~ Your Participation is Requested ~

Please join the NAACP, Amnesty International USA, and the National Action Network in a "Stand Firm for Justice: Rally for Troy Davis." 

Stand Firm for Justice: Rally for Troy Davis

Thursday, October 23, 2008

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Georgia State Capitol

206 Washington Street, SW

Atlanta, Georgia

It is extremely important that we have participation from all units. Mr. Steve Hawkins, NAACP Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer will attend and participate. 

Additionally, we are asking all units to come dressed in NAACP Paraphernalia.  We will have a limited supply of shirts and other related materials for attendees.

Thanks in advance for your participation.

Sincerely,

Demetrius G. Fisher
NAACP Georgia State Conference
970 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, SW, Suite 306
Atlanta, Georgia 30314
(404) 577-8977, Ext. 11 (office)
DemetriusFisher@aol.com

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Oct. 19th - From Martina Correia

To all,

This is Martina if something is misspelled in this email forgive me, I am exhausted but trying to answer all your emails and concerns. I saw Troy today and he says THANK YOU AND KEEP FIGHTING, WE WILL WIN, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP. The moral of the other death row inmates and some of the guards is down, but as I told them a movement is building around Troy and we will not let go or give in......Martina 

PS I love all the ideas, On YouTube, October 20th will be I am Troy Davis Day, so upload videos, I am Troy Davis and why.......

It is amazing to me that after the US Supreme Court denied Troy Davis' Cert Petition the Chatham County Prosecutor seems to feel free to attack and even lie about the facts in Troy's case. For instance in the Savannah News paper Opinion section today (October19). District Attorney Spencer Lawton now says the deceased Officer MacPhail said he ran past Coles, chasing Troy because Troy was attacking Larry Young and that even though they have no linking ballistics to Troy that bullets found at another crime scene, match bullets found near MacPhail crime scene. Well yes they convicted Troy of two shootings (assault on Michael Cooper), murder of Officer MacPhail and assault on Larry Young who was attacked.

The truth: Micheal Cooper recanted saying Troy did not shoot him, he involved in a drive by shooting. Cooper testified at he Parole Board that Troy Davis did not shoot him. Also involved in the drive by shooting Micheal Cooper's friend Joseph Blige testified before the GA Parole Board that they did not know Troy Davis and that he and his friends were involved in the drive-by shootings earlier that night, with several guns. Micheal Cooper also told the members of the Ga. Parole Board they emptied their gun shells near where Officer MacPhail was shot. They lived in the same housing projects as Sylvester Red Coles and they all kept their guns in a abandoned house. This would explain why similar bullets would be found at first shooting and near the area Officer MacPhail was shot, NOT one of these people say Troy was involved until police pressured them to say Troy was involved to support Sylvester Coles story. Joseph Blige told the Parole board that the police rounded up dozens of young black boys and tried to get many of them to say they shot the police officer before Coles showed up at the Police station.

Now the Attack on Larry Young the homeless man who was being pistol whipped: Young said I never saw Troy Davis in parking lot and that he knew he was arguing with Coles over the beer. Well this was his testimony before the Parole Board and on CBS World News tonight. So it is amazing that Larry Young testified against Troy because he was refused medical treatment for his wounds to his head.

This is amazing that Spencer Lawton the DA would say in the Savannah News Press that this is merely a anti-death penalty movement, not about the case, to say that Troy's lawyers probably paid for the recantations and that the statements from the witnesses are not important. He never mentions the 9 additional witnesses who say it is not Troy, but Coles. He never mentions that 5 of the jurors said the outcome would have been different for them if they had all this information. He never said anything about any Bloody Clothes that is being claimed by certain members of the MacPhail family and the Fraternal Order of Police to distort the truth about this case.

The truth is Spencer Lawton the District Attorney of Chatham County has 4 exonerations under his tenure, he has been sited for prosecutorial misconduct throughout his career and has never been challenged. he has been DA for 28 years and is trying to save his pension. he needs to be attacked at every front and we need to demand the US Attorney investigate his practices. I would send letters to the US attorney and cc Lawton so he will know, he will be exposed.

Of course our goal is to save Troy right now but I want Lawton and Davis Locke the Chief Asst. DA that said in a open forum, that Amnesty International was responsible for the recantations being in the media and that Amnesty has totally misrepresented this case. We need them to know Amnesty International is one of many organizations that are going to expose this unjust system and NO matter what happens on the 27th, we will dismantle the death penalty system in GA and the US.

For some of you your faxes are not getting through to the Parole Board, we know they are trying to block correspondence for Troy, so we want you to call them and we have also included other fax numbers, but also send letters to the governor, he appoints these people and if they ever expect to run for office anywhere, we will shut them down.

Note Garland Hunt a parole board member, DEA agent and Minister, African-American who says repeatedly to witnesses testifying for Troy that he knows all black men in the hood carry guns, that is the perception he gives the Parole Board.

For those of you involved with Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation and Human Rights we need Op-eds to (Georgia Papers) Atlanta Journal and Columbus Ledger and Athens Times in Georgia, the MacPhail family needs people other than the negative people talking to them about Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, not Revenge.

IF YOUR FAX DOES NOT GO THROUGH DON'T GIVE UP RESEND AND CALL

  State Board of Pardons and Paroles
2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, SE
Suite 458, Balcony Level, East Tower
Atlanta, Georgia 30334-4909
(phone) 404-656-5712 or 404-651-8502

(fax) 404-651-6670; (404)651-8502; (404) 651-5282; (404) 463-6627

 Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue
Office of the Governor
Georgia State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
Fax:(404)657-5947
Tel:(404)656-1776
web: http://gov.state.ga.us/contact.shtml

Oct. 14 - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. You can still help!

 Urge Clemency for Troy Davis

WTOC VIDEO from 10/04/08 http://www.wtoc.com/global/story.asp?s=9124828

Oct. 4 - 1-4pm - Join us at the "Innocence Matters" Justice for Troy Anthony Davis Rally. Press Conference, Rally & Voter Registration Drive at 38th Street Park. Corner of MLK Jr. Blvd & 38th St., Savannah GA. Edward Dubose, President: GA State Conference of the NAACP to speak at 1pm. See Flyer

Below you will find a message my brother Troy mailed to me on September 22, 2008 the night before his scheduled execution in Georgia, it was for all the people who believe in Justice and in him, so I hope you get a small glimpse of what Troy's spirit is really like.

Martina

To all

This is a message from Troy Anthony Davis

"I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.

As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy. I can't even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.

I cannot answer all of your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see you all but I can imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your letters take me to the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you physically but I feel your warmth everyday I exist.

So Thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and all of you  I have been spiritually free for some time and no matter what happens in the days, weeks to come, this Movement to end the death penalty, to seek true justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davis'. This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country.

I can't wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing,

" I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!"

Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!"

One thing we need to keep is the Media in this story so please to everyone please post comments to CNN.com, CBS.com and make comments on the Troy Davis stories and email other national, state and local media where you live and tell them we want to know more about the Troy Anthony Davis case. One element I have noticed missing in all the , media outlets is that no one mentions that the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act is invloved, and that is why Troy's case has got to this point. So we want to encourage the media to talk about law and how it does not protect the innocent by limiting the appeals process. If the media knows we want to know more they will do more stories on this case. So get you emails going to all national media. Continue to write op-eds, this is a case of innocence not just the death penalty, eyewitness identification, witness recantation and procedures of law.  

Thanks

 Martina