10/9-10: The Death Penalty in CA: Too Flawed to Fix!

The Death Penalty in CA: Too Flawed to Fix!

An activist and educational conference to stop the death penalty in California
October 9-10th
UC Berkeley
For more information visit http://www.2flawed2fix.org
or call 510-333-7966
$5-25 sliding scale donations, no one turned away for lack of funds

Saturday, October 9th
7:00 pm
Dwinelle Hall room 145, UC Berkeley
Opening plenary of the conference: celebrating the victories and struggles of the
movement against the death penalty. Featuring Barbara Becnel, co-producer of the
movie, "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story." Also: musical performances,
spoken word artists, a video message from death row inmate Stan Tookie Williams,
videos and more!

Sunday, October 10th
Doors open at 10:00 am, welcome session at 11:00 am
Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Workshops on the following topics (2 sessions)
--Racism and the Criminal Injustice System
--The struggles for Stan Tookie Williams and Kevin Cooper
--Family members of death row inmates speak out
--Women on death row in California
--What's wrong with the death penalty in California?
--How they won in Illinois/Lessons for our fight
--The fight free death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

4:00 closing plenary: We can end the death penalty in California
Featuring: Madison Hobley--exonerated death row inmate from Illinois, Donna
Larsen--mother of death row inmate Keith Doolin, Robert R. Bryan -- attorney for
Mumia Abu-Jamal and death penalty expert, activists and more! Also invited: the
Reverend Jesse Jackson.

6:00 Dinner and strategy session: what's next for the anti-death penalty movement?
Come share ideas and get involved!

Sponsored by the following organizations:
Amnesty International, American Friends Service Committee, CA People of Faith
Working Against the Death Penalty, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Death Penalty
Action Team, Death Penalty Focus, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, First
Mennonite Church of SF, Idriss Stelley Foundation, International Socialist
Organization, LAGAI-Queer Insurrection, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Out of
Control, Socialist Action