From: News Desk <newsdesk@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:16 PDT
Subject: FAX PROTEST CALIFORNIA EXECUTION
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700053:000:3273
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!newsdesk    Apr 16 19:16:00 1992


From: News Desk <newsdesk>
Subject: FAX PROTEST CALIFORNIA EXECUTION

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       TO ALL WORLD CITIZENS!  CIUDADANOS MUNDIALES!  GLOBALE BUERGER!
             PROTEST CALIFORNIA'S FIRST EXECUTION IN 24 YEARS!
             AYUDANOS PROTESTAR PRIMERA EJECUCION EN 24 ANOS!
          PROTESTIERT GEGEN DIE ERSTE HINRICHTUNG IN 24 JAHREN!

     Next Monday at midnight, the U.S. State of California will carry out 
its first execution since 1967.  We are calling on the concerned world 
community to help us protest this unconscionable act by sending faxes to 
California Governor Wilson and to the largest California newspapers.  See 
BACKGROUND and TALKING POINTS below.  

     On the IGC Networks (PeaceNet/EcoNet/ConflictNet), to send a FAX from 
the Conf? prompt, type (w)rite (n)ew (m)ail.  At the To: prompt, type: 
fax:4152749046  (Los Angeles Times office in San Francisco).  You can put 
several fax numbers on the same line and the fax will go to all of them, 
like this:

fax:9164454633 fax:9164452841 fax:2138970322 fax:6195254641 fax:4157032218
fax:4152749046 fax:4082888060 fax:4155128196 fax:4157772525 fax:9163211996

(From networks outside the U.S., also type the appropriate long distance 
prefix.  For example: fax:0014152749046  )
                          ^^^
     BACKGROUND:  Harris has an IQ of 83.  He was severely beaten as a 
child by two abusive, alcoholic parents.  Leading medical experts have 
testified that he has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.  He was a low birth weight 
baby with learning disorder.  As an adolescent he was incarcerated for 
four years, during which time he was diagnosed as schizophrenic, and 
tried to kill himself numerous times.  At the age of 22 he killed a man 
in a drunken fight.  Three years later, on release from prison, he 
killed two others and was sentenced to death in 1979.  Legal appeals 
have kept him alive since.

     TALKING POINTS:  The State of California has not executed anyone 
since 1967.  There are 329 other people condemned to death at this time in 
the State.  There are a disproportionate number of poor people, retarded 
people and ethnic people on "death row."  Their executions will surely 
follow if this barbaric practice is not stopped!  Tell the Governor and 
the newspapers that California should spend its money on preventing crime, 
not executions.  The death penalty demeans us all.  Don't let California 
become known around the world as a "killing field."  

     Once again, on the IGC Networks, to send a FAX from the Conf? 
prompt, type (w)rite (n)ew (m)ail.  At the To: prompt, type:  
fax:4152749046 (this is the Los Angeles Times office in San Francisco).  
>From other networks outside the U.S., type the appropriate long distance 
prefix.  For example:  fax:0014152749046 Then type/upload your message 
as usual.

Fax numbers of Governor Pete Wilson:
fax:9164454633 fax:9164452841 fax:2138970322 fax:6195254641 fax:4157032218
California's largest newspapers:
fax:4152749046 fax:4082888060 fax:4155128196 fax:4157772525 fax:9163211996

Los Angeles Times        fax:4152749046
San Jose Mercury         fax:4082888060
San Francisco Chronicle  fax:4155128196
San Francisco Examiner   fax:4157772525
Sacramento Bee           fax:9163211996


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