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Dead Man Walking
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Two Religious Education Congress Workshops with Sr. Helen Prejean
To sign up please visit:
http://www.recongress.org/
DEAD MAN WALKING – THE JOURNEY CONTINUES 3-20
Friday, March 19, 2010 3-4:30pm
Sr. Helen Prejean, a Southern storyteller, will bring you along on a journey of working with the poor, which led her to prison ministry. She will share her many experiences over these 20 years, and tell of some of the people she has met along the way. Her travels have brought her all over the world, and her book, “Dead Man Walking,” has been made into a movie, an opera and a play.
THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS 4-22
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10-11:30 am
In this session, Sr. Helen Prejean shares the powerful stories of two men on death row she believes were innocent, which inspired her second book, “The Death of Innocents.” In this workshop Sr. Prejean talks about the legal system and how it needs to be fixed. She will expose how innocent people are condemned to death along with the guilty.
Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ
Sr. Helen Prejean has lived and worked in Louisiana all her life. In 1991, while working with inner-city residents, she began counseling death-row inmates, and later wrote a book about the experience, “Dead Man Walking.” Since 1984, Sr. Prejean divides her time between campaigning against the death penalty and counseling individual death-row prisoners. She was instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the issue and in shaping the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to all state executions.
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Events
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Wed., March 31, 2010 - Santa Clara, CA
Panel Discussion on the Death Penalty at SCU
Time: TBA
Williman Room (located on the ground floor of the Benson Memorial Center)
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
View Map: http://www.scu.edu/map/
Moderator - Natasha Minsker, ACLU of Northern California
Laurence C. Marshall, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Mary Kay Raftery, whose son was murdered
Darryl Stallworth, former prosecutor
More info: http://www.santaclaraagainstdeathpenalty.org/
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June 12 - 13, 2010 - San Francisco, CA
Annual General Assembly of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Please save the date!
This will be a landmark event -- the first meeting of more than eighty death penalty abolition organizations from around the world to be held in the United States.
See www.worldcoalition.org for more information on the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
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June 29 - July 2, 2010 - Washington D.C.
STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2010
17th Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Read the who, what, when, where, why and how of this important annual abolitionist event by visiting http://www.abolition.org
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November 16 & 17, 2010 - Atlanta, GA
SAVE THE DATE: People of Faith Against the Death Penalty's National Conference
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Sr. Helen Prejean, Honorary Chair
Please save the date to attend the first national interfaith conference on religious action on the death penalty in the United States this century.
Sponsored by People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, this seminal conference will be held at Emory University's Conference Center Hotel November 16 & 17, 2010
The conference is part of a new effort to help the abolition movement build new levels of support among religious communities across the country.
Sign-up to find out more: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1576/signUp.jsp?key=4868
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
www.pfadp.org
110 W. Main St., Suite 2-G,
Carrboro NC 27510
(919) 933-7567
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