sarfaty.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 31, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Randal Wayne Hafdahl is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1985 killing of James Mitchell.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| January 31, 2002 |
Brazos Valley, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Brazos Valley Chapter -
Regular Meeting
(last Thursday of each month)
Friends Congregational Church at 2200 Southwood Drive
Please contact us to confirm the meeting date, location and time
E-mail: tcadpbv@yahoo.com
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| March 01, 2002 |
Chattanooga, TN
Local Activists to Mark International Abolition Day
The event will begin at Miller Park at 5 p.m. and finish
with a march to the Hamilton County courthouse
The Chattanooga chapter of the Tennessee Coalition to
Abolish State Killing (TCASK), joined by local activists and members of
faith-based communities, will gather on Friday, March 1st to recognize
International Death Penalty Abolition Day, and to call public attention to
the flaws in the capital punishment system.
Contacts:
Larry Ingle (423) 629-5914
Marisa Gwaltney (423) 821-1618
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| February 03, 2002 |
El Paso, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - El Paso - Regular Silent
Vigil
(first Sunday of each month)
6-6:30 p.m. on the southside of San Jacinto Plaza
Vigils are held in memory of victims, offenders, and the families of both.
Contact Johntures@aol.com
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| February 04, 2002 |
Richmond, VA
Virginia Death Penalty Awareness Day - Rally
11:30 outside the General Assembly Building on 9th St. between Grace and Broad Streets.
As we have seen lately, the press is eager to cover Death Penalty related events.
Please plan on attending the rally and visiting with your legislator in the afternoon.
At this point the focus is on the Moratorium bill.
Contact 888-567-8237 (VADP) for details.
Web Site: www.vadp.org/events.htm
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| February 04, 2002 |
Williamsburg, VA
Demonstration
12 noon to 1:00 pm, Confusion Corner crosswalk near Merchant's Square
In conjunction with VADP's Death Penalty Awareness Day, we will be holding a demonstration.
We will be holding signs and wearing tee-shirts that demonstrate our opposition to the death penalty while engaging people passing by in conversations about the death penalty and the need for a Moratorium in Virginia.
This event is designed to raise awareness, as this location during the lunch hour is a high traffic area for students and tourists.
If you need more information or directions, feel free to contact Amy Smith, 757-221-4278
E-mail: aksmit@wm.edu
Sponsored by: Students Against the Death Penalty (a student VADP chapter)
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| February 05, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Green Party of Pima County monthly meeting - Death Penalty Related
7:00 PM at the Northwest Center (2160 N. 6th Avenue)
Dr. Braclette Williams, MacArthur Genius Award recipient, will speak about
her research related to prisons and the death penalty. She is currently
studying the connection between capital
punishment and conceptions of safety, violence, vengeance, danger,
retribution, and punishment.
Everyone is welcome
For more information, call Kathy Norgard 520-325-6240
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| February 05, 2002 |
San Diego, CA
Death Penalty Focus San Diego - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
7:00 PM, California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar St.
Ask lobby receptionist for meeting room number
For information call (619) 255-3873
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| February 05, 2002 |
Starke, FL
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Linroy Bottoson is scheduled to be killed by the State of Florida at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1979 killing of Catherine Alexander.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| February 05, 2002 |
McAlester, OK
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAY CURRENTLY IN EFFECT
David Jay Brown is scheduled to be killed by the State of Oklahoma at
9:00 pm local time for the 1988 killing of Eldon Lee McGuire.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| February 06, 2002 |
Champaign, IL
Crime, Compassion & Citizenship: A Critical Look at Capital Punishment
9:30 am, University YMCA, 1001 South Wright St.
Workshops, speakers to offer insight on the state of capital punishment
In less than one year, a new Illinois governor will decide the future of
George Ryan's 2000 moratorium on the death penalty. On Saturday, Feb. 9,
several Champaign-Urbana community groups, led by the University of Illinois
chapters of the ACLU and Amnesty International, will hold a conference to
address the problems with the death penalty and examine potential solutions
and avenues for change.
The conference, entitled "Crime, Compassion & Citizenship: A Critical Look
at Capital Punishment," will feature keynote addresses by former U.S.
Senator Paul Simon and by Rob Warden, executive director of the Northwester
University Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions.
Drawing together a respected and diverse group of educators, advocates and
exonerated death-row inmates, the conference's workshops and panels will
examine such topics as race and class bias in capital punishment, the
execution of the mentally ill, and the relationship among religion,
reconciliation, and the families of victims.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Registration may be done in advance at www.uiuc.edu/ro/aclu/deathpenalty or at the door.
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| February 06, 2002 |
MO
Execution Vigils and Protests
Michael Owsley is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time for the 1993 killing of Elvin Iverson.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| February 06-23, 2002 |
Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD
Maryland Moratorium Tour
Things are beginning to come together in our efforts to win a moratorium in MD.
We have already scheduled dates for our
"Maryland Moratorium Tour," featuring live discussions
via speaker-phone with death row inmates.
The schedule is as follows:
Feb 6th George Washington University, Washington DC
Feb 9th Mount Hope Baptist Church, Baltimore
Feb 12th Georgetown University, Washington
Feb 15th 7:00 PM, University of Maryland, College Park
ALL OUT!!! Saturday, Feb. 16th March to Governor Glendening's
house at 2 PM (gather at Stamp Student Union at UMD, College
Park.)
Feb 17th Johns Hopkins Baltimore
Feb 19th 7:00 PM, Goucher College, Baltimore
Feb 20th 7:00 PM, Loyola, Baltimore
Feb. 23rd - ALL OUT MARCH FOR A STOP TO EXECUTIONS IN MARYLAND!!!
1:00 PM, March to SuperMax - gather at Cain
field (aka Dunbar HS Field), located between E. Madison and Monument Streets.
Please join family members of death row inmates and activists from across
the DC-Maryland area
as we march to Maryland's death row to protest the State's plans to resume
executions.
After a near 4-year halt to executions, and one year after the Maryland
House of Delegates
called for a moratorium on executions, Maryland is preparing to resume
executions.
We must not allow this to happen. All out to shut down Maryland's death
machine.
Moratorium Now, Abolition Next!
Sponsored by: Campaign to End the Death Penalty
For more information, contact: 202-726-1151
E-mail: cedp_dc@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.nodeathpenalty.org
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| February 07, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - Artist's Talk: Lucinda Devlin
5:30 pm, Center for Creative Photography, Auditorium, The University of Arizona, 1030 North Olive Road,
Lucinda Devlin will discuss her work in "The Omega Suites": a chilling
series that describes execution chambers across the United States.
Devlin's photographs have been exhibited widely in the Americas and
Europe since the 1970s, including the 2001 Venice Biennale and the 2002
Săo Paulo Bienal. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. "The Omega
Suites" was published as a book in 2000 by Steidl Publishers, and is
available for book signing and purchase ($29.95 in the CCP Museum
Store). Talk sponsored by Tucson Visiting Artists Consortium (TVAC),
with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona
Commission on the Arts and the Tucson-Pima Arts Council.
Convenient parking is available at the Park Ave. Garage at the
NE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Blvd. A pedestrian underpass gives you
direct access to CCP.
Contact: Sarah Koenig
520-621-7970 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
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| February 07, 2002 |
Starke, FL
Execution Vigils and Protests -STAYED
Robert Trease is scheduled to be killed by the State of Florida at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1995 killing of Paul Edenson.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| February 08, 2002 |
Angola, LA
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Leslie Dale Martin is scheduled to be killed by the State of Louisiana at 6:30 pm local time for the 1991 killing of Christina Burgin.
Vigil Information:
February 6th, 7:00 pm - Gathering outside of Angola
February 7th, 7:00 pm - Prayer vigil outside the Governor's Mansion
February 8th, 5:00 pm - Gatherings outside of Angola and the Governor's Mansion
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| February 8 - 10, 2002 |
Winter Park, FL
Common Ground VIII presented by The Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice
NOW MORE THAN EVER: Building the 21st Century's Peace Movement
February 8th thru 10th, Rollins College, Winter Park
Common Ground VIII invites experienced organizers and interested citizens
to gather on Friday night to tell their stories of commitment, experience,
and hope. On Saturday and Sunday, we will explore and examine our
organizing strategies with a critical eye and a creative spirit. We will
network, support, and encourage each other in our organizing efforts. We
will energize our movements for social and political change.
Saturday workshop topics include: Acting Locally in Global Struggles;
Political Economy of the War; Social Anarchism and Revolutionary
Organizing; Taking on State Government; Local Organizing for a Living Wage;
Faith-Based Organizing; Student Organizing; Lessons from Environmental
Struggles.
For detailed information on the program, including schedule, speakers, sponsors, directions to the college and registration form, visist the FCPJ
Web Site at: www.fcpj.org
E-mail: fcpj@juno.com
Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice
P.O. Box 336, Graham, Florida 32042
Tel: (352) 468-3295
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| February 10, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(second Sunday of the month)
3:00-5:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church 1901 N. Douglas
E-mail: hulinst@worldnet.att.net
Web Site: www.ocadp.org
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| February 11, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Panel Discussion: "Executing the Mentally Ill"
7:00pm - Belmont United Methodist Church, 2007 Acklen Ave.
Speakers will address issues relevant to the imposition of the death
penalty on mentally ill defendants. Two speakers will focus on the case of Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, a
mentally ill man on Tennessee's death row whose execution date has been set for April
10, 2002.
Panelists:
Linda G. Manning, Ph.D., Counseling Psychologist and Director of Women's Center, Vanderbilt University
Mary Ann Hea, Clinical social worker, Metro Public Defender's Office
Edna Tooman, Family member of death row inmate; mother of mentally ill adult son
Brad MacLean, J.D., Co-counsel for Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, a mentally ill individual on death row
and the next execution target
Lee Norton, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., Expert on mental illness and mitigation in capital cases
Moderator:
Dwight Lewis, Columnist and Editorial Board member, The Tennessean
For more information, call (615) 320-7142 or (615) 329-0048
Co-sponsored by a strong contingent of Tennessee organizations and made possible through the Generosity of The Tides Foundation
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| February 12, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Action Committee - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm at Westminster Presbyterian (13th & N Streets).
Contact:
Chris Hartmire (916) 446-0874 or Tommy Clinkenbeard (916) 874-6411
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| February 12, 2002 |
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing
(TCASK) - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
Confirm location via email. etcask@hotmail.com
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| February 12, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Houston Chapter - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, Suite 312, 3400 Montrose
Contact dpatwood@igc.org or call 713-520-0300, Fax: 713-942-8146 for details
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| February 13, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) - Gallery Talk: "The Death Penalty: Unresolved Issues"
5:30 pm, Center for Creative Photography, Auditorium, The University of Arizona, 1030 North Olive Road,
Kathy Norgard and Andy Silverman will lead a discussion about how more
than ever people are raising concerns about the death penalty--from
questions of innocence of death row inmates to the execution of the
mentally disabled and juveniles to the lack of legal representation.
Kathy Norgard, a practicing psychologist, is among the founders of the
statewide Arizona groups Sanctity of Life: People Against Executions,
and Coalition of Arizonans to Abolish the Death Penalty. ANDY SILVERMAN
is a professor and Director of Clinical Studies at the James E. Rogers
College of Law at the University of Arizona, where he directs the
Criminal Defense Clinic and coordinates the Justice Project; he is also
board president of the Arizona Capital Representation Project.
Convenient parking is available at the Park Ave. Garage at the
NE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Blvd. A pedestrian underpass gives you
direct access to CCP.
Contact: Sarah Koenig
520-621-7970 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
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| February 13, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Coalition of Arizonans to Abolish the Death Penalty - Demonstration on University of Arizona Complex
11:30 A.M. to 1 P.M. In front of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP)
The CCP currently has an exhibit (Jan. 12 to March 3) entitled
"Prison Terms." The photographs in the exhibit stimulate thought
on prisons, punishment and the death penalty. Therefore, this
seems like is a good opportunity to demonstrate
against the death penalty and inform students about the Coalition
and its campaign to abolish the death penalty for juveniles.
Help is needed at the demonstration and to make posters. If you
can help, call Candy D'Addario at (520) 885-8240.
The CCP is in the University of Arizona arts complex on the SE corner of
Park and Speedway. There is parking in the Park Avenue Garage just
north of Speedway and there is an underground walkway to the south
side. As you come out of the walkway on the south side, the CCP is the
second building on the left.
Individuals from Phoenix and other parts of the state are welcome at the
demonstration and to come to the exhibit and hear the speakers.
Web Site: www.caadp.org/
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| February 14, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Amnesty International - Regular Meeting
(second Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:30 pm, Southern Methodist University, room 138, Dallas Hall
Contact Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| February 15, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| February 15, 2002 |
Burlington, VT
Reception and Book Signing followed by Videos and Discussion
5:00 pm, Peace and Justice Center, 21 Church St.
Sasha Abramsky will discuss and sign copies of his just-released book, Hard Time Blues: How
Politics Built a Prison Nation.
A
reception will be followed by the showing of videos on prison issues and
responses. Videos are "Corrections", an innovative documentary on
privatization, and "We Are Not Who You Think We Are", on women in prison.
Free and open to the public
For further information, contact the Alliance at 802-657-3733
E-mail: info@towardfreedom.com
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| February 16, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(third Saturday of each month)
9:30 am, 180 N. Michigan, Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60601.
Please call or e-mail for more information
Jane Bohman Tel: (312) 849-2279
E-mail: jbohman@icadp.org
Web Site: www.icadp.org
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| February 16, 2002 |
Purchase, NY
Death Penalty Symposium
Manhattanville College
The day will include an opening address by David Kaczynski, Executive
Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty; "Capital Punishment
and the Poor: A Case Study" from Harry Moses, Producer of '60 Minutes 2'
CBS News; A Workshop on
New York and the Death Penalty from Nancy Hammond, New Yorkers Against
the Death Penalty; A Closing Discussion moderated by the National
Council for Community & Justice.
There will also be a special student lunch with members of the
Manhattanville College chapter of Amnesty International to discuss
student involvement in progressive social movements, exhibits and
hand-outs prepared by Manhattanville College students, musical guest
David Bernz, and a performance of "Not in My Name" by the Living Theater.
Registration and Continental Breakfast begin at 8:30, the Opening
Address begins at 9:00, and the symposium will close at 4:15 pm.
The suggested donation is $20, $10 for students or seniors.
More information can be found at our website: www.DuchesneCenter.org/death.htm
Or Kevin Allan, Symposium Coordinator (914)323-5447 allankj@mville.edu
Or Jackie Matuza, Student Coordinator (914)323-5204 matuzaj@mville.edu
Sponsored by The Duchesne Center for Religion
and Social Justice at Manhattanville College with The Connie Hogarth
Center for Social Action at Manhattanville College
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| February 16, 2002 |
Burlington, VT
It’s About ‘Time’: Bringing Justice to Vermont Prisons
9 am-5:30 p.m. H.O. Wheeler School, 6 Archibald Street,
This one-day event will bring together prisoners, ex-prisoners and their
families, students, professionals, and activists from around the state. Conference highlights include a panel discussion
on citizen oversight and a frank dialogue with Vermont legislators.
Sasha Abramsky, author of the just-released book, Hard Time Blues: How
Politics Built a Prison Nation, will deliver a keynote talk at 9:15 a.m.,
followed by a series of workshops from 10:15 to 2:30.
Issues to be discussed include mental health, alternative methods of rehabilitation, immigration and
detention, custodial sexual misconduct, privatization trends, positive models
of incarceration, solitary confinement and control units, and the
difficulties faced by prisoners when reintegrating into society.
In addition, a panel on prisons, civil
liberties and the terrorism war will feature ACLU Director Ben Scotch and
children’s advocate Robert Meeropol. Others scheduled to speak include Robert
Appel, executive director of Vermont’s human rights commission; Jamie
Suarez-Potts, coordinator of the New England criminal justice program for the
American Friends Services Committee; William DiMasco, director of the
Pennsylvania Prison Society; and Michael Mushlin, a board member with the
Correctional Association of New York.
Though better than many, Vermont’s criminal justice system does have
problems, according to the APJ. Citizen's groups cope with issues like poor
health and mental health care, transferring prisoners out of state, problems
in the parole and furlough systems, unfair sentences, behavioral treatment,
lack of meaningful rehabilitation, high telephone and commissary costs, and
other policies that unnecessarily cut prisoners off from relatives, friends,
and the outside world. The APJ was formed last year to enhance the efforts of
existing groups.
Free and open to the public, Lunch will be provided.
organized by the Alliance for Prison Justice (APJ), a coalition including representatives from more than a dozen groups
For further information, contact the Alliance at 802-657-3733
E-mail: info@towardfreedom.com
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| February 16-17, 2002 |
Orlando, FL
Amnesty International - Florida State-wide Meeting
Marks Street Senior Center, 99 E. Marks St. Downtown Orlando
No cost (registration required), open to all Amnesty local groups, student groups, and members.
Registration deadline is Friday, February 8, 2002
Dates and times: 2/16/2002 10am to 4:30pm and 2/17/2002 9:30am to Noon.
Contact:
Ray A. Barber at (407) 841-6282 or (407) 841-3900
Email Registration: Cheryl Ellefson at CLEllefson@aol.com
Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Number attending:
Hotels:
TraveLodge 409 N. Magnolia (407) 423-1671 - $55 per night.
Alternative Housing Available - Please Contact Ray Barber
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| February 17, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Walk in Support of Bill to End Execution of Juveniles
l:00 p.m. Gather at 4th Avenue Catalina Park, 4th Avenue at 2nd Street
A walk to the University of Arizona campus mall to educate the community about ending
executions of children in Arizona (Senate Bill 1457 which was just introduced in the Arizona Senate
this week).
Sister Helen Prejean (author of Dead Man Walking), Casey Espinosa (whose
brother was murdered) and others will be featured speakers at the U of A
mall conclusion of the walk.
Bring your sign or banner to carry if you have one.
For more information, contact: Israel at 520-323-1351 or Wener 520-731-6489
Sponsored by Students Against the Death Penalty
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| February 17, 2002 |
London, UK
Candlelight Vigil Against The Death Penalty
14.30 pm on the corner of King Charles Street and Whitehall, outside the
Foreign & Commonwealth offices. The vigil will last for up to three hours.
Join us to protest against the death penalty, and the execution of Thomas Miller El which
is set for the 21st of February. The empahsis will be
on the death penalty in Texas.
We will be asking the public to sign
a petition which will be sent to Texas Governor Rick
Perry. There will be some placards at the site, but
if you are able to bring one along with you, that
would be a big help.
The nearest tube station to the venue is Westminster
which is on the district and circle tube line. King
Charles Street is on the left hand side if approached
from the southern end of Whitehall.
Please try to attend this event - We really do need to
raise the level of public awareness about what stands
for "justice" in the USA. Wrap up warm and hope to
see you there!
Contact Hester Patrick
E-mail: hessiepatrick@yahoo.com
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| February 17, 2002 |
New York City, NY
Cinema Against Execution
The Award-winning Spanish film "The Back of the World" will have an encore screening in an effort to save the life
of a Texas Death Row prisoner.
6:15PM Pioneer Theater, 155 East Third St. (corner of Ave. A).
Director Javier Cocuera will be present to discuss the film.
Thomas Miller-El, whose life is portrayed in the film has been on death
row since 1986 after being convicted of a robbery-murder in Dallas,
Texas. He is scheduled for execution on February 21 but his case is now
before the US Supreme Court. He is one of the main protagonists of "The
Back of the World," which also focuses on the life of a child worker in
Peru and on the situation of a Kurdish prisoner of conscience in Turkey.
Miller-El's case (see www.nyadp.org for action alert) has attracted
worldwide attention, in part due to the film, which has run in cinemas
throughout Europe, and was featured at the United Nations Conference
Against Racism last year in Durban, South Africa, as an example of
racism in the American justice system. Miller-El s attorneys, as well as
his supporters, which include Amnesty International, argue that his
right to a fair trial was denied when the trial judge allowed the
prosecutor to strike potential jurors based on their race. Several black
Dallas residents who were excluded from Miller-El s jury have recently
come forward to denounce this practice, which was common in Dallas and
which was even encouraged in a manual circulated by the District
Attorney's office.
The 3 segments of the film tell the story of the right to childhood, the
right to freedom of expression and the right to life. The film crew
traveled to Texas in 2000 to interview death row prisoners and their
family members, and they filmed during a month when the state had
programmed five executions. The result is the story of an execution told
by the condemned's best friend and cell mate (Miller-El), family members
of death row prisoners and prison authorities.
SPONSORED BY: New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty (NYADP), NYU Law
Students Against the Death Penalty (LSADP) and Skylight Pictures
Admission $8.50, Students/Seniors $6
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| February 17, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Evening with Sister Helen Prejean hosted by Helen Rondstadt
7 p.m. St Phillips In The Foothills Espiscopal Church, River at Campbell,
A knock-out musical program by social-activist musicians Charlie King and Karen Brandow and the
celebrated St. Phillips Youth and Canterbury Choir under the direction of
Dr. William Roberts.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and world-famous anti-death penalty activist
Sister Helen Prejean (author of Dead Man Walking) will speak on "Why
Arizona Must Stop Executing Children." This unprecedented evening of
thought, social action and music is co-sponsored by St. Phillips in the
Foothills Episcopal Church and SOLPAE (Sanctity of Life: People Against
Execution).
A reception with Linda Ronstadt and Sister Helen will follow in the Murphy
Gallery. Seating is limited but admission is free and open to the
public. Generous free-will donations to support the on-going work of
SOLPAE are encouraged.
For more information, call Jana Johnson 520-747-7513
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| February 18, 2002 |
Chicago, IL We are heating up the race with a protest!
Abolitionists v. Gubernatorial Candidates
5pm to 7pm at National-Louis University, 122 S. Michigan (across from the Museum of the Art Institute)
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty is calling an emergency protest against the fact
that NOT ONE of the six remaining candidates for Governor of Illinois has the guts to call
for death penalty abolition.
This means that a growing percentage of Illinois electorate
has NO REPRESENTATION in this race.
This coming Monday night, four (or five) of
the six remaining gubernatorial candidates
will meet at National-Louis University for a
moderated debate about the education system
in Illinois. We plan to give THEM an education
in grassroots opposition!
Join us for a picket outside the debate to oppose the lack of
abolitionist representation and to support IL
House Bill 576 to repeal capital punishment
in Illinois!
Web Site: www.nodeathpenalty.org
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| February 18, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| February 18, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Dallas Chapter - Regular Meeting
(third Monday of each month)
7:00-9:00pm, Paperback Plus Bookstore, 6115 La Vista Dr., Live Oak at La Vista, 2nd FLOOR
(between Skillman and Abrams in Lakewood)
Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| February 19, 2002 |
Lucasville, OH
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
John Byrd is scheduled to be killed by the State of Ohio at 10:00 am
local time for the 1983 murder of Monte Tewksburyl.
Click Here
for information regarding events and vigils at the prison and elsewhere as it becomes available.
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| February 19, 2002 |
Cleveland, OH
Execution Vigil
8:30 am, Old Stone Church, 91 Public Square
A vigil sponsored by the Cleveland Coalition Against the Death
Penalty will be held in opposition to the execution of John Byrd
For information, call David Westcott: (216) 252-6934
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| February 20, 2002 |
Jacksonville, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED (to Midnight Feb 25th)
Alexander Williams is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at
7:00 pm local time for the 1986 killing of Aleta Bunch.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| February 20, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Telling Stories in Tennessee
7:00 pm, Dark Horse Theatre, 4610 Charlotte Ave.
An evening of storytelling about Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman
Linda Manning (Abu's spiritual advisor), Brad
MacLean and Bill Redick (two of Abu's attorneys) will tell the story of a
man who is Tennessee's next target for execution. The state of Tennessee is
prepared to execute Abu-Ali despite serious questions concerning his trial,
conviction and sentence.
Contact: Susan McBride, 615-579-5392
For more information concerning Abu's case go to his website: www.abu-ali.org
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| February 21, 2002 |
Riverside, CA
Death Penalty Focus Inland Empire Chapter - Regular Meeting
(Regular Chapter Meeting)
7:00 PM, St. Andrews Newman Center, 105 W. Big Springs Road
Contact: Inland Empire Chapter, Watkins House, University of California at Riverside
Voice: 909-788-4662, Fax: 909-788-455
EMAIL: iedpf@yahoo.com
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| February 21, 2002 |
St. Louis, MO
Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, 4557 Laclede
Tel: 314-241-8062
E-mail: emcadp@mindspring.com
Web Site: www.mindspring.com/~emcadp
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| February 21, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests -STAYED - SCOTUS grants CERT
Thomas Miller-El is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for 1985 killing of Douglas Walker and wounding of Donald Ray Hall.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| February 22, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| February 23, 2002 |
Newark, NJ
The Death Penalty Up Close
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Rutgers Law School, 123 Washington Street
A conference featuring panel discussions on Race & the Death
Penalty, The Psychology of the Death Penalty and The Death Penalty and
International Norms. The keynote speaker is Ivan Solotaroff, author of The
Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty.
Speakers include Tonya McClary, Esq., Domestic Programs Director,
National Council to Abolish the Death Penalty; Ron Tabak, Esq.; Lorry
Post, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation; Richard Pompelio, Esq.
Chairman, Victims of Crime Compensation Board; David Ruhnke, Esq.; Richard
Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center; Elizabeth
DeFeis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law.
This event is free (lunch included), but seating will be
limited, so reservations are required. Please call (973) 642-2086, ext. 10
to make a reservation.
Presented by ACLU-NJ in Honor of Black History Month
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| February 23, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Texas Death Row Conditions - Planning Meeting
2 PM, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University in Room 106
(The Law School is located at 3500 Wheeler on the corner of Wheeler and
Sampson Streets.)
We are all aware of the intolerable living conditions that now exist for
the men on Texas' Death Row. Life at the Polunsky Unit has gone from bad
to worse since the men arrived there a few years ago.
The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement is calling on all who are
concerned about the critical situation on Death Row to come together and work through unity and determination to
end the cruel and inhumane conditions.
Please join us for the first planning meeting and pass the word to others. ALL
ABOLITIONISTS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED!
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Directions: From downtown Houston take Interstate 45 South to the
1st exit south of downtown, Scott Street, and go right (south) on Scott
to Wheeler. At Wheeler turn right, or west, and go about 6-8 blocks to
Sampson Street. The Law School will be on your right. The parking lot is
in the back, off Sampson Street.
Please contact us to confirm your interest in participating in this
important meeting and to place items on the agenda.
Sponsored by Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Contact Gloria Rubac, E-mail: grubac@prodigy.net
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| February 25, 2002 |
Philadelphia, PA
New Evidenciary Hearing for Fred Thomas
09:30 am, Room 608, Criminal Justice Center, 13th Street & Filbert Street
During the past few months, the Southeast Chapter and the Family &
Friends of Death Row Prisoners Chapter have worked diligently on the
"Justice for Fred Thomas" Campaign.
Fred is a terminally Philadelphia man on death
row, who was being denied an opportunity to present his claims of innocence
in the courtroom (prosecutors in Philadelphia, upon hearing that Fred was
terminally ill, made every attempt to delay and stall appeals by requesting
frivolous extensions.) We joined his family in calling for proper health
care for Fred, an opportunity for him to have "his day in court", an
investigation into his claims of innocence, and a moratorium on executions.
His legal sucessfully requested an expedited evidenciary hearing which is
set for Monday, February 25th, beginning at 9:30 a.m. before Judge Willis
Berry.
Help us ensure that Judge Berry and assistant D.A.'s Chris Diviny and Andrew
Gibson (the prosecutors currently attempting to kill Fred) know that the
eyes of the people of Philadelphia (and beyond) are fixed on what happens
in that courtroom.
DON'T bring cell phones, pepper spray, or pen-knife
keychains, as these items will not be permitted past CJC metal
detectors.
DO arrive 30 to 45 minutes prior to the 9:30 hearing time, as
long lines are moving even more slowly due to increased security at the
CJC.
For an excellent overview of Fred's case, please go to:
http://citypaper.net/articles/011702/cs.cover.shtml
For additional information, contact:
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS United Against the Death Penalty
Phone: 215-724-6120
Fax: 215-729-6189
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
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| February 25, 2002 |
Philadelphia, PA
Formation Meeting
7:00-9:00 pm, Southeast Chapter Meeting - Friends Center, 15th Street & Cherry Street
Join us as we build a grassroots movement to challenge the death
penalty in the Philadelphia area.
For additional information, contact:
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS United Against the Death Penalty
Phone: 215-724-6120
Fax: 215-729-6189
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
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| February 25 - March 01, 2002 |
Oakland, CA
Incarceration - The Last Plantation
This is a double solo show featuring the incredible art of
James Anderson and the mind expanding lyrics of The WordSlanger, Prescott-Joseph
Center For Community Enhancement Resident Literary and Dramatic Artist Ayodele Nzinga.
Artist James P. Anderson has sat in prison, mostly
on death row, for the past 22 years. From the prison
cells where men are warehoused to die at San Quentin
State Prison, his paintings are a reaffirmation of
beauty and humanity.
His art is currently hanging at 920 Peralta, at the
Prescott-Joseph and is available for viewing every day this week between 1 and 5 pm.
Do not miss
this rare chance to see art that other artist hail as
extraordinary. Some
work is available for purchase all pieces are
exceptional.
There will be a reception for this event that features
the spokenword
artistry of WordSlanger as she explores the subject of
incarceration and the
development of the Industrial Prison Complex in
America.
Reception and spoken word show on February 28, at 7:30.
The reception will feature a sumptuous Jamaican buffet.
The event is free to the public. Donations to the Artists accepted.
Contact Steve Argue at (651) 645-5347 or steveorchid@yahoo.com
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| February 26, 2002 |
Louisville, KY
KCADP Louisville/Jefferson County Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm, Highland Presbyterian Church, 1011 Cherokee Road
New members always welcome
Contact: Ray Schweri
E-mail: joywolf45@aol.com
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| February 26, 2002 |
Williamsburg, VA
Controversy and the Death Penalty - Flaws in the Judicial System
7:00 pm, Blair 229 on William and Mary's campus (for those not from the
college, feel free to contact the coordinator for directions)
Professor Douglas will speak about a variety of current issues and
concerns with the death penalty, such as the infamous 21-Day Rule and the
issue of the execution of the mentally retarded (with the related VA case).
He'll be speaking for about 30 minutes, leaving time for questions and
discussion. Representatives from Students for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty will be on hand to answer questions and discuss group activities
and membership as well.
contact Amy Smith 757-221-4278.
E-mail: aksmit@wm.edu
Sponsored by Students for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (a student VADP
group)
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| February 27, 2002 |
El Paso, CA
"Healing the Wounds of Murder"
International Abolition Day Events sponsored by Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR) with featured speakers:
Page McKean Zyromski, from Ohio, nationally-published author whose elderly
aunt was brutally raped and murdered
Jeanette Popp, from Central Texas, mother of Nancy De Priest, who was murdered.
Chris Ochoa, El Pasoan who was wrongfully convicted of Nancy's murder, was
threatened with the death penalty, and spent 12 years in prison. Jeanette
has asked Chris to begin a chapter of MVFR in El Paso.
Lunch Meeting
12:00 to 1:00 pm, Luby's Cafeteria, 3601 N. Mesa
Evening talk and reception
6:30 to 8:30, Pavo Real Recreation Center, 9301 Alameda
Both events are FREE and OPEN to the public.
Persons interested in joining or supporting MVFR, a national organization,
are encouraged to attend. There are no dues for anyone whose family member
was a murder victim.
Other supporters are encouraged to join for $25 a year.
Contact 915-872-8422 (Center for Peace and Justice) for more information
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| February 27, 2002 |
Indianapolis, IN
Celebrate Life: Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Capitol Building Rotunda, 200 W. Washington
Sponsored by Amnesty International, Indiana Citizens to Abolish Capital Punishment, the Indianapolis Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and the North Meadow Circle of Friends
Alternatives work. Indiana citizens prefer them, and we will be celebrating their use.
Rob Warden, the Executive Director for the Center on Wrongful Convictions, will discuss his experiences in exposing wrongful convictions and how exonerating the innocent can be a catalyst for reforming the criminal justice system.
Steve Schutte, a deputy to the Public Defender of Indiana, who represents people who have been convicted of murder and sentenced to die, will discuss the case of innocence for Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl, who is currently on death row in Indiana.
Amnesty International USA Indiana members will recognize Suzanne Carter, director of the Terre Haute Abolition Network and a facilator of the demonstrations and vigils at the federal executions this past year, as the Indiana Abolitionist of the Year.
Please plan to arrive early and take some time to meet with your representative and senator and let them know of your support for life alternatives and the end of the death penalty.
Join us to celebrate the anniversary of the day in 1847 on which the state of Michigan officially became the first English-speaking territory in the world to abolish the death penalty.
Contact: Karen Burkhart (317) 839-1618
Web Site: www.icacp.org
E-mail: info@icacp.org
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| February 27, 2002 |
Seattle, WA
Abolition Day Dinner - Annual Benefit for the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
6:00 - 10:00 pm, Town Hall at 8th Ave. and Seneca.
This year our keynote address will be given by Stephen Bright.
The Abolitionist of the Year Award will be presented to "Speedy" Rice of Gonzaga Law School.
The Ruth Evans Volunteer of the Year Award will be presented to Jeanette Howard.
Sponsored by: Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Contact: Megan Davis (206) 622.8952
Web Site: www.abolishdeathpenalty.org
E-mail: info@abolishdeathpenalty.org
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| February 28, 2002 |
Lexington, KY
KCADP Central Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:00pm, Newman Center, 320 Rose Lane
New members always welcome
Contact: Will Warner
E-mail: tortilla@iglou.com
Web Site: www.kcadp.org
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| February 28, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAY LIFTED
Monty Delk is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1986 killing of Gene Olan Allen II.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| February 28, 2002 |
Brazos Valley, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Brazos Valley Chapter -
Regular Meeting
(last Thursday of each month)
Friends Congregational Church at 2200 Southwood Drive
Please contact us to confirm the meeting date, location and time
E-mail: tcadpbv@yahoo.com
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| March 01, 2002 |
Anchorage, AK
International Death Penalty Abolition Day Event
5:00 - 7:00 pm, Town Square
Sponsored by Alaskans Against the Death Penalty and Amnesty International
Join your neighbors and special speakers at Town Square in Anchorage to remember the victims of violent crime and their survivors;
to remember those killed by state sanctioned violence -- guily or not -- and their survivors;
and to join with others throughout our world to work for peace, justice and alternatives to the death penalty.
Contact: Mary Grisco 907-258-2296
Web Site: www.aadp.info
E-mail: megrisco@ak.net
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| March 01, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
International Abolition Day - Demonstartion of Solidarity
4:30 - 6:00 pm, Federal Building, 300 W Congress.
In Tucson on Friday we will continue our tradition of marking the
International Day for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, March 1, by
standing in solidarity with efforts wordlwide to END EXECUTION!
International Abolition Day celebrates 155 years since the state of
Michigan became the first English- speaking government in the world to
abolish capital punishment. We will stand in front of the federal
building downtown, holding banners and signs and reminding people as they
drive home that civilized people all over the world are bewildered and
disturbed that many states in the US, including Arizona, still continue
this barbaric practice.
Try to arrive early, but join us as you
can. RSVP to help us anticipate the number of signs to bring. You can
also pick up from us a petition to circulate, or find out about other
action to stop executions forever in our state.
See you there.
E-mail: Katherine Norgard
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| March 01, 2002 |
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Vigil for International Death Penalty Abolition Day
4:45 to 6:00 pm in front of the Federal Courthouse on East Broward Blvd.
March 1, International Death Penalty Abolition Day, marks the anniversary
of the date in 1847 in which the State of Michigan officially became the
first English-speaking territory in the world to abolish capital punishment.
It is a day to remember the victims of violent crime and their survivors; it
is a day to remember those killed by state sanctioned violence - guilty or
not- and their survivors; and it is a day for intensified education and
action for alternatives to the death penalty.
Sponsored by Broward FADP
Contact: Steve, E-mail: serochow@aol.com
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| March 01, 2002 |
Lincoln, NB
International Abolition Day
7:00 pm, Trinity United Methodist Church, 16th and A Street.
International Death Penalty Abolition Day, March 1, 2002, celebrates the
anniversary of the date that the State of Michigan abolished the death
penalty. It will be marked by events and actions held by abolition
groups worldwide.
The Faith Committee of NADP invites you to attend an Abolition
Day prayer service
E-mail: mewfelion@juno.com
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| March 01, 2002 |
Paris, France
International Abolition Day
An evening is organized tomorrow night in Paris to mark International Abolition Day.
Various artists will
be reading some specific literature about DP, others will sing and
most will gather to discuss future actions...
Contact: Sandrine
E-mail: ageorges.sandrine@WANADOO.FR
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| March 01, 2002 |
Columbus, OH
International Abolition Day - Rally
5-6:30pm, Riffe Tower, 77 South High Street (across from the Statehouse)
Let us act in the spirit of the early abolitionists and make a big showing
downtown to abolish the death penalty with the message - Death Penalty Moratorium Now!
Stop Bob Taft before he kills again!
We will not forget John Byrd!
For more information, call Gary Witte 614-443-6044 or the Free Press 614-253-2571
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| March 01, 2002 |
Erie, PA
Silent Vigil marking International Abolition Day
Outside the Local Office of the Governor
The first friday of each month (tomorrow will mark the 26th consecutive
month) we stand in front of the building in which the governor of PA has
his local office. We only stay one half hour--in silence--holding
banners and the STOP signs with Stop ....
March 1st we will hand out flyers marking the 155th anniversary of
abolition.
Sister Marlene Bertke, OSB
Benedictines for Peace
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| March 01, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Press Conference and Outdoor Forum - International Abolition Day Highlighting Tennessee's Political History
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. War Memorial Plaza (outside)
Confirmed guests include Kristi Smith (Murder Victim's Families for
Reconciliation) whose father was murdered and who opposes the death penalty,
Regina Hockett (Yes MAM) whose daughter was a murder victim in 1995, and
local songwriter/performer Michael Kelsh.
The theme will focus on Tennessee's rich history of opposition to the death
penalty focusing on the work of Governors Henry Horton (1927-33) and Frank
Clement (1965) and state Senator J.A. Clement (1915).
Co-sponsored by The Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing and Amnesty International.
Contact Randy Tatel 615-329-0048
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| March 01, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
National Abolition Day Gathering
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Dallas Peace Center, Peak at Bryan
Sponsored by The Dallas Peace Center
We will have a gathering to mark the abolition of the death penalty in Michigan.
It will be informal, and everyone is welcome
Contact: Ellen Danielson
Web Site: www.dallaspeacecenter.org
E-mail: admin@dallaspeacecenter.org
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| 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)
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| March 01, 2002 |
Anchorage, AK
Alaskans Against the Death Penalty - Annual Meeting and Dinner
8:00 pm, Snow City Cafe, 1034 W. 4th
Sponsored by Alaskans Against the Death Penalty
Update of activities, election of officers, and special speaker, Speedy Rice, who will talk about "recent developements in the executions of the mentally retarded and of juveniles."
Dinner is $25 per person.
Come early and enjoy First Friday -- gallery openings throughout downtown Anchorage and at Snow City with live music and delicious hors d'oeuvres
Contact: Mary Grisco 907-258-2296
Web Site: www.aadp.info
E-mail: megrisco@ak.net
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| March 01, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| March 01, 2002 |
Omaha, NB
International Abolition Day
7:00-7:45 pm, Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, 3004 Belvedere Blvd.
International Death Penalty Abolition Day, March 1, 2002, celebrates the
anniversary of the date that the State of Michigan abolished the death
penalty. It will be marked by events and actions held by abolition
groups worldwide.
The Faith Committee of NADP invites you to attend an Abolition
Day prayer service. Refreshments afterwards.
E-mail: mewfelion@juno.com
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| March 01, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Rally for Andrea Yates
8:30 am to 1pm. Harris County Criminal Courthouse
A rally to support Andrea Yates will be held in front of the Harris County
Criminal Courthouse on Friday, March 1, from 8:30 am to 1pm.
Come when you can and bring signs in support of Andrea. Wear purple.
We will have flyers to hand out.
Dave Atwood, Andrea Pia Yates Support Coalition
E-mail: dpatwood@igc.org
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| | March 1-2, 2002 | Eugene, OR
The Law and Politics of the Death Penalty: Abolition, Moratorium or Reform?
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
1221 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, housed at the University of Oregon School of
Law, is sponsoring a major conference on the death penalty in America.
This conference will present a variety of viewpoints on the future of capital
punishment in Oregon and the United States and the possibilities for reform
or abolition. The program will include distinguished speakers from universities,
politics, and advocacy organizations.
The Oregon Law Review will publish a special issue on capital punishment
that will include ten papers delivered at this conference.
Concurrent sessions will take place at the UO Erb Memorial Union and the Knight Law
Center, where the program will be geared toward (defense) lawyers seeking CLE credit.
Keynote speakers include Sister Helen
Prejean, Stephen Bright, and Senator Mark Hatfield, in addition to
Professor Ogletree, and respected figures in the legal, political and religious
communities. The conference will include plenary sessions, workshops and
roundtables appropriate for students, faculty, practicing lawyers seeking
CLE credit and the informed public.
For further information on speakers, topics, sessions, registration, accomodation, etc,
Contact:
The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, 541-346-3700,
Web Site: www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/deathpen.shtml
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| March 01-07, 2002 |
Baltimore, MD
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Steven Howard Oken is scheduled to be killed by the State of Maryland for the 1987 killing of Dawn Marie Garvin.
In accordance with Maryland DOC procedures, the exact date and time of Oken's execution will not be announced.
Information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere will be posted as it becomes available.
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| March 02, 2002 |
Raleigh, NC
Program on Forgiveness and Reconciliation
09:30 - noon, St. Francis of Assisi (The Gathering Space, Anthony Hall), 11401 Leesville Rd.
Please join us for a Sojourn addressing that most challenging of Christian teachings, forgiveness.
We will hear from several inspiring persons who have sought forgiveness from
and extended forgiveness to others in the wake of unspeakable hurt and
tragedy. There will also be time for quiet reflection, Q&A, and for small
group discussion of issues raised.
Speakers
Jennifer Thompson: Her story has been featured on Frontline, on the A&E
network, and in numerous other publications. After being brutally raped
while a college student, Ms. Thompson's testimony convicted Ronald
Cotton of
her attack. After serving eleven years in prison, Mr. Cotton was
exonerated, and Ms. Thompson's actual attacker identified, through DNA
testing. Come hear about Ms. Thompson's journey as she sought forgiveness
from Mr. Cotton, and came to forgive her actual attacker. Ronald Cotton,
the man who suffered the loss of eleven years of freedom as a result of
mistaken testimony, to this day enjoys a remarkable friendship with Ms.
Thompson.
Thomas Fewel: Mr. Fewel is a Chapel Hill resident who suffered the tragic
loss of his 8-year-old daughter to murder. Tom says, "I am glad that my
wife Joy and I chose to speak out against the death penalty, not least
because executions distort our perspective on victims of violence. In the
case of Jean's murder, she is the one remembered and grieved for, not the
murderer. I am grateful that in this case, the state did not produce
another victim of violence." Come hear how, rather than seeking vengeance
against his daughter's killer, Mr. Fewel has chosen to forgive and work
against capital punishment, even speaking to our state"s legislators in
support of the recent bill barring execution of the mentally retarded.
Childcare: Provided upon request. Please notify the receptionist of the
number and ages of children when you call to make reservations.
Contact 919-847-8205
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| March 03, 2002 |
El Paso, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - El Paso - Regular Silent
Vigil
(first Sunday of each month)
6-6:30 p.m. on the southside of San Jacinto Plaza
Vigils are held in memory of victims, offenders, and the families of both.
Contact Johntures@aol.com
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| 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
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| March 04, 2002 |
Atlanta, GA
Field Trip to the Fulton County Courthouse!
10 am - noon. The courthouse is on the corner of MLK Drive and Pryor Street, downtown
Sponsored by: Atlanta Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Come sit in on the Al-Amin trial. Please join us and get an inside, first-hand
view of how this system operates
Contact Jon, 404-371-8071
Web Site: www.nodeathpenalty.org
or www.stopmurder.cjb.net
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| March 05, 2002 |
San Diego, CA
Death Penalty Focus San Diego - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
7:00 PM, California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar St.
Ask lobby receptionist for meeting room number
For information call (619) 255-3873
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| March 05, 2002 |
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Political Union Debate Series - "Death Penalty: Morally Just?"
6:00 pm Ticknor Lounge, INSTITUTE OF POLITICS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St.
For information on this and upcoming events:
Tel: (617) 495-1360
E-mail ksgiop@ksg.harvard.edu
Web Site: www.iop.harvard.edu
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| March 05, 2002 |
New York City, NY
Liberate! Celebrate! - Sixth Annual Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk-Taker Awards
6:30 - 9:30 pm, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, 257 West 88th Street
Cocktail Reception 6:30pm, Program 7:15pm - Hosted by Actor and Activist Ossie Davis
Sponsored by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice(JFREJ)
Honoring activists who have taken on injustice on the streets,
in the courts and from behind bars:
This year's Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk-Taker Awards recognize
a range of individuals and organizations who are fighting to make America's
criminal justice system live up to the word 'justice'. Some, like Robert
Meeropol and Cardozo Law School's Innocence Project, have focused on righting
the wrongs endured by young activists or the children of activists and by
those falsely convicted, with a focus on the death penalty. Others, like Dr.
Alan Berkman, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura Whitehorn, have been forceful
agitators from within prisons for humanitarian changes in the treatment of
inmates, all three having pioneered AIDS education and counseling and the
push for other healthcare improvements while they served sentences for their
militant anti-racist actions. And one group, Youth Force, focuses on
progressive alternatives to the criminalization of New York's young people.
JFREJ is proud to honor these activist who, with shared commitments to
fairness, humaneness, and justice, lead a burgeoning movement against
America's politics of vengeance.
Tickets: $54 (regular), $36-18 (sliding scale for Students/Senior/Low-Income)
For further information and to reserve tickets, contact:
phone: 212-647-8966, fax: 212-647-7124,
Web Site: www.jfrej.org
E-mail: jfrej@igc.org
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| March 05, 2003 |
Houston, TX
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
SHAPE Community Center, 3903 Almeda Road, one block south of Alabama Street
The Abolition Movement is working to abolish the death penalty and to stop the illegal and horrific conditions on the Polunsky Unit which houses the 450 men on Texas' death row.
We are a diverse group of activists who believe through active struggle and with the support of the community we will effect change.
Contact: Njeri Shakur 713-521-0629 or 713-861-5965
E-mail: AbolitionMovement@juno.com
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| March 05, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| March 06, 2002 |
Mineral Point (Potosi), MO
Execution Vigils and Protests
Jeffrey Tokar is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time for the 1992 killing of Johnny Douglass.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| March 06, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Urgent Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
EVERY Wednesday in March from 11 AM until 1:30 PM
Organized by Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Death Row families, friends, and loved ones and
all abolitionists and human rights proponents must rally to demonstrate against the worsening conditions
facing death row prisoners in Texas. We will have
signs to carry, media packets for any press that shows
up, and flyers to give to passing motorists
Legislators will be invited
for one of the weeks, religious leaders and clergy
will be invited for another. Students have spring
break in March, so bring them along whenever they are
out of school.
Those of us on the
outside must do what ever we can to stop the violence,
brutality, isolation and cruel and unusual punishment
being meted out by Warden Zeller and his officers.
Wednesday is "Media Day" and reporters visit
from 1-3 PM. We want to see them and give them
information about the illegal torture. We will be
there at 11 AM to speak with Death Row visitors
leaving after morning visitation.
In Houston, meet at SHAPE Center, 3903 Almeda
Road at 9 AM to share rides.
Contact the Texas Death Penalty
Abolition Movement at Abolitionmovement@juno.com
or call Lucha at 713-802-1439
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| March 07, 2002 |
Atlanta, GA
Public Meeting on Al-Amin's case: Free Jamil Al-Amin!
7:00 pm, GSU Urban Life Bldg, Room 216. Corner of Decatur St. and Piedmont, downtown
Sponsored by: Atlanta Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Join us to find out the latest on a GA case which has
already received national attention.
Contact Jon, 404-371-8071
Web Site: www.nodeathpenalty.org
or www.stopmurder.cjb.net
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| March 07, 2002 |
London, England
Demonstration for Tracy Housel
11:00 am, Downing Street
Sponsored by Amnesty International
The UK national on death row in Georgia, Tracy Housel, has just received an
execution date.
He could be executed on March 12. His lawyers think his best chance is if
Tony Blair picks up the phone to the USA and asks for clemency. So far he's
been quiet.
COME JOIN US TO MAKE SOME NOISE AND SEE IF WE CAN GET BLAIR TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT TRACY
Contact: Andie Lambe, UK Director, Reprieve
tel/fax: 0207 723 0555
E-mail: contactreprieve@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.reprieve.org.uk
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| March 07, 2002 |
Philadelphia, PA
Vigil Against the Death Penalty
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Philadelphia D.A.'s Office, 1421 Arch Street,
Help educate the public and expose the shameful actions of "America's
Deadliest D.A." Lynne Abraham.
Flier distribution, petition-signing, and
signs & banners.
For additional information, contact:
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS United Against the Death Penalty
Phone: 215-724-6120
Fax: 215-729-6189
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
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| March 07, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests
Gerald Tigner is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1993 killings of James Williams and Michael Watkins.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| March 07-09, 2002 |
Kansas City, MO
Federal Capital Defense Strategy Session
The Tenth Annual Federal Capital Defense Strategy Session will be offered in
conjunction with (and immediately preceding) the NLADA's Life in the Balance
conference. The session draws together most of the lawyers currently
handling federal capital cases throughout the country for two full days of
death penalty training and discussion of issues specific to federal death
penalty litigation. Topics include representing our clients in the DOJ death
penalty authorization process; selective prosecution and discovery;
government mental health evaluations; mitigation in the 21st century; and
resources and case budgeting.
Contact: Merle Freedman: 800.788.9908
E-mail: merle_freedman@ao.uscourts.gov
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| March 08, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| March 08, 2002 |
Sarasota, FL
Vigil and Walk in Honor of International Woman's Day
5:00 pm, Selby Five Points Park at the intersection of Main St. & Pineapple Ave. (across the street from the Selby Library)
Organized by Women in Black GC.
Women in Black invite you to join with us and our allies in a silent
vigil for peace and a walk in memory of all victims of violence.
concerns extend to victims of hunger and homelessness, as well as victims
of military violence and civil unrest, domestic violence, and victims of
discrimination.
Gather with usas our speakers bring us news of other Women in Black projects,
and inspire us to continue our opposition to violence. Join us
in our silence as we resolve to create a more
peaceful world for future generations. Following the
vigil we will walk to the beat of the drum to the
busy intersection of U.S. 41 and Gulfstream Ave. to
continue our witness until sunset.
Everyone is welcome to join us and we invite you to wear black
For more information, call 941-366-5008 or 727-822-1543
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| March 09, 2002 |
El Paso, CA
Death Penalty Talk
2:30 pm, Diocesan Ministry Conference at the El Paso Civic Center
Sr. Camille Arienzo will be coming from Brooklyn to speak about the Death
Penalty.
Sr. Camille is the author of the Declaration of Life, a paper that states that, if the signer is
murdered, he or she does not want anyone to seek the death penalty for the
offender.
It is an advisory paper, but unlike a Living Will, does not have
any legal force. These have been signed by hundreds of El Pasoans and the
information has been forwarded to Sr. Camille for the record.
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| March 9-10, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Death Sentence 2002
Click here to read a report.
DePaul University, 1 E. Jackson,
On March 9-10, 2002, Death Sentence 2002 will present speakers, musical
events, offer training and organize a call to action to pass House Bill
576 - the Death Penalty abolition bill.
A coalition of religious communities, civic leaders, students, celebrities,
politicians and other allies of the anti-death penalty movement will Participate.
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking will share her story of death row ministry.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Mike Farrell from Providence and M*A*S*H, renowned defense attorney and
orator Bryan Stevenson, Steve Hawkins of the National Coalition Against the
Death Penalty, and Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation members will
speak.
Francis Cardinal George will give a special address on Sunday.
We are expecting thousands of Illinoisans committed to stopping the killing to
be joined by national figures.
The spotlight will be on Illinois.
It is important to organize now. We are asking you to become a sponsor, to commit as an individual and/or as
a member of a group to educate our legislature about the need to stop the
death penalty. Sponsors will, in various ways, impact Illinois legislators
to ensure that they vote in favor of House Bill 576. We need volunteers, money, publicity and
attendance.
Show your support by becoming a sponsor
Death Sentence 2002 is truly a grass roots movement fueled by an interfaith
group of individuals who are committed to abolishing the death penalty in
Illinois.
Please visit our Web Site at http://deathsentence2002.home.att.net,
or contact us by phone: (312) 849-2279 or by mail at DS 2002, 180 North Michigan Ave.
Suite 2300, Chicago, Il 60601.
REGISTER NOW
If you have not already done so, please take a few minutes to register for the
conference. This will help us in our planning and make the
event better for everyone.
You can register on the web by going to the
web site http://deathsentence2002.home.att.net.
First select
"Register Now" and then (in the next screen), scroll down until you see
"Click here to register on-line right now!".
You will be asked
to enter relevant information - it should take about 2 minutes - and then
select "Submit".
You will be switched to a screen with information about transportation to DePaul.
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| March 09-12, 2002 |
Kansas City, MO
Life in the Balance - 2002 Conference
Life in the Balance is a capital case training conference for
mitigation specialists, defense investigators and defense attorneys.
It includes a day and a half of specialized mitigation/investigation
training, plus two and a half days devoted to instruction for capital
defense litigators. It is a training event that provides an opportunity to
improve skills and techniques. Participants will increase their knowledge in
all areas of capital litigation.
Contact: Aimee Gabel: 202.452.0620 ext: 214
E-mail: a.gabel@nlada.org
For additional info on this program, and other training, go to www.nlada.org/Training/Train_Defender/Train_Defender_Balance
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| March 10, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(second Sunday of the month)
3:00-5:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church 1901 N. Douglas
E-mail: hulinst@worldnet.att.net
Web Site: www.ocadp.org
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| March 11, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| March 12, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Action Committee - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm at Westminster Presbyterian (13th & N Streets).
Contact:
Chris Hartmire (916) 446-0874 or Tommy Clinkenbeard (916) 874-6411
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| March 12, 2002 |
Jacksonville, GA
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Tracy Housel is scheduled to be killed by the State of Georgia at
7:00 pm local time for the 1985 killing of Jean Drew.
Click Here for urgent action and vigil
information
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| March 12, 2002 |
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing
(TCASK) - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
Confirm location via email. etcask@hotmail.com
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| March 12, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| March 12 , 2002 |
Houston, TX
candlelight vigil for Andrea Pia Yates
7:30 pm in front of the courthouse, 301 San Jacinto
The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Houston Chapte meeting normally held on the second Tuesday of the month will
not be held. Instead we are encouraging members and other anti
death penalty activists to attend a candlelight vigil.
Closing arguments will be Tuesday. How long the jury will
deliberate is uncertain.
Bring signs if you have them and try to wear
something purple if you can.
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| March 13, 2002 |
Ft Lauderdale, FL
Report on the Florida Moratorium Walk
7:30 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Lauderdale 3970 NW 21 Ave., Oakland Park
Steve Jens-Rochow, Henri Breitenkam and Mike Hittleman from Broward FADP were
part of the group that walked 143 miles from Death Row at Raiford to deliver
20,000 petitions to the Governor in Tallahassee.
Come hear them talk about
their journey that took 11 days
starting on Martin Luther King Day, January 21.
They will share personal stories and show photographs.
Sponsored by Broward FADP
Contact: Steve Jens-Rochow
E-mail: SERochow@aol.com
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| March 13, 2002 |
Wallingford, PA
Symposium on the Death Penalty
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - St. John Chrysostom Parish, Stevenson Center (Church Rectory, Lower
Level) 617 South Providence Road.
Exonerated Pa. death row prisoner William Nieves will be the featured speaker.
For additional information, contact:
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS United Against the Death Penalty
Phone: 215-724-6120
Fax: 215-729-6189
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
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| March 13, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Urgent Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Click here to read a report.
EVERY Wednesday in March from 11 AM until 1:30 PM
Organized by Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Death Row families, friends, and loved ones and
all abolitionists and human rights proponents must rally to demonstrate against the worsening conditions
facing death row prisoners in Texas. We will have
signs to carry, media packets for any press that shows
up, and flyers to give to passing motorists
Legislators will be invited
for one of the weeks, religious leaders and clergy
will be invited for another. Students have spring
break in March, so bring them along whenever they are
out of school.
Those of us on the
outside must do what ever we can to stop the violence,
brutality, isolation and cruel and unusual punishment
being meted out by Warden Zeller and his officers.
Wednesday is "Media Day" and reporters visit
from 1-3 PM. We want to see them and give them
information about the illegal torture. We will be
there at 11 AM to speak with Death Row visitors
leaving after morning visitation.
In Houston, meet at SHAPE Center, 3903 Almeda
Road at 9 AM to share rides.
Contact the Texas Death Penalty
Abolition Movement at Abolitionmovement@juno.com
or call Lucha at 713-802-1439
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| March 14, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Amnesty International - Regular Meeting
(second Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:30 pm, Southern Methodist University, room 138, Dallas Hall
Contact Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| March 14, 2002 |
Greensville , VA
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
click here to read a report.
James Earl Patterson is scheduled to be killed by the State of Virginia at 9:00 pm
local time for the 1987 killing of Joyce Sneed Aldridge.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| March 15, 2002 |
Santa Clara, CA
Symposium on the Death Penalty from an International and
Human Rights Law Perspective
8:00am to 3:30pm Santa Clara University School of Law
The issue of the death penalty and human rights has always
been inherently controversial. International developments in
the past decades have demonstrated a clear and emphatic
trend away from capital punishment.
The United States continued practice of capital punishment
is in direct tension with international treaties and human
rights norms. We need to examine what impact this position
has had on the ability of the United States to maintain
credibility and leadership in the International human rights
community.
The Santa Clara University School of Law and Law
Review explores this issue with an impressive array of
speakers from Europe and the United States.
Panel Topics include:
1. International implications of the US practice of capital
punishment.
2. Integrating international human rights norms into US
capital case practice.
3. Compelling strategies and barriers to the abolition and moratorium movement.
Admission is free to faculty and students. (Lunch is $15 for
students and faculty.). Public admission is $25 and includes
lunch. Attorney admission is $75 and includes 5 MCLE (3
Ethics and 2 General Law) and lunch.
For further information on the Symposium or to regsiter on line, visit:
www.scu.edu/lawreview
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| March 15, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| March 15 - 17, 2002 |
KS
Walk for Justice
Please join us on our Journey for Justice. Sponsored by an ecumenical coalition devoted to the abolition of the death penalty
Start - Thursday March 15, 7:00 a.m.
Sedgwick County Courthouse (site of Sedgwick County Jail)
with overnight stops at Andover and Augusta
Our final destination?
El Dorado Prison (just east of El Dorado on Highway 54)
sometime in the late afternoon on St.Patrick's Day!
(The Old Fellow will lead with our banners!)
We are in the final planning stages: route has been planned,
transportation accounted for, media contacts made.
If you would like to donate a few dollars - we could certainly use them.
Contact Charles Carney, 316-263-5886; Mary Harren, 316-942-6630
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| March 16, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(third Saturday of each month)
9:30 am, 180 N. Michigan, Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60601.
Please call or e-mail for more information
Jane Bohman Tel: (312) 849-2279
E-mail: jbohman@icadp.org
Web Site: www.icadp.org
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| 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.
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| March 18, 2001 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Vigil
(third Monday of each month - except February)
12 Noon to 1pm at the State Capitol, North Steps, 11th & L Streets
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty is a Chapter of Death Penalty Focus.
Contact: Georgia Lyga, Vigil Committee Volunteer Coordinator
Voice Mail: (916) 457-7640
E-mail:
georgiannl@earthlink.net
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| March 18, 2002 |
Harrisburg, PA
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on SB 26
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Room 8-E, Lower Level, East Rotunda, State Capitol Building
SB 26 would abolish the death penalty for the developmentally disabled.
Expert testimony will be presented, and the
Moratorium Committee of Pa. Abolitionists is encouraging people who care
about defending human rights ofthe most vulnerable Pennsylvanians to attend
these hearings. Immediately following the hearings, Pa. Abolitionists will
hold a press conference in the Main Rotunda of the Capitol to call for a
halt to execution of the developmentally disabled and to make absolutely
clear that nothing short of a halt to all executions is acceptable.
Plans are in the works to arrange buses from Philadelphia to transport
people to the State Capitol and back. The buses will likely leave around
7:30 a.m. and return sometime near 4:30 p.m. although details are still
being arranged. Mark your calendar now, and make plans to join us in
demanding a halt to the death penalty.
Copies of SB-26 can be found by going to our website at
www.pa-abolitionists.org/bills.html and clicking on "SB-26."
Pa. Abolitionists has also prepared a fact sheet with talking points which can
be sent as an attached file (Word format) to anyone requesting one. More
details will be forthcoming.
For additional information, contact:
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS United Against the Death Penalty
Phone: 215-724-6120
Fax: 215-729-6189
Web Site: www.pa-abolitionists.org
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| March 18, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Dallas Chapter - Regular Meeting
(third Monday of each month)
7:00-9:00pm, Paperback Plus Bookstore, 6115 La Vista Dr., Live Oak at La Vista, 2nd FLOOR
(between Skillman and Abrams in Lakewood)
Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| March 19, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
"The Executioner's Last Songs"
On March 19, 2002, Bloodshot Records will release a CD from the Pine Valley Cosmonauts called "The Executioner's Last Songs."
The disc is a collection of 18 songs, some traditional, some new, performed by artists you may know and some you may not, and all of the songs touch on the topic of death.
The proceeds from this record will benefit The Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
E-mail: sixpack@bloodshotrecords.com
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| March 19, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| March 19-20, 2002 |
Charlotte/Gastonia NC
The Death Penalty in North Carolina: Broken Justice
Three forums presented by Charlotte Coalition for a Moratorium Now
Featuring:
Prof. James Coleman
Duke University School of Law, Chair of the American Bar Association's Death
Penalty Moratorium Committee
Dorothy Alston:
mother of Charles Mason Alston, Jr., former North Carolina death row inmate
whose sentence was commuted hours before scheduled Jan. 2002 execution
Terence Garner
sentenced to 40 years in prison for a crime law enforcement investigators,
the district attorney and the sentencing judge had pervasive reason to
believe he did not commit; subject of January 2002 PBS Frontline documentary
Mark Montgomery
Terence Garner's attorney
Gretchen Engel
Center for Death Penalty Litigation, represented Harvey Lee Green (executed)
and Robert Bacon (sentence commuted)
Prof. Richard Rosen
University of North Carolina School of Law, Director of the Innocence
Project
Forum Times and Locations
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
New Technology Center Auditorium, Johnson C. Smith University
100 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte
(co-sponsored by the John S. Leary Bar Association)
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Unity Place, 201 West Franklin Boulevard, Gastonia
Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Accenture Auditorium, Sykes Academic Building, Queens College
1900 Selwyn Avenue, Charlotte
For more information please call Ted Frazer (704) 532-6854 or Faith Bushnaq
(704) 331-7489
www.pfadp.org
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| March 20, 2002 |
Boulder, CO
Questioning the Death Penalty
7:00 pm, Courtroom, Fleming Law Building, CU School of Law
For directions, visit www.colorado.edu/Directories/WebMap/
The CU School of Law ACLU will host a panel
discussion entitled "Questioning the Death Penalty: An open discussion and
analysis of the death penalty in a social, religious, and legal context." The
purpose of the event is to create a dialogue discussing anti-death penalty
arguments in a legal, social, and religious/civic activist context, and how
these arenas are (or can be) interacting.
Panelists for the event are CU Associate Chair of Sociology Michael Radelet,
Father Jim Sunderland, and Colorado Chief Public Defender David Wymore.
Professor Radelet is renowned for his studies of capital punishment and
societal reaction to crime, and is author of the book Final Exposure:
Portraits from Death Row. Fr. Sunderland has testified on behalf of a half
dozen men facing the death penalty, and sits on the Advisory Council of
Coloradans Against the Death Penalty. Attorney David Wymore is responsible
for the defense of Colorado convicts facing the death penalty.
After a short address by each speaker, the majority of time will be reserved
for panelist discussion and audience discussion and questions.
The event is free and is
co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild, the CU ACLU, and CU Amnesty
International.
Contact: Taylor Pendergrass, 303-554-0076
President, CU School of Law ACLU
E-mail: pendergt@colorado.edu
Web Site (Coloradans Against the Death Penalty ): www.coadp.org
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| March 20, 2002 |
Jefferson City, MO
Missourians to Rally and Lobby for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. First floor of the State Capitol
Speakers include:
Ellen Reasonover, freed in 1999 after being wrongfully convicted of murder
and imprisoned for 16 years;
Dennis Shireff, Midwest representative, National Black Police Association;
Ryan Amundson, whose brother Craig was killed in the Sept. 11 Pentagon
attack, but opposes the death penalty;
John Galliher, University of Missouri sociology professor on racism and
capital punishment;
Doris Macha, founder of Kansas City chapter of Murder Victims Families for
Reconciliation and widow of Glenn who was murdered in 1997;
Kevin Green, wrongfully convicted of assaulting his wife, murdering his
unborn daughter and was imprisoned for 16 years before being freed in 1996.
Also speaking will be some of the sponsors of legislation to abolish or
limit the death penalty.
Current legislation includes:
SB 819 (Lead sponsor, Sen. Roseann Bentley, R-Springfield) and HB 1836
(Rep. Craig Hosmer, D-Springfield) which would end the death sentencing of
juveniles. (Special note: both Indiana houses have passed a similar bill
this session awaiting the governor's signature; the Florida Senate
unanimously, recently voted to raise the legal age for execution to 18 years.)
SB 1022 (Sen. Larry Rohrbach, R-California) & HB 1766 (Rep. Ralph Monaco,
D-Kansas City) would direct the court to impose "life" when jurors deadlock
on sentencing (voted "Do Pass" out of committee last week);
SB 731 (Sen. Mary Bland, D-Kansas City) would impose a moratorium on
executions while a commission studies various aspects of death sentencing;
HB 1542 (Rep. Chris Liese, D-Maryland Heights) would create commission to
study death sentencing;
HB 1394 (Rep. Vicky Riback-Wilson, D-Columbia) would abolish the death
penalty.
Sponsored by Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty
For additional information, contact:
Rita Linhardt 573-635-7239, Email: linhardtr@mocatholic.org
Jeff Stack 573-449-4585 or 573-268-6151, Email jstack@coin.org
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| March 20, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Urgent Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Click here to read report including a letter of thanks from a death row inmate.
EVERY Wednesday in March from 11 AM until 1:30 PM
Organized by Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Death Row families, friends, and loved ones and
all abolitionists and human rights proponents must rally to demonstrate against the worsening conditions
facing death row prisoners in Texas. We will have
signs to carry, media packets for any press that shows
up, and flyers to give to passing motorists
Legislators will be invited
for one of the weeks, religious leaders and clergy
will be invited for another. Students have spring
break in March, so bring them along whenever they are
out of school.
Those of us on the
outside must do what ever we can to stop the violence,
brutality, isolation and cruel and unusual punishment
being meted out by Warden Zeller and his officers.
Wednesday is "Media Day" and reporters visit
from 1-3 PM. We want to see them and give them
information about the illegal torture. We will be
there at 11 AM to speak with Death Row visitors
leaving after morning visitation.
In Houston, meet at SHAPE Center, 3903 Almeda
Road at 9 AM to share rides.
Contact the Texas Death Penalty
Abolition Movement at Abolitionmovement@juno.com
or call Lucha at 713-802-1439
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| March 21, 2002 |
St. Louis, MO
Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, 4557 Laclede
Tel: 314-241-8062
E-mail: emcadp@mindspring.com
Web Site: www.mindspring.com/~emcadp
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| March 21, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - 30 DAY REPRIEVE GRANTED BY GOVERNOR PERRY
Click here to read report.
Rodolfo Hernandez is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1985 killing of Victor Cerran.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| 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.
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| March 22, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| 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
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| March 26, 2002 |
Washington, DC
Homophobia in the Halls of Justice: Sexual Orientation Bias and Its Implications Within the Legal System
Symposium at American University's Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Throughout the day, panels will explore the institutionalization of homophobia in the court system and the use of
sexual orientation bias as a tool for prosecutorial misconduct in criminal
cases.
In addition, the discussion will examine previous cases of racial, gender,
and ethnic bias in the US judiciary.
For Registration Information Contact MShortnacy@aol.com
or visit: www.wcl.american.edu/events
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| March 26, 2002 |
Louisville, KY
KCADP Louisville/Jefferson County Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm, Highland Presbyterian Church, 1011 Cherokee Road
New members always welcome
Contact: Ray Schweri
E-mail: joywolf45@aol.com
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| March 26, 2002 |
Fredericksburg, VA
"The Executioners"
Click here to read report.
7:00 pm at Massaponax High School
"The Executioners" a play, written by Penny Showell of Arlington, is being
performed by members of the Massaponax High School Drama program.
It is directed by VADP and Courtland High School and The Commonwealth Governor's School member Elizabeth Simpson.
This performance presents both sides of the death penalty issue with
the objective of raising community awareness of the
use of capital punishment in our society.
The Massaponax High School drama department has been generous to commit the time and talent of
their students to this endeavor. It's free and open to the public.
For more information contact Debbie Simpson at simpsons@infi.net
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| March 26, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| March 27, 2002 |
Washington, DC
CEDP Planning Meeting
8pm, George Washington University, at the fourth floor lounge of the Marvin Center.
Items on the agenda will include:
The case of Wesley Baker
Upcoming events
May/June "Stop Executions in Maryland" billboard in Baltimore.
Outreach
Fundraising
For further information on this, and other activities, contact CEDP at: noreen@nodeathpenalty.org.
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| March 27, 2002 |
Washington, DC
CEDP Planning Meeting
8pm, George Washington University, at the fourth floor lounge of the Marvin Center.
Items on the agenda will include:
The case of Wesley Baker
Upcoming events
May/June "Stop Executions in Maryland" billboard in Baltimore.
Outreach
Fundraising
For further information on this, and other activities, contact CEDP at: noreen@nodeathpenalty.org.
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| March 27, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Urgent Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Click here to read report.
EVERY Wednesday in March from 11 AM until 1:30 PM
Organized by Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Death Row families, friends, and loved ones and
all abolitionists and human rights proponents must rally to demonstrate against the worsening conditions
facing death row prisoners in Texas. We will have
signs to carry, media packets for any press that shows
up, and flyers to give to passing motorists
Legislators will be invited
for one of the weeks, religious leaders and clergy
will be invited for another. Students have spring
break in March, so bring them along whenever they are
out of school.
Those of us on the
outside must do what ever we can to stop the violence,
brutality, isolation and cruel and unusual punishment
being meted out by Warden Zeller and his officers.
Wednesday is "Media Day" and reporters visit
from 1-3 PM. We want to see them and give them
information about the illegal torture. We will be
there at 11 AM to speak with Death Row visitors
leaving after morning visitation.
In Houston, meet at SHAPE Center, 3903 Almeda
Road at 9 AM to share rides.
Contact the Texas Death Penalty
Abolition Movement at Abolitionmovement@juno.com
or call Lucha at 713-802-1439
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| March 27, 2002 |
Montpelier, VT
A CALL TO ACTION! - Demonstration in Support of the "Custodial Sexual Misconduct" Bill
Meet at the corner of State and Elm, near Capital Grounds coffee shop Between 11:45 am & 12:00 noon.
Vermont remains one of only 3 states without a law making it a felony for prison guards to have sexual contact with inmates.
And the Legislature has refused to pass it FOR FOUR YEARS!
Exercise your fundamental First Amendment freedoms of assembly and speech on behalf of those who cannot advocate for themselves.
This issue is about human rights, not politics.
Contact Rebecca Boucher at rebslr@innevi.com or (802) 234-9863 for posters or more information.
Sponsored by: Amnesty International, Vermont; National Lawyer’s Guild, Vermont Law School; Toward Freedom Foundation
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| March 28, 2002 |
Lexington, KY
KCADP Central Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:00pm, Newman Center, 320 Rose Lane
New members always welcome
Contact: Will Warner
E-mail: tortilla@iglou.com
Web Site: www.kcadp.org
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| March 28, 2002 |
Baltimore, MD
Upcoming Execution - Press Conference - TO BE RESCHEDULED
Supermax Prison, 401 E. Madison.
With the press reporting that Wesley Baker's execution is
planned for the week of May 5th -- it is imperative that we spring
into action.
This press conference will be part of an offensive against Maryland's death row.
Invited participants will include:
Wesley's mother, SCLC, IMA, ACLU, AI, NAACP, and family members
of other death row inmates.
For information contact John Gilliam-Price at Johngilpri@aol.com.
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| March 28, 2002 |
New York City, NY
The Future of the Anti-Death Penalty Movement
An all-day conference presented by NYU Law School's Law Students Against the Death Penalty
40 Washington Square S. (West 4th Street), Greenberg Lounge
Panel discussions on the following topics:
Institutional competence (9:15-10:45am)
The moratorium movement (10:45-12:30pm)
International implications (2:00-3:45pm)
DNA testing & actual innocence (3:45-5:30pm)
Panelists include:
Frederick Cohn, defense counsel in US v. bin Laden
Miriam Gohara, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Tanya Greene, Capital Defender Office
Aundre Herron, California Appellate Project
David Kaczynski, Exec. Dir., NYADP
Joe Margulies, Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Cornell
University Law School
Edwin Matthews, defense counsel for Donald Paradis
Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project
Russell Neufeld, Legal Aid, Capital Defender Unit
Donald Paradis, former Idaho death row inmate
Brian Powers, defense counsel for Terry Williams
Bill Ryan, Dir., Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project
Ron Tabak, co-chair, ABA Individual Rights & Responsibilities' Death
Penalty Committee (speaking on moratorium panel)
Rick Wilson, Director, Intl Human Rights Clinic, American University
Law School
For additional information, contact Melinda at mac346@nyu.edu
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| March 28, 2002 |
Brazos Valley, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Brazos Valley Chapter -
Regular Meeting
(last Thursday of each month)
Friends Congregational Church at 2200 Southwood Drive
Please contact us to confirm the meeting date, location and time
E-mail: tcadpbv@yahoo.com
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| March 28-29, 2002 |
Austin, TX
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Bi-Monthly Board Meeting open to the public
Hyatt Regency, 208 Barton Springs, Tel: (512) 477-1234
Those who are geographically able (anywhere in Texas), are encouraged
to attend Texas Department of Criminal Justice Board Meetings.
Remember that it is only by our attendence and participation
that we can make a difference in how prisoners of the state including
death row are treated
We can change things but it will take organization,
teamwork, and determination.
Contact: Nancy Bailey
E-mail: nlbailey@EARTHLINK.NET
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| March 29, 2002 |
Montgomery, AL
Good Friday Prayer Service
Click here to read report.
Noon, Capitol Steps
Please join is in a prayer service and vigil against the Death Penalty.
Contact Esther Brown
E-mail: BeEsther@earthlink.net
Web Site: www.phadp.org/
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| March 29, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| March 29, 2002 |
Sioux Falls, SD
Fifth Annual Good Friday Vigil Against the Death Penalty
11:30 AM, SD Penitentiary, at the East parking lot flagpole
The Forenoon prayer service will be followed by an opportunity
over the noon hour to sign the Declaration of Life and the
Moratorium petition. Come for all or part of the vigil,
as your schedule permits. Come and bring your friends.
This peaceful and prayerful assembly is held with permission
from the South Dakota Department of Corrections.
If you are unable to attend in person, due to distance or any
other reason, you can be present by offering your endorsement.
Names of endorsers are printed on the prayer service program,
to encourage the group personally attending the vigil.
A copy of the program will be mailed to all who endorse
To offer an endorsement, simply send an email to sdpjc@dailypost.com,
indicating how you wish your name to be listed.
The weather is predicted to be dry, with temperature in the 40s.
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| March 29-30, 2002 |
Irvine, CA
"Performance, Policy and Culture: 'Dead Man Walking' and the Death
Penalty in America"
All-day symposium addressing the societal
implications and issues surrounding the death penalty in America
Saturday March 30, 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Dr.
A collaboration between the University of California Bren Fellows Program
and the Opera Pacific Company of Orange County, the event combines live
performance scenes from Opera Pacific's production of "Dead Man Walking"
with a scholarly forum.
Speakers include a U.S. Circuit Court Judge, an L.A. County Chief Deputy
District Attorney and internationally renowned professors of law,
criminology, philosophy, psychology, drama and performance studies, and the
news media.
Contact: (949) 824-8294
Tickets are $25 (includes box lunch) and must be purchased in advance.
For $30, attend a kick-off film screening of "Dead Man Walking" and
question-and-answer session with symposium panel at 7:30p.m. on Friday,
March 29th in the Crystal Cove Auditorium.
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| March 30, 2002 |
Columbus, OH
"Judaism and the Death Penalty"
Approx. 12:15pm - Congregation Tefereth Israel
Abe Bonowitz of Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty will be speaking on
"Judaism and the Death Penalty" at
Congregation Tefereth Israel, in the Chapel, after
regular Shabat services on Saturday.
Everyone is welcome.
E-mail abe@cuadp.org
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| April 01, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| April 01, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
"Save a Life" at The Belcourt! - Featuring Rodney Crowelland Beth Nielson Chapman
Click here to read report.
7:00 p.m. Belcourt Theatre 2102 Belcourt Avenue
Musical legend RODNEY CROWELL is joined by BETH NEILSEN CHAPMAN to perform
at the historic Belcourt Theatre in an evening focused on stopping the
execution of Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman scheduled for April 10.
NAOMI TUTU, lecturer and program director of the Race Relations Institute
at Fisk University (and daughter of ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU of South
Africa) will share her international perspective on state killing in an
informal keynote address.
The CLEMENCY VIDEO made on behalf of Abu-Ali by videographer COKE SAMS and
hosted by actor MIKE FARRELL will be aired before the musicians take the
stage.
Joining Crowell and Nielson Chapman will be JOHN JORGENSON and TOM KIMMEL.
ANNOUNCING ADDITIONAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY EMMY LOU HARRIS!
there will be a screening of an urgently produced documentary work
by noted Nashville filmmaker Coke Sams regarding the circumstances surrounding the case of Abu-Ali, scheduled to be executed on April 10.
Conact:
Dixie Gamble 615 -792-3022 or 615 -975-2955
Randy Tatel 615-650-2938r 615-329-0048
ADMISSION IS FREE! Donations benefiting the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish
State Killing will be accepted throughout the evening
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| April 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)
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| 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
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| April 02, 2002 |
San Diego, CA
Death Penalty Focus San Diego - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
7:00 PM, California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar St.
Ask lobby receptionist for meeting room number
For information call (619) 255-3873
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| April 02, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
TCASK Chapter Meeting
5:30 p.m. Nashville Peace & Justice Center, 1016 18th Ave South
Agenda Items include Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation (MVFR) organizing, the "12 stations of Abu-Ali's life", execution eve vigil, the clemency video.
Call Paige La Grone for more info: 615-292-6599
Sponsored by TCASK
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| April 02, 2003 |
Houston, TX
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
SHAPE Community Center, 3903 Almeda Road, one block south of Alabama Street
The Abolition Movement is working to abolish the death penalty and to stop the illegal and horrific conditions on the Polunsky Unit which houses the 450 men on Texas' death row.
We are a diverse group of activists who believe through active struggle and with the support of the community we will effect change.
Contact: Njeri Shakur 713-521-0629 or 713-861-5965
E-mail: AbolitionMovement@juno.com
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April 02, 2002 |
Greensville , VA
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Daniel Lee Zirkle was killed by the State of Virginia at 9:00 pm
local time for the 1999 killings of Christina Zirkle and Jessica Shifflett.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| April 02, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| April 03, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Demonstration/Display
Amnesty International will host a demonstration/display in
the mall area, section - D, of UA campus.
This event will run from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Contact abatters@u.arizona.edu for more details
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| April 03, 2002 |
New York City, NY
On Judicial Killing: The Death Penalty and the American Conscience
7pm: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th Street.
Sponsored by Committee on Capital Punishment (Norman L. Greene, Chair)
Exploration of moral, psychological & cultural issues raised by the death penalty in America. Why do we adhere to the death penalty? How does court-sanctioned killing affect all those involved? What does it reveal about us as a country and as a people?
Speakers:
Hugo Adam Bedau, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University; Editor, Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies
Robert J. Lifton, Psychiatrist; Author, Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, The America Conscience, and The End of Executions (as well as studies on Hiroshima, Nazi Doctors and cults)
Ivan Solotaroff, Author, The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty
Open to the public; No charge. Reservations NOT required
For more information, please call (212) 382-6600 Ext. 6614.
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| April 03, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Weekly Witness and Demonstration for Alternatives to Capital Punishment
4:30 -6:00 p.m. 21st Ave. S & Wedgewood
Come hold signs and promote alternatives to state killing following the
principles of non-violence promoted by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Weekly until otherwise noted.
Sponsored by TCASK
E-mail: tcask@earthlink.net
Web Site: www.tcask.org
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| April 04, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Candlelight Vigil
CAADP hosts a Candlelight Vigil at 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
on 4th Ave on the Winsit Stage (between 7th and 9th).
Dr. Kathy Norgard, Psychologist, will speak about her personal experience with the death penalty".
We hope to also host a guest
speaker from Texas.
This vigil, NOT IN MY NAME, is to show that
there are many, worldwide, emotionally effected on many levels by this
terrible unjust practice.
Contact Israel for more details: 520-323-1351
israelcarpenter@aol.com
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| April 04, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Delivery of Clemency Postcards and Letters to Governor Sundquist
1:00 pm, Governor's Office
On the 34th anniversary of the assasination of
Martin Luther King, Jr., the accumulated orange clemency postcards and
letters writen to Governor Sundquist will be delivered to his office as a
media event.
The "deliverers" will be Naomi Tutu (Race Relations Institute), Hedy
Weinberg (ACLU-TN), Reverend Victor Singletary (Interdenominational
Ministerial Fellowship) and Randy Tatel (TCASK).
We, the presenters, would like for as many people as possible to accompany us on
this delivery. We will probably meet about 12:45 pm. in War Memorial Plaza
in front of the the Legislature, have a moment of silence and then walk across
Charlotte to the Governor's office.
We will make a formal presentation and have a few words for the media.
We will have oversized laminated copies of letters supporting clemency from
NAMI-Nashville, ACLU national office, and TACDL as props for the delivery.
Please reply by E-mail to: tcask@earthlink.net
or call 615-329-0048 if you would like to come.
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| 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
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| April 05, 2002 |
Atmore (Holman) AL
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Click here to read report.
Gary Leon Brown is scheduled to be killed by the State of Alabama at
12:01 am local time for the 1987 Killing of Jack McGraw
Click Here for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| April 05, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| April 5-6, 2002 |
Milledgeville, GA
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia: A Death Penalty Symposium
This symposium will provide some insight into the issue of the death penalty in Georgia and its impact on the rest of the nation.
The symposium is meant to educate Georgians to give them a better understanding about the issue, its history, and its impact on the Georgia legal system.
Day 1 Friday
9:00 a.m. Pillory to Penitentiary: The Transformation of Georgia's Bloody Code, 1733-1833
11:00 a.m. The Death Penalty in Georgia: A Twentieth Century Overview
12:30 to 2:00 Lunch
2:00 p.m. Gregg v. Georgia
4:00 p.m. Furman v. Georgia
5:30 p.m. Film Presentation: Dead Man Walking
7:30 p.m. Dinner (Tickets for the dinner can be purchased by
calling Dr. Craig S. Pascoe at (478) 445-7382. the deadline for reserving tickets is March 29)
Day 2 Saturday
9:00 a.m. Coker v. Georgia
11:00 a.m. On Death Row: A View from the Inside
12:30 to 2:00 Lunch
2:00 p.m. Challenges to the Death Penalty: Race, Mental
Capacity, and 'Cruel and Unusual'
4:00 p.m. Film Presentation: Dead Woman Walking
7:30 p.m. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia: A Forum on the Death Penalty in Georgia
Moderator: L. Lynn Hogue, Professor of Law, Georgia State University
For further information, contact Dr. Craig S. Pascoe:
Phone: (478) 445-7382.
E-mail: cpascoe@mail.gcsu.edu
Web Site: www.gcsu.edu/acad_affairs/coll_artsci/hist_geo/Center/center.html
Sponsored by:
The Center for Georgia Studies
The College of Arts & Sciences, Georgia College & State University
(supported in part by a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council)
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| April 05-07, 2002 |
Charlotte, NC
Social Justice/Death Penalty Conference
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, 234 N. Sharon Amity Rd,
There will be 50 speakers addressing five sessions:
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender;
Peace & Justice;
Economic Justice;
Death Penalty;
and a Final Panel Session.
In addition, there will be six conference awards that will be given for
outstanding dedication to various aspects of social justice.
There will be food and refreshments.
If you are interested in home hospitality or more information on The Social Justice Conference, call Wally Kleucker at 704-364-3835 or 704-683-1336,
E-mail uuforpeace@cs.com
or visit the web site http://uusac.tripod.com for detailed session and registration information.
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| April 06, 2002 |
San Quentin, CA
Protest Against the Death Penalty
11am to 2pm, outside San Quentin State Prison
In January of 2000, the governor of Illinois declared a moratorium on
executions, which means executions came to a halt, mostly because of the
high number of innocent people who had been released from death row. We can
win a moratorium here in California! With the largest death row in the U.S.,
California has all the same problems as states like Illinois and it is time
to expose them!
Kevin Cooper is the first death row inmate in California to
receive post-conviction DNA testing under the new law, and it could prove
him innocent. But Kevin Cooper is not alone, there are many others with
strong cases of innocence that need to be brought to light, not to mention
cases affected by racism, police corruption, and prosecutorial misconduct.
A majority of people support a moratorium in California. we need to show our
strength in numbers! Come out for a protest at San Quentin and make your
voice heard!
For directions or carpool information,
please call 510-985-2805
sponsored by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
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| April 07, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Non-denominational Citywide Prayer Service to stop the Execution of Abu-Ali
4:00 p.m. First Baptist Church Capital Hill 900 James Robertson Parkway at Charlotte Ave (TEL: 615-255-8757)
Speakers and prayers will focus on forgiveness and ask
Governor Sundquist to use his executive power to do an extraordinary thing
- choose life over killing.
The church will hold 400+ people and we ask
that believers and non-believers, faith based, secular and spiritual people
alike, come together and merge their energy and passion Sunday afternoon.
Sponsored by Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship (IMF) and the Covenant Association
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| April 07, 2002 |
El Paso, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - El Paso - Regular Silent
Vigil
(first Sunday of each month)
6-6:30 p.m. on the southside of San Jacinto Plaza
Vigils are held in memory of victims, offenders, and the families of both.
Contact Johntures@aol.com
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| April 08, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Open Debate/Forum
SADP will host an open debate/forum on the death penalty from 10:00 AM -
2:00 PM at Pima Community College - West Campus in the cafeteria.
There will be a panel of 8 speakers (4 on each side of the issue) from various backgrounds. All are encouraged
to attend and participate.
Arrangements are being made to bus high school students to the event.
Ed Yetman, philosophy teacher at PCC-W, will moderate the event.
Contact Israel for more details: 520-323-1351
israelcarpenter@aol.com
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| 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
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| April 09, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Action Committee - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm at Westminster Presbyterian (13th & N Streets).
Contact:
Chris Hartmire (916) 446-0874 or Tommy Clinkenbeard (916) 874-6411
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| April 09, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Execution Prayer Service and Vigil
Non-denominational Service
Unitarian Universalist Church at 1808 Woodmont Blvd (TEL: 615-383-5760), a
non-denominational service will be held for people to gather before
heading out to Riverbend Maximum Security Institute (RMSI) - time will be
posted.
Vigil
Vigil at RMSI, we will gather at Riverbend for a long pre-execution
vigil where speakers and musicians will help buoy spirits and try to make
sense of the insane event scheduled for 1:00 a.m. Wednesday morning April
10th.
Candles, coffee, water will be provided. Directions and what to expect will be forwarded and available at the Unitarian Church earlier in
the evening.
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| April 09, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| April 09, 2002 |
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing
(TCASK) - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
Confirm location via email. etcask@hotmail.com
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| April 10, 2002 |
Tucson, AZ
Arizona Center for Disability Law's Tucson Spring Event
5 to 7 p.m. Reception in the courtyard of the law offices of Piccarreta & Davis and William Walker
145 South Sixth Avenue.
You are cordially invited to the Arizona Center for Disability Law's
Tucson Spring Event. This year we will be honoring the Tucson
Jewish Community Center; two of our clients: William Darnell and
Jeremy Fass; and Kathy Norgard will be accepting the Bill Edwards'
Mental Health Advocacy Award on behalf of disability and abolition
advocates for their work resulting in a law abolishing
the death penalty for people with mental retardation.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Lorraine Freyer:
Tel: 520-327-9547 E-mail lfreyer@acdl.com
Tickets can either be purchased at the door or checks made out to the Arizona Center for Disability Law can be sent to 100 North Stone Avenue, Suite 305, Tucson, AZ 85701.
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| April 10, 2002 |
Springfield, IL
Too Flawed To Fix Lobby Day: A Day of Action and Advocacy Against the Death Penalty
Join Amnesty, the Illinois Coalition against the Death Penalty, the
Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the Justice Coalition of Greater
Chicago, and Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation, Wellington Ave.
United Church of Christ (list in formation), and other activists from
around the state to lobby for the abolition of the death penalty.
A free bus will leave from Chicago with an en route stop in Joliet.
Reservations should be made to hold a seat. A light snack of fruits,
pastries, and juices will be served on the bus. There are several coffee
shops the area where the bus will load for a 7:00 AM departure. The Bus
will leave from the corner of Jackson and Dearborn in the Loop at the base
of the Monadnock Building where the AI Midwest Regional Office is located.
We request that people gather at 6:15 AM to be ready to board the bus at
6:45 AM. The bus has toilet facilities, you will have access to the AI
office facilities until 6:45 AM, and there will be intermediary stops in
Joliet and an appropriate place an hour outside of Springfield.
The Bus
will return to Chicago by 8:00 PM. Joliet people will be returned to the
same location on the return trip. All meals are on your own and restaurant
information will be included in your lobby day packets.
We will work with lead volunteer organizers in various communities outside
of Chicago to coordinate and facilitate carpools to Springfield. The same
lead volunteer community organizers will coordinate outreach and
recruitment for participation in lobby day.
For further information, flyers and/or to reserve your spot on the bus, contact Lydia ASAP,
E-mail: lydia@jcua.org
If you can't attend lobby day you can virtual lobby on your State
Representative by phone, fax, or mail on April 10th and ask him
or her to support House Bill 576, which abolishes the death
penalty in Illinois. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Art Turner
(D-9, Chicago) and five others (McKeon, Younge, Currie, Delgado,
and Yarbrough). If your legislator is a sponsor ? thank him or
her for their leadership. The Illinois House Judiciary II
Committee will conduct hearings on the bill this spring.
You may call Illinois State Board of Elections or use their web
site to find your State Representative. The phone number is
217/782-4141 (Springfield) and 312/814-6440 (Chicago). The url
is www.elections.state.il.us/dls/pages/SelectOfficialSearch.asp
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| April 10, 2002 |
Boston, MA
Matters of Life, Death, and Reconciliation
7:30 pm, Old South Church, Copley Square
You are invited to attend a forum that will consider
responses to murder from personal, theological, and political perspectives.
The forum will feature two highly regarded speakers:
Rev. Walter Everett from the United Methodist Church of
Hartford will tell the story of how he forgave and befriended the man who
killed his son Scott.
Rep. Byron Rushing will speak about current debates at
the State House pertaining to the death penalty and life-sentences.
This event is open to the general public.
For more information, please
contact Brooks Berndt at (617) 425-5148
E-mail: BrooksBerndt@aol.com
Old South is located next to the Copley Square T stop on the green line.
List of Sponsors:
American Friends Service Committee's Criminal Justice Program
The Amnesty International Local Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
Amnesty International Group 151
Christian Service and Outreach Committee at Old South Church
City Mission Society's Criminal Justice Program
Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation
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| April 10, 2002 |
Mineral Point (Potosi), MO
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Paul Kreutzer is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time for the 1992 killing of Louise Hemphill.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| April 10, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Click here to read report.
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman is scheduled to be killed by the State of Tennessee at 12:01 am
local time for the 1986 killing of Patrick Daniels.
Click Here and see April 9th events
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere as it becomes available.
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| April 10, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Jose Santellan Sr. is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1993 killing of Yolanda Garza.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| April 10, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Weekly Witness and Demonstration for Alternatives to Capital Punishment
4:30 -6:00 p.m. 21st Ave. S & Wedgewood
Come hold signs and promote alternatives to state killing following the
principles of non-violence promoted by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Weekly until otherwise noted.
Sponsored by TCASK
E-mail: tcask@earthlink.net
Web Site: www.tcask.org
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| April 10-14, 2002 |
Various Communities, DE
Journey of Hope - From Violence to Healing
Journey of Hope...from Violence to Healing is an organization that is led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty.
Journey "storytellers" come from all walks of life and represent the full spectrum and diversity of faith, color and economic situation. They are real people who know first hand the aftermath of the insanity and horror of murder. They recount their tragedies and their struggles to heal as a way of opening dialogue on the death penalty in schools, colleges, churches and other venues.
The Journey spotlights murder victim's family members who choose not to seek revenge, and instead select the path of love and compassion for all of humanity. Forgiveness is seen as a strength and as a way of healing. The greatest resources of the Journey are the people who are a part of it.
For information on what will be happening where in Delaware, visit:
www.journeyofhope.org
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| April 11, 2002 |
Los Angeles, CA
The Criminal INjustice System with Abe Bonowitz (Director of Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty)
5:00pm Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road
Abe Bonowitz will speak about the criminal INjustice system and offer tools and ideas
for creating CHANGE.
You are cordially invited to attend this event.
Sponsored by the Associated Students of Occidental College
For more information, or to arrange additional events during Abe's stay in California (April 10-14):
E-mail: abe@cuadp.org, or Tel: 1-800-973-6548
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| April 11, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
William Burns is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1981 killing of Johnny Lynn Hamlett.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| 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.
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| April 11, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Amnesty International - Regular Meeting
(second Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:30 pm, Southern Methodist University, room 138, Dallas Hall
Contact Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| April 11-12, 2002 |
Boulder and Denver, CO
"Capitol Conspiracy" - Public Lectures by Robert Meeropol
Robert Meeropol, youngest son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, will be speaking
about the similarities of the political climate
now, and at the time of his parents' conviction and execution, in an effort
to help us avoid yet more miscarriages of justice.
Boulder Thursday, April 11th, 7 PM, First Methodist Church, 14th and Spruce, Boulder
Denver Friday, April 12th, 7 PM, First Mennonite Church, 9th and Elati
The talks are free and open to the public. Donations will be requested for Robert's foundation, The Rosenberg Fund for
Children which gives support to "the children of targeted progressive activists".
Sponsored by: The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, American Friends Service
Committee, Amnesty International and Coloradans Against the Death Penalty.
For more information, see the CADP Web page at:
www.coadp.org/thepublications/pub-2002-4-Meerapol.html
For information on the Rosenberg Fund for Children, downloadable photos, or
to arrange an interview with Robert Meeropol, contact Amber Black at the RFC,
413-739-9020, E-mail amber@rfc.org
or visit the PRESS ROOM at www.rfc.org.
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| 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
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| April 12, 2002 |
Washington, DC
A Forum On New Challenges For Civil Legal Services & Criminal Defense
9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,
Sponsored by the National Equal Justice Library (a joint project of the American Bar Association, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association,&
the American Association of Law Libraries)
This day-long
forum will address the topic of equal access to justice from comparative
& historical perspectives as well as within the context of recent world
events.
Panels of distinguished experts, along with conference attendees,
will focus on three timely topics:
(1) The Right to Counsel in Civil Cases: Is America Finally Ready for this Step?
(2) Administration of the Death Penalty in the Twenty First Century
(3) The Impact of Terrorism on the Balance Between Civil Liberties and National Security.
Outline of Program
9:30-9:45 Welcome - Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law
9:45-11:15 Panel One - Will 'Gideon's Trumpet' Sound Again? The Prospects for a Right To Equal
Justice in Civil Cases
11:30-1:00 Panel Two - Administration of the Death Penalty in the USA
1:00-2:30 Lunch Keynote Speaker & Award Presentations
2:30-4:00 - Panel Three Striking a Balance Between Civil Liberties and National Security in the
Age of Terrorism
4:30-6:00 Reception for Forum Speakers and attendees featuring a presentation
commemorating the 35th Anniversary of the "Reggie" Program.
To register on line, visit: www.wcl.american.edu/secle
If you have additional questions, please contact us at (202) 274-4075 or
via E-mail at secle@wcl.american.edu.
For more information about the forum, please contact:
Robert Forman, National Equal Justice Library Archivist (202) 274 - 4320
E-mail: nejl@wcl.american.edu or rforman@wcl.american.edu
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| April 12, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| April 12-13, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Doing Justice to Mercy: Contemporary Problems and Prospects in Criminal
Justice
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Swift Lecture Hall, The Divinity School 1025 E 58th Street
The increasingly protracted sentences, prison populations, and capital
punishments in recent decades point to systemic movement toward more punitive
criminal justice practices. Is there a role for mercy within this system?
What theological, philosophical, and legal resources can be marshaled to
reconceive criminal justice, whether as deterrence, punishment,
rehabilitation, or restoration? How can we adjudicate between suffering of
offenders and suffering of victims?
Friday, April 12, 2002
Tipping the Scales: Balancing Legal Justice and Mercy
9:00 "Tempering or Tampering? Mercy and the Administration of Criminal
Justice"
Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School
Respondent: Albert Alschuler, The University of Chicago Law School
10:30 Panel Discussion
Dan Markel, Berkman Fellow, Harvard Law School
Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project
Winnifred Sullivan, The University of Chicago Divinity School
Sustaining Convictions and Challenging Beliefs
1:30 "Thinking the Death of Jesus as Execution"
Mark Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
Respondent: Sarah Coakley, Havard Divinity School
3:00 Panel Discussion
Peter Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary
William Schweiker, The University of Chicago Divinity School
Jean Elshtain, The University of Chicago Divinity School
4:30 Reception
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Intersections: Individual Accountability, Communal Responsibilities
9:00 "Why International Justice Matters in God's World"
David Scheffer, United States Institute of Peace
Respondent: David Little, Harvard Divinity School
10:30 Panel Discussion
Ernie Lewis, Public Advocate
Lois Livezey, McCormick Theological Seminary
Randolph Stone, The University of Chicago Law School
William Placher, Wabash College
Theology and Public Life: An Open Conversation
1:00 Presentations and Conversation
W. Clark Gilpin, The University of Chicago Divinity School
Ronald Thiemann, Harvard Divinity School
2:30 Concluding Reflections
William Schweiker, The University of Chicago Divinity School
For more information visit: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/whatsnew/conferences.html#justice
or contact: (773) 702-8230, Jonathan Rothchild jbrothch@midway.uchicago.edu
or Kevin Jung kjung@midway.uchicago.edu
Sponsors: University of Chicago Divinity School, Martin Marty Center
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| April 13, 2002 |
Los Angeles, CA
Effective Activism with Abe Bonowitz (Director of Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty)
1:00 - 3:00pm, Unitarian Universalist Church (4190 Front Street across from UCSD Hospital.)
Abe Bonowitz will share insight and lead a discussion on "Effective Activism".
You are cordially invited to participate this event.
Sponsored by the San Diego chapters of Death Penalty Focus and Amnesty International.
For more information call Tim Spann 619-531-1790
To arrange additional events during Abe's stay in California (April 10-14):
E-mail: abe@cuadp.org, or Tel: 1-800-973-6548
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| April 13, 2002 |
Wilmington, DE
Conference for Families of Death Row Inmates and Pre Trial Capital Cases
One day conference sponsored by "Because Love Allows Compassion" (BLAC).
9 am - 4 pm, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1502 W. 13th Street,
Facilitators and Workshops:
Kevin O' Connel Esq. - The appellate process
Tonya MacCleary Esq - Being active in your loved ones case
Shakeerah Hameen. - Preparing for a pardons board
Phyllis Pautrat - Pretrial mitigating
Sandy Jones - Coping
Sandy Jones and Phylliss Pautrat will moderate a "Tell us what is on your mind" workshop.
In addition, there will be a program, just for teenagers.
Lunch will be provided by BLAC but please advise us of your attendance so that we have an idea of how many to cater for.
Transportation from the bus and train station available on request
For more information including directions, contact:
Anne Coleman, E-mail abolish@DMV.com
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| April 13, 2002 |
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Citizens to Abolish Capital Punishment - Monthly Meeting
12:00PM - 2:00PM (local time) Roberts Park United Methodist Church, 401 N. Delaware Street (corner of Vermont and Delaware)
Web Site: www.icacp.org
E-mail: info@icacp.org
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| April 13, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
OCADP Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Metro Tech Springlake Conference Center
1900 Springlake Dr. (west of Martin Luther King Blvd., north of NE 36th)
sponsored by Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Keynote speaker will be David Kaczynski, brother of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty.
More details will be forthcoming.
Web Site: www.ocadp.org
E-mail: Mary Sine
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| April 13 - June 02, 2002 |
Hollywood, CA
"The Exonerated"
The Actors' Gang Theater, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. (1 block east of Vine at El Centro)
Life After Death Row---2 actors, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, traveled the country to meet people
wrongly convicted. The result: a drama and a new perspective.
The Exonerated, based on their interviews with eleven people on Death Row who barely excaped being executed.
confronts us with the nightmare of wrongful conviction.
Previews, Saturday April 13th; runs April 19-June 2. Showtimes are 8 p.m.
Preview, $10. Regular shows, $15-$20, with $5 student and senior discounts
Thursdays and Sundays.
For detailed information including reviews, performances and ticket ordering, visit the Actor's Gang Web Site:
www.theactorsgang.com
or call: (323) 465-0566
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| April 14, 2002 |
Los Angeles, CA
Justice for All - an evening of performance to support abolition of the death penalty
7:00 and 9:00 pm, 6545 Santa Monica Blvd. (323) 463-7585
E-mail: JONSLICE17@aol.com
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| April 14, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(second Sunday of the month)
3:00-5:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church 1901 N. Douglas
E-mail: hulinst@worldnet.att.net
Web Site: www.ocadp.org
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| April 14-21, 2002 |
Costa Mesa, CA
Dead Man Walking - The Opera
Opera Pacific
First a best-selling book, then a major film which starred Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, Sister Helen Prejean's true story of murder, redemption and execution is now an unforgettable opera, with an inspired score by Jake Heggie and a moving libretto by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. The San Francisco world premiere, internationally praised by critics, was the most successful new opera in the company's 76-year history.
Opera Pacific Artistic Director John DeMain conducts a cast that includes several of the original cast members, including the incomparable Frederica von Stade in her long-awaited Opera Pacific debut, Kristin Jepson as Sister Helen, and John Packard as the convict DeRocher
Web Site www.operapacific.org/dead_man_walking.html
For ticketing information or questions, please call 800-34-OPERA or 800-346-7372
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| 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
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| April 14-22, 2002 |
Various Communities, NJ
Journey of Hope - From Violence to Healing
Journey of Hope...from Violence to Healing is an organization that is led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty.
Journey "storytellers" come from all walks of life and represent the full spectrum and diversity of faith, color and economic situation. They are real people who know first hand the aftermath of the insanity and horror of murder. They recount their tragedies and their struggles to heal as a way of opening dialogue on the death penalty in schools, colleges, churches and other venues.
The Journey spotlights murder victim's family members who choose not to seek revenge, and instead select the path of love and compassion for all of humanity. Forgiveness is seen as a strength and as a way of healing. The greatest resources of the Journey are the people who are a part of it.
For information on what will be happening where in New Jersey, visit:
www.journeyofhope.org
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| April 15, 2001 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Vigil
(third Monday of each month - except February)
12 Noon to 1pm at the State Capitol, North Steps, 11th & L Streets
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty is a Chapter of Death Penalty Focus.
Contact: Georgia Lyga, Vigil Committee Volunteer Coordinator
Voice Mail: (916) 457-7640
E-mail:
georgiannl@earthlink.net
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| April 15, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Dallas Chapter - Regular Meeting
(third Monday of each month)
7:00-9:00pm, Paperback Plus Bookstore, 6115 La Vista Dr., Live Oak at La Vista, 2nd FLOOR
(between Skillman and Abrams in Lakewood)
Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| April 16, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| April 16, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Houston Chapter - Regular Meeting
(third Tuesday of each month) new location and day
7:00 pm, Olive Branch Meeting Room, 2360 Rice Boulevard in The Village.
Contact dpatwood@igc.org or Nancy Bailey nlbailey@earthlink.net for details
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| April 17, 2002 |
Amherst, MA
"Capital Conspiracy: The New Face of the Death Penalty After 9/11"
7:00 pm in Hasbrouck 134, University of MA (free and open to the public)
Until now, the United States has not had a capital conspiracy
case since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for
"conspiracy to commit espionage" in 1953 at the height of the
Cold War. In the wake of 9/11, one defendant charged with
"conspiracy to commit terrorism" faces execution if convicted,
and others may follow. This lecture by Attorney Robert Meeropol (the younger son of the
Rosenbergs) will re-examine government misconduct during his
parents' case and its relation to current events.
The talk will warn that similarities between the anti-communist
fervor of the 1950's, and today's crackdown on civil liberties
amidst the war on terrorism, could spawn more miscarriages of
justice. "In my parents' case, tried during the Korean War,
prosecutors linked the thing the public feared most (the Atomic
Bomb), with the people the public feared most (communists), to
justify the death penalty," observes Meeropol. "Now we're at war
again, and prosecutors already are linking the thing the public
fears most (terrorism) with the people the public fears most,
(Islamic fundamentalists), to obtain a similar outcome for those
caught up in the anti-terrorist dragnet."
Meeropol also will discuss the work of the organization he
founded to honor his parents' legacy, the Rosenberg Fund for
Children (RFC). The RFC is a public foundation that provides for
the educational and emotional needs of children in this country
whose parents have suffered because of their progressive
activities. The RFC also provides grants for the educational and
emotional needs of targeted activist youth. Institutions and
professionals are awarded grants to provide services for RFC
beneficiaries at no cost or reduced cost. Services covered by
RFC grants can include: school tuition, college books, special
types of travel, music lessons, summer camp, therapy, day care,
travel to visit an incarcerated relative, etc. With its Spring
2002 awards, the RFC topped over $1,000,000 in total grants,
made to more than 200 beneficiaries, since the Fund's beginning
in 1990.
The University's Commonwealth College, Writing Program, Graduate
Employee Organization, and Radical Student Union, along with the
Western MA Chapter of the American Friends Service Committee,
are co-sponsoring the event. This address, and a second at
Holyoke Community College on May 7th, are two local stops on
Meeropol's current speaking tour that includes events in
Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, and the Northeast.
For information on this event, the Rosenberg Fund for Children, downloadable
photos, or to arrange an interview with Robert Meeropol, contact
Amber Black at the RFC, 413-739-9020, amber@rfc.org or visit the
PRESS ROOM at www.rfc.org/
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| April 17, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Robert Henry is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1993 killing of Carol Lea Arnold.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| April 18, 2002 |
Beverly Hills, CA
11th Annual Death Penalty Focus Awards Dinner
6:30pm, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
This year's dinner is dedicated to the memory of our great friend and supporter Jack Lemmon.
Hosted by Honorary Co-Chairs Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Marg Helgenberger, Jane Kaczmarek, Norman Lear, Peter MacNicol, Alan Rosenberg, Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford,
our dinner will pay tribute to those whose efforts have aided in this epic struggle.
We will honor noted economist and philanthropist, the inimitable Stanley K. Sheinbaum, for his prodigious efforts toward peace and cooperation across the world.
We will also honor our own Reverend James Lawson, Jr., a towering force and inspiring figure in America's lonely battles for peace, justice and racial equality.
We are proud to honor the work of an outstanding actor and leader in the abolition movement, Danny Glover.
We are thrilled to present the Mario Cuomo Acts of Courage Award to Rep. Barbara Lee of California. The sole member of Congress to stand against President Bush's war resolution.
And finally, it is our great pleasure to present a special award to the incomparable broadcaster and journalist, Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize winning author known as the greatest oral historian of the century.
We invite you to take part in this wonderful evening by purchasing tickets and/or an ad in the tribute book.
Please contact Michael Teta & Associates for ticket information at (323) 658-5660.
For additional information on those being honoured, visit www.deathpenalty.org/act/dinner_2002.htm
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| April 18, 2002 |
St. Louis, MO
Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, 4557 Laclede
Tel: 314-241-8062
E-mail: emcadp@mindspring.com
Web Site: www.mindspring.com/~emcadp
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| April 18, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Gerald Casey is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1989 killing of Sonya Lynn Howell.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| April 18-21, 2002 |
Seattle, WA
Amnesty International Annual General Meeting
Click here to read an interview with Rick Halperin.
AIUSA's Annual
General Meeting will be held in Seattle. WA.
Human Rights Education workshops, inspirational speakers, mandate and
policy discussions
Call 1-866-ARegion (1-866-273-4466) for details
or E-mail: aiusa-agm@aiusa.org
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| April 19, 2002 |
Altmore, (Holman) AL
Execution Vigils and Protests - NEW DATE - SEE MAY 10
Linda Lyon Block is scheduled to be killed by the State of Alabama at
12:01 am local time for the 1993 Killing of Roger Lamar Motley
Vigil information will be provided as it becomes available
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| April 19, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| April 19-20, 2002 |
Cambridge, MA
Wrongful Convictions - A Call to Action
Conference at Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Sponsored by The Criminal Justice Institute of Harvard Law School Testa, Hurwitz, & Thibeault
and the New England Innocence Project
This conference will bring together defense
lawyers, prosecutors, social workers, law enforcement personnel, judges,
legislators, journalists, and the victims of wrongful convictions to examine
systemic problems that give rise to wrongful convictions and to propose
concrete remedies for these problems at all stages of a criminal prosecution.
Panels will
examine cases of wrongful convictions and underlying issues in eyewitness
identifications, DNA testing, confessions, jail-house "snitches,"
suppression of
exculpatory evidence, inadequate representation, and forensic testing.
The
conference will also focus on the difficulties of reintegration and proposals
for compensation for those who have been exonerated as well as on developing
post-conviction and post-release resources.
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Governor George Ryan of Illinois will
deliver keynote addresses.
Registration:
General Pre-Registration: $125 *
General Registration: $150
Public Interest Pre-Registration: (includes public defenders, law enforcement
officers, legal service workers, community organizers). $50 *
Public Interest Registration: $75
Student Registration: Students who wish to have meals and materials may
register at the public Interest rate.
FREE (excludes meals and materials)
*Advance Registration fees must be postmarked on or before March 29,
2002, and includes meals and materials.
For more information about this timely conference contact Criminal Justice Institute of Harvard Law School at (617) 496-8143
Web Site: www.law.harvard.edu
E-mail: inncon02@law.harvard.edu
Additional supporting sponsors include the Massachusetts Association of
Criminal
Defense Lawyers, Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty, and the
Criminal Justice Policy Coalition.
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| April 20, 2002 |
Los Angeles
"The Death Penalty: We can live without it"
8:30am-4pm, Cathedral Center, 840 Echo Park Ave.
A one-day conference on the death penalty has been organized by the
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
Speakers include: Bishop Bruno, Bishop Talton, Steve Rohde, Rabbi Beerman,
Azim Khamisa, Ples Felix, Bruce Bramlett, Sonny Jacobs and Pat Clark.
The conference is oriented to youth as well as
and adults, so youth groups are encouraged to come and can attended special
youth sessions (7-12th grades).
For information call (213) 387-1334.
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| April 20, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(third Saturday of each month)
9:30 am, 180 N. Michigan, Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60601.
Please call or e-mail for more information
Jane Bohman Tel: (312) 849-2279
E-mail: jbohman@icadp.org
Web Site: www.icadp.org
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| April 22, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| April 23, 2002 |
Louisville, KY
KCADP Louisville/Jefferson County Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm, Highland Presbyterian Church, 1011 Cherokee Road
New members always welcome
Contact: Ray Schweri
E-mail: joywolf45@aol.com
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| April 23, 2002 |
Jefferson City, MO
Actions for Chris Simmons - Juvenile Scheduled for Execution in Missouri
A PRESS CONFERENCE is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23, 2:00
pm, in the first floor of the Capitol in Jefferson City. Please be there.
Speakers will include:
1. Jennifer Brewer, attorney for Chris Simmons
2. Cheryl Hayes, Mother of Chris Simmons
3. Sr. Elaine AuBuchon, SSND, Criminal Justice Ministry, St. Vincent DePaul, and spiritual advisor to Chris Simmons
4. Elizabeth Gaines, Youth Policy Analysist for Citizens for Missouri's Children, speaking about Missouri's policy to execute juveniles
5. Senator Roseann Bentley, (R-Springfield)sponsor of legislation to raise the age limit from 16-18 in Missouri.
6. Dr. David Foote, psychologist (provided by Jeff)
7. Rita Linhardt, Missouri Catholic Conference
Statements will be read from:
Missouri Juvenile Justice Association Youth Enlightenment Program participants who know the importance of
having Chris continue working on this program.
From Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty (573) 635-7239
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| April 23, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| April 23-29, 2002 |
Various Communities, NY
Journey of Hope - From Violence to Healing
Journey of Hope...from Violence to Healing is an organization that is led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty.
Journey "storytellers" come from all walks of life and represent the full spectrum and diversity of faith, color and economic situation. They are real people who know first hand the aftermath of the insanity and horror of murder. They recount their tragedies and their struggles to heal as a way of opening dialogue on the death penalty in schools, colleges, churches and other venues.
The Journey spotlights murder victim's family members who choose not to seek revenge, and instead select the path of love and compassion for all of humanity. Forgiveness is seen as a strength and as a way of healing. The greatest resources of the Journey are the people who are a part of it.
For information on what will be happening where in New York, visit:
www.journeyofhope.org
or Click here
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| 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?
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| April 25, 2002 |
Lexington, KY
KCADP Central Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:00pm, Newman Center, 320 Rose Lane
New members always welcome
Contact: Will Warner
E-mail: tortilla@iglou.com
Web Site: www.kcadp.org
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| April 25, 2002 |
Brazos Valley, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Brazos Valley Chapter -
Regular Meeting
(last Thursday of each month)
Friends Congregational Church at 2200 Southwood Drive
Please contact us to confirm the meeting date, location and time
E-mail: tcadpbv@yahoo.com
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| April 26, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| April 26, 2002 |
Lucasville, OH
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Alton Coleman is scheduled to be killed by the State of Ohio at 10:00 am
local time for the 1984 murders of Tonnie Storey and Marlene Walters.
Click Here
for information regarding events and vigils at the prison and elsewhere as it becomes available.
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| Apr 26, 2002 |
Columbus, OH
The Free Press 2002 Annual Awards Dinner
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio, 67 E. Innis Ave.
Honoring:
Les Stansbery - the 2002 Free Press "Libby" Award for Community Activism
Bob Allen - Selma Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Human Rights
Activism
Bill Moss - Debs-Thomas Award for Social Justice Activism
5pm - doors open
6pm - dinner, catered by The Red Sea, Eritrean and American cuisine
7pm - awards program
Entertainment by the Native American Indian Center drummers
Art Show by bifani
Donation: $15 individual, low income negotiated, under 8 free
Pay at the door
Email freepress@iwaynet.net or call 614-253-2571
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| Apr 27, 2002 |
Washington, DC
Benefit Concert Sponsored by the Campaign To End The Death Penalty
9:00 p.m. to closing, Downstairs at The Big Hunt, 1345 Connecticut Avenue, NW (below Dupont Circle)
This is going to be a evening full of fun.. all for a great cause.
Please come and share in the music and revelry
Featuring... Steam and Broccoli, Hoover's G-String & Yuma House (slide guitar and banjo) (power / pop) (indie / pop)
$7 Cover At The Door / Discounted Drinks
Campaign To End The Death Penalty web site: www.nodeathpenalty.org/
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| April 27, 2002 |
Baltimore, MD
All Out Demonstration against the Upcoming Execution of Wesley Baker
1:00pm, Supermax Prison, 401 E. Madison.
While the CEDP is putting out a lead for the fight against the resumption of executions in Maryland,
we know that our success depends on the involvement of other groups
and individuals -- we invite, encourage and need your participation.
For further information on this, and other activities, contact CEDP at: noreen@nodeathpenalty.org.
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| April 27, 2002 |
Austin, TX
Annual John Henry Faulk Awards Banquet
Red Lion Inn, I-35 & Hwy. 290
Organized by the ACLU of Texas
You are invited to join the ACLU of Texas in honoring a
courageous champion of criminal justice reform - State Representative Juan
"Chuy" Hinojosa, Chair of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Subcommittee,
who fought along side the ACLU last session to require corroborating
evidence in drug stings, to ban executing children and the mentally
retarded, to reform the indigent defense system, to ban racial profiling
and to hold police accountable for misconduct.
Hinojosa led the charge to end use of the death penalty against the
mentally retarded. While the Legislature passed this reform, it was vetoed
by the Governor. His Bill providing life without parole as an alternative
to execution narrowly failed in the House.
The principal speaker is syndicated columnist Molly Ivins.
$75 per person
Cocktail hour 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner and program begin at 7:30 pm
For information, call (713) 942-8146.
Reserve your place now with a check made out to the:
ACLU of Texas,
P.O. Box 3629,
Austin, Texas 78764
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| 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
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| April 28, 2002 |
Burlington, VT
Sister Beatrice Woods Memorial Dinner & Auction to benefit Dismas House
Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, 870 Williston Rd, South Burlington
5:00 pm - Social Hour & Silent Auction
7:00 pm - Dinner
Bud Welch father of Oklahoma City bombing victim Julie-Marie, and a staunch opponent of the death penalty, is the guest speaker at this year's annual "Sister Bea" Dinner and Auction
Master of Ceremonies for the evening is Kevin Sculley, former Burlington City Chief of Police
In addition, the Jack Hickey award will be presented to the Honorable Francis B. McCaffrey.
Join us for a special evening, with special people for a special reason!
Named for the repentant criminal who was crucified beside Jesus, the first Dismas House opened in Nashville, Tennessee in 1974.
It was conceived by the Rev. Jack Hickey, O.P., Catholic chaplain at Vanderbilt, and a group of students.
They had discovered that many parolees had no family support, no jobs, and no place to live after release. These students shared a home with former prisoners as an extension of the Vanderbilt Prison Project.
The work begun in Nashville has spread; the Vermont Dismas house was opened 17 years ago by Frank McCaffrey and his wife, Rita Whalen-McCaffrey.
The houses offer a supportive community for parolees who have no family or who fear that a return to their former environment might lead back to crime.
Many need help finding work and readjusting to life on the outside. Former prisoners plan to stay for three months, but many stay longer.
For students, whose residency is one year, Dismas House provides an opportunity to help others, to erase stereotypical thinking, and to learn what it's like to be in a relational process of reconciliation.
According to network-wide statistics, approximately 70% of Dismas House residents are successfully reconciled to their communities without returning to prison.
Reservations required, donation $35.00 per person
Contact: Kimberly Parsons 802-658-0381
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| April 28, 2002 |
New York City, NY
No more executions!
Click here to read report.
2:30pm - 4:30pm, Union Square,
Rally against the death penalty - New York Civil Liberties Union and New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty
For more information or if your organization wants to co-sponsor the rally and join us in the rising call to end the death penalty,
contact Julia Wolfson at the NYCLU (212) 344-3005 x248
Click here for more info and flyer
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| 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:
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
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| April 29, 2002 |
New York City, NY
Capital Punishment in the Age of Terrorism
7 pm: Association of the Bar, 42 W. 44th St free and open to the public
The basic purpose of the program is to describe how governments
respond to national crimes committed in war time or other periods of
national emergency, as distinct from individual crimes, and how legal
systems that are formed through the process of litigating more
"typical" crimes are able to cope with national crimes & crisis
situations.
Panelists will address a variety of topics, including the
use of military tribunals, in this country & others, when a defendant is
charged with such crimes; the effect on American death penalty law of
trials of alleged terrorists; the the period of Vichy France where many
French lawyers felt there was a sufficient "emergency" to justify
extreme departures from their otherwise longstanding traditions of due process.
Moderator: Norman Redlich, Former Dean, NY University Law School
Speakers:
David Bruck, Scholar-in-Residence, Washington and Lee School
of Law; Capital Defense Attorney
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Paul Saunders, Officer, Army Judge Advocate Gen'l Corps, 1967-71
Richard Weisberg, Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law,
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Sponsored by: Committee on Capital Punishment, Norman L. Greene, Chair
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| April 30, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report
Rodolfo Hernandez is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1985 killing of Victor Cerran.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| April 30, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| May 01, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty- Law Day March
12:00 noon, County Courthouse (9th & H Streets).
Community leaders, politicians, and
activists will gather at noon and march through downtown to the State
Capitol, where a delegation will deliver the petitions to Governor Davis's
office and hold a press conference.
Look for a flyer and other information
soon on our website, www.californiamoratorium.org, and plan to join us on
May 1st!
Contact: Chris Hartmire (916) 446-0874
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| May 01, 2002 |
Cambridge, MA
"Thin Blue Line" (1988) (Unrated) 103 minutes
7pm M.I.T. 26-100
Morris' landmark documentary sets out to prove that a convicted
hitchhiker did not kill a Dallas policeman in 1976 and that the
lowlife who fingered him did. The case was reopened after the film's
premier and the defendant exonerated. (Director Errol Morris, USA)
All screenings are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Sponsored by: LSC, Comparative Media Studies
For more info contact the MIT Lecture Series Committee at 617-258-8881
E-mail: lsc@mit.edu
Web Site: http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?36744
Campus Map: http://whereis.mit.edu
For information on other death penalty related events in Massachusetts,
visit: www.nodp.org/madpen
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| May 01, 2002 |
Baltimore, MD
"Stop Executions in Maryland" - Rally
4:00 pm, intersection of N. Avenue and Howard St.
CEDP have signed a contract to erect a billboard with the statement,
"Stop Executions in Maryland" on Wednesday, May 1st at the intersection of N. Avenue and Howard St.
A rally will take place in in front of this billboard.
It is hoped to run the billboard through the end of June and then relaunch
the billboard again in the fall.
A fundraising effort has been launched
to help pay for this effort.
Contact John Coursey for info at: johncoursey@hotmail.com.
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| May 01, 2002 |
Mineral Point (Potosi), MO
Execution Vigils and Protests - stayed until June 05, 2002
Chris Simmons is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| May 01, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Click here to read report.
Curtis Moore is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1995 killings of Roderick Moore, Latasha Boone and Henry Truevillen.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 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)
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| May 02, 2002 |
Indianapolis, IN
Oral Arguments at the Indiana Supreme Court
Zolo Agona Azania on death row in Indiana, will be
having his oral arguments with the Indiana Supreme Court at 10:45a.m. on
May 2.
Michael Deutsch (from the People's
Law Office in Chicago), is looking for people to go to court on that
day. If anyone is willing to respond, please email Mr
Deutsch at MDEUTSCH45@aol.com and indicate that you were referred by Sarah E Dillon.
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| May 03, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| May 03, 2002 |
Columbia (Broad River Correctional Institution), SC
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Richard Charles Johnson is scheduled to be killed by the State of South Carolina at
6:00 pm local time for the 1985 killing of Bruce K. Smalls .
Click Here for vigil
information
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| May 04, 2002 |
Hollywood, FL
A Psychoanalytic and Judicial Conversation on the Death Penalty
8:30 am - 4:00 pm, Memorial Regional Hospital – Auditorium A, 3501 Johnson St,
"As of September 11, a rogue and criminal entity has sentenced us to death.
The sentence makes no distinction between the innocent and the guilty.
Its authors proceed as self-declared sovereigns exacting limitless retribution.
The terrorizing extremity of their program reveals some of the malignant determinants operative in the pursuit of
both sovereignty and retribution. Some of those determinants also operative in judicially sanctioned executions
serve as the focus of this presentation. Proponents of the death penalty want something from it.
For them, having the State kill the convicted party seems to promise the kind of relief not available from any other
form of punishment.
During this presentation, using cultural and clinical material, I will address some of what is seems to promise.
The pursuit of such promise can only be undertaken as an exercise in sovereignty.
Such pursuit depends upon the unquestionable belief in one's absolute right to the imaginary fruits of retribution.
Today we will put into question that belief and that right." - Donald Moss, M.D. 2001.
Visit http://www.sefapp.org/events/death_penalty.htm for detailed information.
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| May 04, 2002 |
San Antonio, TX
Get Up, Stand Up! - Organizing Against Police Abuse
Claude Black Center
This statewide conference will
bring together civil rights activists, students, families and others from
around the state to educate, train and strategize on key police reform
issues such as racial profiling and police brutality.
We need YOU to make this event a success!!!
Here is a sneak peak of what to expect:
Keynote speaker King Downing, Director of the ACLU's National Racial
Profiling Project.
Interactive Workshops on:
o Regional Drug Task Forces;
o Police Misconduct and the Law 101;
o Effective Civilian Review;
o Social history of Police Brutality;
o Media Organizing 101;
o Police Harassment and Neglect in the Gay Community.
Meet with Civil rights leaders, Police Reform Activists, Students,
Academics, and Policy Advocates from all over the state to help strategize
for effective local and state-wide police accountability.
REGISTRATION AND TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE
To Register:
Visit the website at www.ProTex.org/criminaljustice
call 512-441-8123 or email s_maswoswe@hotmail.com today!
Participating organizations include local branches of the ACLU, NAACP,
Neighborhood Alliance and the Xicano Xicano Education Project.
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| May 04, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Continuing Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Click here to read report.
Protests will take place in front of the unit every Saturday in May from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
These protests are for the purpose of letting TDCJ know we demand improvement of conditions on
death row. Excessive use of force, unnecessary gassings, and
unsatisfactory meals, and inferior medical treatment must cease. Abusive
taunting language directed at prisoners by some of the guards must no
longer be tolerated.
These protests are also in support of the non-violent protest which will be
conducted by the prisoners on death row during the month of May.
Literature will be available to distribute to passing cars and visitors
leaving and arriving to visit at Polunsky. There will be some signs
available, but please feel free to bring signs with you with slogans
urging humane conditions and cessation of brutality.
We hope that the Saturday protests will make it possible for many of you
to attend who could not participate in the March Wednesday protests. I
have heard from quite a number of people who have indicated that if we
would plan something for a weekend, they would like to participate.
Those of you who live very very far away, look at your calenders and
plan to participate in at least one if not more of these events.
Organize car pools. Make contacts. If at all possible, be here May
11. It would be really good if at least one of these protests is major
huge. If we are to ever have an impact, TDCJ, our legislators and the
public must realize, by seeing us, that our numbers are significant.
Please get in touch with your media contacts. Also please post this
announcement on any other available e-list.
We hope to see you ALL there.
Nancy Bailey nlbailey@earthlink.net
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| May 05, 2002 |
El Paso, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - El Paso - Regular Silent
Vigil
(first Sunday of each month)
6-6:30 p.m. on the southside of San Jacinto Plaza
Vigils are held in memory of victims, offenders, and the families of both.
Contact Johntures@aol.com
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| May 07, 2002 |
San Diego, CA
Death Penalty Focus San Diego - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
7:00 PM, California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar St.
Ask lobby receptionist for meeting room number
For information call (619) 255-3873
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| May 07, 2002 |
Holyoke, MA
"Capital Conspiracy: The New Face of the Death Penalty After 9/11"
Time - TBA, Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Ave
Until now, the United States has not had a capital conspiracy
case since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for
"conspiracy to commit espionage" in 1953 at the height of the
Cold War. In the wake of 9/11, one defendant charged with
"conspiracy to commit terrorism" faces execution if convicted,
and others may follow.
Attorney Robert Meeropol (the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) will re-examine
government misconduct during his parents' case and its relation to current events.
The talk will warn that similarities between the anti-communist fervor of the 1950's,
and today's crackdown on civil liberties amidst the war on terrorism, could spawn more
miscarriages of justice.
For information on this event, the Rosenberg Fund for Children, downloadable
photos, or to arrange an interview with Robert Meeropol, contact
Amber Black at the RFC, 413-739-9020, amber@rfc.org or visit the
PRESS ROOM at www.rfc.org/
For information on other death penalty related events in Massachusetts,
visit: www.nodp.org/madpen
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| May 07, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Click here to read report.
Brian Edward Davis is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1991 killing of Michael Alan Foster.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 07, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| May 07, 2003 |
Houston, TX
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
SHAPE Community Center, 3903 Almeda Road, one block south of Alabama Street
The Abolition Movement is working to abolish the death penalty and to stop the illegal and horrific conditions on the Polunsky Unit which houses the 450 men on Texas' death row.
We are a diverse group of activists who believe through active struggle and with the support of the community we will effect change.
Contact: Njeri Shakur 713-521-0629 or 713-861-5965
E-mail: AbolitionMovement@juno.com
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| May 09, 2002 |
Boston, MA
Celebrate the End of Executions in Massachusetts - Work for Abolition of the Death Penalty Everywhere
12-2 pm at the Boston Common (near Park Street MBTA station)
On May 9, 1947, the justice system in Massachusetts
performed its last executions. On that day, Philip Bellino
and Edward Gersten were electrocuted at Charlestown State
Prison for the crime of murder.
Since then, despite a number of attempts to reinstate the
death penalty in recent years, Massachusetts has rejected
state-sanctioned murder. But the struggle will continue
here, and the ban must also be extended to the other states
of our union, to our federal government, and to the world.
The Death Penalty Abolition Action Team of Amnesty International's Group
133, Somerville, Mass. will host a celebration and informational event on
the Boston Common to mark the end of executions in our Commonwealth and to
further the cause of abolition everywhere.
Petitions, clipboards and flyers will be provided.
Come out and help out.
Contact info for this event is:
Molly Johnson (781) 789-9758, E-mail: mollykj@email.com
www.amnesty133.org
For information on death penalty related events in Massachusetts,
visit: www.nodp.org/madpen
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| May 09, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Reginald Lenard Reeves is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1993 killing of Jenny Lynn Weeks.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 09, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Amnesty International - Regular Meeting
(second Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:30 pm, Southern Methodist University, room 138, Dallas Hall
Contact Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| May 10, 2002 |
Altmore, (Holman) AL
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Linda Lyon Block is scheduled to be killed by the State of Alabama at
12:01 am local time for the 1993 Killing of Roger Lamar Motley
Click Here for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 10, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| May 10, 2002 |
Angola, LA
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Leslie Dale Martin is scheduled to be killed by the State of Louisiana at 6:30 pm local time for the 1991 killing of Christina Burgin.
Vigil Information (based on previous information):
February 6th, 7:00 pm - Gathering outside of Angola
February 7th, 7:00 pm - Prayer vigil outside the Governor's Mansion
February 8th, 5:00 pm - Gatherings outside of Angola and the Governor's Mansion
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| May 11, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Continuing Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Protests will take place in front of the unit every Saturday in May from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
These protests are for the purpose of letting TDCJ know we demand improvement of conditions on
death row. Excessive use of force, unnecessary gassings, and
unsatisfactory meals, and inferior medical treatment must cease. Abusive
taunting language directed at prisoners by some of the guards must no
longer be tolerated.
The protest on May 11 will also be in concert with a week long anti
death penalty protest which will be taking place in Montpellier in the
South of France between May 6th and 11th.
They will be having concerts,
public debates and film screenings each day. They are expecting around
3000 spectators. If they can bring out this kind of numbers for us, why
can't we do it for ourselves? WE CAN.
These protests are also in support of the non-violent protest which will be
conducted by the prisoners on death row during the month of May.
Literature will be available to distribute to passing cars and visitors
leaving and arriving to visit at Polunsky. There will be some signs
available, but please feel free to bring signs with you with slogans
urging humane conditions and cessation of brutality.
We hope that the Saturday protests will make it possible for many of you
to attend who could not participate in the March Wednesday protests. I
have heard from quite a number of people who have indicated that if we
would plan something for a weekend, they would like to participate.
Those of you who live very very far away, look at your calenders and
plan to participate in at least one if not more of these events.
Organize car pools. Make contacts. If at all possible, be here May
11. It would be really good if at least one of these protests is major
huge. If we are to ever have an impact, TDCJ, our legislators and the
public must realize, by seeing us, that our numbers are significant.
Please get in touch with your media contacts. Also please post this
announcement on any other available e-list.
We hope to see you ALL there.
Nancy Bailey nlbailey@earthlink.net
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| May 11, 2002 |
Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Citizens to Abolish Capital Punishment - Monthly Meeting
12:00PM - 2:00PM (local time) Roberts Park United Methodist Church, 401 N. Delaware Street (corner of Vermont and Delaware)
Web Site: www.icacp.org
E-mail: info@icacp.org
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| May 12, 2002 |
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(second Sunday of the month)
3:00-5:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church 1901 N. Douglas
E-mail: hulinst@worldnet.att.net
Web Site: www.ocadp.org
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| May 13, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| March 13-17, 2002 |
Baltimore, MD
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED - MORATORIUM DECLARED
Click here to read report.
Wesley Eugene Baker is scheduled to be killed by the State of Maryland
for the 1991 killing of Jane Tyson.
In accordance with Maryland DOC procedures, the exact date and time of Mr. Baker's execution will not be announced.
Information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere will be posted as it becomes available.
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| May 14, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Action Committee - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm at Westminster Presbyterian (13th & N Streets).
Contact:
Chris Hartmire (916) 446-0874 or Tommy Clinkenbeard (916) 874-6411
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| May 14, 2002 |
Boston, MA
Ford Hall Forum Presents Free Public Lecture - The Case For Capital Punishment - with Jeff Jacoby,
Op-Ed Columnist for The Boston Globe
6:30 p.m. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street
The death penalty is frequently condemned as antiquated, unreliable,
and inhumane, but Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe sees it very
differently. He describes capital punishment as an ethical,
compassionate, and practical response to murder. When vicious killers
are allowed to live, he says, more innocent victims die.
The Ford Hall Forum will present the outspoken columnist on The Case
for Capital Punishment. This free event, presented in
collaboration with the Old South Meeting House as part of the
Partners in Public Dialogue Series, is open to the general public.
Since 1908, the Ford Hall Forum has dedicated itself to promoting and
facilitating public involvement in the open exchange of ideas on
issues of public interest through the presentation of programs that
engage diverse audiences in discussions and debates. Ford Hall Forum
programs are always free, open to the public, and include
opportunities for audience members to ask questions and share
comments.
Presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House
www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org as part of the Partners in Public
Dialogue Series.
For more information, contact the Ford Hall Forum at (617) 373-5800
or visit our website at www.fordhallforum.neu.edu
Tom Formicola tom@fordhallforum.neu.edu
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| May 14, 2002 |
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing
(TCASK) - Regular Meeting
(second Tuesday of each month)
Confirm location via email. etcask@hotmail.com
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| May 14, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Click here to read report.
Henry Earl Dunn Jr. is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1993 killing of Nicolas West.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 14, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| May 16, 2002 |
St. Louis, MO
Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Regular
Meeting
(third Thursday of each month)
7:00 pm, ACLU office, 4557 Laclede
Tel: 314-241-8062
E-mail: emcadp@mindspring.com
Web Site: www.mindspring.com/~emcadp
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| May 16, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Ronford Styron is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for 1993 killing of Lee Hollace Styron.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 16-17, 2002 |
Philadelphia, PA
Demand Justice for Fred Thomas
Thursday, May 16 - Demonstration -Justice for Fred Thomas
4:00pm - 5:30pm,Outside Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (1421 Arch Street)
Let the DA know that their actions are unacceptable! The eyes of Philadelphia
are watching, and we will not allow this miscarriage of justice to continue.
This demonstration will include two former death row inmates, both from
Pennsylvania. William Neives spent six years of his life on Pennsylvania's
death row, tried by the same prosecutor who is trying to kill Fred Thomas.
Ray Krone is the 100th person to be released from death row in Arizona (last
month), and has just returned to his native Pennsylvania. Individuals from a
diverse list of cosponsors, including the Black Radical Congress, deClarye
Collective and Progressive Clergy of Greater Philadelphia, will be addressing
the crowd. Also, representatives of the Philadelphia Branch of the NAACP and
the ACLU of Pennsylvania will be speaking.
Sponsored by: Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty,
Mothers Organized Against Police Terror, Black Radical Congress, Greater
Philadelphia Progressive Clergy, deClarye Collective, AWARE(Allies Working
for Anti-Racist Education), People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, Abolitionist
Action Committee and Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Friday, May 17th - Court Hearing
9:30am, Criminal Justice Center (1301 Filbert Street), Room 608
Summary arguments will be made before the Honorable Judge Willis
Berry. It is considered highly probable that Judge Berry will rule on Fred's
claims that day, so it is absolutely vital that the court room be packed with
supporters. The defense has already filed their brief- based on previous
stall tactics, the prosecution will most likely wait until the last possible
minute to file their brief. This is perhaps the most critical moment in the
entire campaign - please join us if you can! There was a strong public
turnout at the hearings in February. Let's try to double our numbers this
time!
NOTE: The next Southeast Chapter meeting will be on Monday, May 20th. It will
begin at 7:00pm and will be held at the Friends Center (1501 Cherry St).
PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITIONISTS United Against the Death Penalty
P.O. Box 58128, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215-724-6120 Fax: 215-729-6189
E-Mail: PAUADP@aol.com
Website: www.pa-abolitionists.org
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| May 17, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| May 18, 2002 |
Chicago, IL
Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Meeting
(third Saturday of each month)
9:30 am, 180 N. Michigan, Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60601.
Please call or e-mail for more information
Jane Bohman Tel: (312) 849-2279
E-mail: jbohman@icadp.org
Web Site: www.icadp.org
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| May 18, 2002 |
Raleigh, NC
Jazz Dinner - Invitation from People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
7:00 p.m. at Temple Beth Or in Raleigh (5315 Creedmoor Road, half a mile due north of Crabtree Valley Mall).
No Vigil, No Protest, But a Chance to Dance and Celebrate
An Invitation from People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
This event will feature a dinner of Italian cuisine and the vocal stylings ofthe
celebrated performer Randa McNamara.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for ages 12 and under.
It will be more than a fundraiser, says PFADP President Marshall Dayan.
"While we certainly want to raise funds for the work of the organization, we
also want the evening to be an opportunity for people in the movement to
fellowship together, have fun, and be revitalized for the work that's left to
do towards the abolition of the death penalty."
Randa McNamara has appeared in venues ranging from Catch A
Rising Star and The Firebird Cafe to concert stages at Lincoln Center and
Town Hall.
For more information or to purchase TICKETS, contact the PFADP office at
919-933-7567 or info@pfadp.org.
Space is limited, so advance ticket
purchasing is encouraged. Tickets will be sold at the door unless sold out
prior to the event.
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| May 18, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Continuing Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Protests will take place in front of the unit every Saturday in May from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
These protests are for the purpose of letting TDCJ know we demand improvement of conditions on
death row. Excessive use of force, unnecessary gassings, and
unsatisfactory meals, and inferior medical treatment must cease. Abusive
taunting language directed at prisoners by some of the guards must no
longer be tolerated.
These protests are also in support of the non-violent protest which will be
conducted by the prisoners on death row during the month of May.
Literature will be available to distribute to passing cars and visitors
leaving and arriving to visit at Polunsky. There will be some signs
available, but please feel free to bring signs with you with slogans
urging humane conditions and cessation of brutality.
We hope that the Saturday protests will make it possible for many of you
to attend who could not participate in the March Wednesday protests. I
have heard from quite a number of people who have indicated that if we
would plan something for a weekend, they would like to participate.
Those of you who live very very far away, look at your calenders and
plan to participate in at least one if not more of these events.
Organize car pools. Make contacts. It would be really good if at least one of these protests is major
huge. If we are to ever have an impact, TDCJ, our legislators and the
public must realize, by seeing us, that our numbers are significant.
Please get in touch with your media contacts. Also please post this
announcement on any other available e-list.
We hope to see you ALL there.
Nancy Bailey nlbailey@earthlink.net
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| May 18, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Media Training Opportunity for Organizers
9:00am - 5:00pm, Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore and Cultural Center.
The SPIN Project is pleased to offer a full-day media training for
progressive activists and community organizers here in Houston.
This highly interactive, fun, and grassroots-oriented workshop covers media tactics
designed to increase the profile of your group or issue in the press.
There will be a follow-up on Sunday afternoon for folks who would like to
complete an in-depth strategic media planning session with the trainer,
Akilah Monifa. This date has been chosen so that people who work during
the week and young people in school can attend.
This workshop is primarily for activists associated with
organizations working for positive social and political change. Topics
include media dos and don'ts; spokesperson training; media messages;
"framing" your news for maximum impact; pitching stories; and being on
television. The workshop features several interactive role-play
sessions
and writing assignments. Students are put on camera to practice their
soundbites. Informative handouts and media resources are provided. We
also provide information about strategic press plans, press releases,
media events, and more.
The training is for activists with shared
political and cultural values. In addition, this workshop is for those
who believe in working with the media to communicate our messages to the
public. It's not a workshop for those who loathe the media and will not
work with it for social change.
This workshop requires advance registration. Space is limited, so
registration will be on a first come, first served basis.
The training and handouts are easily a value of $500 per person and is
mainly being subsidized by the SPIN Project's funders. The value of the
skills and materials you will take back to your organization is
immeasurable!
There is a small fee of $20 to help cover the cost of refreshments,
meeting space, materials, and the guidebook. Your $20 will secure your
spot in the workshop.
For registration information including form, please contact John "JP" Pluecker:
Tel: 713-247-1919
E-mail: john.pluecker@cityofhouston.net
For more information on the SPIN project, visit: www.spinproject.org
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| May 20, 2001 |
Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty - Regular Vigil
(third Monday of each month - except February)
Join The Vigil Committee as we will mark our 10th anniversary of the noon hour witness against the death penalty.
12 Noon to 1pm at the State Capitol, North Steps, 11th & L Streets
The Sacramento Area Coalition Against the Death Penalty is a Chapter of Death Penalty Focus.
Contact: Georgia Lyga, Vigil Committee Volunteer Coordinator
Voice Mail: (916) 457-7640
E-mail:
georgiannl@earthlink.net
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| May 20, 2002 |
Dallas, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Dallas Chapter - Regular Meeting
(third Monday of each month)
7:00-9:00pm, Paperback Plus Bookstore, 6115 La Vista Dr., Live Oak at La Vista, 2nd FLOOR
(between Skillman and Abrams in Lakewood)
Rick Halperin (214) 768-3284)
E-mail: rhalperi@post.cis.smu.edu
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| May 20, 2002 |
Richmond, VA
Roger Coleman Execution - 10th Anniversary Rally - CANCELLED
11:30 a.m. Capitol Grounds, Bell Tower Franklin and 9th Streets
Despite a flood of protests and worldwide media coverage of the controversy, Roger Coleman was executed on May 20th 1992.
A type of DNA testing, unavailable at the time, could exonerate him. It would call the whole concept of the death penalty into question.
The state says Roger Coleman’s case is closed and wants to destroy the evidence.
We ask you to join us in observing the ten-year anniversary of the execution and in demanding that the state allow DNA testing of the evidence
E-mail mail@vadp.org
Web Site: www.vadp.org
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| May 21, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| May 21, 2002 |
Houston, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Houston Chapter - Regular Meeting
(third Tuesday of each month) new location and day
7:00 pm, Olive Branch Meeting Room, 2360 Rice Boulevard in The Village.
Contact dpatwood@igc.org or Nancy Bailey nlbailey@earthlink.net for details
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| May 22, 2002 |
Lexington, KY
Death Penalty Vigil
5-6 PM, Triangle Park, Main and Broadway
The focus of this vigil will be the juvenile death penalty.
This is particularly important because of the current trial in Jessamine County of Daniel Gordin, Joe Reynolds
and Summer Turner in the murder of Ryan Harris.
We will have speakers and read the names of those executed in 2002, and of all executed for crimes
committed as juveniles since 1976.
Momentum against the death penalty is building - albeit slowly.
Now is the time to come out in strong numbers to demonstrate our solidarity and committment.
Together, we can make a difference.
Sponsored by Central Kentucky KCADP
E-mail: Brian Cooney or Will Warner
www.kcadp.org
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| May 22, 2002 |
New York City, NY
Rethinking the Death penalty - Can we Define who Deserves Death
6:30 pm, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th St.
In light of the defects of the capital punishment system and recent calls
for a moratorium on executions, many are calling for serious reform of the
system. Even some who would not eliminate the death penalty entirely
propose reforms that they contend would result in fewer executions and
would limit the death penalty to a category they call the "worst of the
worst." This program asks the questions: Is there a category of
defendants who are "the worst of the worst"? Can a crime be so heinous
that a defendant can be said to "deserve@ to be executed? Would such a
limited death penalty be supportable morally, philosophically, and
constitutionally?
Introductory Remarks:
- Martin J. Leahy, Esq.Solo Practitioner
Moderator:
- Norman L. Greene, Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP
Speakers:
- Robert Blecker, Professor, New York Law School
- Hon. William M. Erlbaum, Acting Justice of the New York Supreme Court
- Jeffrey Fagan, Professor of Law and Public Health, Columbia University
- Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier, Assoc. Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- David Von Drehle, Senior Writer, National Staff of the Washington Post
Sponsored by the Committee on Capital Punishment - Chair: Norman L. Greene
No fee or pre-registration required
For information and flyer (including additional details on speakers), contact:
Martin J. Leahy, Esq.
martin_j_leahy@yahoo.com
(212) 932-3869
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| May 22, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Johnny Martinez is scheduled to be killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time for the 1993 killing of Clay Peterson.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 22-28, 2002 |
New York City, NY
"The Back of the World" - Documentary with Death penalty Connections
The Pioneer Theater in the East Village, 155 E. 3rd St (on the corner of Ave A - take
"F" train to 2nd Ave)
Beginning May 22, 2002, The Pioneer Theater will be playing the documentary THE BACK OF THE WORLD.
One of the sections in the film focuses on the death penalty and Thomas Miller-El
who has been on death row in Texas since 1986.
The Schedule for The THE BACK OF THE WORLD is as follows:
Wednesday May 22, 7:30PM & 10PM (filmmakers present for 7:30 screening)
Thursday May 23, 8PM & 9:45PM
Friday May 24, 8PM & 9:45PM
Saturday May 25, 6PM, 8PM & 10PM
Sunday May 26, 6PM, 8PM & 10PM
Monday May 27, 6:15PM, & 10:15PM
Tuesday May 28, 6:15PM, & 10:15PM
Ticket prices are $8.50, $6 for students, seniors & Pioneer Members
For information call 212-254-3300 or 212-254-7107
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| May 23, 2002 |
Lexington, KY
KCADP Central Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Thursday of each month)
7:30-9:00pm, Newman Center, 320 Rose Lane
New members always welcome
Contact: Will Warner
E-mail: tortilla@iglou.com
Web Site: www.kcadp.org
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| May 23-24, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Bi-Monthly Board Meeting open to the public
Sam Houston State University, Criminal Justice Center
Those who are geographically able (anywhere in Texas), are encouraged
to attend Texas Department of Criminal Justice Board Meetings.
Remember that it is only by our attendence and participation
that we can make a difference in how prisoners of the state including
death row are treated
We can change things but it will take organization,
teamwork, and determination.
Contact: Nancy Bailey
E-mail: nlbailey@EARTHLINK.NET
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| May 24, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| May 25, 2002 |
Polunsky Unit, Livingston, TX
Continuing Action - Protest at Texas' Death Row
Protests will take place in front of the unit every Saturday in May from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
These protests are for the purpose of letting TDCJ know we demand improvement of conditions on
death row. Excessive use of force, unnecessary gassings, and
unsatisfactory meals, and inferior medical treatment must cease. Abusive
taunting language directed at prisoners by some of the guards must no
longer be tolerated.
These protests are also in support of the non-violent protest which will be
conducted by the prisoners on death row during the month of May.
Literature will be available to distribute to passing cars and visitors
leaving and arriving to visit at Polunsky. There will be some signs
available, but please feel free to bring signs with you with slogans
urging humane conditions and cessation of brutality.
We hope that the Saturday protests will make it possible for many of you
to attend who could not participate in the March Wednesday protests. I
have heard from quite a number of people who have indicated that if we
would plan something for a weekend, they would like to participate.
Those of you who live very very far away, look at your calenders and
plan to participate in at least one if not more of these events.
Organize car pools. Make contacts. It would be really good if at least one of these protests is major
huge. If we are to ever have an impact, TDCJ, our legislators and the
public must realize, by seeing us, that our numbers are significant.
Please get in touch with your media contacts. Also please post this
announcement on any other available e-list.
We hope to see you ALL there.
Nancy Bailey nlbailey@earthlink.net
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| May 25 - June 15, 2002 |
New York City, NY
"SELF DEFENSE, or death of some salesmen,"
HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Ave. (between Spring & Broome St.s)
Carson Kreitzer's new play is based on the story of a prostitute now on FL's death row who killed 7
"Johns" in what she claims were 7 separate acts of self-defense. Cops
say she's a serial killer. Kreitzer says: "in my plays there is no
black & white; my people live in the gray areas where the answers you
thought you knew no longer apply."
A panel discussion with the playwright, cast & Ron Tabak, President of NY Lawyers Against the Death
Penalty, follows the Friday, May 31 performance.
Performances are Mondays-Saturdays at 8:30 pm.
There will be additional performances on Sunday May 26 at 8:30 pm and Tuesday May 28 at 3 pm.
There will be no performance on Memorial Day, May 27.
All seats are $18 on Fridays and Saturdays; all other performances $15; with Mondays June 3 & 10 & the special Tuesday
matinee on May 28 "pay-what-you-will" at the door only.
The box office number for reservations and information is 212-647-0202 or www.here.org
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| May 26, 2002 |
Tampa, FL
Peace Rally
12:00pm, MacDill Air Force Base, (gather at Gadsden Park - 6901 MacdillL Ave. at noon)
MacDill is the Central Command Headquarters for U.S. military
operations throughout Central Asia and the Middle East.
This march and
rally will address issues related to the never-ending "War Against
Terrorism," including civil rights repercussions of the USA PATRIOT Act. A
nonviolent civil resistance action is planned.)
For further details, Please Visit www.macdillpeacerally.org/.
Sponsored by Florida Alliance for Peace and Social Justice
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| 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
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| May 27-28, 2002 |
Raleigh, NC
Dinner and Rally for Justice
Clarion Hotel (formerly Holiday Inn), 320 Hillsborough Street
Sponsored by The NC Alliance for Economic Justice
Take a Stand for a Budget that Protects North Carolina's Future
Literally BILLIONS of dollars in budget cuts are being proposed that will be devastating
for vulnerable people and for the programs (from both government and the non-profit
sector) which help them.
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty encourages our members and
supporters to join the Rally for Justice
Now is the time to call for abolishing the death penalty as a means of saving North
Carolina millions of dollars, and for redirecting some of those funds to support
programs that meet the real needs of victims of violence and towards violence prevention
programs in our communities.
May 27, 6:30 p.m. Pre-Rally Dinner (and Music) for Justice
At the Clarion
Keynote Speaker: Congresswoman Eva M. Clayton (Representing the people of the 1st Congressional District).
May 28, 9:00 a.m.- noon Rally for Justice! (Opening day of the General Assembly's 2002 regular session)
Meet at the Clarion. March to the General Assembly and rally for a JUST budget.
Bring signs with messages such as "We Can't Afford the Death Penalty" and
"NC: Abolish the Death Penalty, Save Half a Billion Dollars!"
Contact Information:
NC Alliance for Economic Justice
Tel: (919) 856-2181 or (919) 856-2154
Fax: (919) 856-2175
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| May 28, 2002 |
Louisville, KY
KCADP Louisville/Jefferson County Chapter - Regular Meeting
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
6:30pm, Highland Presbyterian Church, 1011 Cherokee Road
New members always welcome
Contact: Ray Schweri
E-mail: joywolf45@aol.com
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| May 28, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Napoleon Beazley (juvenile) was killed by the State of Texas at 6:00 pm
local time in retribution for the 1994 killing of John Luttig.
Click Here
for information regarding vigils at the prison and elsewhere.
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| May 28, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| May 28, 2002 |
Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty - General Meeting
7:30-9:00 p.m., United Church in Tallahassee, 1834 Mahan Drive
Keynote Speaker: Mark Olive, Capital defense attorney, former law professor, and death penalty expert:
"Abolition - The Tipping Point"
Also, reports on current issues and a short meeting to elect officers for next year.
Contact Walter Moore for more information: 850-877-1609 or
wmoore@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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| May 28-31, 2002 |
Washington, DC
Free 4 Day Human Rights Course at UDC-David A. Clarke School of Law!
UDC, Clarke School of Law, 4200 CT Ave., NW DC, Bldg. 38, Rm 205, Van Ness/UDC
Metro
A Public International Law Program on Ecology, Peace & Human Rights: United Nations Instruments & Institutions/
Reviewing the United States Record of Ratification; Revolutionizing the
International Law Monitoring Machinery.
The course will be presented by experts from a variety of human rights organizations .
For a postable flyer that includes the list of workshops, in PDF
format, see: http://209.218.190.36/News_Events/PILP_course_flyer.pdf
Registration is free, but RSVP to Joe Libertelli: Jlibertelli@udc.edu; 202-274-7338.
For course info. contact Joshua Cooper: joshua@hawaii.edu
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| May 30, 2002 |
Huntsville, TX
Execution Vigils and Protests - EXECUTED
Click here to read report.
Stanley Allison Baker was killed by the State of Texas at
6.00 p.m. local time in retribution for the 1994 killing of Wayne John Walters.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| May 30, 2002 |
Brazos Valley, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Brazos Valley Chapter -
Regular Meeting
(last Thursday of each month)
Friends Congregational Church at 2200 Southwood Drive
Please contact us to confirm the meeting date, location and time
E-mail: tcadpbv@yahoo.com
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| May 31, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| June 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)
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| June 02, 2002 |
El Paso, TX
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - El Paso - Regular Silent
Vigil
(first Sunday of each month)
6-6:30 p.m. on the southside of San Jacinto Plaza
Vigils are held in memory of victims, offenders, and the families of both.
Contact Johntures@aol.com
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| June 03, 2002 |
Somerville, MA
Amnesty International's Group 133 Death Penalty Abolition Action Team
(Arlington/Somerville/Cambridge) - regular meeting
(usually every third Monday - some exceptions)
8:00pm - 9:00pm, Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office in Davis
Square.
58 Day Street, 4th Floor. Directions can be found at www.amnesty133.org/ai/events/directions.html
Contact: Scott Langley, DPAT coordinator, 617-267-8882
E-mail: scott@langleycreations.com
Web Site: www.amnesty133.org/ai/action/dpinfo.html
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| June 04, 2002 |
San Diego, CA
Death Penalty Focus San Diego - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
7:00 PM, California Western School of Law, 225 Cedar St.
Ask lobby receptionist for meeting room number
For information call (619) 255-3873
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| June 04, 2002 |
Albany, NY
Rally Against the Death Penalty
Click here to read report.
1 pm - 2 pm, State Capitol (West Side - Swan Street steps)
We are hoping for a large turnout to make an impression and to show the decision-makers that minds are rapidly changing on this issue.
Please join us if you can!
Speakers include an array of activitists and state and local legislators
The rally is co-sponsored by NYADP and NYCLU.
Call the NYCLU at 518-436-8594 for more information.
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| June 04, 2003 |
Houston, TX
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement - Regular Meeting
(first Tuesday of each month)
SHAPE Community Center, 3903 Almeda Road, one block south of Alabama Street
The Abolition Movement is working to abolish the death penalty and to stop the illegal and horrific conditions on the Polunsky Unit which houses the 450 men on Texas' death row.
We are a diverse group of activists who believe through active struggle and with the support of the community we will effect change.
Contact: Njeri Shakur 713-521-0629 or 713-861-5965
E-mail: AbolitionMovement@juno.com
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| June 04, 2002 |
Santa Barbara, CA
Death Penalty Focus Santa Barbara - Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
(every Tuesday - If it is raining, we will not vigil)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. At the corner of State and Anapamu Streets
We will be reading the names of the people who have been executed
since 1970, and collecting signatures for "Californians for a
Moritorium on Executions".
For information contact:
James B. Robertson (619) 255-3873
E-mail robertso@math.ucsb.edu
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| June 04, 2002 |
Nashville, TN
Nashville TCASK chapter meeting
5:30, Nashville Peace and Justice Center (1016 18th Ave. So.),
At this meeting we will discuss an upcoming MVFR event.
At 6:00, Heather Gallagher, LCSW from the Veterans Administration Medical Center, will speak about "Post
Traumatic Stress Syndrome".
Heather will help us understand the nature of PTSD, what it
is, what it does, and why it never goes away.
Contact: Susan mcbrid_s@bellsouth.net
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| Jun 05, 2002 |
Mineral Point (Potosi), MO
Execution Vigils and Protests - STAYED
Click here to read report.
Chris Simmons is scheduled to be killed by the State of Missouri at
12.01 a.m. local time in retribution for the 1993 killing of Shirley Crook.
Click Here for vigil
information
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| June 07, 2002 |
West Palm Beach, FL
Pax Christi Palm Beach - Silent Vigil
(every Friday)
5:00 - 6:00 pm. The Martin Luther King Memorial, North Flagler Drive (next to Currie Park)
A silent vigil, with candles and signs, to bring awareness to the light of NONVIOLENCE as preached by Martin Luther King JR.
Following the one hour vigil, we gather around the MLK statue to read from one of Dr. King's sermons.
Contact: Beth Cioffoletti, Tel: 561-691-0904
E-mail: 4thr@gate.net
Web Site: www.pcfla.org/pcpb
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| June 07, 2002 |
Sacramento, CA
Seminar on Capital Punishment
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. India Restaurant, 729 J St (corner of 8th St) Tel: 916-448-9046
Paul Comiskey will be conducting a seminar on capital punishment on the First Friday of each month.
E-mail: jjlynch@cwnet.com
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| June 07-14, 2002 |
OH
Red Letter Day - June 14th
There are many concerned groups..large and small as well as individuals,
that write to Governor Taft.
We are asking each and every INDIVIDUAL to write so that the letters will bombard the Governor on approximately the same day - June 14, 2002.
The opposition may not be more than us...but they are louder.
This is to raise a LOUD stance and DEMAND a moratorium.
Please help us.
More information about the event at:
www.Ohio-Injustice/moratorium.html
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