Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind
of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

- Angela Davis -

Louisiana's Angola 3: 100 Years of Solitude

Louisiana's Angola 3: 100 Years of Solitude
© Amnesty International USA Blog » posted July 28

Support this fight and check out the video !!!!

Iran becomes world leader in executions

EU foreign policy chief: Iran becomes world leader in executions per capita
© Trend News Agency

DPIC Presents Updated Execution Database

DPIC Presents Updated Execution Database
© Death Penalty Information Center

Werner Herzog’s Death Row Documentary

Werner Herzog’s Death Row Documentary Retitled
‘Gazing into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life’
© Film

Andrew DeYoung » GA - Take Action !!!!

Andrew DeYoung was murdered today !!!!

no more action needed ....
Shame on you, AmeriKKKa !!!!

Ga. inmate dies in videotaped lethal injection
© The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

please contact right now Georgia governor Nathan Deal to commute Andrew sentence and never allow ANY execution to be videotaped !!!!
it's outrageous !!!!!

Contact Governor Deal

thanks !!!!
luisa

Execution delayed to Thursday to address videotaping
© The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Appeal tossed, Ga. execution to be videoed
© UPI » published today

New Iran public execution video highlights ‘brutal’ death penalty

New Iran public execution video highlights ‘brutal’ death penalty
© Amnesty International

Liberate Leonard Peltier » A Call to Action

A Call to Action - Liberate Leonard Peltier
Ironically, on this day in 1789, Parisians liberated an infamous French prison known as the Bastille. The fortress-prison often held people jailed on the basis of arbitrary royal indictments and had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government.
Sound familiar?

Friends and supporters, in the spirit of Bastille Day and the promise of justice for all, we must liberate Leonard Peltier.

Take action now and don't stop until Leonard Peltier is free!
© Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee

posted on behalf of the LPDOC

The Hoshino Art Show - Struggle for Justice

Struggle for Justice: The Hoshino Art Show

July 15, Friday » 1:00 - 6:00 pm
July 16, Saturday » 12:00 - 3:00 pm

518 Valencia - near 16th St., SF, USA

Free event

LaborFest

Fumiaki Hoshino is the longest held political prisoner in Japan.
He is sentenced to life in prison.

Appeal to Free Hoshino

Hoshino-Shibuya
© Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Research Center

check also » Free Hoshino (in Japanese)

Getting Away with Torture

Getting Away with Torture
The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees

Report - July 12, 2011

© Human Rights Watch

the beginning

© luisa brehm

dedicated to All Mexicans in AmeriKKKa death rows !!!!

Pátzcuaro, Michoacán
sunrise on the lake

reposting ....

Despierta, ya el cielo se enrojece,
ya se presentó la aurora,
ya cantan los faisanes color de llama,
las golondrinas color de fuego,
ya vuelan las mariposas.

- Náhuatl Hymn of the Dead -
Anonymous

Awake, it’s dawn,
already the sky is turning red,
already sing the flame colored pheasants,
the fire colored swallows,
already are flying the butterflies.


as the ancient Nahuas say,
Who dies becomes a god.

UN » US execution of Mexican national violates international law

US execution of Mexican national violates international law – UN rights chief
© United Nations

below is Rick Perry answer .... Bastard !!!!

Perry defends Mexican's execution feds tried to halt
© Houston Chronicle

Humberto Leal murdered by Rick Perry

Humberto Leal Garcia executed in Texas despite White House appeal
© The Guardian

Statement from attorney of Humberto Leal Garcia
© San Antonio Express-News

not again !!!! outrageous !!!!!

Kill Death Penalty NOW !!!!

NAACP "Death Row USA" Report

Most Recent DEATH ROW USA Report Now Available

The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's
"Death Row USA"

© Death Penalty Information Center

CA Prisons Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

For Immediate Release

Prisoners Across at Least 6 California Prisons Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers
© Common Dreams

Support grows for California prisoners’ hunger strike
© Workers World » published July 13

post updated July 13

John Trudell "Cry your Tears"

from Trudell's album Madness & The Moremes - 2007

because today is AmeriKKKa independence day ....
John Trudell, the powerful messenger !!!!!

John Trudell

lean on my shoulder

© joão & luisa brehm

Voninha and Mom (leaning on her shoulder), inseparable sisters always giving strength to each other.

Voninha e Né (apoiada no seu ombro), irmãs inseparáveis sempre dando força uma à outra.

Ivone and Mom - A nossa Mãe e Ivone, 1972

AI report » July 1

USA: An embarrassment of hitches.
Reflections on the death penalty, 35 years after Gregg v. Georgia, as states scramble for lethal injection drugs

AI report » July 1

© Amnesty International

35 Years Of Death Penalty Regrets

35 Years Of Death Penalty Regrets
© Amnesty International USA Blog

Illinois' death row officially shuts down

Illinois' death row officially shuts down
© Times Free Press
published July 1

Illinois death row inmates moved to regular jail cells
© Reuters
published July 2

superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr news, at last !!!!!

Abolition of Death Penalty 144th anniversary

1st of July 2011

144 years since the death penalty was abolished
in Portugal

Portugal was the first European country to abolish the death penalty and renounced its application well before it was legally abolished.


The tragedy of man, 'a postponed dead body' as Fernando Pessoa said, does not need an untimely exit from the stage. It is tense enough without an end that is artificial and planned by butchers, megalomaniacs, potentates, racisms and orthodoxies. Therefore, being human, we demand unequivocally that all peoples should have a code of humanity. A code that for all citizens guarantees the right to die their own death.

- Miguel Torga -

Law of the 1st of July 1867
ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
Historical summary
© Procuradoria-Geral da República

Portugal Abolition of the death penalty
© Ministerio de Cultura

Miguel Torga
© Wikipedia