The Abolitionist Action Committee

Selected news articles and commentary
featuring the Fast and Vigil

These articles are posted here as an educational service without permission but with full attribution and, when possible, links to the original source of the material. Items are posted with the most recent at the top. This page will be updated regularly, but not necessarily every day. Please check back regularly.

Below are links to news items generated as a result of last year's Fast & Vigil. We've had better luck in precious years.
Check out the news items from 2002 at


• www.cuadp.org/fv2002/2002gallery.html

and from 2001 at

• www.cuadp.org/fv2001/2001gallery.html




• JULY 01, 2003 - CNS NEWS.COM - Death Penalty Foes Converge on Supreme Court

• JUNE 30, 2003 - U.S.NEWSWIRE - Hundreds Gather in Front of Supreme Court to Protest Death Penalty; Photo Available

• JUNE 25, 2003 - U.S.NEWSWIRE - NBA Star, Death Row Survivor to Speak; Starvin' For Justice 2003; 10th Annual Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty