[ACLU-CU ALERT] Road Trip For Justice - this Wednesday

[Announce at aclu-cu.org]

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ROAD TRIP FOR JUSTICE STATEWIDE TOUR OF COLLEGE
CAMPUSES TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY

Tour to Make Stop in Champaign-Urbana Wednesday, March
31 at 7:00 p.m.

On Wednesday, March 31st, Amnesty International’s
death penalty Road Trip for Justice will be making a
stop on the University of Illinois campus.
 
Speakers include Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins from Murder
Victims’ Families for Reconciliation; John Lyons from
Amnesty International; Rachael Dietkus from 
the YWCA of the University of Illinois and formerly
the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty; and
Aaron Patterson, a wrongfully convicted former death
row inmate pardoned by former Gov. George Ryan in
January 2003. 

The event will start at 7:00 p.m. and will be in room
192 Lincoln Hall on the UIUC campus.

The Road Trip for Justice is a two-week tour of
college campuses in the state to expand support for
abolishing the death penalty. Including Champaign,
stops are being made in Rockford, DeKalb, Carbondale, 
Galesburg, Springfield, Bloomington-Normal, Peoria,
Decatur, and Joliet. 

The tour began on March 18 and will run through April
2 and continues a student network organizing effort in
support of abolishing the death penalty in Illinois
and across the country. Students will be educating
others, seeking resolutions of support, passing
petitions and participating in lobby days as well as
other activities at the scheduled tour events and in
the coming months.

This is event is co-sponsored by Amnesty International
Midwest Regional Office, Amnesty International Chapter
#124, Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, YWCA of
the University of Illinois, and many other
organizations.

For more information, please contact Rachael Dietkus
at 
rdietkus at hotmail.com 
or (217)344-0721 and/or Danielle Schumacher at
dlschuma at uiuc.edu or 
(815)375-0790.


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