Category: Death

And update on our appointment with the heart doctor and then Ron’s melt down. I am so tired and even more tired of trying to stay reasonable.

OK so we had the appointment with his new heart doctor.  I liked him he smiled a lot and was a genuinely happy man even though it was clear he had a bent spine and so was hunched over.  When Ron told him I was his spouse the doctor totally seemed OK.  I was wearing my white pride hat as usual.  He remembered Ron from the ICUs and asked if I was medical as well.  I replied no Ron was the doctor in our family which got a smile and chuckle from him as Ron tried to protest that which made the doctor smile more.  He said he would talk to both of us on my level, even if it was basic for Ron because he wanted me included.  When I had a question he would answer it  and totally include me in all the discussion. Ron has one blockage they think is 80% and and at least two that are 70% and one that is just starting.

The plan is to do a heart catheterization.  They will go in through the wrist and prep the groin in case.  They feed a sleeve into the wrist then thread a wire all the way to the arteries around the heart.  They then open the blockage, put a stent surrounded by a balloon where the blockage was.  If a part of the blockage breaks they can introduce medication right then to stop it from doing any damage.  

Wow Ron and I had a huge argument.  I dislike it and he totally blames it on me.  But when the surgical center called to schedule him for the heart catheterization, and instead of  taking the first appointment he asked for one three weeks later.  I interrupted and said no you want it sooner if possible.  

He kept the appointment for nearly a month and a week out.   When he got off the phone I asked him to explain that.  Wellhe replied I have Diane flying in on 3-28, and we are scheduled to fly out april 2nd.  I was angry and argued with him that this same thing killed his sister’s husband and if he asked her she would agree he needs the early appointment.  Which was when he fucked around and after we had a huge fight where I told him that his sister could get her friends and her husband’s friends to do what she had wanted Ron to do.  She wants help with the moving company and then driving from Texas to here.   When he calmed down from our argument he called her and she agreed with me.  So then he was so angry that we had another exchange.  I was trying to stay calm but he was so upset he was almost out of control, throwing things.  I asked him to think of us.  If he suffered a heart attack on the road or moving around furniture at her house he could easily die.  I couldn’t keep or repair this house.  I would not be able to keep Tupac and no one else around us will let him live with them or pay the 75 dollars for his thyroid medication every 6 to 7 weeks.  He is incontinent and he leaves poops dropping out of his butt because he was hit by a golf cart and it damaged his spine and nerves.  So he would have to be set on the rainbow bridge.  I told him I would end up having to rent a room at Randy’s as he has offered it.   Ron was furious and said I was thinking only of myself and I replied he was thinking only of his sister.  

But by then it was too late to get in touch with the scheduling department.   The heart place is huge and they have their own surgical center there.  They only do six procedures on an operating day.  So he hopes they will call him today.  I worry that he will not be able to get a quicker date so I don’t know what will happen.  Hugs

Peace & Justice History On Elton John’s Birthday

I made a big production on Elton’s birthday last year, and it sort of fell flat. So just know that March 25th is Elton’s birthday, and he’s still standing. Click the links and enjoy. And now some Peace & Justice History.

March 25, 1807
Great Britain abolished international trade in slaves. Emancipation of slaves in the country, however, did not occur until 1834, and persisted as unpaid apprenticeship for the technically emancipated for years after that.
The story of abolition in England 
March 25, 1872
Toronto printers went on strike for a 9-hour workday and a 54-hour workweek—the first major strike in Canada. When the editor of the Globe newspaper had thirteen of them arrested, 10,000 turned out to support them. Later that year unions were made legal in Canada.
March 25, 1894
In the midst of a depression that had begun the previous year, a millionaire businessman from Massillon, Ohio, Jacob Coxey, organized a march of an “industrial army” from Ohio to Washington, D.C. Congress had done little in response to the economic crisis and Coxey advocated a range of solutions, many considered radical at the time, such as building roads and other public works (known as infrastructure today).


Coxey’s Army passing through Mayland on their way to Washington.
Coxey is seated behind the horses looking at the camera.
“Coxey’s Army” gathered on the Capitol lawn but they were driven off and Coxey was arrested for trespassing when he tried to deliver his address to the crowd in violation of their first amendment rights “peacably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.”
March 25, 1911
The Triangle Shirt Waist Company, occupying the top floors of a ten-story building on New York’s lower east side, was consumed by fire.

147 people, mostly immigrant women and young girls working in sweatshop conditions, lost their lives.
Approximately 50 died as they leapt from windows to the street; the others were burned or trampled to death, desperately trying to escape via stairway exits illegally locked to prevent “ the interruption of work.”Company owners were charged with seven counts of manslaughter—but were found not guilty.The incident was a turning point in labor law, especially concerning health and safety. For three days prior, the company, along with other warehouse owners, had grouped together to fight the Fire Commissioner’s order that fire sprinklers be installed.

Protests in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, button from the struggle
Comprehensive collection of materials on the tragedy from Cornell University’s labor school 
March 25, 1915
The Sisterhood of International Peace was founded in Melbourne, Australia, by Eleanor May Moore and Dr. Charles Strong.
March 25, 1965
Their numbers having swelled to 25,000, the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers arrived at the Alabama state capitol.Organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the march was to bring attention to the denial of voting rights to black Americans in the state and elsewhere in the south. Twice the people had been turned back, denied the right to leave Selma peacefully.

Martin Luther King Jr. and wife Coretta lead march into Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. King spoke to the crowd: “Yes, we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. The burning of our churches will not deter us. (Yes, sir) The bombing of our homes will not dissuade us. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. (Yes, sir) The beating and killing of our clergymen and young people will not divert us. We are on the move now.”
The Federal Voting Rights Act was passed within two months.
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail 
March 25, 1965

Viola Liuzzo
Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a housewife and mother from Detroit, driving marchers back to Selma from Montgomery, was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen from a passing car. She had driven down to Alabama to join the march after seeing on television the Bloody Sunday attacks at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge earlier in the month. It was later learned that riding with the Klansmen was an FBI informant, Gary Rowe.
More about Viola Liuzzo
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
March 25, 1967
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. led an anti-war march for the first time in Chicago, opposing the Vietnam War by saying:
“Our arrogance can be our doom. It can bring the curtains down on our national drama . . . Ultimately, a great nation is a compassionate nation The bombs in Vietnam explode at home—they destroy the dream and possibility for a decent America . . . .”

Reverend King addresses rally at the end of the Chicago march
photo: Jo Freeman
March 25, 1969
The newly wed John Lennon and Yoko Ono-Lennon began their seven-day “bed-in for peace” against the Vietnam War in the presidential suite of the the Amsterdam Hilton in The Netherlands. Their doors were open to the media from 10am to 10pm. They invited all to think about and talk about creating peace.
“Yoko and I are quite willing to be the world’s clowns, if by so doing it will do some good”.
 
The Wedding and “Ballad of John and Yoko” 
March 25, 1972
30,000 participated in the Children’s March for Survival in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Welfare Rights Organization. They were supporting the Family Assistance Program, then pending in Congress (but never passed), which guaranteed a minimum income level for all families.
March 25, 1990
A new community, Segundo Montes, was started by campesinos in El Salvador who had lived for nine years as exiles in Honduras following the El Mozote Massacre, when 1000 civilians were killed by the U.S.-trained Salvadoran military. The town was named after a priest who had helped them in the Colomoncagua refugee camp on the border, and who was murdered along with four other Jesuit priests by the Salvadoran military.

From My DPA Email, Info On Anti-Execution Hunger Striking in Iran

No bombs, no warships, no solid food on Tuesdays before executions on Wednesdays. Even while being bombed and threatened with warships.

113th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in 56 Prisons Across Iran

March 24, 2026

Political prisoners in 56 different prisons across the country continued their hunger strike in the 113th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign. Members of this campaign, while condemning the widespread and arbitrary executions, particularly the execution of several protesters on the eve of Nowruz, called these actions an attempt by the regime to instill fear and terror in society. The striking prisoners, warning about the dire conditions of the prisons and the risk of execution for recent detainees in the shadow of communication blackouts, called upon the international community and human rights organizations to increase pressure on the Iranian regime to halt these sentences and secure the release of political prisoners.

Please find the full text of the statement by the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign below:

Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in its 113th Week in 56 Different Prisons

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign congratulates the general public of Iran, and especially the families of those who lost their lives in the Dey [January] 1404 uprising and all the executed individuals of the past year who were massacred by the despotic and repressive “Velayat-e Faqih” regime, on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr and Nowruz 1405. We express our utmost thanks and appreciation to all individuals, teachers’ trade syndicates, retirees, workers, and families of those sentenced to death, as well as independent media and all those who served as the voice for death row inmates, and we hope that the year 1405 will be the year of Iran’s freedom—an Iran without torture and executions.

The execution regime has hanged over 2,650 of our compatriots in various parts of the country over the past year. Cruelly, on the eve of Nowruz, it executed three brave youths named Mehdi Ghasemi, Saeed Davoudi, and Saleh Mohammadi, who had been arrested during the Dey [January] protests, in Qom, and hanged another prisoner named Kourosh Keyvani on charges of espionage in Karaj Central Prison.

We, the members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, while condemning the arbitrary and brutal executions carried out with the aim of creating fear and terror in society, call upon the United Nations, various countries, and human rights organizations to exert pressure on the Iranian regime so that the minimum rights of prisoners are respected. This is particularly crucial for those prisoners who have been arrested in recent months and are enduring torture in the midst of media silence and internet blackouts, facing the risk of death sentences; we also demand the release of political prisoners. Especially under the conditions of bombardments, the lives of prisoners are exposed to a double threat, and many prisoners are suffering from a lack of food and medical care. In the past week, dozens of prisoners in Chabahar Prison were killed and wounded by prison guards due to their protests against the lack of food supplies.

It should be noted that over the past two weeks, the statement of this campaign (Weeks 111 and 112) was not published due to communication blackouts.

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign in its 113th week is on hunger strike in the following 56 prisons:

Evin Prison (Women’s and Men’s Wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Karaj Fardis Prison, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison of Varamin, Choubindar Prison of Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Prison of Qom, Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison of Isfahan, Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan, Sheiban Prison of Ahvaz, Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz (Women’s and Men’s Wards), Nezam Prison of Shiraz, Adelabad Prison of Shiraz (Women’s and Men’s Wards), Firuzabad Prison of Fars, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (Women’s and Men’s Wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (Women’s and Men’s Wards), Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (Men’s and Women’s Wards), Rudsar Prison, Haviq Prison of Talesh, Azbaram Prison of Lahijan, Dizelabad Prison of Kermanshah, Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Miandoab Prison, Mahabad Prison, Bukan Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, Sanandaj Prison, Kamyaran Prison, and Ilam Prison.

Week 113

Tuesday, 4 Farvardin 1404

#No_to_Execution_Tuesdays_Campaign

Some clips from The Majority Report. A personal note. And grateful thanks.

Hi Everyone.   Sorry for no posts except from my phone and later from my tablet which I have to carry a backup power supply and cord with me now to doctors appointments as my old pad has a battery life of less than 10 minutes.  A new Ipad is not a priority for our money right now even the cheapest one.  Ron needs heart surgery, Ron needs cataract surgery, I need both new glasses and cataract surgery, and the van still has an oil leak.  Plus Kamyk has basicly given up and slipped into depression.  He had an apartment open up that he needed first/ last / and security for which came to $900 a month.  It was government-subsidized housing.  But because he is in long term care now the nursing home took all his SSI, leaving him with no money.  Plus he no longer gets physcial therapy so he is slowly losing the ability to walk again.  His sister started a go fund me but he forbade her to tell me about it.  He felt we had all done too much for him and did not want me or you people to think he was trying to milk us or be greedy. 

In a way I am glad he did not tell me until it was too late because I worry that as he can’t walk well, doesn’t drive, and did not know how long it will take to get his SSI back, that he wouldn’t be able to care for himself and so would be homeless in two months.  The nursing home he is in is really nice compared to the last one which was abusing him emotionally, physically, and even sexually because the nurses decided he needed Jesus in his life and he rejected that being forced on him.  So they were going to abuse him until he relented and came to their Jesus.  This one gives him his medications on time, changes his ostomy bag or helps him do it, and they have been nice / kind to him.  I understand his frustrations having to share a room with another person and basicly having no privacy but… the US government / wealthy don’t care about people in a land where profit is king.  

I got up at 4:20 to feed the cat who when he thinks he needs food howls to get one of us up.  I decided to stay up and watch the recorded news that I did not get to watch yesterday.  I was not well at all yesterday, highly stressed which has been the situation for a while.  My doctors were clear and Ron reminded me that my body breaks down under stress, and I am to be under as little stress as possible.  That is not possible and has not been for a while.   When I woke yesterday it was already much later than normal for me.  Ron said he could tell I was having a bad night, I was highly agitated.  I had gotten up at 2 am with a huge contracture, a “cramp” in the large side muscle in the upper part of the leg.  I managed to get out of bed but couldn’t straighten out my leg.  I spent 30 minutes moving around the bed holding on to the dresser and the end of the bed, leaning over to put weight on the leg, then removing it.  Eventally I got it to touch the floor and hold some weight so I limped to my office and got a cane, then went to the bathroom which was a critical need by then.  Ron never woke up and was upset I did not wake him.  Not much he could do that I did not know to do myself.

When I got up with Ron at 7 I still couldn’t move or use the leg which was being electrified from the knee down, I couldn’t bend the leg due to the muscle still hurting from the cramp.  I was swinging the leg forward and walking “peg legged” with a cane.  Ron realized something was wrong and had me take my blood pressure and pulse.  My blood pressure was extremely high.  My pulse was also far too high.  So high he asked me to take another dose of my blood pressure and heart rate medications. Ron had me sitting and checking it every ten minutes.  It was not coming down and the first news show I started watching made it worse.  So as I as them recorded I went back to bed until noon.

The reason for so much stress is Ron.  He had his new medication Saturday that opens the arteries so he was better Sunday, but all day friday and Saturday I had to watch him and deal with him.  He was exstrememly forgetful, unable to work his computer, he would sit in his recliner and fall asleep even during a conversation.  He has bad sleep apnea and so he has to have his CPAP machine anytime he goes to sleep.  But even in the bed he was forgetting to put it on until reminded.  I offered to move it out to his chair but he would promise not to fall asleep as he just wanted to watch a few things on TV, 2 minutes later he was asleep.  I would make him go to bed and I stay there until he had his CPAP on.  I don’t dare let him drive like this so I am doing all the driving and shopping now.  I am doing the dishes so he doesn’t exsert himself and the last time he washed the dishes he put everything away in the worng drawers not even realizing he was doing it.  So yesterday afternoon while he slept I did the dishes.  He cooked a porkloin last night so I have a bunch of dishes to do when I get home.  I did pick everything up and rinsed everything off / out so it should be easier than it could have been.  

I have a doctor’s appointment this morning and I have to go with Ron as you can see to his new heart surgeon on Wednesday morning, which I have to look up and see where he is.  I am tired people.  I went to bed at 5 yesterday but kept getting up to check on Ron as he was in his recliner and I wanted to make sure he was not sleeping.  Care of the cat has totally fallen to me now.  I asked him if he could clean the cat litter box before he came to bed.  He assured me he would so I went to bed.  And he did not do it as he forgot.  I did it when I woke up.  Randy is sick after just having surgery, his parents are both sick / ill.  Ron is teetering with the same thing that killed his brother-in-law.  And I am worried and scared.  

When I get the dishes done today I will try to get to the wonderful comments and reply to somethings Ali posted which I appreciate.  Ali has really stepped up and is posting more to give everyone something on the blog to read and engage in.  I can’t say how much I am grateful for that.  Got to go.  Hugs

 

 

The Majority Report clips about AIPAC and Israel’s genocide in Gaza along with other places. And other clips dealing with the ignorant right

 

 

The Majority Report clips on tRump’s illegal war.

 

A bunch of The Majority Report Clips on different subjects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

Sorry this article is so old.  I have dozens more older than this in open tabs with the hope of one day being able to get what I think is important news out to those who may have missed it at the time.  Here is the southern states patriarchy punishing women for not bringing forth a well formed offspring of a male who bred them.   That is the way this reads to me.  The woman means nothing, just the fetus, zygote, the failed issue of a man must be the fault of a woman.   Think of this being promoted as prolife while they are willing to torture live females for a few cells in the human body that act parasitic.   Remember no man is required to give any part of his body to another even his own dying child.  Tht is the law.  But a woman, a female is required to give her body over entirely and all actions of her life entirely to that male inserted parasitic entity that will drain her life force and can cause life long medical problems.  It tells you exactly how these male law makers and their Christian supports see women.  Hugs

 article is more than 5 months old

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/pregnancy-us-women-crimes-study#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20report%20by%20Pregnancy%20Justice%2C,cases%2C%20law%20enforcement%20charged%20women%20with%20homicide

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

Study finds prosecutors targeting low-income women mainly in US south – and figure likely to be an undercount
a person holds a sign that reads 'keep abortion legal'Abortion rights supporters protest outside the supreme court in Washington in June last year. Photograph: Aashish Kiphayet/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found.

Of the 412 cases tracked by Pregnancy Justice, the vast majority took place in the US south, targeted low-income women and involved allegations that women broke laws against child abuse, endangerment or neglect, according to the research, which was compiled by the reproductive justice group. About 300 prosecutions took place in Alabama and Oklahoma. In 16 cases, law enforcement charged women with homicide.

Because there is no national database of US arrest or court records, the group believes the tally is likely to be an undercount. In a report released in September 2024, Pregnancy Justice said it had recorded 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first year after Roe fell – the highest number ever recorded at that time. Pregnancy Justice is now devoting more resources to unearthing records of pregnancy-related prosecutions, so the group can’t say for sure whether these prosecutions are on the rise post-Roe or whether they are simply tracking them more closely.

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Nearly 400 of the cases included in the new report involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy. In an example described to the Guardian, after one woman gave birth, the hospital tested her umbilical cords for drugs. When the test came back positive for marijuana, the woman was arrested for felony child neglect, even though she had a medical marijuana card.

The laws used in most of these prosecutions, Pregnancy Justice pointed out, are typically meant to protect children, not fetuses. By prosecuting pregnant women under them, the group says, states are cementing the legal doctrine of “fetal personhood”, which seeks to grant embryos and fetuses full legal rights and protections – sometimes at the cost of the rights of the woman carrying them. Alabama and Oklahoma are both hubs for the growing fetal personhood movement.

“That is the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement,” said Dana Sussman, the senior vice-president at Pregnancy Justice, which scoured court and police records to find the cases. “It wasn’t just to overturn Roe. It is to establish full personhood, full rights for embryos and fetuses.”

Sussman said a number of women have faced criminal consequences for taking substances that were legal or prescribed to them. For that reason, Donald Trump’s claim last week that pregnant women who take Tylenol may give their children autism, raised alarms. Scientific research does not support this claim.

“It’s a perfect storm of all of the things that we work on: stigmatizing pregnant people for not being perfect pregnant people, blaming them for their perceived failures, and relying on misinformation and junk science to create a panic when there shouldn’t be one or isn’t one – while also increasing surveillance in the police state to monitor and potentially criminalize people when they don’t meet these impossible ideals,” Sussman said.

Only 31 of the cases documented by Pregnancy Justice included a stillbirth or miscarriage, while almost 300 of the cases led to a live birth.

A woman whose case was included in the Pregnancy Justice report reportedly didn’t realize she was pregnant until she started to feel intense pain in her stomach. The woman, a new immigrant to the US, suspected that she had food poisoning and decided to drive herself to the hospital.

Before she could get in the car, however, the woman started to give birth. She ultimately delivered what police records listed as a stillbirth. Pregnancy Justice did not factcheck the cases in the report and could not say whether the fetus was past 20 weeks of pregnancy, after which the term stillbirth is used. After police found the remains, the woman was charged with abuse of a corpse.

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The report indicates there are far more cases of miscarriage criminalization than have made national headlines. In one widely covered case in late 2023, police charged an Ohio woman with felony abuse of a corpse after she miscarried into a toilet. In another, earlier this year, a Georgia woman who had been found bleeding and unconscious after a miscarriage faced one count of concealing the death of another person, and one count of throwing away or abandonment of a dead body. The charges against both women were ultimately dropped.

Nine cases discovered by Pregnancy Justice involved allegations that women had considered abortions, such as ordering abortion pills or looking for information about abortion online. Only one woman in those cases was charged with violating a criminal abortion ban, likely because it is legal in most states to “self-manage” one’s own abortion. US abortion bans tend to penalize providers and people who help abortion patients, not the patients themselves.

In 2025, lawmakers in at least 12 states – including Alabama and Oklahoma – introduced legislation that would treat fetuses as people, which would leave women who have abortions vulnerable to being charged with homicide. In several of those states, that charge would carry the death penalty.

“What our work has proven is that, unfortunately, anything is possible when it comes to policing pregnancy,” Sussman said.

Memories of songs.

I know Jill posts songs and Randy recently posted some also.  I don’t want to step on their toes and wont be able to do the grand job they do.  But just now I went out to tell Ron something as he worked in our back yard raking leaves from the neighbors sea grapes.  As I came back in side I noticed the dark black clouds in the sky and the increasing winds.  It reminded me of the first song below.  My adopting parents were huge C7W fans and Porter Wagner was one of their favorites.  So as a kid I heard the first song a lot.  It is often in my mind when the vortex comes for me, as it is the same kind of big winds in my mind.  The second song I heard when I was in the military and it stuck with me as it also was played a lot.  It fit my mood well back then.   Hugs

 

The Good News About Sonny Burton From DPA-

I’m copy-pasting it from my email.

Amazing news!  We were in the middle of of a zoom press conference about the Gas Suffocation aspect of the planned execution of Sonny Burton in Alabama on Thursday when a reporter put into the chat:

“Did you see that Governor Ivey just commuted Burton’s sentence?”

And with that, the news was broken. Governor Ivey heard YOUR messages, received YOUR petitions, read the articles YOU sent, heard YOU ringing her phone off the hook, heard us tolling our bell outside her house…. and she acted.  Amen!  THANK YOU!

Once again, this proves, sometimes, our united efforts work!

Congratulations to Sonny and his legal team, his family, and to all who had a hand in creating this moment!

Governor Ivey has declared that “All Life is Precious,” which is why we made sure to bring along our 4×10 foot banner to the 24-hour vigil we helped coordinate in front of her house a few weeks ago. The banner could not be missed from any street-facing window of the Governor’s mansion. We know with certainty that the Governor was there…. NOW we know that she heard our message!

The other good news is that now we don’t have to drive all the way to Alabama.  In fact, we had planned to go to Texas fiirst to toll the bell outside the prison in Huntsville at the execution of Cedrick Ricks on Wednesday, which is still on. Without our planned return through Alabama, making such a long drive makes less sense.

As you know, everything we do to support local activists working to halt executions is another expense. It’s not just the costs of being on the road that we must cover, but also the overhead…

  • The four full time staff and our media consultant who do the behind-the-scenes work.
  • The costs of the tools and services we use to communicate our message to the world.
  • The price of existing as an organization that shows up to oppose every execution.
  • (snip-donation request. You can get there from the page of any of these links.)

Thank you. Yours in the Struggle,

–abe

PS: New execution dates are being set regularly. Click here to oppose every upcoming execution.