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NATIONAL TOUR: Live From Death Row
A New CEDP Tour! Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Click here for tour poster!
**For more information or to schedule a Tour stop in your city, please contact nyc@nodeathpenalty.org.
"These are America's condemned, who bear a stigma far worse than 'prisoner.' These are America's death row residents: men and women who walk the razor's edge between half-life and certain death." —Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live From Death Row
This fall the CEDP is launching a national tour, "Live From Death Row," featuring the voices of death row prisoners, live from their prison cell. Death sentences de-humanize the condemned, justifying the state-sponsored murder of the poor, the innocent and people of color. Death rows isolate those sentenced to die, denying them human contact and hope for justice. In our "Live From Death Row" tour, the voices of death row prisoners will reach from behind the walls to share their stories of loss, injustice, struggle, and hope for an end to the death penalty. At a time when the national chorus against the death penalty continues to grow, these voices are critical for the movement on the outside.
The tour features death row prisoners speaking live over speaker-phone, including:
- Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of numerous books, including My Life in the Party and Live From Death Row
- John Booth-El, on death row in Maryland for 25 years, whose case was heard by the US Supreme Court in 1987
- California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper who came within 3 1/2 hours of being executed before he won a stay of execution
- Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia, who came within hours of execution last year
- Former death row prisoner and torture victim Stanley Howard, still imprisoned in Illinois, and contributor to the New Abolitionist
- Renaldo Hudson, former Illinois death row prisoner, now sentenced to life without parole
 *artwork by Renaldo Hudson
- Tennessee death row prisoner Timothy McKinney whose case was recently heard in the TN Criminal Court of Appeals
Other Tour speakers will include Martina Correia, sister of Troy Anthony Davis, Innocent on Georgia's Death Row; Barbara Becnel, who witnessed the execution of her long-time friend and collaborator California death row prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams; former death row prisoners Lawrence Hayes and Darby Tillis; Yusef Salaam, CEDP Board Member and exonerated in the Central Park jogger case; Derrel Myers, Board Member of the CEDP and Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, and the father of murder victim JoJo White, and the New York based hip-hop collective, the Welfare Poets.
Endorsers: Amnesty International USA, Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights, Prison Radio, Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Network, the Welfare Poets, Witness to Innocence
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
*American University, Washington,
DC - January 27 With Lawrence Hayes, Martina Correia, and a call-in from
Troy Davis
*Seattle Human Rights Film
Festival, Seattle, WA - February 5 With Derrel Myers, Robert 'King' Wilkerson of the Angola 3 and a call-in from Stanley Howard
*UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- February 5 With a
call-in from Kevin Cooper, and Barbara Becnel
*Pace University, Student Union, 1 Pace Plaza,
New York City - February 24, 5:30 – 7:30 pm With Lawrence Hayes and Yusef Salaam
*Rowan College, Glassboro, NJ -
March 25 With Lawrence Hayes and Darby Tillis
*City College, NAC Building Ballroom, 137th St. & Amsterdam Ave. -
March 10, 7 pm With Lawrence Hayes and Yusef Salaam
*Towson University, Towson, MD -
March 10, 6:30 pm With a call-in from John Booth-El on Maryland's death row and Barbara Becnel
*Mount St. Mary College, Emmitsburg, MD -
March 11 With a call-in from Vernon Evans on Maryland's death row and Barbara Becnel
*Peace Center, Albuquerque, NM -
March 25
*Rutgers University Law School, Newark, NJ - April 1 With Lawrence Hayes and Yusef Salaam
*University of Maryland-Baltimore Law School - April 9, 12 Noon
*Kennesaw State University, Burruss Bldg. Rm. 105, Kennesaw , GA - April 14, 12:30 pm With Martina Correia and a call-in from Stanley Howard
*WonderRoot Community Center, 982 Memorial Drive SE, Atlanta, GA
- April 14, 8 PM With Martina Correia and Stanley Howard
*San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
- April 14 With Kevin Cooper, Jack Bryson and Veronica Luna. Co-sponsored by the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center and the California Nursing Students' Association.
*University of Texas-Austin - April 15 With John Booth-El and Tim McKinney
*Harold Washington College, 30 East Lake St., Room 308 - April 16, 3 PM With Darby Tillis, Marlene Martin and a call-in from Cortez Brown
*Left Forum, New York City - April 19 With Stanley Howard , Lawrence Hayes, Yusef Salaam and a family member of Mumia Abu-Jamal
*Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY - April 17, 6 PM With John Booth-El and Lawrence Hayes
PAST TOUR DATES:
*Critical Resistance 10 Conference - Sept. 27 - 2:00-3:30 PM
Oakland, CA
Speakers include Barbara Becnel, longtime advocate, co-author and friend of Stanley Tookie Williams, who witnessed her friend's execution by the state of California in 2005, and CEDP Board member; Martina Correia, sister and advocate of Troy Davis, an innocent man on Georgia's death row; Bryan McCann, Texas activist with the CEDP; A death row prisoner at San Quentin, calling in live via telephone; moderator: Elizabeth Terzakis, longtime member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and Writing instructor at Canada College.
http://www.criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=36
*Howard University - Ballroom - October 27, 2008 - 6-8 PM
Washington, D.C.
Speakers include call-in from Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
*Lewis University - October 28, 2008
Joliet, IL
Speakers include Darby Tillis, exonerated death row prisoner from Illinois, and Julien Ball, CEDP National Office
*Campaign to End the Death Penalty Annual Convention
Chicago, IL Sat., November 8, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Speakers include a call-in from Penn. death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Martina Correia, sister of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis; Darby Tillis, exonerated death row prisoner from Illinois; Darryl Cannon, former Illinois prisoner and police torture victim; Sandra Reed, mother of Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed
*SUNY Social Justice Conference - Sat., November 8, 2008
SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
*Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH Thurs., Dec. 4, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Speakers include Darby Tillis, exonerated death row prisoner from Illinois, and Julien Ball, CEDP National Office
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