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DESCRIPTION:New College Center for Eduation and Social Action  Presents:      AN 
 EVENING with BARBARA BECNEL     \n-- Advocate for Stanley Tookie Williams 
 and long-time activist     Wednesday, May 17 at 7 PM  New College Cultural 
 Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco.     Join Barbara Becnel -- long 
 time friend and advocate of the late Stanley Tookie Williams, anti-death 
 penalty activist and candidate for Governor of California -- for a 
 presentation and dialogue about politics, activism and crucial issues 
 facing us today.     Barbara Becnel: For 13 years she worked with Stanley 
 Tookie Williams, death row prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, to edit 
 and publish his award-winning series of books for at-risk children. She was 
 Stanley Tookie William's advocate and friend, and organized an 
 international campaign for clemency until he was killed by the State of 
 California on December 13, 2005. She witnessed his execution.   Barbara 
 Becnel is Executive Director of a non-profit social services agency in 
 Richmond, California. Her background includes working as a public policy 
 expert in Washington, D.C. and in Los Angeles. She has written more than 
 100 newspaper and magazine articles as well as several books about 
 parenting and overcoming drug addiction.   She co-produced the 
 award-winning TV film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, based on 
 her partnership with Stanley Tookie Williams. Jamie Foxx starred as Mr. 
 Williams; actress Lynn Whitfield portrayed Ms. Becnel. The movie was 
 honored at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival in France.   
  The winner of numerous public service awards, including "Woman of the Year 
 2001" issued by the California State Legislature, Ms Becnel received a 
 Bachelor of Arts degree in 2 1/2 years, summa cum laude, in Economics from 
 Adelphi University; attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a 
 doctoral program in Quantitative Economics and did post-graduate work at 
 the University of Chicago as a National Endowment for the Humanities 
 Fellow.   Free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Jon 
 Garfield, 415-437-3425 or jon@newcollege.edu .  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/15/100073.php
SUMMARY:An Evening with Barbara Becnel -- Advocate for Stanley "Tookie" Williams
LOCATION:New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco.  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/15/100073.php
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