End the racist US death
penalty
Picket the US Embassy
Ballsbridge
Friday 4th July
American Independence
Day
5.30 - 6.30pm
Thousands of people are on death row in the USA. The death
sentence is barbaric. More and more countries are abolishing it.
The US however has more people in prisons than ever before (1.6
million) and is the last major industrialised nation to still put
people to death. The electric chair, poison injection, firing squad
and gallows are used disproportionately against black and poor
people.
In May this year Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, US anarchist and ex-Black
Panther, spoke in Dublin on behalf of the Ad-hoc Coalition against
Racism & the Death Penalty. He spent 17 years as a political
prisoner in the USA and explained "the death penalty is an instrument
of racial oppression and class injustice. No rich man has ever been
executed in this country in a capital case, no matter how many
workers he has killed. In addition, very few whites [even Klan
members] have been put to death for the murder of a black person; and
yet racial "minorities" are disproportionately represented on death
rows nationwide."
In the US over 50 organisations are making July 4th a day of
action demanding an across the board moratorium on all death
penalties as the first step to abolition of the death penalty.
Several organisations and individuals including the WSM are picketing
the US Embassy on July 4th in solidarity with their demand. Similar
protests are also taking place in the U. S, Canada, France, Belgium,
Netherlands, England and Scotland. The US government are sensitive
to their image abroad and support from people around the world will
be of vital assistance to those who are campaigning for a moratorium.
Join the picket of the embassy on July 4th and let your voice be
heard
Workers
Solidarity Movement, PO Box 1528,Dublin 8, Ireland
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