[WCADP-list] WCADP Update: Annual Conference; Tacoma Event; and National YouTube Outreach

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In this email...

1.  Annual Conference & Meeting Reminder
2.  Tacoma Death Penalty Event
3.  National Troy Davis YouTube Project

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1, Reminder:  Annual Conference & Meeting Oct. 27th

The WCADP Annual Meeting featuring a presentation by Todd Maybrown on death
by lethal injection.
 
<http://www.seattleu.edu/home/campus_community/visit_campus/directions_area_
maps/driving_to_main_campus/> Seattle University School of Law, Room 109.
No registration required.  No fee (donations gladly accepted).

9:15 -- Registration
9:30 -- Presentation
11:30 -- Lunch
12:00 -- WCADP Annual Meeting
1:00 -- Adjourn

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2. TACOMA:  Against the Death Penalty?  Unsure?  Come to a Presentation on
this important issue!

Speaker: Tacoma Rep Jeannie Darneille.  Rep. Darneille will be speaking on
Legislation and the Death Penalty.

Sunday, Oct. 21 @ 4:00 P.M

Tacoma Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Friends Meeting House. 
2508 So. 39th. Street; Tacoma
(Directly Behind Borders Books.)

All are welcome!

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3. Troy Davis YouTube Project

Dear NCADP Supporter:

Today we are writing to ask you to join us in a creative and fun effort to
publicize the case of Troy Anthony Davis, a person on Georgia's death row
who many of us believe to be innocent.

Troy was sentenced to die despite the fact that seven of the nine people who
testified against him at trial have recanted their testimony. (An 8th
"witness" is missing, while the ninth is thought to be the real killer. No
physical evidence whatsoever tied Troy to the crime.)

Troy has an important appeal before the Georgia Supreme Court this fall in
his quest to secure a new trial. He narrowly escaped execution earlier this
summer.

Today we are asking you to take part in the Troy Davis Innocence Matters
Video Project <
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=429506118&url_num=1&ur
l=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dq_LZa38sC3w>
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=429506118&url_num=1&url
=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dq_LZa38sC3w>

October 9th is Troy Anthony Davis' birthday and in celebration of this
occasion we're asking all of his supporters worldwide to send him a video
birthday message and to post that message on YouTube.

The Troy video project is simple. Using a webcam, camera phone, camcorder or
any other recording device, simply record a positive video of 60-seconds or
less wishing Troy a 'Happy Birthday' while reaffirming to the state of
Georgia that innocence matters.

With so many Troy supporters around the world, we want these messages to be
lively and creative. Feel free to sing it, rap it, play it, draw it, dance
it, paint it, shout it from the roof-tops. What you say or how you say it
isn't important. What's important is that you just say it!

Please keep these messages positive and refrain from bad language and
controversial statements that could be viewed as inflammatory. We don't want
to upset people - we just want to show the world that Troy has global
support in his fight for justice.

After you've recorded this message, please post it on YouTube using this
link <
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=429506118&url_num=2&ur
l=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fgroups_videos%3Fname%3DNCADP>
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=429506118&url_num=2&url
=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fgroups_videos%3Fname%3DNCADP> :

Let's not only give Troy a "Happy Birthday," let us also speak loud and
clear in one voice that innocence matters!

Please note that even if you are unable to record a video for Troy, you can
help our campaign by visiting our YouTube site and watching some of the
videos. So far, we've had more than 2,000 views and we really want to
demonstrate to the world through the site's popularity that, yes, innocence
matters!

Best to all.  And onward to abolition!

David Elliot
Communications Director
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty



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