FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/17/2005
International Campaign Demands Clemency for CA Death Row Prisoner, Stanley
âTookieâ Williams, Sentenced for Execution on December 13, 2005
What: Press Conference
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Where: Leimert Park (Crenshaw and Vernon)
3415 West 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Office will be the target of an
international campaign for a moratorium on the death penalty in California.
In Los Angeles, a coalition of religious, civic and community leaders will
announce plans for an international campaign, at a press conference on Tuesday,
Oct. 18th, to seek clemency for California death row prisoner Stanley
âTookieâ Williams. Williams has been nominated five times for a Nobel Peace
Prize and four times for the Nobel Prize for Literature for his efforts and
writings against gang violence.
Williams -- the subject of a television movie called "Redemption," starring
Jamie Foxx-- is an ideal candidate for clemency. Co-founder of the Crips gang
in South Central Los Angeles at age 17, he renounced gangs after eight years on
Death Row and wrote the first of nine books for young readers and, recently, a
tenth book for young adults, "Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir."
"He has received tens of thousands of e-mails from youths, parents, teachers
and even law enforcement officials from around the world," stated Reverend Al
Sharpton, "saying that his writings have changed as well as saved lives. He was
first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 by a member of Switzerland's
Parliament and has been nominated four more times since then."
Najee Ali, California State Chair of the National Action Network (NAN), said,
"We intend to turn the spotlight on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his
power to spare a condemned person's life by granting clemency, a power last
exercised in California by Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967."
Sponsors: The Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Death Penalty Focus
Najee Ali, chair of National Action Network
State Sen.Tom Hayden.(Ret)
Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Project Islamic HOPE
The NAACP
The "US" Organization
Rainbow Push Coalition
Venice 2000
Contact: Najee Ali of N.A.N. cell (323) 350-1065 cell
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