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At the Gates of San Quentin. Is California Any Safer Now? By NORMAN SOLOMON...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:58am PST
SFPD Xma$ Video Press Conf (audio/mpeg 4.5MB) After the 'party' material was discovered, the tax-paying, victims speak...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:56am PST
The fight will go on: Reports from National Vigils and More 
Stan Tookie Williams was executed early this morning after Governor
Schwarzenegger refused to grant Stan clemency. A number of actions took
place yesterday, including a protest at the gates of San Quentin, and
demonstrations and vigils in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New
York City and others. Thousands of people condemned this execution....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:10pm PST
The Fight Goes On We must encourage them to support the "California Moratorium on Executions Act" (AB 1121), which would halt all executions while the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is investigating the problem of wrongful conviction and the administration of the death penalty in California....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:06pm PST
Reflections on an execution December 13, 2005 Reflections on an execution
The State is all-powerful. It has the power not yet to create life
but certainly to take it away. What else can be the intent and purpose of
the death penalty?...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:52pm PST
Justice Denied: A History of the Walker Trial 
Below is Regina Cardenas, the daughter of Rudy Cardenas, who was slain by State Agent Michael Walker on February 17, 2004. She is shown at the Santa Clara County Courthouse after a day in the courtroom watching Walker's trial for manslaughter in that killing. Walker was acquitted December 13....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:17pm PST
Tookie San Quentin Pictures 
Pictures from the rally outside San Quentin on 12/12/05, the night Stan "Tookie" Williams was executed....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 6:57pm PST
Public Outrage at the State Murder of Tookie at the Capitol 
While I was downtown today there was a pretty obvious expression of public anger towards the state sponsored murder of Tookie...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 4:19pm PST
Protest the Execution of an Innocent Man Tuesday December 13th at 4:00 pm at the California State Building
in San Francisco on Van Ness and MacAllister...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 1:51pm PST
Agent Walker Found Not Guilty This morning, a San Jose jury reached a 'not guilty' verdict in the voluntary manslaughter trial of state drug agent Michael Walker. According to a Mercury News online report, a scuffle erupted outside the courtroom when 2 dozen protesters encircled Walker's defense attorney as he adressed reporters. No arrests were made.
If convicted, Walker would have faced a maximum of 11 years in prison for fatally shooting Rodolfo 'Rudy' Cardenas on Feb 17, 2004....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 1:34pm PST
AB1121-AB1121-AB1121! ("California Moratorium on Execution Act") "Perhaps there was a time when Schwarzenegger might have at least delayed the death of Stanley Tookie Williams until the California Assembly could consider the merits of AB1121, which would impose a moratorium on capital punishment while a commission assesses whether its application in this state is "fair, just and accurate." The first hearing on that bill, authored by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, is Jan. 10 -- one week before the next scheduled execution in Calif...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 12:43pm PST
Stanley Tookie Williams: I Want the World to Remember Me for My "Redemptive Transition" We hear Stanley Tookie Williams in his own words, speaking in one his last interviews, recorded just hours before his death. He appeared on Pacifica Radio station WBAI's Wake Up Call. In the interview, Williams says he would like to be remembered for his redemptive transition: "Redemption. I can say it no better than that. That's how I would like the world to remember me. That's what I would like my legacy to be remembered as."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:26am PST
Thousands protest at San Quentin during state murder of Stan "Tookie" Williams 
Over two thousand people gathered at the gates of San Quentin to protest the state murder of Stan "Tookie" Williams that began at 12:01 am today....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 3:31am PST
Photos of Stanley Tookie Williams execution protest at San Quentin 
Photos of Stanley Tookie Williams execution protest at San Quentin...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 1:45am PST
Stanley Tookie Williams, Executed on 12/13/2005 Stanley Tookie Williams III was executed early this morning by lethal injection administered by the state of California....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 12:39am PST
A SFPD Video rocks the Nation? Tip of the iceberg... The racist, sexist, homophobic SF Bayview Precinct videotape that rocks the nation is only the tip of the iceberg... We, in Bayview Hunters Point, wish we would only have to worry about a videotape......
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:37pm PST
Stop the Execution! 
These are pictures from the candle light vigil held in Fresno California on Monday evening, December 12, 2005. Participants were speaking out against the death penalty and the state sponsored murder of Stanley Tookie Williams....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:34pm PST
East Bay Carpools please meet at Ashby BART at 8:00 pm tonight to San Quentin Meet at 8 pm at Ashby BART to carpool to San Quentin...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 6:50pm PST
DEATH PENALTY FOCUS STATEMENT: CLEMENCY DENIED Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to kill Stanley Williams is a shameful failure of leadership and a collapse of moral courage. It is politics-as-usual by one who claims to be above such cowardly power-mongering. How are we made safer by this mindless, brutal act?...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 5:01pm PST
OFFER CARPOOLS TO SAN QUENTIN & Vigil info post carpool info on craigslist...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 4:14pm PST
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