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Judge fines environmental lawyer -Biodiesel Case
A Tuolumne County prosecutor has been fined $500 for filing what a judge called a "frivolous" motion in a civil case against the Sierra Railroad....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:19pm PST
En español: Candidato Pacifista Para desafiar Diane Feinstein
Ensamble por favor a Todd Chretien en una rueda de prensa jueves, de diciembre el 15 en el 10am en 1 Post Street en San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:45pm PST
An Open Letter To The FBI And Other Government Terrorist Organizations
An Open Letter To The FBI And Other Counterintelligence Agencies Who Operate Under The Facade Of Legitimate Law Enforcement While Perpetrating Covert Forms Of Terrorism Against Targeted American Citizens...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:27pm PST
Anti-War Candidate To Challenge Diane Feinstein
Please join Todd Chretien at a press conference
Thursday, December 15 at 10am
at One Post Street in San Francisco...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 1:13pm PST
Arnold Lies, Tookie Dies
Last May, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger changed the Department of Corrections to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a renaming many believed signaled a shift of the state from exclusively punishing criminals to a belief that with help, prisoners could turn their lives around. Last night, Schwarzenegger refused to stop the execution of a man who, while locked up, went from a gang leader to a prominent crusader against guns, drugs and violence. It's hard to imagine a better exam...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 7:00am PST
At the Gates of San Quentin. Is California Any Safer Now?
By NORMAN SOLOMON...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:58am 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
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
Execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Stanley “Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the Crip street gang in Los Angeles, was executed in San Quentin Prison on December 13 just after midnight.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger coldly and callously refused to grant him clemency, saying that “the facts do not justify overturning the court decision.” Even though Tookie Williams had changed and became a very outspoken advocate against gang violence and for peace. They showed him no mercy. But it is deeper than this. In a highly...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 6:13pm PST
Legal Complaint Filed Against Foster Poultry Farms
EBAA says poultry producer uses deceptive marketing campaigns...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 4:40pm PST
Mel Gibson as next Republican California governor?!?
Arnold out, Mel Gibson in?
As Gov. Schwarzenegger struggles, a Calif. GOP group wants another actor...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 4:26pm PST
A People's History of UC Weapons Lab Management
Over the past several decades students and faculty of the University of California, often in tandem with nuclear disarmament NGOs in California and New Mexico, have conducted a series of campaigns to end the UC's involvement in nuclear weapons research, design, testing, and production at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. These campaigns represent an important contribution to the global nuclear abolition movement, which historian Lawrence Wittner has described as “the largest...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 2:02pm PST
'This was not a man who went meekly': An eyewitness account of Tookie Williams' execution
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Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 1:13pm 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
Emergency Response Action Tomorrow in 12 Cities Nationwide!
Sacramento, CA: contact Aundre aundre@safeaccessnow.org
San Francisco, CA: contact Sarah sarahsmile@37.com...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:40am PST
Once weak, always weak?
It appears that Tookie William's appeal for clemency could have been approved had he demonstrated greater remorse. If such a grave decision could be swayed by subjective displays of regret, then doesn't that mean the state's ethical foundations for killing one of its own citizens are more or less arbitrary?...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 11:13am PST
Angela Davis Speaks On Stanley Tookie Williams' Death
We speak with longtime prison activist and professor Angela Davis about the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. She was outside San Quentin prison when he died. In the written response to Williams' clemency appeal, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said "The dedication of Williams' book 'Life in Prison' casts significant doubt on his personal redemption." - the dedication includes Angela Davis....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:45am PST
Statement from Joe Veale of the RCP on the Execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Statement from Joe Veale, for the Revolutionary Communist Speaking Tour on the Execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger coldly and callously refused to grant him clemency, saying that “the facts do not justify overturning the court decision.” Even though Tookie Williams had changed and became a very outspoken advocate against gang violence and for peace. They showed him no mercy. But it is deeper than this......
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 8:45am PST