NOVEMBER 30: DAY OF ACTION TO SAVE STAN TOOKIE WILLIAMS

 

The whole world is watching!
International SAVE TOOKIE Day!
November 30, 2005

In conjunction with World Cities Against the Death Penalty

12 NOON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
PROTEST AND PRESS CONFERENCE AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL HDQTS.

32 W. Randolph St., downtown Chicago

 

Stop the Execution of Stan Tookie Williams!

*Five-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
*Four-time Nobel Literature Prize Nominee
*2005 Presidential Call to Service Award *Author of the Tookie Protocol for Peace

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA has set December 13 as the execution date for Stanley Tookie Williams, whose remarkable change from co-founder of the Crips gang to Nobel Peace Prize nominee was made into the movie,
"Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story," starring Jamie Foxx. Foxx has spoken up for Williams, saying:

"We can't let it happen. We've got to do everything we can to get the word out."

 

COSPONSORS INCLUDE: 8th Day Center for Justice, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Chicago-land Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, Community Renewal Society, Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, International Socialist Organization, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago, and more...

 

Submitted by John Bagley, Legislative Advocacy Committee member