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Message from Troy Anthony Davis, Sept 10, 2011
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 3:44pm
A message from Troy Anthony Davis September 10, 2011
To All:
I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.
REMEMBER TROY DAVIS! LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST INJUSTICE
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:38pmTroy Anthony Davis
Executed by the State of Georgia 11:08 PM Sept 21, 2011
Rest In Peace
Georgia Senator Urges Execution Staff to STRIKE & REFUSE to Kill Troy Davis
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 4:29pmGeorgia Senator Joins SCHR to Urge Execution Staff to Strike & Refuse to Kill Troy Davis Date of Publication: 09/20/2011
Atlanta – Today, the day before Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection, Georgia Senate Democratic Whip Vincent Fort and Southern Center for Human Rights Executive Director Sara Totonchi have issued a joint statement calling upon the individuals charged with carrying out the execution to refuse to participate in the killing of a possibly innocent man.
URGENT: STOP the Execution of Troy Davis, set for Sept. 21 (Calls, Emails & Petitions!)
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 4:49pm
An Innocent Man Faces Execution in Georgia
Troy Davis faces execution in Georgia, September 21.
Davis was framed up, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of a Savannah policeman in 1989.
Please, call, fax or email today.
Stop the execution of Troy Davis!
* Gov. Nathan Deal: phone (404) 656-1776, fax (404) 657-7332, email georgia.governor@gov.state.ga.us, web contact form http://gov.state.ga.us/contact.shtml
US Execution Puts Death Penalty On Trial
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 11:50pmTroy Davis is set to die in under a week but advocates say there is 'too much doubt' to condemn him to death. Jesse Strauss Last Modified: 18 Sep 2011 14:02
A global campaign is asking Georgia to commute Davis' sentence from death to life imprisonment [WCADP]
Our Racist Justice System: How Troy Davis Has Spent 20 Years on Death Row, With Little Evidence Against Him
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 1:16amDavis's case has become an emblem for much of what is problematic about a capital punishment system that is riddled with racism, economic disparity and error.
June1, 2011 | “De’Jaun, come over here, I want to talk to you.”
De’Jaun Correia, a slender 13-year-old with thick corn-rows in his hair, sat down next to his uncle Troy Davis in the corner of the room. Troy described to De’Jaun what to expect now that he was approaching adolescence. “Your body’s gonna be changing…. Women, they go through things, and us guys, we go through things, too. The same thing happened to me when I was a young boy growing up.”
De’Jaun listened intently as his uncle explained the birds and the bees. It wasn’t the first time De’Jaun and Troy had had an intimate one on one. De’Jaun was more comfortable talking to his uncle, a sturdily built man with warm brown eyes, than anyone else.
Help Save Troy Davis (Spread this VIDEO)
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 12:17amSpread the Word by Sharing This Video
Over the last week, more than 30,000 members of the NAACP family have spoken up and stood by Troy Davis. Now it's up to us to spread the word so that our collective voice can be even louder.
Georgia Prison System Retaliates Against Prisoners Involved in Historic Protest
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 1:23amFrom Our Friends at the US Human Rights Network and the Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners’ Rights:
"The Coalition is raising concerns about the potential cover up of an attempted murder and the refusal, to date, of the prison to identify the missing 37 or more inmates deemed “conspirators” by the Department Of Corrections."
Prison Slaves in Toxic BP areas
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 08/15/2010 - 3:03pmBP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle
"They're not getting paid, it's part of their sentence"
Author Abe Louise Young: poet, activist, native to New Orleans, lives in Austin, TX
July 21, 2010: In the first few days after BP's Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words "Inmate Labor" printed in large red block letters.
