Drug War Roadshow
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:47 Written by Glen Anderson Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:43
National FOR’s “Drug War Roadshow”
Comes to Olympia THURS AUG 27
The national FOR’s Colombia Program has produced an informative and entertaining “Drug War Roadshow” to expose the failure of the US government’s so-called “War on Drugs” and the implications for poor farmers in Colombia and for poor communities in the US. The Olympia FOR is producing the “Drug War Roadshow” for a special performance at Traditions Café, 5th & Water SW, in downtown Olympia at 7:00 p.m. Thursday August 27. We will air performances later on TCTV, channel 22 for cable TV subscribers in Thurston County. The Olympia FOR also will offer informal showings of our TCTV production with refreshments in one or more private homes in September and October.
Links to Articles of Interest
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:31 Written by Glen Anderson Thursday, 16 July 2009 11:08
We can Mail Paper Copies to Persons Without Internet Access.
This entire newsletter and the articles within it will be posted on the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation’s website, www.olyfor.org. In addition, we’ll also post some timely and informative articles from other sources. Listed below are summaries of some articles we’ll post. If you don’t have internet access, call the Olympia FOR at (360) 491-9093 to request a paper copy of any article you want. Do you like this new feature of our newsletter? Let us know whether we should continue, modify, or stop this new feature?
Death Penalty: “The Worst of the Worst?”
www.olyfor.org
Many people say they want the death penalty to be used only for “the worst of the worst.” But in practice the death penalty is not – and cannot – be reserved only for “the worst of the worst.” A great number of “filters” (geography, race, income, other factors in social status, personalities of officials in the criminal justice system, etc.) strongly influence how cases are investigated, prosecuted, tried and sentenced. These filters reflect our society’s many biases and inequities at every step of the process, as well as random factors such as geography. The people who end up being sentenced to death are not “the worst of the worst.” Glen Anderson from Olympia FOR’s Committee for Alternatives to the Death Penalty wrote the article. You can see it and other death penalty information at the Olympia For’s website.