MEETING THIS WEEK ::: LYNCHING THEN, LYNCHING NOW

PLEASE NOTE: THIS WEEK'S MEETING IS AT 7pm NOT THE USUAL 8pm.

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Wednesday, April 14, 7pm

A National Speaking Tour of the CEDP

http://cedptour.blogspot.com/

Panelists include:

Mark Clements - Police torture victim and former IL juvenile life without parole prisoner

Lily Hughes - Longstanding anti-death penalty activist and CEDP board member

Njeri Shakur - Longstanding anti-death penalty activist and organizer for TDPAM

Presenting the CEDP's National Speaking Tour for 2009 - 2010. Join this teach-in tour in cities around the country this fall and spring. This year's tour looks at the historic link between the death penalty and lynching in the United States. Hear from those who have been freed from death row, activists and scholars on the role of racism in our criminal justice system and why the death penalty and unjust sentencing need to be abolished.

Sponsored by:

The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)

The International Socialist Organization (ISO)

The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement (TDPAM)

Location: University of Houston - Main Campus, in the Spindletop Room in the University Center (UC)