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A National Speaking Tour of the CEDP

By "Persian Cowboy"

LYNCHING THEN, LYNCHING NOW:THE HISTORY OF RACISM AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA.A National Speaking Tour of the CEDPSTOPS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THIS FALL AND SPRING.IN AUSTIN THIS SPRING (DATE TBA)The 2009-2010 Campaign to End the Death annual national speaking tour will be a teach-in Tour on the historic link between the death penalty and lynching in the United States. Today there is a critical need to rebuild civil rights struggle and dismantle this country?s execution chambers. This tour will bring together those who have been freed from death row, activists and scholars to explore the role of racism in our criminal justice system, and how and why the death penalty and unjust sentencing can be abolished.The changing political landscape has created new openings to discuss the continued impact of racism in America on our criminal "injustice" system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).