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Below is a selection of articles about the fight to save Stan Tookie Williams.

 

Save Stan Tookie Williams Blog

Updated daily with reports from events, selected articles and suggested ways to get involved.


Many young blacks say execution was unfair/REACTION: Sadness and frustration that Williams is gone
James Sterngold, Jason B. Johnson, SF Chronicle, December 14

 

Schwarzenegger adopting stiff clemency criteria

By David Kravets, Associated Press, December 14

 

The execution of Stan Tookie Williams: They murdered a peacemaker

By Alan Maass, Socialist Worker, December 13.

 

Tookie’s Final Hour

By Jennifer Liss, WireTap, Alternet, December 13, 2005.

 

Why Arnold Killed Tookie

By Dave Zirin, AlterNet, December 13.

 

Report from San Quentin: California Murders Tookie Williams

By Phil Gasper, Counterpunch.org, December 13.

 

Is California Any Safer Now?: At the Gates of San Quentin

By Norman Soloman, Counterpunch.org, December 13.

 

Ending the Death Penalty, with Tookie in the Lead

Never Again

By Michael G. Smith, Counterpunch.org, December 13.

 

Defense lawyers: New witnesses could help prove Williams' innocence

By Kim Curtis, Associated Press, December 12, 2005

 

Prosecutor in Williams' case faces suit in fatal shooting

By Jeremiah Marquez, Associated Press, Sun, Dec. 11, 2005

Jesse Jackson calls on Schwarzenegger to spare former gang leader

By Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune, December 10th, 2005

 

South Central's Hope: Clemency For Williams
By Peter Fimrite, SF Chronicle, December 10th, 2005

 

Watsonville High students stage walkout in support of saving Crips co-founder's life

By Donna Jones, Santa Cruz Sentinel, December 10th, 2005

 

Death or Debt Paid to Society? Tavis Smiley interview with Stan Tookie Williams

Tavis Smiley, Tavis Smiley Show, December 9th 2005

 

Breakdown FM: An Interview w/ Snoop Dogg & Stan Tookie Williams

Davey D, Breakdown FM, December 8th, 2005.

Other links to audio p osted at Indybay.

 

Evidence points to frame-up in Tookie Williams case
By Clive Leeman, Guest Columnist, Final Call, December 8, 2005

 

Stan's case featured on Chuck D's show on Air America
Chuck D and Giana Garel had sportswriter Dave Zirin, author of What's My
Name Fool, on their show to talk about Stan's case. You can listen to the
show on the Internet--the discussion about Stan starts about two-thirds of
the way through... (link from Save Stan Tookie Williams Blog)
.

 

 

The People’s Clemency Hearing: Why Tookie deserves to live

Socialist Worker, December 8, 2005

 

Saving Tookie: Executing the reformed Crips founder would tell young gangbangers that it’s pointless to change your life

By Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles City Beat, December 8th, 2005

 

Stanley Tookie Williams - America's 'strange fruit'

By Donna J. Warren, SF Bay View, December 7, 2005

 

BET NEWS' IN-DEPTH LOOK AT TOOKIE WILLIAMS,

7:30 PM Eastern/Pacific, BET, December 7, 2005

 

Criminal or Criminalized?

By M. Junaid Alam, Alternet, December 7, 2005

 

Let 'Tookie' live for the good he's doing

The Monitor's View, Christian Science Monitor, December 5th, 2005


Sparing the Crips Founder: The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
By Matt Gonzalez, MESH, December 2.

Williams says he's prepared for death but hopes for life/In interview, condemned killer denies guilt, tells of redemption
By Leslie Fulbright, SF Chronicle, December 2nd, 2005


Clemency for a Crip?
By Mark Essig, NYTimes Op. Ed., December 2nd, 2005

 

Breakdown FM: Crips, Gang Life, Redemption & Tookie.. Can We Have Peace in the Hood? An interview with Aqeela Sherrills

By Davey D, Breakdown FM w/ Davey D, November 30th, 2005


A Conversation with Death Row Prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams from his San Quentin Cell
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

 

Interview with Stan Tookie Williams Speaking out from death row

By Phil Gasper, Socialist Worker, November 29, 2005

 

The Fight to Save Stan Tookie Williams
By Dave Zirin, The Nation, November 29, 2005

 

Telling His Story to Save His Life: Barbara Becnel has championed clemency for Stanley Williams, who is set to die Dec. 13.
By Maura Dolan, LA Times, November 28, 2005

 

NAACP Steps Up Efforts to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
California Gov. Schwarzenegger is asked to grant clemency to former gang leader who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

NAACP Press Release, November 27, 2005

 

Activists rally to save Tookie

By Charlene Muhammad, Final Call, November 27, 2005

 

Schwarzenegger may waive death penalty for ex-gangster

By Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (UK) 27 November, 2005

 

Stars Urging Clemency for Crips Co-Founder

By Lynn Elber, The Associated Press, November 26, 2005

 

Letter in Response to the Fresno Bee

By Elizabeth Terzakis, November 26, 2005

 

Clemency for Tookie won’t sink Schwarzenegger
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, SF Bay View, November 23, 2005

 

Jesse Jackson calls for pardon of Tookie Williams
By Tad Whitaker, Marin Independent Journal, November 22, 2005

 

Williams' Lawyers Allege Officials Are Smearing Him

By Henry Weinstein, LA Times, November 22, 2005

 

Photos from: Save the Peacemaker Rally, San Quentin, Nov 19 2005
By Jeff Paterson, Indymedia, November 19, 2005

 

The struggle spreads... Standing up for Tookie!

By Eric Ruder, Socialist Worker, November 18, 2005

 

Killing a Voice for Peace: The Race to Execute Tookie Williams
By Phil Gasper, Counterpunch.org, October 28, 2005

 

California Prepares to Execute Tookie Williams: Countdown to a Legal Lynching

By Phil Gasper, Counterpunch.org, October 12, 2005