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The memorial service for Stanley Tookie Williams will take place Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 12 noon. The service will take place at Bethel A.M.E. located at 7900 South Western Avenue in Los Angeles. The service will be open to the public, but seating is limited.

Participants will include: Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Bruce Gordon of the NAACP, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, recording artist Snoop Dogg, human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, Williams' long time advocate and friend Barbara Becnel, Jamie Foxx.



Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools & Axis of Justice present:

REFLECTION. RESISTANE. RESPONSE. Hosted by Jerry Quickley of Beneath the Surface. Line up: Tom Morello as The Night Watchman, Colectivo Error, Excessive Acts, Hijos De La Tierra, Stacey Lisa, Disrott, plus bands from Lynwood & Montebello High

This Friday, December 16 , 4:00-10:00 pm @ Space Art Gallery in Highland Park 106 South Avenue 58 -|- Details



Excerpts from a 400 page DOD document obtained by NBC News reveals that the Pentagon spied on this year’s anti-war protest in Hollywood. The sentence reads: One “incident” included in the database is a large anti-war protest at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles last March that included effigies of President Bush and anti-war protest banners.

The news comes as no surprise to long time anti-war activists, but it is still disturbing. It is thought by many pentagon observers to be just a small part of a much larger program of spying by government agencies on US citizens. This anti-war march in Hollywood was widely reported on this site as a peaceful exercise of the constitutional right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble. It is not clear why the military would consider this peaceful protest a threat to any of its facilities. From the newswire: Repost of NBC News story on Pentagon spying -|- Pentagon spying on Americans?

AUDIO: Anti-war Activist Ian Thompson on Pentagon Spying -|- AUDIO: Jim Lafferty of the National Lawyers Guild on Pentagon Spying



The San Gabriel Mountain Trail Builders build hiking trails and perform repairs and maintenance on trails in an effort to limit the human environmental impact in the San Gabriel Mountain chain. In areas where humans hike, bicycle, picnic, and camp, the lack of established, professionally developed trails results in a number of unplanned trails that are almost always dangerous since they take a direct route from parking areas to rivers. Numerous unplanned trails caused more extensive erosion to microenvironments and cause some spreading out of litter that gets dumped along the trails.

Full article: Dumpster Recovery in San Gabriel Mountains by Fredric L. Rice



LOS ANGELES - Here in Tookie Williams' home town, there were a number of protests and vigils held in the final hours before the state’s execution of Stan Tookie Williams. The execution is reported to have taken 36 minutes and the procedure was fraught with complications. According to reports from the witness chamber, after Williams was pronounced dead some of his supporters in the room raised their fists and yelled in unison “The State has just executed an innocent man!”

In Los Angeles there was a vigil held at Leimert Park, people gathered at the gates to the governor’s mansion in Brentwood, there was a vigil in Westwood and a march through Westwood to the St. Paul the Apostle Parish where there were speeches by death penalty opponents including California State Assemblyman Paul Koretz, Los Angeles City Councilman, Bill Rosendahl and human rights activist Bianca Jagger. Despite speculations of rioting made by corporate media outlets, there have been no reports of any violence following the execution.

Video from the newswire: Protest March Against Execution by the State. / / Bill Rosendahl speaks out against the Death Penalty / / Paul Koretz, California State Assemblyman, 42nd District and AB-1121



sabado diciembre 17, Hollywood y Highland, 6:00 En 17 de diciembre, unase al pueblo en las calles y ayudenos adetener la guerrs y a retornar las tropes.

Protsta Y Vigilia | Protest Vigil

En Ingles: December 17 Anti-War Protest Vigil 6 PM, corner of Hollywood & Highland



On Black Entertainment Television on Friday night, the Bloods, notorious rival to Tookie Williams' Crips gang, offered up their guns in exchange for Tookie's life. The arsenal was impressive, and the gesture unequivocal. Report from a viewer below. Boldface added.

Unless California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger grants clemency, Stanley Tookie Williams will die tonight, a little after 12 midnight, at San Quentin Prison in California. The California Supreme Court has already refused to grant a stay of execution and today the petition signed by thousands goes before the court, but it is really now up to the California Governor.

Main stream press organizations are busy parading their news blurbs about how Stanley Tookie Williams founded the Crips and he needs to ‘pay’ not only for the crimes he allegedly committed but for everything ever done by any Crip member in history.

We are seeing a lot of bias reporting on Tookie’s case and news organizations like CNN and others find grieving parents or relatives of gang violence and of course they want someone to pay for their loss, and they have Stanley Tookie Williams in their cross hairs.

Hip-hop culture grass roots organizers, rap artist, actors, politicians, religious leaders and now the ‘bangers’ and the ‘rydas’ them self are speaking out.

Friday evening I saw a report on BET about how some LA Blood members turned weapons over to a BET reporter for her to turn them into the police. The gesture was one in ‘good faith’, showing that peace is possible and to ask California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams. ...

Full report: Stanley Tookie Williams Vengeance or Justice by Robert with background by Leslie




LOS ANGELES - Local protests are planned tonight in response to the governor's denial of clemency. Death penalty opponents plan to converge on the Governor’s Mansion in Brentwood tonight on the belief that he will be there at the time of the execution. The governor’s press office will not disclose where the governor will be at the time of the execution. But it is widely believed that he will either be at the mansion in Brentwood or in hiding at some undisclosed location. There is also a march and rally in Westwood this evening at the federal building. Protesters plan to gather at 6:00 pm and the march is expected to start at 8:30 pm.

From the newswire: MON. 6PM: Vigil at Gov's Mansion in Brentwood If He Doesn't Grant Clemency for Tookie // ALSO: / / MON. 6PM: Vigil at the Federal Building in Westwood




The governor’s has again delayed an announcement on his decision on clemency for Tookie Williams. An announcement was expected today at 3:00 PM today but instead it was announced that word from the governor’s office will be put off until sometime on Monday, less than 24 hours before the execution scheduled for midnight Monday night. Earlier in the day there was a vigil outside the Governor’s Church, St. Monica’s Church in Santa Monica, video from the newswire: VIDEO: Vigil at Arnold's Church

Local demonstrations to save the life of Tookie Williams are planned up to the last moment.

From the Newswire: MON. 6PM: Vigil at Gov's Mansion in Brentwood If He Doesn't Grant Clemency for Tookie || Convergence on Governor’s Mansion to Stop Execution.




Death penalty opponents maintained a vigil awaiting an announcement from the governors office on the granting of clemency. At 3:00 pm word came over the newswire that the governor has postponed the announcement until 3:00 pm on Sunday. On hearing this news the vigil disbanded.

People plan to regroup at a rally tomorrow Sunday outside St. Monica’s Church (the Gov’s church) at 10am. The church is located at 725 California Avenue in Santa Monica.

Report: with photos: Vigil for clemency at gates to Gov's estate




LOS ANGELES - Saturday, December 10, 2005 - Demanding an end to military recruiting on High School and College campuses, about 50 to 75 People demonstrated today at the entrance to the Los Angeles Military Recruiting Battalion in the Crenshaw district.

From the newswire: REPORT & PHOTOS || AUDIO / / More photos: Protest at the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion / / MORE AUDIO





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