From: Amnesty International, CMU (amnesty@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 09:37:31 EDT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Death Penalty Conference Friday, Sept. 27 & Saturday, Sept. 28
Friday event is free to all. Cost for the Saturday events is $8 ($5 for
low income and free for students.) Pre-registration is strongly
encouraged. A boxed lunch is included. See
www.pa-abolitionists.org for a registration form, or
call the ACLU at 412-681-7736.
The purpose of the conference is to educate and
mobilize people in western Pennsylvania to push for a
halt to executions and the eventual abolition of the
death penalty in Pennsylvania.
Friday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
Carnegie Mellon University
Porter Hall 100 (on Frew Street, by Flagstaff Hill)
Voices of Conscience:
Activists, Families of Murder Victims, and Survivors
of Death Row Speak Out Against the Death Penalty
A panel discussion featuring Bud Welch, an anti-death
penalty activist who lost his daughter in the Oklahoma
City bombing, William Nieves, an innocent man who
spent 6 years on Pennsylvania's
death row before being released, and Pat Clark, National
Coordinator for the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Local musician Karl Mullen will close the program. A
reception will follow.
Saturday, September 28, 10am - 4:15pm
University of Pittsburgh School of Law,
3900 Forbes Avenue,
Oakland
Dismantling the "Machinery of Death" in Pennsylvania:
Education for Action
Conference participants will attend workshops focused
on a variety of issues. Workshop topics include "Race,
Class, and the Death Penalty," "Legislative Update &
Strategies," "Organizing in High Schools and on
College Campuses," "Conditions on Death Row," and
"Mobilizing Faith-Based Opposition to the Death
Penalty."
Diann Rust-Tierney, Director of the ACLU's Capital
Punishment Project, will be keynote speaker.
Co-sponsored by Pennsylvania Abolitionists United
Against the Death Penalty (PAUADP), the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International student
chapters at Pitt and CMU, the University of Pittsburgh
Law school, the NAACP, and numerous other community
and religious groups.
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