1/18 10pm-12 am KPFA 94.1 FM Live Coverage of Execution & Protest

KPFA at 94.1 FM will have live coverage of the execution at San Quentin tonight, 1/18/05 from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. (or however long this barbarism takes) as well as of the protests which are taking place right now.

You can see it listed on the website on the left side under What's Coming Up. You can listen online from the same website. See http://www.kpfa.org.

The Governor is murdering a human being tonight, making all of us much less safe. He does so, of course, to further his fascist political career, which is based on terrorizing and oppressing the workingclass for the benefit of his patrons, the capitalist class.

His most likely Democratic opponent in the 2006 governor's race, current Attorney General Bill Lockyer, is also staunchly for the death penalty and did everything he could to murder Kevin Cooper, but failed.

The only 2 anti-death penalty parties on the ballot are the Socialist Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party.

All of Europe has abolished the death penalty. Both the death penalty and prisons are barbarism as they are punishment, not rehabilitation, thus not only being torture but also a waste of our tax dollars. The 21st Century Abolition movement calls for abolishing the death penalty and prisons, and for rehabilitating everyone truly guilty of the crime of which they are accused as quickly as possible, so that they can work at decent-paying jobs and be productive members of society, with the rehabilitation, including education, healthcare, housing and job training, taking no more than 5 years.

The death penalty is a class weapon to terrorize the workingclass and continues to exist where labor is weak. It is a sign of profound political backwardness. This outrage must end real soon.

We are not safer; we are in greater danger than ever when we have a murderer sitting in the Governor's office.