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American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz

Alcatraz Takeover

The Alcatraz Proclamation
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today marks the 40th anniversary of
the American Indian Takeover of Alcatraz
in Nov. 20, 1969

some good info:

» 1969 Alcatraz takeover 'changed the whole course of history'
© CNN - published Nov. 20, 2009
» The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
© Global Campus
» Alcatraz: Occupation by The American Indian Movement (AIM)
© 2002 - William Redhawk
» The Native American Civil Rights Movement
© 2009 AlcatrazOccupation.org
» Alcatraz: Taking Back "The Rock"
© Native Peoples Magazine
» Alcatraz is Not an Island
© PBS

» Indian of All Nations: The Alcatraz Proclamation to the Great White Father and his People
© The Center For World Indigenous Studies
» Occupation of Alcatraz Collection
© San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

Free Death Rows !!!

© luisa brehm

Tell all the brothers to keep their heads up, eyes toward the sky.

- Emerson Rudd's last words -
Aug. 9, 1970 - Nov. 15, 2001

in Homage to Emerson Rudd, Henry Lee Hunt, Delara Darabi
and All Prisoners murdered by barbaric governments.

this i know and it's not a dream,
one day, sooner or later, we will win !!!
All over the World,
Kill Death Penalty NOW !!!!

USA 2009 - scheduled executions

November
4 - Paul Johnson - Florida - stayed
5 - Khristian Oliver - murdered by the state of Texas
10 - Yosvanis Valle - murdered by the state of Texas
10 - John Allen Muhammad - Virginia
Sniper John Allen Muhammad executed - CNN.com

17 - Gerald Eldridge - Texas - stayed
17 - Larry Bill Elliott - murdered by the state of Virginia (electric chair)
18 - Danielle Simpson - murdered by the state of Texas
19 - Robert Thompson - murdered by the state of Texas

30 - Romell Broom - Ohio - new hearing

December
2 - Cecil Johnson, Jr. - Tennessee *
3 - Bobby Woods - Texas *
8 - Kenneth Biros - Ohio *
9 - Devin Banks - Tennessee
11 - Matthew Eric Wrinkles - Indiana *

as of November 19

* considered serious dates

info by Rick Halperin and i .... thanks, my friend !!!

recent State killings & stays

September
15 - Romell Broom - Ohio
The Columbus Dispatch : Strickland delays execution
16 - Stephen Moody - murdered by the state of Texas
22 - Romell Broom - Ohio - new hearing Nov. 30
Death row inmate's execution delayed again
22 - Christopher Coleman - murdered by the state of Texas
24 - Kenneth Mosley - Texas - stayed
30 - John Balentine - Texas - stayed

October
8 - Lawrence Reynolds - Ohio - stayed

Ohio Governor puts 2 executions on hold » Oct. 5

- Lawrence Reynolds until March 9, 2010
- Darryl Durr until April 20, 2010

Governor Ted Strickland statement
© Office of the Governor

8 - Max Landon Payne - murdered by the state of Alabama
20 - Mark McClain - murdered by the state of Georgia
27 - Reginald Blanton - murdered by the state of Texas

recent State Killings, commutations and stays

Jan./Feb./March & April 2009

May/June/July & August 2009

USA 2008
check my previous posts here

BBC News - Russia enshrines ban on death penalty

Obama on terror trials: KSM will die
© POLITICO.com

the nightmare is starting again !!! Shame, Amerika !!!!

Ocalan's decade of solitary confinement ends
© Press TV

at last !!!!!

Bella Ciao, çaw bella

Kurdish filmmaker who made film for Italian revolutionary song ( Bella Ciao çaw ) Executed in Iran
© CNN iReport

"An Alleyway in Hell"
China's Abusive "Black Jails"

report
© Human Rights Watch

Kenneth Biros - Ohio

Biros Scheduled to be First in Nation to Die by New Method
© WKBN

Ohio plans execution method untried on prisoners
© The Newark Advocate

Kenneth Biros has again a scheduled execution set » dec. 8
worst than a lab animal, must say .... i just can't believe !!!

Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York
© The Washington Post

Save Bahman(shirko) Moarefi - Iran

URGENT -
Save Bahman(shirko) Maarefi from Execution Petition

"... In preparation for his execution, Shirko Maarefi was transferred to solitary confinement at Saghez central prison. He is one of the Kurd civil activist who was arrested in Saghez last year and was sentenced to death after being interrogated and severely tortured.

He may be taken for execution unannounced as his lawyer Khalil Bahramian has confirmed the news of Shirko’s transfer to solitary confinement. Based on the unannounced and expeditious execution of Ehsan Fatahyan, the regime might take the same position and execute Shirko in 1-2 days."

updated Nov. 15 -
Shirko Moarefi execution was postponed

Alliance for Kurdish Rights »
Kurdish Political Prisoner Shirkuh Moa’refi to be Executed in Iran

Iran Human Rights »
URGENT: Shirko Moarefi, a Kurdish political prisoner at imminent danger of execution

Fattahian Presente !!!

If the rulers and oppressors think that, with my death, the Kurdish question will go away, they are wrong. My death and the deaths of thousands of others like me will not cure the pain; they will only add to the flames of this fire. There is no doubt that every death is the beginning of a new life.

- Ehsan Fattahian -
from his final letter

young Kurdish political activist hanged today by Iran