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Laboryes	Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:13 am
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967	I Am Troy Davis (T.R.O.Y.) District Attorney Larry Chisolm of Savannah, Ga. has the power to request that the death warrant he singed is withdrawn on Troy Davis. Office Telephone: 912-652-7308 Fax 912-652-7328 Sign petition here _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn Last edited by Laboryes on Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:27 am; edited 1 time in total
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Laboryes	Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:18 am
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967	More on Troy Davis- http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/17/18690577.php _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn
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Laboryes	Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:35 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967	Quote: KEEP THE PRESSURE ON TO SAVE TROY DAVIS' LIFE! AN APPEAL FOR MORE EMERGENCY DEMOS, SEPT. 19 AND SEPT. 20! The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles is scheduled to meet on Monday, Sept. 19 to determine if Troy Davis is executed on Sept. 21 or is granted clemency. Hundreds of cities held Sept. 16 protests. Let's continue to keep the pressure on the Board to stop this racist execution by holding emergency protests on Monday, Sept. 19 and Tuesday, Sept. 20. Let the International Action Center know about your action so that it can be listed for others in your cities. Use the September 16 Actions form at iacenter.org/actions/troydavissept16listlocalaction to let us know about your action. Please continue to sign and urge others to sign the petitions which have generated more than 3 million emails. Remember that this petition goes to every member of the Board along with the Georgia legislature, the governor, the White House, U.S. Congress and major media. The petition url is www.iacenter.org/troydavis Keep Pressure Up for Troy Davis with Emergency Demos 9/19 & 9/20 _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn
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Laboryes	Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:02 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967	Article from Workers World Newspaper: As millions grieve and vow to end racist death penalty Georgia executes Troy Davis, spurning proof of his innocence By Dianne Mathiowetz Atlanta Published Sep 22, 2011 10:50 PM Sept. 22 — It is the morning after the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of Troy Anthony Davis by the state of Georgia. The internet and other forms of social media — as well as newspapers, radio and television — are filled with images of the thousands of people who gathered in cities across the U.S., around the world and outside the walls of the Jackson, Ga., prison that houses the death chamber. Millions of people made phone calls and sent letters, tweets and emails, united in demanding that the execution of Davis be stopped. Appeals were made to all and anyone to intervene, from the warden and guards at the prison to President Barack Obama. The Supreme Court held up the execution for almost four hours, but then sealed Davis’s death without comment. The facts of this case are well-known: * Davis was tried in 1991 for the killing two years earlier of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Mark MacPhail. * No physical or forensic evidence tying Davis to the shooting could be produced. The murder weapon was never found. There were no fingerprints, blood evidence or gunshot residue. * The trial was held in Savannah, a Southern city where the site of a former massive slave market is a tourist area filled with boutiques and bars, and where the divisions between the areas where Black people live, and the Spanish-moss-draped parks and mansions of the city's elite, are stark. * The prosecution relied on eyewitness testimony. Later seven of the nine witnesses recanted or altered their statements, citing police coercion, threats or intimidation. Nevertheless, Davis, a young Black man, was found guilty of killing the white police officer. Davis always maintained his innocence. He proclaimed it again as he lie strapped to a gurney, waiting for the lethal injection to begin. At every location where protests were held last night, Davis's own words to his supporters were repeated and reinforced. In these last opportunities to speak about his pending death, while he maintained hope, he made clear that there have been other Troy Davises in the past — innocent people convicted and executed by a thoroughly racist and unfair judicial system. He directed his words to the other Troy Davises on death rows. And he spoke about the more than 2 million people held today in U.S. prisons and jails, so many just like him — young, coming from communities of color, workers, often poor. Davis's message to all those who signed petitions, wrote letters, demonstrated and worked tirelessly to save his life is to transfer that passion and commitment to ending capital punishment in the U.S. and to always fight for justice. Georgia’s brutal and racist history Georgia has a long and bloody history. It begins with the importation and sale of African slaves and continues through the brutal forced removal of Cherokee and other Indigenous peoples on the Trail of Tears. It stretches from the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, when 10,000 white men and boys rampaged through downtown Atlanta in a murderous frenzy, killing and beating Black people and burning down their businesses, to the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank by an anti-Jewish mob comprised of prominent Marietta leaders. The days of Jim Crow segregation spawned the 1946 Ku Klux Klan killing of two Black couples at Moore's Ford Bridge. It was Georgia's capricious and arbitrary use of the death penalty, as revealed in the 1972 Furman case, that caused the Supreme Court to declare a moratorium on capital punishment. Subsequent Georgia cases before the highest court permitted the resumption of the death penalty and denied admission of historical patterns of racial bias as evidence. Without a doubt, Georgia's red clay soil is stained with the blood of many, many victims of racism, poverty and bigotry. Recent statistics show that Georgia has the third-highest poverty rate in the U.S. It ranks among the top states for foreclosures. Its unemployment figures are consistently higher than the national average. On every index of social well-being – from health to educational quality and so on — Georgia is near the bottom of the list. The death penalty in Georgia goes back to the earliest colonial days, when capital punishment was directed at quashing resistance by those enslaved as well as at abolitionist organizing. Capital punishment is the ultimate tool by an exploitative ruling class bent on maintaining its authority over all those whose labor provides its profits. This blatant injustice after Davis's 22-year struggle to claim his innocence before numerous courts has torn away the veneer of due process and legality and revealed the ugliness of this class- and race-based judicial system. In Troy Davis's name, the time for mass struggle, organization and resistance is NOW! Postscript: On the morning of Sept. 22, the state of Georgia issued an execution warrant for Marcus Roy Johnson, to be carried out between Oct. 5 and 12. _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn
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Laboryes	Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:38 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967	Quote: 1. We are not living in a “post-racial” society We can finally lay to rest this tiresome phrase. Three lessons from the fight to save Troy Davis _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn
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Laboryes	Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:10 am
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1967	Quote: For those that haven't followed the details of the Troy Davis lynching here are ten reasons he should not have been executed. Troy Davis' execution: Another example of a barbaric society _________________ "When people refuse to obey, then democracy comes alive." Howard Zinn
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