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Against the Occupation of Iraq

Started on December 3, 2005. This part of my website contains texts commenting on the illegal and catastrophic Anglo-American occupation of Iraq. Liberal defenders of the occupation argue that the occupation may be a mess, but that withdrawal is impoosible for the dangers in its wake. They should read Howard Zinn's "The Logic of Withdrawal," commenting on the Vietnam war.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

 

Ruchell Magee

At the beginning of the 1970s, there was an international outcry: "Free Angela Davis!" Davis was accused of having participated in a conspiracy to free Black Panther Party prisoner George Jackson during a court room hearing in Marin County, California. She was finally acquitted, but her co-defendant, Ruchell "Cinque" Magee, continues to languish in jail, and the authorities refuse to grant him parole. He has been in prison uninterruptedly since 1963 (!), which places him on top of the list of political prisoners in the United States in terms of time served.

Frances Newton - Murdered by the State of Texas

This folder is devoted to Frances Newton, a death row prisoner who was murdered by the state of Texas on September 14, 2005 in violation of the Constitution of the United States and elementary human rights considerations.

Save Stan "Tookie" Williams - Fight the December 13, 2005 Execution

November 23, 2005: Stan Tookie Williams is scheduled to be executed on December 13, 2005. He has been in prison for more than 26 consecutive years, 24 of them on death row. As the co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles gang "The Crips," he was arrested in 1979, accused of four counts of murder and sentenced to death on the basis of extremely questionable evidence. Coming from an overwhelmingly black ghetto in South Central, he was convicted by an all-white jury after the prosecution succeeded in purging the already thoroughly bleached suburb jury pool from the last three remaining African American jurors (out of a pool of 300). In prison, Williams has parted company with the Crips and has been doing immensely successful anti-gang and anti-violence work for more than a decade now. He has written nine children's books that warn against the dangers of a "gangsta" lifestyle and has authored an autobiography called "Blue Rage, Black Redemption." His life was subject of the 2004 film "Grapes of Wrath - Redemption" starring Jamie Foxx. Stan "Tookie" Williams' regular legal appeals are exhausted after the United States Supreme Court has refused to hear his case, even though his lawyers have filed an emergency petition to a California Superior Court in November. Being granted clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on account of his good work for peace and severe doubts about his guilt is Williams' one remaining realistic chance. A worldwide movement has sprung into action to achieve this. The clock is ticking. Stay posted and visit Tookie's own website, www.tookie.com. There, you can sign an online petition to Governor Schwarzenegger that allows you to comment on why you want clemency for Stan.

RAD

Posted August 2, 2006.