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EBAA says poultry producer uses deceptive marketing campaigns...

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...

"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...

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?...

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......

The horrifying event, replete with television shots of the awaiting death chamber, was a testament to the backwardness of American society, and the degeneracy of the US ruling elite and its political and media servants. ...Schwarzenegger’s decision in the Williams case was carried out for the basest of motives—above all, to appease the most right-wing forces in state and national politics....

[ Tortuga Bi Liberty says: "Schwarzenegger rationally fears extreme right wing of California Republican Party; so he gives them a human sacrifice. Will this ritual murder help him win 2006 GOP primary?" ]...

When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency to Stanley Tookie Williams, the political backlash was muted and predictable. It came from those who have long been opposed to the death penalty and some leaders in the African-American community -- but hardly anyone else.Even the Democrats challenging him in next year's governor's race had nothing critical to say....

Photos of Stanley Tookie Williams execution protest at San Quentin...

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....