15th Annual Fast & Vigil

AAC is an ad-hoc group of individuals committed to highly visible and effective public
education for alternatives to the death penalty through nonviolent direct action.

WELCOME TO STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2008

The 15^th Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
at the U.S. Supreme Court
June 28th - July 2nd, 2008

Among the confirmed Evening Program speakers for 2008 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!

Sharon Thompson - Murder Victim Family Member
David Elliot - Communications Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Shujaa Graham, California Death Row Survivor
Art Laffin - Murder Victim Family Member
Bill Pelke - Co-founder of the F&V; Murder Victim Family Member
Phyllis Prentice - Organizer & Spouse of an Exonerated Death Row Prisoner
George White, Murder Victim Family Member, Exonerated Prisoner
Jane Henderson - Center's Equal Justice USA program
Rion Dennis - Death Penalty Information Center
Brian Evans - Amnesty International

And other Death Row Family Members and Murder Victim Family Members....

2007 F&V Playlist

Some of the previous Fast & Vigil speakers are pictured below.


Catholic Bishops Against the Death Penalty	Matthew Fogg, Executive Director of CARCLE (1998 - Present)Congress Against Racism & Corruption in Law Enforcement	Shujaa Graham, an exonerated death row prisoner from California, during a speaking engagement and rally in Washington, DC. Tears streamed from Shujaa's eyes as he recounted his story of having spent many years wrongfully convicted in prison awaiting execution.


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.	Recording Artist Steve Earle played last year. Unfortunately he will not be with us this year, but other artists will be!	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.

Abolitionist Action Committee (AAC)
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2603 NW 13th (AKA Dr. MLK Jr. Hwy)
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Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Catholic Bishops Against the Death Penalty

Matthew Fogg, Executive Director of CARCLE (1998 - Present)Congress Against Racism & Corruption in Law Enforcement

Shujaa Graham, an exonerated death row prisoner from California, during a speaking engagement and rally in Washington, DC. Tears streamed from Shujaa's eyes as he recounted his story of having spent many years wrongfully convicted in prison awaiting execution.

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.

Recording Artist Steve Earle played last year. Unfortunately he will not be with us this year, but other artists will be!

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.