NEW POSTS COMING SOON GUYS:
AI at UCLA will be starting off the Spring Quarter with the Death Penalty on Trial event (more details in previous post)
+ SOON TO COME:
* AN EVENT WITH THE DALAI LAMA, FIRST WEEK OF MAY, and many more awesome events
Note: ALL EVENTS WILL BE SYNCED TO OUR CALENDAR, SO BEST WAY TO STAY UPDATED IS TO SYNC YOUR CALENDAR WITH OURS:]
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Amnesty International Presents Death Penalty On Trial: A Panel on Abolition
Tuesday, March 29 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
ULCA Campus: Humanities A51
This month, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn wiped away injustice and signed into law the abolition of the state's death penalty after years of attempts at fixing this broken system. His signature made Illinois the 16th state to abolish the death penalty and the third one to do so in the last four years (after New Jersey, New York and New Mexico). In the light of this progress and following the Death Penalty Awareness Weeks, Amnesty ...International at UCLA and California's Coordinator for the Death Penalty Abolition Campaign, Jessica Farley, bring you an informative documentary (Interview with an Executioner) and a remarkable panel of speakers to effectively illustrate the flaws of capital punishment. The panel will feature Aqeela Sherrills, the Southern California Victim Outreach Coordinator for California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and an incredible anti-death penalty activist from Watts. Although his son was murdered in 2004, he has always been an advocate for change and been active to reduce gang violence in LA.
Additionally, it will feature Gloria Killian, a former law school student who was wrongfully accused of robbery and murder in Sacramento and consequently served 16 years in state prison. Her exoneration serves to highlight the irreversible nature of this human rights violation and its broken structure.
In collaboration with ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Bruin Democrats, we hope to shine a light on the benefits of abolition and provide both economic and politic perspectives to defend this stance.
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=172684076112322
ULCA Campus: Humanities A51
This month, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn wiped away injustice and signed into law the abolition of the state's death penalty after years of attempts at fixing this broken system. His signature made Illinois the 16th state to abolish the death penalty and the third one to do so in the last four years (after New Jersey, New York and New Mexico). In the light of this progress and following the Death Penalty Awareness Weeks, Amnesty ...International at UCLA and California's Coordinator for the Death Penalty Abolition Campaign, Jessica Farley, bring you an informative documentary (Interview with an Executioner) and a remarkable panel of speakers to effectively illustrate the flaws of capital punishment. The panel will feature Aqeela Sherrills, the Southern California Victim Outreach Coordinator for California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and an incredible anti-death penalty activist from Watts. Although his son was murdered in 2004, he has always been an advocate for change and been active to reduce gang violence in LA.
Additionally, it will feature Gloria Killian, a former law school student who was wrongfully accused of robbery and murder in Sacramento and consequently served 16 years in state prison. Her exoneration serves to highlight the irreversible nature of this human rights violation and its broken structure.
In collaboration with ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Bruin Democrats, we hope to shine a light on the benefits of abolition and provide both economic and politic perspectives to defend this stance.
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=172684076112322
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