The Stolen Lives Project Needs Your Help!

Stolen Lives Project Needs Your Help!

Volunteers needed to help research and write summaries of deaths at the hands of law enforcement

The Stolen Lives Project is working on a 3rd edition of the book Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement. The 2nd edition of the Stolen Lives book documented over 2000 cases of people killed by law enforcement agents in the 1990s. The number and rate of people killed by law enforement agents have jumped alarmingly in this new political climate of increased "homeland security"" and repressive laws which give law enforment agents a green light for their lethal actions.

After people are killed by law enforcement officers they are often demonized in the media. They are not made to seem like human beings who had feelings, families, and futures before their lives were ended. For example, if you notice in the summary of this story: http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/02/1670771.php, you will see that the article implies that it would have been ok for the drug agents to have killed the “right” man. Stolen Lives helps to counter these stories by finding out and putting out there, to the best of our ability, what really did happen. It is difficult to find information about these killings, but the Stolen Lives Project is dedicated to bringing these stories to light.

Seven Stories Press has volunteered to partner with us to publish the 3rd version of the book. Stories that are written up are needed for the new edition of the book and the website http://www.stolenlives.org To find out how you can help, email office [at] october22.org , or oct22sf [at] energy-net.org, or call 888-No Brutality.

Here is a call from the October 22nd Coalition, one of the organizations that is involved: http://www.october22.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1174&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0