Mikeypod and I discuss the impeding US sanctioned murder of a nobel peace price nominee. No joke.
Also a new song by the enigmatic Mr. Zeeche and a special prayer from WSB.
Stan Tookie Williams
• 1971 Co-founder of Los Angeles crips gang
• 1981 convicted of murdering four people during two robberies and sentenced to death row at San Quentin State Prison
The Trial
• Each of the witnesses who provided testimony were also facing felony charges, and had received incentives to lie in order to receive leniency from the state in their own sentencing
• Three African-Americans were kicked off the Jury, the jury consisted of one latino, one Filipino and ten Caucasians
While on Death Row
• 9 children’s books educating about avoiding gangs
• Tookie Protocol for Peace -in the beginning of 2004, 200 crips and bloods in Newark New Jersey signed a truce document based on his peace protocol. By May 2004 the Murder rate had dropped significantly.
• Nominated four times for the Nobel Peace prize, and three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Received presidential call to service award this summer for his volunteer work to help youth
• “The U.S. Supreme Court, on October 11, 2005 , ruled against Tookie on his final appeal and set his execution date for December 13. Thus they disregarded 9 of the 24 Ninth Circuit Court judges’ assertion that the District Attorney at Tookie’s trial employed “reprehensible and unconstitutional” racist tactics, using animal-in-a-jungle metaphors to refer to Tookie and to the South Central environment in which he lived. This landmark ruling means that minorities can now be legally rejected from juries based on race.”
www.tookie.com
www.savetookie.com
www.ncdappodcast.blogspot.com/
Gov. Schwarzenegger:
call: 916-445-2841
fax: 916-445-4633
e-mail: [email protected]
