Order-Stan's-Book Campaign
Blue Rage, Black Redemption
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Stanley
Tookie Williams's memoir has been reprinted by Simon & Schuster's
Touchstone Division. The book includes a foreword by Tavis
Smiley and an epilogue by Barbara Becnel.
Order
the book now from Amazon Books by clicking the Order
Stan's Book link at left. The price is $10.88.
The book can also be ordered from any bookstore or from
BarnesandNoble.com.
Critics
Admire The Book
The
prestigious Kirkus Reviews
salutes Stan's work as "A modern, inspiring companion to
such works as Claude Browne's Manchild in the Promised
Land and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice." --October
1, 2007
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Why
It Is Important to Order This Book
The
STW Legacy Network (www.stwlegacy.net)
is launching this campaign to ensure that Blue Rage,
Black Redemption continues to be widely distributed
to all who appreciate the value of Stan's work on behalf
of kids and families. Continuing sales of the book will
make a powerful statement about his legacy for peace and
the injustice and immorality of a judicial system that kills.
This will also strengthen the anti-death penalty movement
by keeping these issues in the forefront of the public mind.
The
book is being released as a trade paperback; its full price
will be $16.00. Amazon is discounting the book to $10.88.
Order copies now at www.stwlegacy.net
for friends and family, for gifts, and to sponsor high school
classes as well as junior college classes serving at-risk
communities with a 10-plus order of books as a tax-deductible
donation to such institutions. Also, donate books to your
local library and to churches that have-or can be encouraged
to create-prison and youth ministries, as well as to community-based
organizations that offer after-school programs for troubled
youth.
Remember,
Blue Rage, Black Redemption includes a copy of the
Tookie Protocol for Street Peace, thus providing a peacemaker
tool in each book that can help keep the peace in the streets
of urban areas throughout the nation.
For
more information about the efforts to advance the peacemaker
and criminal justice reform legacy of Stanley Tookie Williams,
go to the STW Legacy
Network, call Barbara Becnel or Crystal Bybee at 510-235-9780,
or email our team at staff@stwlegacy.net.
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Support
Stan's Legacy
You can
contribute to Stan's legacy by donating much needed funds to support
his work.
Eleventh-hour
writs, just prior to his execution, pointed to Stan's innocence:
California
Supreme Court
PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
VERIFICATION MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES
December 9th, 2005
Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals
APPLICATION TO FILE SUCCESSOR PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
AND
REQUEST FOR STAY OF EXECUTION
December 11th, 2005
United
States Supreme Court
ORIGINAL PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
December 11th, 2005
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In the days
leading up to the scheduled murder of Stanley Tookie Williams,
more and more new evidence of his innocence was brought to light.
Read one of the four affidavits
signed by individuals who corroborated Tookie's longstanding claim
of innocence.
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Phil Gasper is a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame
de Namur University in California, a member of the Campaign
to End the Death Penalty and Educators for Tookie. On
Dec. 7th he nominated Stan Tookie Williams for the Nobel
Peace Prize. This is the sixth time Williams has been
nominated.
 Listen
to Phil Gasper (Flash)
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