Today (Tue) 6pm -- Stop the Death Penalty at UC Berkeley, Free Speech Cafe

According to the Campaign to End the Death Penalty website ( http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/ ), today's event (Tuesday, Oct. 11) is at 6:00 pm at U.C. Berkeley's Free Speech Movement Cafe. (I think that the cafe is in the same building as Moffitt Library -- is that correct?). The website says that presentations will be made by: Darby Tillis, exonerated Illinois death row prisoner; Barbara Becnel, advocate for California death row prisoner Stan Tookie Williams; and Alice Kim, national organizer, CEDP. For those of you who may not have heard of him, Stan "Tookie" Williams has twice been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his books from death row warning children against the gang life that he led. More info. is at his website: http://www.tookie.com Also, for more info. on today's supreme court ruling, please see the previous message someone posted a few hours ago at: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1773885_comment.php#1773886

Finally, if you can't make today's UC Berkeley event, the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarians will be showing the movie, "Redemption", about Tookie's life, on Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:00 pm. Journalist Barbara Bechnel will lead the discussion afterwards on how we must save Tookie's life. The Berkeley Unitarian Hall is at: 1924 Cedar St. at Bonita Ave. in Berkeley. (Reference: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bfuu-announce/message/250 )


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