21st SEPT 2015
CONCERT FOR WORLD PEACE
OCTOBER 10th, 2015: International Day Against the Death Penalty
RATHER THAN TAKE THE RISK TO EXECUTE PEOPLE,
LET'S FOCUS ON PROTECTING INNOCENT VICTIMS.
RATHER THAN TAKE THE RISK TO EXECUTE PEOPLE,
LET'S FOCUS ON PROTECTING INNOCENT VICTIMS.
FIND OUT HOW SOME FORMER OFFENDERS MAY BE KEY IN HELPING REDUCE CRIME
SEPTEMBER 21st, 2015: World Day for Peace Day
Playing For Change
Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. Join the movement here: http://www.playingforchange.com/membe....
From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes "Stand By Me", the first of many Songs Around The World produced by Playing For Change.
This Ben E. King classic features musicians around the world recorded by the Playing For Change team during their travels. This song continues to remind us that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT!
Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. Join the movement here: http://www.playingforchange.com/membe....
From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes "Stand By Me", the first of many Songs Around The World produced by Playing For Change.
This Ben E. King classic features musicians around the world recorded by the Playing For Change team during their travels. This song continues to remind us that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT!
Peace One Day
Institutionalising Peace Day and making it self-sustaining is everyone’s legacy. In order to further increase participation around the world and to empower third party groups to take ownership of the day, Peace One Day has created a series of global coalitions. These coalitions consist of member organisations that are committed to activity on Peace Day and to engaging their networks around the world.
Organisations within each sector are able to unify their messages and activities in support of Peace Day, thereby achieving greater impact. Membership of these coalitions and the Schools’ Network is growing rapidly.
Find out more
August 25th, 2015
Tomorrow August 26th, Foreign national Bernardo Aban Tercero is due to be executed in Texas. Bernardo once was a courageous human being who helped saved many lives during the most deadly hurricane in history, the Hurricane Mitch. He came to the USA with the hope to find a job to feed his family.
He never received any support and ended up doing sadly serious mistakes,
including killing a man in the context of a robbery.
We have selected this song, sang by a talented Nicaraguan kid, to help convey our message that as children, we, humans, all have talents that need to be nurtured. Let's nurture the talents of children so they grow as responsible adults, instead of killing them for their mistakes.
Bernardo Aban Tercero is supported by SAVE Innocents; 255 Investigations; Lutte Pour la Justice; Human Rights First; Texas Abolition Movement; The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; Black Panther’s Party – Houston Chapter, End Mass Incarceration,
The Prison Show Gang 90.1FM KPFT; FreeJuanBalderas Support group; Amnesty International USA; End mass-incarceration; NCADP; IACHR;
Popular Assemblee of Houston; Civil Rights for Prisoners; Bianca Jagger, Cardinal Brenes Solorzano; a coalition of dozens of villagers, family members and friends in Nicaragua ; President Ortega.
August 4th, 2015
A support music video for Rogers LaCaze from his friends and supporters.
Born August 13th, he is currently on death row in Louisianna. Rogers LaCaze maintains his innocence and just won a new trial.
Read more about the case of Rogers LaCaze here
A support music video for Rogers LaCaze from his friends and supporters.
Born August 13th, he is currently on death row in Louisianna. Rogers LaCaze maintains his innocence and just won a new trial.
Read more about the case of Rogers LaCaze here
July 20th, 2015
This video pays tribute to Marge Meakins, a lovely elderly lady and a pen pal of Mark Ströman, a prisoner on death row who was executed in Texas on July 20th, 2011. Mark Ströman had committed some terrible hate crimes against Muslims in the aftermath of 9/11. He had changed in his years in prison and was trying to act from death row in favor of more peace in the world.
June 5th, 2015
Support for Bernardo Aban Tercero, the only Nicaraguan national on death row in Texas and he USA. He has been given a date for August 26th.
His consular rights were violated under the Art.36 of the Vienna Convention.
His family, friends, and supporters call on the Nicaraguan Government for their support to their national Bernardo Aban Tercero.
Read more about his case here
May 6th, 2015
Pennsylvania Law Aimed at Silencing Prisoners Like Mumia Abu-Jamal Declared Unconstitutional
Mumia Abu Jamal in a critical health condition - READ (below, attached) open call to Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Wolf
to order independent treatment for Mumia Abu Jamal and his release.
Find out more about the Campaign Bring Mumia Home here (Campagne pour Mumia en francais ici)
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This open call and letter for Mumia Abu Jamal is supported by:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Minister Louis Farrakhan; Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States; Cornel West, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Professor, Union Theological Seminary; Charles Rangel, Congressman, New York ; Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman, Georgia; Charles Barron, State Assemblyman, East New York; Chris Hedges, author, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist; James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary; founder of Black Liberation Theology; Mark Lewis Taylor, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary; Estela Vazquez, Executive Vice President, 1199 SEIU; H. Yamamoto, General Secretary, Doro-Chiba International Labor Solidarity Committee, Japan; Imam Al-Hajj Talib ’Abdur-Rashid, Vice President, The Muslim Alliance in North America ; Sister Fredrica Bey, Executive Director, Women in Support of the Million Man March; Lynne Stewart, former attorney and political prisoner; William P. Quigley, Professor of Law, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana Azadeh N. Shahshahani, President, National Lawyers Guild ; Natsu Taylor Saito, attorney and law professor; Paul Wright, Director, Human Rights Defense Center; Editor, Prison Legal News ; Judith L. Bourne, attorney, U.S. Virgin Islands; former National Co-Chair, National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) ; Kenosha Ferrell, Esq., LL.M., National Conference of Black Lawyers member and concerned citizen; Michael Coard, Esq., attorney, university professor, radio show host, magazine journalist; Erika Kreider, Esq., attorney; J. Kathleen Marcus, J.D., Marcus Law; Joan P. Gibbs, Esq., National Conference of Black Lawyers; Kerry McLean, Esq., Board Member, National Lawyers Guild; NCBL member; Bina Ahmad, National Vice President, National Lawyers Guild; criminal defense attorney; Sally Frank, Professor of Law, Drake UniversityRosie Hinnebusch, attorney-at-law, Sarasota, Florida ; Bill Montross, National Lawyers Guild, Bethesda, Maryland; Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College; Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA; Martin Espada, poet, Professor, English, University of Massachussetts; Ann Garrison, print and radio journalist, Pacifica Radio, San Francisco Bay View, Black Agenda Report, Black Star News; Michael Albert, Z Magazine; Katha Pollitt, writer; Norman Solomon, author; co-founder and coordinator, RootsAction.org Farah Jasmine Griffin, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African-American Studies, Columbia University; Joy James, Professor of Humanities and Political Science, Williams College; Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; Lisa Guenther, Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; Thomas Hansen, Mexico Solidarity Organization, an immigrant justice advocacy university; Rosemari Mealy, human rights advocate; Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University; of NY (CUNY); Terry Bisson, science fiction writer; Patrick Le Hyaric, French Deputy at the European Parliament; Director, L’Humanité, France; Catherine Margaté, Mayor, Malakoff, France; Didier Paillard, Mayor, Saint-Denis, France; Ian Brossat, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France ; Pierre Laurent, Senator and National Secretary of the French Communist Party, France; Claude Guillaumaud-Pujol, Professor of American Studies, Clermont-Ferrand University, France; Hans-Christoph Graf von Sponeck, UN Assistant Secretary-General (ret.); Sabine Losing, Member of the European Parliament, Member and Coordinator in Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), Vice-Chair and Coordinator in Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE); Katja Keul, member German parliament; Wolfgang Bittner, Dr.jur., Schriftsteller, Germany; Sabine Kebir, author; Co-Director of the German PEN, Germany; Bernd Schirmer, German PEN; Annette Groth, member of the German Parliament; member of the Human Rights Committee of the German Parliament, Germany; Dr. Michael Schiffmann, English Department of the University of Heidelberg, translator, editor, and author, Germany; Vu The Dung, Vietnamese writer and poet; member of the German PEN, Germany; Hans Till, poet and translator; member of the German PEN, German; Heike Hänsel, member of the German parliament, German; Annette Schiffmann, public relations counselor; Chair, German Network Against the Death Penalty, Germany; Charlotte Wiedemann, journalist, Berlin, Germany; Political Activists’ Alliance Network to Stop the G7, Elmau, Germany; Elfriede Jelinek, novelist and playwright; member of the International PEN; laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature, Austria; Dr. Jan Oberg, Director of TFF—Transnational Peace and Future Research, sociologist, Sweden; Dr. Farhang Jahanpour, Tutor at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, England; Akiko Hoshino, Representative of the Hoshino Defense Committee, Japan; Nina Triffleman, member, Compassionate Seattle; Malaika H. Kambon, People’s Eye Photography; Jackson Browne, singer
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Minister Louis Farrakhan; Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States; Cornel West, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Professor, Union Theological Seminary; Charles Rangel, Congressman, New York ; Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman, Georgia; Charles Barron, State Assemblyman, East New York; Chris Hedges, author, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist; James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary; founder of Black Liberation Theology; Mark Lewis Taylor, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary; Estela Vazquez, Executive Vice President, 1199 SEIU; H. Yamamoto, General Secretary, Doro-Chiba International Labor Solidarity Committee, Japan; Imam Al-Hajj Talib ’Abdur-Rashid, Vice President, The Muslim Alliance in North America ; Sister Fredrica Bey, Executive Director, Women in Support of the Million Man March; Lynne Stewart, former attorney and political prisoner; William P. Quigley, Professor of Law, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana Azadeh N. Shahshahani, President, National Lawyers Guild ; Natsu Taylor Saito, attorney and law professor; Paul Wright, Director, Human Rights Defense Center; Editor, Prison Legal News ; Judith L. Bourne, attorney, U.S. Virgin Islands; former National Co-Chair, National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) ; Kenosha Ferrell, Esq., LL.M., National Conference of Black Lawyers member and concerned citizen; Michael Coard, Esq., attorney, university professor, radio show host, magazine journalist; Erika Kreider, Esq., attorney; J. Kathleen Marcus, J.D., Marcus Law; Joan P. Gibbs, Esq., National Conference of Black Lawyers; Kerry McLean, Esq., Board Member, National Lawyers Guild; NCBL member; Bina Ahmad, National Vice President, National Lawyers Guild; criminal defense attorney; Sally Frank, Professor of Law, Drake UniversityRosie Hinnebusch, attorney-at-law, Sarasota, Florida ; Bill Montross, National Lawyers Guild, Bethesda, Maryland; Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College; Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA; Martin Espada, poet, Professor, English, University of Massachussetts; Ann Garrison, print and radio journalist, Pacifica Radio, San Francisco Bay View, Black Agenda Report, Black Star News; Michael Albert, Z Magazine; Katha Pollitt, writer; Norman Solomon, author; co-founder and coordinator, RootsAction.org Farah Jasmine Griffin, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African-American Studies, Columbia University; Joy James, Professor of Humanities and Political Science, Williams College; Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; Lisa Guenther, Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; Thomas Hansen, Mexico Solidarity Organization, an immigrant justice advocacy university; Rosemari Mealy, human rights advocate; Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University; of NY (CUNY); Terry Bisson, science fiction writer; Patrick Le Hyaric, French Deputy at the European Parliament; Director, L’Humanité, France; Catherine Margaté, Mayor, Malakoff, France; Didier Paillard, Mayor, Saint-Denis, France; Ian Brossat, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France ; Pierre Laurent, Senator and National Secretary of the French Communist Party, France; Claude Guillaumaud-Pujol, Professor of American Studies, Clermont-Ferrand University, France; Hans-Christoph Graf von Sponeck, UN Assistant Secretary-General (ret.); Sabine Losing, Member of the European Parliament, Member and Coordinator in Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), Vice-Chair and Coordinator in Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE); Katja Keul, member German parliament; Wolfgang Bittner, Dr.jur., Schriftsteller, Germany; Sabine Kebir, author; Co-Director of the German PEN, Germany; Bernd Schirmer, German PEN; Annette Groth, member of the German Parliament; member of the Human Rights Committee of the German Parliament, Germany; Dr. Michael Schiffmann, English Department of the University of Heidelberg, translator, editor, and author, Germany; Vu The Dung, Vietnamese writer and poet; member of the German PEN, Germany; Hans Till, poet and translator; member of the German PEN, German; Heike Hänsel, member of the German parliament, German; Annette Schiffmann, public relations counselor; Chair, German Network Against the Death Penalty, Germany; Charlotte Wiedemann, journalist, Berlin, Germany; Political Activists’ Alliance Network to Stop the G7, Elmau, Germany; Elfriede Jelinek, novelist and playwright; member of the International PEN; laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature, Austria; Dr. Jan Oberg, Director of TFF—Transnational Peace and Future Research, sociologist, Sweden; Dr. Farhang Jahanpour, Tutor at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, England; Akiko Hoshino, Representative of the Hoshino Defense Committee, Japan; Nina Triffleman, member, Compassionate Seattle; Malaika H. Kambon, People’s Eye Photography; Jackson Browne, singer
May 1st, 2015
SAVE Tony Medina in Texas
German composer and singer Peter Rupprecht has composed a song in support of Tony Medina: "Justice for the innocent" (Lyrics here)
Learn more about Tony Medina here
April 2015
Filipino kids sing for their mum Mary Jane Veloso facing execution in Indonesia
Find out how you can help SAVE her life here
French-Indonesian singer Anggun has asked President Joko Widodo to spare the life of Serge Atlaoui facing execution in Indonesia
See her letter in french here
They support Serge Atlaoui and all prisoners on death row in Indonesia
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March 4th, 2015
No Justice No Peace for Rodney Reed
Find out more on Rodney Reed [L'affaire Rodney Reed en français ici]
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They support Rodney Reed:
The Innocence Project, National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), Campaign to end the Death Penalty (CEDP), Texas Defender Service (TDS), The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, SAVE Innocents, Amnesty International, Collectif Mumia Abu Jamal, Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), Lutte Pour La Justice, Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (LDH), Communauté de Sant'Egidio. Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l'Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP).
Find out more
The Innocence Project, National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), Campaign to end the Death Penalty (CEDP), Texas Defender Service (TDS), The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, SAVE Innocents, Amnesty International, Collectif Mumia Abu Jamal, Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), Lutte Pour La Justice, Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (LDH), Communauté de Sant'Egidio. Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l'Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP).
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February 2015
Joan Baez, Ennio Moricone: Here's to you Nicola & Bart
In remembrance of the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti
One of the most controversial innocence cases in history
Many famous socialists and intellectuals campaigned for a retrial without success. John Dos Passos, along with Dorothy Parker. the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Others who wrote or signed petitions included Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells.[106] The president of the American Federation of Labor cited "the long period of time intervening between the commission of the crime and the final decision of the Court" as well as "the mental and physical anguish which Sacco and Vanzetti must have undergone during the past seven years" in a telegram to the governor.
Benito Mussolini quietly made inquiries through diplomatic channels and was prepared to ask Governor Fuller to commute the sentences if it appeared his request would be granted.
Benito Mussolini quietly made inquiries through diplomatic channels and was prepared to ask Governor Fuller to commute the sentences if it appeared his request would be granted.
January 2015
Je suis Charlie
