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ARCHIVE 2002
| 11.1.02 |
From
The Florentine Diary of Agenzia Di Base
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Friday
11th January 9:00 p.m.
Firenze, infopoint Murate, V. dell'Agnolo, 3
Captive Light: poetry from the jail
Some young Florentine poets
cope with the ex-prison "Le Murate". Andrea Sirotti presents a
photo exhibition, about the old Florentine prison, Le Murate, held right
in the old prison. The exhibition has been extended till the 26th of January.
Info: Ex-Prison Le Murate, V.dell'Agnolo,1 near Piazza Beccaria - Firenze
Italy
Mauro Magrini, Cell: 335/8038209 e-mail: mmagrini@dada.it
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Two pictures, showed at the exhibition, taken from
the website
http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=3533&IDCategoria=58
19.1.02
We go on publishing the newsletters of St. Egidio,
featuring the Internet addresses about death penalty and
human rights. Click
here to read the excerpts from the 5.1.02, and
here to read the excerpts from the 19.1.02. We
remind you that on St.Egidio's web site you can find the newsletters in English
| 21.1.02 |
FromBuone
Nuove # 136 of the 18.1.02 |
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Amnesty
outcries
for the Afghan inmates
Amnesty International sent an open letter to the US Secretary for Defense
Donald Rumsfeld expressing its worry about the conditions of the Taliban
guerillas captured by the US soldiers in Afghanistan. In the last days they
spread some photos of the hooded inmates before being interrogated by the
marines. Amnesty protests against the imprisonment of the 144 Taliban moved
into very small cells in the open, in Guantanamo, Cuba, US base. The last
11th of Jaunary Rumsfeld defined the Afghan inmates as, outlaw fighters
with "no right to appeal to the Geneva Convention." The International
Red Cross said they're worried about these statements.
BUONE NUOVE Humanist Electronic
Agency
run by Olivier
Turquet - http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove |
For more info about the Taliban inmates in Cuba see the articles by La
Repubblica at the web pages listed here below:
article of the 10.1.02 http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/guantanamo/guantanamo.html
article of the 12.1.02 http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/prigionieri/prigionieri.html#inizio
article of the 18.1.02 http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/croce/croce.html
article of the 21.1.02 http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/foto/foto.html
Photo ANSA taken from La
Repubblica web site
26.1.02
Updates on the Taliban inmates published by La
Repubblica:
articles of the 23.1.02
http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/zucconi/zucconi.html
http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/rumsfeld/rumsfeld.html
article of the 25.1.02
http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/attaccodiciannove/reporta/reporta.html
2.2.02
Read here
the excerpts from the latest newsletter of St. Egidio
10.2.02
Better in Guantanamo or in USA?
Searching for more info about the Taliban inmates in Cuba, we ran into several
and heavy testimonies we couldn't ignore. That drove us, and other people fighting
for the human rights, to wonder: "Who's better, the Taliban inmates in
Cuba, or those in the US jails?". Further considerations led us to the
conclusion that such comparisons are fruitless, and specious; any person has
the right to be treated with humanity and respect, and any inmate, indipendently
from one's blames, must be treated with justice. Nobody deserves treatments
injuring one's mental and physical health, be them intentional or simply fruit
of a bad and absent prison management. Then why to compare within a system that's
already cruel enough, and if it doesn't kill you soon it compels you to win
back your life bit by bit? If I'm so "lucky" to be locked into a cell
with a window, so that I've the "privilege" to know the difference
between day and night, do I deserve less help than you who don't have this privilege
either? Yeah, the lethal injection won't kill me, I'll have all the time to
slowly lose my sanity, or maybe I won't lose it, but is the awful bleakness
I live in, more bearable? Shall I miss my loved ones less if I may touch them,
in comparison with those compelled to see them through a glass? Have I to thank
someone because I suffer just an 80-90 percent of the
horror others suffer a hundred percent?
Coming back to the testimonies we mentioned above, you can read them here.
23.2.02
Scenes from an Australian hell
by Heather Tyler, Sydney Special to
the Middle East Times
Click here
to read about the awful conditions of the Middle Eastern refugees detained in
the Australia's detention camps.
2.3.02 The
group "ISTITUZIONI TOTALI" - FIRENZE SOCIAL FORUM is organizing a
NATIONAL MEETING in Firenze for the 18th of May 2002 called
"From the social security to the certainty
of the exclusion?" read
the flyer (in Italian) here.
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Also, here are the excerpts
from the two latest newsletters of St. Egidio. Here
you can find the 16.2.02, and here the 2.3.02
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We close the news of the day
with a little miscellany of old and new writings about the Italian prisons that
we feel as a duty to report, not to forget the reality of our prisons in Italy,
not so awful as in other countries, yet very hard. Click here.
And as to the hard situation of the Italian prisons, we come to know now
that the Government of Premier Berlusconi cut the, already poor, prison health
funds, of the 30/50 percent.
4.3.02
Human Rights: China, Russia and Israel on a
charge
From the COALIT Mailing List:
In the annual report about the human rights, being published in Washington, the
American State Department also mentions China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Israel
as countries violating their citizens' rights. The report has been already sent
to the Congress' members, and will be spread within the next hours.
Besides mentioning many other countries, the report blames China for using the
war against terrorism as an excuse for a turn of the screw against the North Eastern
Muslims, and blames Russia for torturing and killing the secessionists from Cecenia.
Saudi Arabia is blamed for torturing its inmates. The report also denounces Israel,
but also Islamic groups like Hamas and the Hezbollah.
(Source: La Repubblica)
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Editor's note: obviously China replied by
saying it rejects such criticisms, from a state using the same methods. We don't
know what Russia, Arabia and Israel replied, anyway, if there's a reply from
Israel, it's quite useless, since it's supported by the US themselves, backing
its crimes against the Palestinians.
We beg you once again to SUPPORT
THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS REBELLING AGAINST THE SLAUGHTER OF THE PALESTINIANS.
Many
soldiers have already been imprisoned for their desertion, and are facing a
death sentence. Go on their site
and sign their petition online.
8.3.02
From: gregory.humanitas@ntlworld.com
To: stop-polabuse@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, March 4, 2002 18.33
Sub: 91 Afghan prisoners continue hunger strike at
Cuban prison camp
Ninety-one detainees from the war in Afghanistan being held
in a prison camp in Cuba have entered the fifth day of a hunger strike protest.
The protest at the Guantanamo US military base was triggered when a prison guard
enforcing camp security rules removed an improvised turban made out of bedsheets
from an inmate's cell.
Although the 300 prisoners brought from Afghanistan, presumed members of the
al-Qaeda terrorist network or the former ruling Taliban militia, won the right
to wear turbans when they pray, the protest continues.
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Editor's note: what we know is a bit different. We heard today that
the hunger strike have been lasting for much longer, and some inmates are already
artificially fed. Actually the strike would be triggered to protest against the
awful prison conditions (including tortures) under which the inmates are kept.
14.3.02
From: KurdishMailingList kurds@ranchdeiviandanti.it
To: kurds@ranchdeiviandanti.it
Date: Saturday March 2, 2002 8:48 PM
Sub: Excellent videotape about the hunger strike in the
Turk prisons
On Monday the 7th of January 2002 the Italian TV, RAI broadcasted an excellent
footage called "From The Apennines To The Andes" about the hunger strike
of the Turk inmates, and their families and friends. The footage was recorded
on a videotape you can buy by sending 3,50 Euros in a SAE to the address below:
Il Ranch dei Viandanti
Via Pagno, 129
12037 Saluzzo ITALY
Write for more info, and to know the total price for shipping outside Italy
To deepen the topic you can go on Internet at the following
addresses:
What are the Turk prisons
http://www.ranchdeiviandanti.it/kurds/aaaDoc/bbDossiers/Carceri/zDayanCarceri/DetenDoc1.html
from the website: Solidarity with the Kurdish people:
http://www.ranchdeiviandanti.it/kurds/home.html
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On the same date, 14.3.02, we
receive a report from which we transcript an excerpt featuring the updating
about the victims of the hunger strike in Turkey:
The victims of
the hunger strike in Turkey now are 47. By F.B. 3.11.02
A 27 years old man died for the hunger strike, bringing to four the new year's
victims. The strike was triggered to outcry against the new solitary confinement,
yet the government said the new prisons are in accordance with the European
standard, and rejects any agreement with the protesters, blaming them for being
terrorists.
ACHAB PUBLISHER
VIA CAROTO, 2/A - 37121 VERONA
PH. +39/045/8489196 - FAX +39/045/8403149
http://www.edizioni-achab.it
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We close our press review of the 3.14.02 with a message
from the OCADP Mailing List - Oklahoma Coalition Against Death Penalty
From: acers@flash.net
To: acers@flash.net
X-URL http://www.mail2web.com/
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:20:31 -0500
Sub: [OCADP] NEWS: Philippine president supports abolition
ARROYO BACKS BID TO ABOLISH DEATH
PENALTY
Manila Philippine President Gloria Arroyo
yesterday backed moves in Congress to have capital punishment repealed but stressed
executions would continue until such a law was passed.
Fifteen senators have filed a bill calling for the abolition of the death penalty
in the largely Roman Catholic nation, arguing that it was out of place in a "modern
civilised world''. The senators want to substitute imprisonment for 30 years without
parole for offences now punishable by death, one of its sponsors, Senator Aquilino
Pimentel said. The number of sponsors would ensure the bill's passage in the 24-member
Senate but it was unclear if the 250-member House of Representatives shared this
sentiment. Both chambers must pass the bill for it to become law.
Agence France Press
15.3.02
We decided to dedicate some of our site's page to the
larger and larger amount of messages coming from the major Mailing Lists we're
subscribed to (the Stop-polabuse ML, Stop
Police Abuse, the OCADP ML, Oklahoma Coalition Against
The Death Penalty, the COALIT ML, Italian Coalition
Against The Death Penalty, and the TX-Death
Penalty ML, Texas Coalition Againsts The Death Penalty) that no longer can
find place in this page. So, from now on, you can find here the shorter messages,
and some link to the longer ones. The pages dedicated to the Mailing Lists are
bilingual. We start with the article below:
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HUNDREDS OF ARABS
STILL DETAINED IN U.S. JAILS
Read here the
press release by Reuters of the 13th of March 2002, sent us by the Stop-polabuse
ML
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Click here
to read the excerpts from the latest newsletter of St. Egidio arrived today 16.3.02
19.3.02
We also receive from the
Texas Death Penalty ML, the following article called,
CHANGE OF HEART: Witnessing death
turns minister into execution critic.
Click here
21.3.02
WE RECEIVE FROM THE STOP-POLABUSE ML
THE ARTICLE "US
OVERSEES ABDUCTION, TORTURE, EXECUTION OF ALLEGED TERRORISTS ",
CLICK HERE.
AND FROM THE COALIT ML WE RECEIVE THE ARTICLE "CHINA
SHOOTS BACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS".
CLICK HERE
26.3.02
Agenzia
di Base Firenze,
25th of March 2002
By: Altracittà - outskirts'
newspaper http://www.altracitta.org/
and Box S.E.P.E. http://soalinux.comune.fi.it/boxsepe
Contact us by agenziadibase@yahoogroups.com
News
25th of March 2002
Safiya is safe. Not so are the Nigerian women
Safiya Hussaini is free: Sokoto (Nigeria) Court of Appeal repealed her stoning
to death sentence of adultery. After listening to the sentence Safiya went out
of the court without comments. Sure the wide international solidarity helped safe
Safiya, driving the Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to take action. Amnesty
International collected 600,000 signatures, and also Italy played a leading role
in this civil and diplomatic fight. Yet on the same day another woman, charged
with adultery, was sentenced to death by a Nigerian Islamic Court. The woman's
name is Amina Lawal, her blame: to have borne a child after she was divorced.
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From: "Controradio FIRENZE" redazione@controradio.it
To: "Committee For The Defence Of Karl Louis Guillen" lementi@libero.it
Date: Tuesday, 26 March 2002 09:33:08 +0100
Sub: Council of Tuscany; Communist Refounding Party Motion
about the prison overcrowding in Florence
(Ansa 26th of March)
In the Tuscany prisons there're 744 people more than their capacity of 3.283 places,
so the regional group of the Communist Refounding Party presented a motion, signed
by Giovanni Barbagli, to the Regional Council. By their motion they urge to fix
the overcrowding issue in the Tuscany prisons, and to quickly close the Montelupo
psychiatric, judicial hospital. Currently the Regional Council is requesting the
Ministry of Justice and Health to respect the 1999 decree, about the prison health,
that established funds and responsibilities to the regional health service. In
their motion they also request the Regional Council to publish an annual report
about the latest years' health service activity by the Local Health Associations,
and the Town Councils. They also urge to plan alternative projects in order to
improve the inmates' rehabilitation.
| 30.3.02 |
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The
St. Egidio Community, along with our Committee, commemorate
Rev. Martin Luther King, clergy man, and pacifist politician, who fought
against racism, and was killed on the 4th of April 1968 in Memphis.
We also commemorate all those thirsty for justice.
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To read more excerpts
from the latest newsletter
by St.Egidio of the
30th of March, click here |
6.4.02 From
Buone Nuove #
142 of the 5.4.02
New appeals sent out by AceA
Source: AceA www.consumietici.it
We resend out two appeals by AceA, after Safiya's acquittal, to go on with the
actions about the African women's conditions. As for Safiya, we all must go into
action for Amina Lawal as well. She's a woman the Sharia's Court sentenced to
death by stoning for the same reason that led to Safiya's sentence. The same is
happenning for the Sudanese Abok Alfa Akok. She was sentenced when Safiya was
acquitted. Let's not content ourselves with our winnings for Safiya. It's just
one victory, and just in one country.
People's human rights must be defended anywhere, within the respect of the different
traditions and cultures. We don't want to condemn different traditions, we do
want to defend the person's freedom to have different lives and traditions, when
they respect the human rights. But here we want to underline, in particular, the
woman's situation: she's always and repeatedly struck by the Islamic law, much
more than the man, yet it's not just due to the Islamic law, it's also due to
a distorted view bringing along cultural traditions that
are disrespectful to woman, like it was in our old Catholic country culture. An
attitude denying the woman (and the child) their rights and dignity is always
barbaric, whatever culture it is. AceA invites everybody to flood the Nigerian
and Sudan Embassies with faxes e e-mails:
For Amina Lawal:
Embassy of Nigeria, V.Orazio, 14-18 - 00193 Roma, tel: +39/06/6892337, e-mail:
embassy@nigerian.it
For Abok Alfa Akok: Embassy of Sudan, V. L.Spallanzani, 24 Roma tel: +39/064403069,
fax +39/06/4402358
e-mail: info@ambasciata-del-sudan.it
BUONE NUOVE Humanist
Electronic Agency run by Olivier
Turquet - http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove
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From:
Alessandra Shisinday shisinday@houston.rr.com
To: TX-DeathPenalty-Info-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:16:17 -0600
Subject: [TX-DP-Info] Johnny
Martinez
Hello All,
Johnny Martinez has his latest journal entries now posted at "Row of Souls..."
http://www.geocities.com/rowofsouls/index.html.
7.4.02 For
those who already know Shakir Baloch's
story, we transcript here the new update about his case sent us by OCAP,
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, through the Stop-polabuse ML. Click here.
11.4.02 From
Buone Nuove #
143 of the 9.4.02
Amnesty Report About The Death Penalty
Source: Amnesty International
On the 9th of April Amnesty International made some data known about the death
penalty in the world. Accordind to AI in 2001 the executions have doubled: in
2000 they executed 1.457 people in 31 countries, and in 2001 they executed 3.048
people.
Amnesty International appealed to the UNO Commission for the Human Rights, that's
currently busy in its annual session in Geneva, so that they go into a firm action
against the death penalty, and establish a universal moratorium of the executions.
"The 90% of the 2001 executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
and USA", Amnesty International said. "They made some more progress
towards the abolition. At the end of the year, 111 countries abolished the death
penalty "de iure", or "de facto", three more than the last
year". In 2001, Chile abolished the death penalty, maintaining it just in
war. Turkey passed a constitutional amendment to reduce its application. Amnesty
International approved the Pakistano President's decision to commute the death
sentence of 100 minors in December 2001. Then in 2001, Bosnia-Herzegovina and
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ratified the Second Optional Protocol at the
International Concord for the Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) - a treaty to
abolish the death penalty - thus bringing up to 46 the number of countries that
are part of the Second Optional Protocol. "As to the abolitionist process,
it's improving year by year, yet it awfully slow. Such slowness has a heavy price".
BUONE NUOVE Humanist
Electronic Agency run by Olivier
Turquet - http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove
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From: "coalit" coalit@ns.argosid.it
To: listacoalit-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:58:54 +0200
Subject: [listacoalit]<
Amnesty: doubled
capital executions in 2001
Amnesty:
doubled capital executions in 2001
In 2001 the world executions have doubled. Accordind to Amnesty International,
they executed at least 3.048 people. In 2000 they executed 1.457 people. This
strong increase is due to China where they executed 1.781 people from April to
July, more than the total number of people executed in the previous three years
in the world, Amnesty said. Besides many of the people executed in China were
tortured and publicly humbled before dying.
The 90% of the 2001 executions also took place in Iran (139 executions documented,
but the real number should be quite higher), in Saudi Arabia (79 executions),
and in USA (66 executions in 2001 against 85 in 2000). In three cases: one in
Iran, one in USA, and one in Pakistan, the inmate executed was less than 18, at
the time of the murder.
Last year more than 5.265 people were sentenced to death in 68 countries, often
after unfair trials. But the statistics about the death penalty are partial, Amnesty
said , because "many countries keep their real data secret". (Red)
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Agenzia di Base
Firenze, 11th of April 2002
By: Altracittà - outskirts' newspaper
http://www.altracitta.org/
and Box S.E.P.E. http://soalinux.comune.fi.it/boxsepe
Contact us by agenziadibase@yahoogroups.com
News
11th of April 2002
Friday 12th
of April 4:30 p.m.
Firenze, c/o Aula B, Facoltà di lettere, Piazza Brunelleschi
Beyond The Bars: Political Prisoners In Turkey
Meeting to build up a
hope within the Turkish Prison. Speeches by: Abdullah Akegin from the Association
of the inmates' families;
Judge A.Margara, ex-Warden of the Criminal Management Department; E.Santoro, professor
of law sociology of the University of Florence; C.Nava, Amnesty International.
Moderator, R.Palumbo, Controradio manager. The meeting shall be repeated on the
same day at 9:30 p.m. in the East-West Hall in Via dei Ginori, 12.
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From: "Mariano De'Mattia"
lambarena@hotmail.com
To: karlguillen@yahoogroups.com
Subject: ...What a joy!
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:29:31 +0200
Dearest friends,
I'm sending you a short message to share with you the joy of a little fruit...Do
you remember the present we gave to La'Marr? Do you remember when we collected
funds to buy him a type-writer? Well, yesterday I received a type-written letter
of his!
You can read it here below (Radio is my nick, and who knows me well can imagine
why), and Prince is La'Marr's nick.
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Greetings Radio,
may this letter find you and your loved ones, in the best of health and spirits.
So how is my friend doing? Fine I hope. I just wanted to let you know that I recieved
my typewriter. Thank You and may God bless you for that. Tell your friends that
I said "Thanks"!
Radio, why haven't you wrote back to me? I know that you have moved to S.America,
but I know somebody is trasfering your mail to you. Am I right? So please write
to me, okay? We are "Brothers/Friends", right? So write me back, as
soon as, you get this letter, okay? So how is everything going over there in S.America?
Hope fine. If you can, please take me some photos over there and let me see them,
okay? Tell everyboby that I said "Hello" and "God Bless".
Well, I will bring this short letter to a close for now. Hope to hear from you
soon. So until then, Stay Strong and continue to keep on striving to be the best
that you can be in life. (PEACE)...
From your Brother/Friend "PRINCE"
P.S.: Write back soon, okay?
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I think you did notice that La'Marr asks me again and again
to write back soon...and I, like you, can realize what it means to him receiving
a letter. So I invite you to write as well. Tell him you're one of the many friends
who helped him to buy his typewriter...what do you think? I think English is not
a problem to none of you, yet if it is, I'm sure you'll be glad to try.
Mr. La'Marr Burton #
677580
P.O.Box 4500
Tenn. Colony, TX 75886
U. S. A.
Lot of kisses and hugs as ever. Mariano
13.4.02
Click here
to read the excerpts from the newsletter of St. Egidio arrived today 13.4.02
18.4.02
From CONTRORADIO FIRENZE
www.controradio.it
18/04/2002 - 12:16 PRISONS: PISA; QUESTION BY REALACCI ON
THE DON BOSCO PRISON
''Too many delayed payments
and indiscriminately cut funds: it's not right to save the money to the detriment
of guards and inmates. We must save our money from the funds for the many too
expensive projects". Ermete Realacci, the leftist deputy from Pisa said during
a question to the Secretary of Justice about the heavy situation in the Don Bosco
Correctional Department of Pisa due to delayed payments, and cut funds for guards
and inmates. Also the funds for the health unit was cut for more than the 50%.
''Our government is acting in an irresponsible way", Realacci said. "Doing
this we feed stressing situations, and a pressure that can be very dangerous in
such a place as the prison"(ANSA).
24.4.02 DEATH
PENALTY AIRED AT SISTER CITY
Read here
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram article about the debate on the death penalty between
the sister cities of Fort Worth (Texas) and Reggio Emilia (Italy) coming today
from the TX-Death Penalty ML
25.4.02
National Security
Becomes National Snoopery
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/23/162051.shtml
by Phil Brennan,
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Using the Sept. 11 attacks and the threat of terrorism
as justification, the federal government is invading the privacy of Americans
on a massive scale, probing their use of telecommunications to uncover intimate
information about U.S. citizens proven guilty of nothing. (...) Click on the address
above to read the whole article, or click here.
26.4.02
From: "Associazione Pantagruel" asspantagruel@virgilio.it
To: Comitato Per La Difesa Di Karl Louis Guillen turquet@dada.it
- lementi@libero.it
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:50:20 +0200
Subject: Meeting's new date
Firenze, 26 April 2002
Dear friends,
we inform you about the new date of the meeting, "From
the social security to the certainty of the exclusion?"
organized by the Social Forum of Florence-Total Institutions Group for the 18th
of May in Florence by the East-West Hall (Via dei Ginori, 12). It's a national
meeting organized to go on thinking and talking, with those concerned about the
prison, the drug addiction, the immigration, and the mental health, after the
first meeting that took place in November 2001 at the Piagge in Florence, within
the 2nd Meeting on Information and Prison. Because of the many topics, this meeting
won't exhaust the talk, indeed it will be the start of a new national talk, and
collaboration that must go on in view of the establishment of a possible coordination.
We take part in this meeting as association, and are confident that many of you,
working daily in the exclusion hard reality, will join us.
Here included please find an introductory flyer
(in Italian). Let us know if you think to attend the meeting, (if yes, how many
of you will take part). Also let us know if you can send us some writing about
your organization that we will spread as a promotion.
To attend our meeting please write to istituzionitotali@libero.it
To contact the Pantagruel Association: asspantagruel@virgilio.it
- or call- fax +39/055/473070, every Tuesday/Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.and
every Wednesday from 3 p.m to 7 p.m.
Love, Giuliano Capecchi, Camilla Cappuccini
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From: JB jlstamps@earthlink.net
To: TX-DeathPenalty-Info-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:43:03 -0700
Subject: [TX-DP-Info] Discussion E-list: Marion's Song
Marion's Song, a
Death Penalty Discussion List
Description of Marion's Song
The primary focus of the group is to engage in respectful discussions that will
give the public a better understanding of the death penalty and how it's unscrupulously
handed down. The group hopes to eliminate the stereotypes people have about
death row prisoners. The group is an open forum e-mail list and if there is
a subject you feel should be talked about, please feel free to
bring your comments to the group.
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27.4.02
From: radtimes resist@best.com
To: stop-polabuse@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:12:49 -0700
Subject: [stop-polabuse] Michigan cops get to search homes without revealing
why
Michigan cops
get to search homes without revealing why
April 24, 2002
The state Legislature has given police power to search your home without telling
you why. Two new laws, which took effect Monday as part of anti-terror efforts,
also shield from public scrutiny the reasons for police searches. Defense lawyers
and civil libertarians are outraged at the laws, which make search warrants and
supporting documents such as affidavits non-public records.
"If you think the police did secretive work
before, just wait," defense attorney William Cataldo said. "It gives
more power to the ignorant and more power to those who would take your rights."
Defense lawyer Walter Piszczatowski said: "This is nuts, this is beyond
nuts. "What happened to the Fourth Amendment? We're living in a police
state." That means the public, the press, and in some cases even the person
accused of the crime, can't know why the police entered a home without permission.
(...)
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The writing above is part of an article by the Oakland
Press of the 24th of April, called "Living in
a police state". To read the whole article click here.
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Here
is the excerpts from the 27.4.02 St.Egidio newsletter
11.5.02
You can find here the
St.Egidio newsletter
of 11.5.02
12.5.02 Read here
the moving article by Richard Cartwright posted on the TX-Death Penalty Mailing
List:
THOUGHTS FROM RICHARD CARTWRIGHT ON BRIAN DAVIS'
EXECUTION
25.5.02
Read
here the 25.5.02
St.Egidio newsletter
1.6.02
FORT WORTH, ITALIAN CITY
TO RETAIN TIES
Read here the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
article about the developments of the debate on the death penalty between the
sister cities of Fort Worth (Texas) and Reggio Emilia (Italy) arrived from the
TX-Death Penalty ML/font.
8.6.02
Here is the St.Egidio newsletter of today
8.6.02
17.6.02
If you're a death row inmate, you've no family able to give you a proper burial
and you don't want to end up into an anonymous grave, you can choose to donate
your organs and your body to science.
Read here Joseph
Paul Jernigan's "DYING
WISH".
20.6.02
From our friend and collaborator Piero
running from San Francisco, Clumites, Humanist
Club of the Italians abroad: http://clumites.monrif.net
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clumites
Since the death penalty was established, people keep on killing. Indeed wars and
weapons are increased, so as inequalities, and the justice is not the same for
everybody. Stop the death penalty, because everybody has a right to live, and
to be able to find the beauty in one's life, teaching and not killing. We all
can be wrong, yet we all have a right to rehabilitate the human beings. We can,
indeed we must reahabilitate!!! For a more and more human world we need to condemn
no more people, not even for a simple whim. Let's support life not the death penalty!
Let's not make people slaves.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Clumites starts again with news, and curiosities from all over the world. Everybody
can take part sending us news, petitions, recipes, jokes, aphorisms, and whatever
is not violent or discriminatory. Write your own articles, tell us your stories,
real facts, if you want. Interview people who after the Second World War chose
to change and live abroad. Tell us why you left Italy. Your messages, your appeals,
and whatever you will send to positivo28@yahoo.it
will be put on Clumites News.
Agenzia di Base
Firenze, 20th of June 2002
By: Altracittà - outskirts' newspaper
http://www.altracitta.org/
and Box S.E.P.E. http://soalinux.comune.fi.it/boxsepe
Contact us by agenziadibase@yahoogroups.com
News
20th of June 2002
Friday 21st
of June 9:00 p.m.
Firenze, c/o Aula B, University of Literature, Piazza Brunelleschi
Political Prisoners In Turkey
They will show the video, "Bize Olum Yok". The Death Fast (Hunger strike
to death) of the political prisoners made more than 90 dead so far. There will
take place a debate with a spokesman of TAYAD, Turk political prisoners' family
Association; Stefano Chiarini, journalist of "Il Manifesto", and Abuna
Giulio of the Palestinian Community in Florence.
Info: Casa del Popolo "25 Aprile" - Via Bronzino, 117 - Firenze - 055/700460
21.6.02
VISIT
TO KARL
Hi all,
here's a short report of my visiti to Karl in May.
I found him well, and high hearted even if with some tooth short; he says hallo
and gives his love to everybody. He did'n t get so thin because he still has some
food bought next Xmas, anyway he's quickly running out of it. His allergy to water
is always taken under control by the medication that he's no longer able to stop
now. As to his teeth, he got two braces, but being badly made they hurt him.
Our visits were a joy, yet a little torture too because he was locked in a cage
for five hours without eating, drinking nor going to the lavatory. Yet he himself
prefers to have no breakfast whene there's a visit because he often feels sick
after breakfast, maybe because of the stress. Yeah, stress and a growing weakness
are heavily trying even his strong constitution, and he needs a quickly move to
the open yard. He says he should be moved to Wislow, Northern Arizona, within
some month. I don't believe if I don't see it, yet I do actually hope for a quick
move because actually SMU II is very much like a tomb; always alone, locked, always
the same light, the same temperature, the same season. Time has stopped, life
is hibernated, any step out of the cell must be done handcuffed. If he's moved
to Winslow he'll be able to see his parents more rarely cause it's farer from
Tucson, about 5 hours' drive, besides Karl is afraid of not being able to cope
with the new prison, he's afraid of being overwhelmed by the other inmates, yet
it's a risk he must run because in there he's slowly dying. Sure, many people
live worse, then he himself is partly responsible for being there, but what does
it mean? Karl doesn't deserve all that, even if he were guilty, besides he grew
better instead of being degraded, violent and a recidivist.
His move seems the only closer chance, after the state court rejected his commutation.
Yet till Karl stays in the SMU II he needs our help more than ever. ADOC decided
a new turn of the screw for the SMU II inmates, therefore the food already scarce,
has been further reduced (we remind you that the SMU II inmated are not allowed
to buy food, except for Xmas) and the prices of the prime properties increased
(we remind you that the SMU II inmates are not allowed to work and earn money
therefore their families are charged for anything, when they have a family).
That's all for now, further updates when available.
Kind regards. Cris
22.6.02
Here
is the latest newsletter of St.Egidio
25.6.02 Agenzia
di Base Firenze,
26th of June 2002
By: Altracittà - outskirts' newspaper
http://www.altracitta.org/
and Box S.E.P.E. http://soalinux.comune.fi.it/boxsepe
Contact us by agenziadibase@yahoogroups.com
News
26th of June 2002
Wednesday 26th of
June 6:00 p.m.
Prato, Piazza del Comune
Prato Free From Torture
A special event will take place till midnight: the whole Piazza del Comune will
be surrounded by the yellow strip of Amnesty, and declared "Torture Free
Zone". To celebrate the closing of the Campaign Against The Torture, they
will set some stands to collect signatures for petitions regarding women tortured
in Kenya, regarding the war between Israel and Palestine and regarding the abolition
of the death penalty. The square will be enlightened with torches and candles,
and they'll show videos and spots.
Info: Elena Di Salvo 333/2234403.
Info Amnesty International Firenze http://associazioni.comune.firenze.it/9/amnesty/
- Via Santa Reparata, 23r - Firenze - 055/475982 - email: gr014@amnesty.it
| 27.6.02 |
NEWS
FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA |
|
|
For those who read
in our anticamera
about the inmates waiting for a close execution date, and signed the petitions
published also on our site, we'll try to keep them informed about the cases.
The latest news from the Texas death row tell us that Gary
Etheridge had
a stay; his execution was scheduled for today 27th of June.
Bob Coulson
was executed on the 25th of June and
Jeffrey Williams
on the 26th of June. |
As to Jeffrey we transcript the appeal that Brenda
Kelly sent out before his execution, and sadly, still counting.
_____________________________________________________
From: JB luvlilcalico@yahoo.com
To: TX-DeathPenalty-Info-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:44:21
-0700 (PDT)
Subject: [TX-DP-Info] Jeffrey Williams: Message &
Request from Friend
Greetings Folks:
below is a letter from my dear sweet friend Jeffery Lynn Williams who has one
last plea for help in case he is to be executed on June 26th, 2002. Please help
his mother in any way you can as we do not want to see him having to be buried
in the prison graveyard and remain a number. The least we can do if he does get
executed is to help his mother give him a decent burial. He is an innocent man
who faces execution which is not unusual in Texas and we need to come together
and help him in any way we can.
Thanks, Brenda L. Kelly
_____________________________________________________
Brenda:
I was glad to hear from you. God has been my strength
all along with the love through others. I am very concerned over my mother at
this moment at this early morning. I would like anyone to send support letters
to my mother to lift her spirits. She has no money to bury me if I should be
executed. If anyone could send a donation for my funeral it would be greatly
appreciated by me and my mother. If not, TDCJ will do it and I will remain a
number. She will need help in donations and strength. This will put me in comfort.
Trusting if it may be God's will that He brings things around.
I love you all and thank you all who are willing to help.
Jeffery Lynn Williams
Donation or a simple letter of encouragements or
gifts!
Veronica Ruth Green
401 S. Cottonwood Street
Crockett, Texas 75835
29.6.02
From Buone
Nuove # 150 of the 28.6.02
USA: Two sentences defending
death row inmates
On the 20th of June, with six votes out of three, the Supreme Court decided
that sentencing to death the mentally retarded is unconstitutional. The Court
was examining Daryl Atkins' case, a 24 years old death row inmate sentenced
by the Virginia Court for kidnapping and shooting a soldier in 1996. During
a further sentence of the 24th of June the Supreme Court decided that a death
sentence must be passed by jurors and not by a judge. This decision may bring
into question the execution of some of the 800 inmates sentenced by the judge.
BUONE NUOVE
Humanist Electronic Agency run by Olivier
Turquet -
http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
From: JB luvlilcalico@yahoo.com
To: TX-DeathPenalty-Info-owner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [TX-DP-Info] International: Lighting Colosseum to Promote Life
June 29, 2002 The Associated Press
ROME TURNS UP THE
LIGHTS ON THE COLOSSEUM
 |
ROME
- With the flip of some switches, the Colosseum lit up a little brighter
Friday night - part of a new effort to better illuminate the 2,000-year-old
arena at night. An extra 250 lights were added to the 350 that were installed
24 years ago, bathing the magnificentoval structure in a brilliant white
hue against Rome's hazy night sky. Since 1999, the Colosseum, an ancient
reminder of death and violence, has used its night lights to promote life.
As part of acampaign against the death penalty sponsored by the United Nations
the Vatican and Amnesty International, a goldish green tint is cast on the
Colosseum at night every time a death sentence has been commuted somewhere. |
6.7.02
The latest newsletter of
St.Egidio has arrived today. Click here
20.7.02
From: frost_bitten_ca mccoy@nas.net
To: stop-polabuse@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:39:56 -0000
Subject: [stop-polabuse] [prison+psychrights]
We invite you to join a dynamic new mailing list.
Prison+Psychrights is a list
devoted to networking, sharing information and building bridges
between activists focused on psychiatric rights and activists focused on prisoners'
rights.
To subscribe, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prison-psychrights/
_____________________________________________________
And today 20.7 we also received the new
Newsletter by St.Egidio. Click here
23.7.02
From Punto-Informatico http://www.punto-informatico.it
of the 23th of July 2002
AMERICAN PRISONS; INTERNET CENSURED
An Arizona law bans the sites publishing news about
the death penalty and the mistreatments to the inmates who now are threatened
of retaliation.
You can read the whole article in Italian at http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=41027
or read the English file.rtf here. As reaction,
the Canadian Coalition Against The Death Penalty warned the inmates' families
and friends that the inmates can bring a suit (read the English-Italian text here),
and put on their site a list of death row inmates from Arizona and other Statesi.
We appreciate CCADP's brave action, and invite you to visit the following pages,
and the whole site at http://ccadp.org/AZ.htm
; http://ccadp.org/arizona.htm .
We enclose here the warning, by ADOC, banning
the Arizona inmates from using Internet. The law came into effect from the 18
July 2000, in the wake of some victims' families' outcry (see CCADP
web site page), but it surfaced just now. Maybe it was partially, or not respected
at all, but after the 11.9, with the excuse of fighting terrorism, every government
in the world retrieves all that increases their control over the people.
We also enclose here the ACLU's outcry message sent
to the (now ex) ADOC Director Terry Stewart, threatening them to bring a suit.
Now some kind of censure is allegedly attacking also our information system here
in Italy. "Antigone",
an Italian human rights organization helping our inmates, was accused of supporting
anarchists, and stirring up rebellion within our prisons. It's all just rubbish
of course, but for now the Antigone members are no longer allowed to visit, and
help the inmates.
3.8.02
One more newsletter by St.Egidio. Click here
17.8.02
Here is the last but one
newsletter by St.Egidio of August
| 29.8.02 |
NEWS
FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA |
|
|
Johnny
Martinez was executed on the 5th
of August 2002
Javier Medina was executed on the 14th
August.
Gary Wayne Etheridge was executed on the 20th of August. Check
out his site "In Memoriam" at http://www.garyetheridge.com/main_e.html
|
31.8.02
Here is the last St.Egidio
newsletter of August
5.9.02
From: "Associazione Pantagruel" asspantagruel@virgilio.it
To: "Comitato Per La Difesa Di Karl Louis
Guillen" lementi@libero.it
- homo.ludens@email.it
Date: Thursday, 5 Settembre 2002 10:45
Subject: Outcry in prison
Firenze, 5 September 2002
Dear friends,
here enclosed you can find three flyers that maybe you already know. It's a
flyer (in Italian) by the Associazione Papillon
- Rebibbia New Correctional Unit in Rome, the first launching the peaceful outcry
in the Italian prisons; then there's the flyer
by the inmates of Sollicciano - Firenze, joining the outcry; and the flyer
by the inmates of the Correctional Department Mario Gozzini (Solliccianino)
who also are joining the outcry. We are confident you're aware of how important
is to spread as wide as possible these flyers.
Kind regards,
Associazione Pantagruel Firenze Via Tavanti, 20 - 50134 Firenze Tel. e Fax +39/055/473070
E-mail: asspantagruel@virgilio.it
Associazione Papillon - Rebibbia New Unit http://www.papillon-rebibbia.org
E-mail: papillonrebibbia@katamail.com
9.9.02
Agenzia
di Base Firenze,
9th of September 2002
By: Altracittà
- outskirts' newspaper http://www.altracitta.org/
and Box S.E.P.E. http://soalinux.comune.fi.it/boxsepe
Contact us by agenziadibase@yahoogroups.com
News
9th of September 2002
Monday 9th of September 9:00 a.m.
Firenze, warehouse between Sollicciano and Solliccianino
Outcry before Sollicciano
The prison workers decided for a 7 days strike, besides beating on pots in reply
to the inmates beating against the bars. Then a Human rights delegation will
enter into the prison, along with some regional councillors like Giovanni Barbagli
and Mario Ricci of the Communist Refounding Party. They will also hold a press
conference to inform people about the life's conditions inside the prison, and
to support the inmates' outcries, and claims.
Info: Gruppo Istituzioni Totali Social Forum Firenze
istituzionitotali@libero.it
12.9.02 From
CONTRORADIO FIRENZE www.controradio.it
12/09/2002 - 13:17 "FOR
THE SAME JUSTICE FOR EVERYBODY": ONE SATURDAY OF FIGHT FROM TUSCANY TO ROME
From Agliana to Rome for equal
rights for everybody. While the inmates' action against the inhumane life in prison
goes on, two demontrations claiming a right justice will take place on Saturday
night.
While the prison workers' strike,
and the inmates' action against the inhumane life, and the overcrowding in prison
goes on, a march for justice and legality will take place on Saturday from Agliana
to Quarrata. Many important people will attend the march, like Gino Strada, Don
Ciotti e Giancarlo Caselli. On the same Saturday the Tuscanian group of the Communist
Refounding Party, and the Firenze Social Forum will meet before the correctional
unit of Regina Coeli, Rome, to outcry against the awful conditions of life in
the Italian prisons. Then at night in P.za S. Giovanni, Rome, there will take
place a party with Nanni Moretti supporting democracy, rights and freedom of speech.
Still regarding prisons, this morning the Tuscany Region held a meeting, and presented
the first regional bill to defend the inmates' health. Enrico Rossi, Health Councillor
in Firenze, said their aim is to reach an equal heath service both for people
inside and outside the Italian prisons.
_____________________________________________________
Agenzia di Base
Firenze,12th of September 2002
By: Altracittà - outskirts' newspaper
http://www.altracitta.org/
and Box S.E.P.E. http://soalinux.comune.fi.it/boxsepe
Contact us by agenziadibase@yahoogroups.com
News
12th of September 2002
Friday 13th of September
11:30 a.m.
Firenze, Saletta
Conferenze, Consiglio Regionale Toscana, Via Cavour, 4
The Prison System
Press conference with G.Barbagli and Mario Ricci, Communist Refounding Party Regional
Councillors; C.De Vito of the Group Istituzioni Totali of the Firenze Social Forum;
T.Fattori, spokes-man of the Firenze Social Forum; D. Vangieri, Communist Refounding
Party Regional Welfare. The meeting is to support the current outcries against
the old and serious problems of the prison life. The hard prison issue musn't
be separated from the justice's.
Info: Firenze Forum
Sociale - Firenze
13.9.02 From
Buone Nuove #
153 of the 13.9.02
** EDITORIAL**
Another 11 September by Olivier Turquet
While the papers are full of celebrations sounding like an excuse for a new and
dirty war, we would like to remind you that the 11 September is also a coup d'état
anniversary; we commemorate it with the supplement (in Italian) you can read here.
It features tha last speech of Salvador Allende, Chile's President, on the 11
September 1973.
BUONE NUOVE Humanist
Electronic Agency run
by Olivier Turquet - http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove
16.9.02
The Development and Social Health Centre "Il
Ramo In Fiore" of Florence, organized some handcraft and mental health classes.
The classes will begin on 12.10.02. For subscriptions and info read here,
and here the 2 flyers (in Italian)
Centro Il Ramo In Fiore - via A. Tavanti, 20 (zona Poggetto)
- 50134 Firenze
Tel. e fax: +39/055/473070 - e-mail: asspantagruel@virgilio.it
_____________________________________________________
On 14 September we received the latest newsletter by St.Egidio. Click
here
26.9.02
From: Karen Richey ContactKRC@AOL.COM
To: Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death Penalty
ABOLISH@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:09:15 EDT
Subject: Disc: PENPAL REQUEST.
PENPAL REQUEST
I received a letter from Marvin Gabrion. He wishes also to be added
to webpages. I am copying exactly what he has written.
MARVIN GABRION.
INNOCENT MAN ON US DEATH ROW
Greetings, I ask you for complete, lengthy letters, with or without
photo's. Help me to relieve the terrible emotional pain of this corrupt wrongful
conviction. I am blue eyed, 160 pounds. Six foot tall, single and athletic.I
was born October 18th, so I am a libra.
Please allow me to live vicariously through your real world life living experiences,
hopes and dreams by postal letters, visits if possible and phone.
Lastly anyone, anywhere interested in co-writing, printing, researching, and/or
selling a non fiction book/movie entitled
"American Justice, murder and wrongful imprisonment of innocents
for greed by legal corruption". Involvement in the project
for book does not effect in any way the penpal request.
Thank you.
Marvin Gabrion #09184-0555
PO Box 33 US Death Row
Terre Haute Indiana 47808-0033
USA
_____________________________________________________
Editor's note: Marvin's letter
is just one of the many on the net. Many inmates, with different charges, even
heavy, but that maybe are changed like Karl. Many men who got wrong, and that
we judge because they're already judged. Many men, even innocent. But we don't
care about such distinction. They're all men who got very few from their lives,
and their lives are broken now, and they're totally left to their own devices.
Here you can find a small collection of
old and new personal ads (in English) by some inmates, almost all in SMU I or
II in Arizona where Karl is locked. We'd like you to read it to feel the same
loneliness and sadness we felt, reading them.
27.9.02
Da "La Repubblica"
La
Repubblica
TV STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY
TO THE INMATES
by Mimmo Pinto
I
read the article by Adriano Sofri "We in prison with our Tv off", and
I'm grateful to the paper Repubblica that keeps on publishing Sofri's articles
on the first page. I like his articles about their life in prison. I think Sofri
is innocent, and I try to understand why he's inside. Maybe he has to pay for
a generation who brought to terrorism, and he's kind of a symbol of such generation.
Or maybe he had to get in prison to be able to tell us names and stories of many
inmates. Through his articles we knew about men who otherwise we'd never know
about. I hope that sooner o later the Secretary of Justice will go to Pisa, (where
he's locked) to listen to the inmates' claims. In his article Sofri writes that
after a week withour open air, the inmates decided to keep their Tvs off for another
week. One hour of open air to an inmate is a precious thing, and the Tv as well.
Sofri also writes that outside they know little, or nothing about this peaceful
outcry. I think it would be good if many free men and women supported Pisa inmates.
From today I'll keep my Tv off for a week. Never mind if I don't see the Naples
team playing soccer. This reminds me of a Rebibbia inmate, from Scafati. He told
me of how much grater was his joy at seeing a Maradona goal in prison. Adriano
Sofri ends his article saying that they set themselves for the strike: one radio,
one paper, a good book,a pack of cards, and everyone with his own thouths. I'd
like many people to do like them; at night, instead of seeing the Tv news, their
thoughts met the inmates' for a while.
_____________________________________________________
From "Il Venerdì di
Repubblica" # 758 of the 27.9.02
CASTELLI VS SPARTACUS by Giorgio
Bocca
REACTIONARIES OF THE WORLD ARE ALL ALIKE
The hawk Rumsfeld said the Guantanamo cages are better
than the Afghan prisons, and he's right in his way because they make a clean sweep
of the latter ones, now and then. Our Secretary of Justice Castelli is as right
as Rumsfeld when he sais our prisons are like a Grand Hotel. We don't understand
whether we must be happy or worried about the fact that the prison issue is one
of the worst problems of our times, and that our welfare society thinks to survive
increasing prisons and inmates. In US, the richest nation in the world, they're
close to 2 millions of inmates, a number reminding of lagers. Prison, today as
in the past, doesn't defend from criminals, nor rehabilitates them. We must be
quite hypocritical to believe that the hard rule known as 41 bis, is effective
against Mafia, when it was created just as a remedy for a prison system we don't
trust. But Castelli made us come back to the slave rebellions times. He's afraid
that the outcries against the inhuman prison conditions may turn into a stirred
up by the left rebellion against the government. The Secretary Castelli doesn't
know that left and right are both horrified by anarchy. The Communist Secretary
Togliatti hurried to calm magistrature, and police about "keeping the order",
about punishing the partisans' excesses, and confirmed the Fascist codes' repressive
rules.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE PRISON REMEDY DOESN'T WORK:
criminality follows the progress about
like a shadow. They use the "new economy" like and better than its inventors,
they use the finer technique, they destroy the Manhattan skyscrapers with the
same technique of those who built them. Maybe there's some hysteria in the fear
pushing famous Americans to go away from New York or Miami, but the tendency to
a bulletproof society, where the rich entrench themselves into their quarters,
is a matter of fact. Some years ago in Italy there was the "golden prisons"
scandal; some contractors made their fortune on the new prisons' social need.
But just a Northern League minister could imagine our left as a contemporary spartachism.
28.9.02 Click
here
to read the latest newsletter by St.Egidio.
3.10.02
From: "T r u t h o u t" postman@truthout.org
To: "T r u t h o u t" truthout@lists.truthout.com
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2002 10:05:42 -0400
Subject: More Suicide Attempts at Guantanamo
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/10.07F.x-ray.suicide.htm
Also available here
4.10.02 From
CONTRORADIO FIRENZE www.controradio.it
04/10/2002 - 13:53 PRISON:
TWO PROJECTS TO REHABILITATE THE SOLLICCIANO INMATES
Making dolls,
and restoring bikes; two projects born from the collaboration between the Town
Council and social cooperatives.The projects to rehabilitate the Sollicciano inmates
are increasing.
"We cannot remember the prison just when
there's some outcry", Marzia Monciatti, Firenze Council's Councillor of Labor,
said, talking of the last weeks outcries. So in Firenze projects of work and rehabilitation
of the Sollicciano inmates are increasing. The first project is called "The
poetry of the dolls", and it's a class for women to learn making rag dolls
and puppets. The second one is called "One thousend bikes", and the
inmates learn to restore and sell the bikes left in our town streets. It's a real
workshop where the inmates will fix about 15-20 bikes a week, so they can learn
a job to keep also outside. The two projects were both born by the collaboration
between the Town Council and social cooperatives like the Pantagruel Association
asspantagruel@virgilio.it
and the cooperative Ulisse.
12.10.02
On the 12 October we received the St.Egidio newsletter. Click here
26.10.02
Here's
the latest newsletter by St.Egidio
28.10.02
From: Paula Ann Davis ad_idem@YAHOO.COM
To: ABOLISH@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:07:22 -0800
Subject: Action: Petition
CUADP have started a petition section and I have
added your petition URL there at: http://www.cuadp.org/prisonerlinks.html
If anyone who would like to add their petition URL please let me know...Petitions
are important, they are our voice in the defense of others, and we will not
be silenced. To be silent is to let the powers the be do as they please.
Paula
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Here below is the promo banner for the exhibition of Genoa. It features also some
drawings of Karl's that you can buy. Many thanks to Gabriella, who organized the
exhibition, and to Daniela, her sister and Marzia who helped her. You're all invited
to come!
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SIGNS OF FIGHT AND INJUSTICE
Exhibition: Drawings and poems from the death row
5 - 11 December, Biblioteca Berio, V.le Fieschi GENOA
10:00 - 1:00 p.m.; 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Sunday closed
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We also inform you of another exhibition in Turin,
open from the 23 November to the 7 December 2002 at LA CADREGA - Via Principessa
Clotilde 23 bis/a.
The exhibition is called MASSIMA LIBERTA',
and features a space dedicated to Karl's drawings entitled
"Karl Louis
Guillen, drawings from Florence prison (Arizona)". There will
be a stand with informative material, where you can make donations for Karl. Part
of the takings will be send to Karl.
Opening: Saturday 23 November 10:00 p.m. with reading of "Five
Things", and with The Blythe & The Releases.
Just for ARCI members.
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On 26.10 we received a
newsletter by St.Egidio. Click here
3.11.02
Read here the sadly hilarous article
by Miami Herald of the 3rd November 2002 called
USA: WHEN KILLING THEM
JUST ISN'T ENOUGH
9.11.02
Here's another newsletter by St.'Egidio. Click here
15.11.02
SOLLICCIANO IS ABOUT TO BURST
- DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF INMATES
The Pope donounces the "pitiful overcrowding". Sofri:
"Claps in the cells"
La
Repubblica of the 15.11.02-
read here the article (in Italian)
21.11.02
On 17 October we talked about Internet banned from the US prisons, and more
in general we talked about a new repressive wave that's striking all the information
means in the world. Read here the message,
in English, of the 15 November by Angela
Harrison from Australia. Again about the free information, we have an article
of the 19 November featured on Clumites'
(Abroad Humanists' Club) bulletin that yuo can read here
(in Italian). In the same page you can find another article, in Italian, by
Clumites of the 21 November about the arbitrary arrest of some No-Global representative
in Cosenza, in Italian, and an open letter, in Italian, by Miriam
Giovanzana from Altreconomia's
editor, commenting these arrests. We also have a short report, bilingual, on
the arrests in Cosenza, you can read here.
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Agenzia di
Base Here below is the new layout of
the on-line paper
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News
of the 21/11/2002
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Thursday
21 November - 8.30 p.m.
Florence,
CPA Fi sud, Via villamagna 27/a
Let's
stop the slaughter in the Turkish prisons
The
night will start with a solidarity dinner, then at 9.30 p.m. they'll show
a video followed by a debate. The Tayad's (Association helping the political
prisoners in Turkey) European March crosses also Firenze. It leaved from,
Brussels to come to the border between Greece and Turkey to show its support
to the inmates' fight, and to involve the European people. 25 fellows from
Florence will take part in the meeting.
Promoters:
CPA
- Centro Popolare Autogestito - Via di Villamagna
27/A Firenze tel. 055/6580479 email: CPA@ecn.org
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Thursday
21 November - 9.15 p.m.
Casa
del Popolo S. Bartolo a Cintoia, V. S. Bartolo a Cintoia 95, Florence
Justice:
the new laws, and their effects
Public
meeting with Margherita Cassano, attorney, Peter Gomez, journalist and
writer, Francesco Pardi of the Laboratorio Democrazia, Marco Travaglio,
journalist and writer. Coordinator: Francesco Nocentini.
Promoters:
Laboratorio
per la Democrazia Firenze email:
labdem@libero.it
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23.11.02
Here's
again one more newsletter by St.Egidio
28.11.02
INMATES STOMPED. COPS INVESTIGATED
From La
Nazione of the 28.11.02
PALERMO:
Some cops of the prison police's flying squad
are investigated for alleged mistreatments of some informant inmates in the special
unit of the prison Pagliarelli in Palermo. Several informants housed since the
1999 were questioned, and some confirmed either to have suffered, or seen mistreatments
by the cops.
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News
of the 28/11/2002
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Thursday
28 November - 9.00 p.m.
Florence,
Casa del Popolo di San Bartolo a Cintoia
Free
everybody
Public
meeting to support the No-Global
representatives arrested in Cosenza.
They'll debate about the justice situation from the Rocco code, to the latest
anti-terrorismo laws. Against the state power, and the repressive reply
to the social, and political claims. There will take part Tommaso Sorrentino,
attorney of some defendant in Cosenza;Nichi Vendola, Anti-mafia Commission's
ex president; Guido Sganga, from Cpa - Firenze Sud; Vincenzo Miliucci, of
the Indipendent Trades Unions; Francesco "Pancho" Pardi, of the Laboratorio
per la democrazia of Florence; Don Alessandro Santoro, Piagge's parish priest;
Daniele Stolzi, Work Chamber of Florence; Tommaso Fattori, of the Florentine
Social Forum. Coordinator: Raffaele Palumbo, Controradio. |
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News
of the
29/11/2002
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Friday
29 November - 9.00 p.m.
Florence,
Circolo Arci Isolotto, Via Maccari 104
Not
in my name!
One
night to front such a hard issue as the death penalty, focusing on Tuscany,
Turkey, Afghanistan and USA. Elisa Malagoni, from Amnesty International
Florence. will open the meeting. There will attend: Marcello Verga, University
of Florence's historian; Emilio Santoro, University of Florence's law sociologist,
and Comitato Kurdistan's spokesman; Sahar, spokesman of RAWA (Afghan Women's
Revolutionary Association); John Gilbert, Iraq-Usa Committee. |
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News
of the
01/12/2002
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Sunday
1 December - 10.00 a.m.
Centro
Il Ramo in Fiore, Via A. Tavanti 20 (zona Poggetto)
Dolls
workshop
The
dolls workshops promoted by the Pantagruel Associatin, and Il Ramo in Fiore,
are active within Sollicciano's women sections. They also help women allowed
to work outside, or fostered to social service. On Sunday, 1 December, from
10 a.m to 7 p.m. they will present the workshop, and show the first dolls
maken.
Info:
Centro
Il Ramo in Fiore, tel.-fax 055473070, e-mail: asspantagruel@virgilio.it
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30.11.02
Published on Saturday, November 30, 2002 by Agence France
Presse http://www.afp.com
INTERNATIONAL
DAY AGAINST DEATH PENALTY BLAZES FORTH MESSAGE
Read the article here
- On the same day BBC News published the following
article
EXECUTION DENOUNCED IN WORLD PROTEST
You can read it at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2529793.stm
or here
2.12.02
From Buone
Nuove # 161 of the 2.12.02
FIRST WORLD DAY AGAINST
THE DEATH PENALTY
Source: Misna www.misna.it
- Unimondo www.unimondo.it
Date: 30/11/02
The "First World Day Against The Death Penalty" was opened on the 30
November in the main cities of the world. The date was chosen because it is
the anniversary of the day when the death penalty
was abolished by
Pietro Leopoldo in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany,
the first Western country doing it, on 30 November 1786. From Rome to New York,
from Paris to Santiago de Chile they will light up their monuments "to give
light to a hope of life against the darkness of violence, and death. Such event
is called "Cities for Life, against the death penalty". Promoters are
the World Coalition Against Death Penalty, and Amnesty International. The goal
of the day is to ask a world moratorium of the executions.
BUONE NUOVE
Humanist Electronic Agency run by Olivier
Turquet -
http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove
7.12.02
Newsletter by St.Egidio. Click here
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From: Daniela Annetta dannetta@infinito.it
To: karlguillen@yahoogroups.com karlguillen@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:38 PM
Subject: [karlguillen] From Genoa
Hi all,
in Genoa there's the exhibition of some US inmates' drawings. Several inmates,
through their committees in Italy, like us with Karl, take part in it with beautiful
drawings. At the opening there were about 30 people. Five people made a speech;
me about Karl, Amnesty International, the St.Egidio Community, Gabry about her
friend Tony, and Mauro Dispenza who helps many inmates. We had a very good time.
I met Elisabetta, Gabry and Mauro who went into action to help Karl as well.
Love, Daniela (Editor's note: See the exhibition's promo banner on this page by
clicking here)
16.12.02
INITIAL SUCCESS IN CCADP LAWSUIT AGAINST ARIZONA...
Good news today 16.12.02! A federal judge handed down an injunction against enforcement
of the law attempting to ban Arizona prisoners from appearing on websites! Click
here to read the message by the Canadian Coalition
Against The Death Penalty, and here to read the precedents.
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NEWS
FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA |
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Anthony
Keith Johnson was executed in Alabama
on the 13th of December.
Read here Todd Kleffman's article
(in English) on his case.
James Lee Clark got a stay on the 18th
of November. For more info go to his site http://www.adelante.com/clark/index.htm
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22.12.02
Read here the article
MANY HELD AT GUANTANAMO NOT LIKELY TERRORISTS
By Greg Miller Times Staff Writer - Sunday, 22 December, 2002
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Newsletter by St.Egidio
of the 22.12.02. Click here
27.12.02
Read here one more article about the detainee
in Guantanamo
UNITED STATES: REPORTS OF TORTURE OF AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS
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WOMEN SUBJECT
TO VIOLENCE AND INHUMANE CONDITIONS IN ALABAMA PRISONS
read here the bilingual file.rtf
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News
of the 27/12/2002
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Friday
27 Dicember - 3.00 p.m.
Florence,
Casa del Popolo 25 Aprile, via del Bronzino
Inside
and outside the walls
Public
meeting about the prison's reality. Social application, the prison situation
in Tuscany, foundation of a regional observatory, support of the pardon
law campaign. The meeting will open with a video on the life in prison.
Promoters:
Gruppo Istituzioni
totali Social Forum Firenze
Pantagruel- Via Tavanti, 20 - 50134 Firenze tel.
055/473070 fax: 055/473070 email: asspantagruel@virgilio.it
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