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WELCOME TO STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2007
The 14th Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
at the U.S. Supreme Court
June 29th - July 2nd, 2007 |
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Among the confirmed Evening Program speakers for 2007 are the
following. You never know who might show up... Each evening will
feature
full-length talks plus Q&A with between two and four speakers,
including
people with direct experience and also movement activists and
professionals. CLICK HERE to see the schedule of who is speaking when!
And other Death Row Family Members and Murder Victim Family
Members....
2004's Fast & Vigil evening program speakers are
pictured below.
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Fast & Vigil Co-Founders Rick Halperin, Marietta
Jeager-Lane, and
Bill Pelke. Marietta and Bill are among numerous murder victim
family
members who oppose the death penalty.
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Recording Artist Steve Earle played last year. Unfortunately he will
not
be with us this year, but other artists will be!
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Florida Death Row Survivors Juan Melendez and Shabaka WaQlimi (Juan
was the
speaker last year). And that's six-year F&V veteran Maria Romstedt
expressing herself on the left.
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Magdaleno M. Rose-Avila shared movement history and his own
experiences as
a long-time death penalty abolitionist.
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SMU Professor of History and Human Rights (and F&V Co-Founder) Rick
Halperin shared the ignoble history of the US Supreme Court and the
Death
Penalty.
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