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Francesca Minerva, a philosopher and medical ethicist, argues a young baby is not a real person and so killing it in the first days after birth is little different to aborting it in the womb.

We, the undersigned, petition to Free Jeffrey...

Mr. Havard, accused and convicted of murdering the six-month-old child of his girlfriend and who has been incarcerated on death row at the Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi for the past several years.

You will find that this particular case is a classic example of the "good ole boys" injustice that continues to dominate the political structure of Mississippi. The incompetence of the unqualified officials responsible for the young man's death sentence is beyond belief. The coroner in this case was not a medical doctor. His prior employment was that of an ambulance medic and had received only forty hours of training for his elected position.

The pathologist who testified for the state, it was learned, had never been certified. The defense provided for the accused presented no expert testimony, and the actual defense attorney was later indicted on serious illegal drug charges. The circuit court clerk who recorded and published the findings in this case was indicted for stealing funds from the state.

The initial charge for which Mr. Havard was convicted was shaken baby syndrome with an underlying felony of sexual battery. His appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court resulted in the refutation of all charges excepting the underlying felony, leaving it up to the accused and his defense to explain the 1cm bruise supposedly found on the infant's thigh at the time of autopsy.

The defendant had admitted from the beginning that he had accidentally dropped the child in the process of giving her a bath. In a frantic effort to revive the child, both the defendant and the child's mother attempted vigorous resuscitation. Logic would suggest that either could have been responsible for the 1cm bruise.

I implore you and your associates to thoroughly review Mr. Havard's case. By doing so, I feel certain you will want to employ your influence towards preventing the wrongful death of an intelligent, delightful and innocent young man who has much to offer his family, friends and society.

http://www.mississippi-justice.com/Jeffrey_Havard.html

I ask everyone to write to the governor and let him know that Jeff should be free.

Go to his web site and all the information will be there, facts and documented proof. There is no witness, no physical evidence, no motive other than the attorney for the state wanted to make a name for himself.

Write to:
Governor Haley Barbour
P.O. Box 139
Jackson, Mississippi 39205
1-877-405-0733 or 601-359-3150

Please pass this on to everyone you know that can help. By doing so, I feel certain you will want to employ your influence towards preventing the wrongful death of an intelligent, delightful and innocent young man who has much to offer his family, friends and society.

Or you can email: freejeffreyhavard@gmail.com
The email will be sent.

Visit his web site:http://www.myspace.com/freejeffreyhavard
and under "Friends Comments " leave your information and it will be sent.

NORFOLK, Va. -- A former Peace Corps worker who taught at a girl's school in rural Uganda told a military jury in Virginia on Monday that a special warfare sailor who does construction work for Navy SEALs raped her multiple times in his hotel room...

On Wednesday, Lady Gaga officially launches her Born This Way Foundation to promote tolerance and empowerment among youth.

The former Director of Public Prosecutions has today warned that the Government's plans to introduce secret court proceedings in civil cases are an audacious attack on Britain's justice system, and risk placing the Government above the law.

The justice system is showing less concern about how decisions are affecting the lives of people kept in jail, at times for years, awaiting trial, according to Mid-Dlam Għad-Dawl director George Busuttil.

Roberto González, René's brother,

is gravely ill.

Tell President Obama:

Let René visit Roberto!
NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO FREE THE CUBAN FIVE

Comité Nacional por la Libertad de los Cinco Cubanos

Roberto González, René's only sibling and an important member of the Cuban Five's legal team, is gravely ill with cancer in a Havana hospital. As Cuban Five supporters know, although René has served his unjust sentence of more than 13 years in U.S. prison, as a punitive measure he is being forced to serve probation in the United States. As a result he is unable to be with his brother at this critical time, unless he receives special permission to do so.
His attorney Phil Horowitz has filed an emergency court petition requesting permission for René to return to Cuba for only two weeks to visit his brother in the hospital. The petition states, "Over the past nearly five months since his release from incarceration, the defendant has faithfully complied with each and every condition of his supervised release." Horowitz tells the National Committee, "The motion that is being filed is not unusual; it is common for a defendant to seek court permission on an emergency basis, to travel internationally for health concerns of a family member."
René, as well as the other four, should be allowed to return to Cuba immediately and permanently. However, in this emergency we ask you to contact President Obama and urge him to immediately allow René to return to Cuba for two weeks as a humanitarian gesture.

Please use the form below to send an email to Obama.You can also call the White House at 202-456-1111 to make the same request. Please act now!
http://www.freethefive.org/obamarenepetition.htm

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SIGN THE JERICHO COINTELPRO PETITION!

Free All Political Prisoners!

www.jerichony.org

After reviewing his case by reading the court documents, visiting the crime scene, interviewing his alibi and conferring with Mr. Spencer’s...

The 17 year old suspected of killing two high school students and wounding three others in a shooting yesterday in Ohio was described as a loner by students and his lawyer.

The highly anticipated documentary Bully is a heartbreaking and significant window into one of the biggest issues facing today's kids and teens: According to the press notes for the film, over 13 million young people will experience some form of...

House Bill 5145, introduced in November, amends first-degree murder convictions to include murder perpetrated by "intentionally discharging a firearm at a dwelling or an occupied structure." A hearing date for the bill will be announced in March.

UK PREMIERE: INTO THE ABYSS: A TALE OF DEATH, A TALE OF LIFE + Q&A with Werner Herzog Presented in association with Reprieve...

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
28 March 2012 – 29 March 2012

Students for Hip Hop @ Cal · By Rebecca Lee

Wednesday
18:30 until 21:30

MASS INCARCERATION + SILENCE = GENOCIDE

Mass Incarceration -- Its Source, The Need to Resist Where Things Are Heading and The Revolution We Need!

* 2.5 million people, most of them Black and Latino, in prison!

* Racial profiling a pipeline to prison for generations of youth!

* Former prisoners discriminated against in virtually every front!

Carl Dix says, “All this comes down to a slow genocide which could easily accelerate.”

On February 29th, Dix will break all this down and speak to where things are headed if action is not taken. Listen to Dix as he discusses “what kind of revolution is needed eliminate mass incarceration and all the brutality and misery this capitalist system enforces on humanity once and for all”.

Carl Dix is a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1970, he was part of the largest mass refusal of U.S. soldiers to go to Vietnam. He is a co-founder of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality. In 2006, he coordinated the Katrina Hearings of the Bush Crimes Commission. Since 2009 he and Cornel West have engaged in a series of dialogues, “In the Age of Obama: Police Terror; Incarceration; No Jobs; Mis-Education... What Future for Our Youth?” In 2011, he co-issued a call for a campaign of civil disobedience to STOP “Stop & Frisk.”

Ask a communist. There Are 2.4 Million People in Prison in the U.S.—Why? What Do We DO About It? And How Does the Notion of a "Prison-Industrial Complex" Get This Wrong? :
http://revcom.us/a/259/prison_industrial_complex-en.html

Carl's Blog:
http://comradecarl.blogspot.com/

Co-sponsors: Students for Hip-hop, Revolution Books, Center for Race and Gender, and Latin@ Sociological Association