You can vote for us by visiting The Jenzabar Foundation and leaving a comment on the blog posting there. CLICK HERE
Dear Friends,
As you know, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) is one of several organizations up for The Jenzabar Foundation Social Media Leadership Award.
The Jenzabar Foundation is offering a $3,000 grant to one U.S.-based non-profit organization based on its use of social media to raise awareness and/or funds to the cause.
Thanks to your help, NCADP is climbing up the polls and we're near the top. But the deadline for voting is TOMORROW (Thursday), so we need your vote to get us to number one!
You can vote for us by visiting The Jenzabar Foundation and leaving a comment on the blog posting there.
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If you haven't already voted, please consider leaving a comment today - and if you have already voted, please tell your friends and family to vote as well. It will only take a minute of your time, and $3,000 will go a long way towards our efforts in fighting the death penalty across the country.
In addition, the Colorado Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee is holding a hearing today on a bill that would fund a cold case team with the money saved from a repeal of the state's death penalty. Among those testifying are NCADP Board Member Bud Welch, the father of an Oklahoma City bombing victim; Randy Steidl, who was a wrongfully-imprisoned death row inmate in Illinois; and Ron McAndrew, a former warden in the state prison system in Florida.
You can watch the hearing live at the Colorado General Assembly website.
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The committee meets at 1:30 p.m. Mountain Time, and is expected to hear the cold case bill around 2:15 p.m.
Thank you again for your support!
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Diann Rust-Tierney
Executive Director
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Find more links and NCADP activities, blogs, places to donate, etc. by going to the website: here
NCADP has been the ONE organization I have turned to for continual updating - and actions - during the long span of my abolition work (against the death penalty) for two and 1/2 decades!
ReplyDeleteWhile I live in NC, most of my death penalty activism has been rooted in SC.
Because SC is closer geographically & I've been personally connected these years with prisoners, family members & have attended most of the vigils which have occurred in that state , I've been quite frustration that SC folk could not really get off the ground. NOW, thanks to NCADP (and Amnesty) we are at last on our way.
This is what I've been hoping for: an inclusion of those from a variety of backgrounds: an inter-generational mix of family members and other activists - academically-oriented and not, professional and not - our time has come!
With the help of both Amnesty folk AND NCADP - we are at last a unit with lots of support - we ARE going to make waves at last!
NC take note!
Anna Shockley spelled it all out // April 26, 2009 at 2:40 am | in the blog she left here above - I'm re-printing this in full:
NCADP’s support was a determining factor for the creation of our state organization. It gave us hope to watch this impressive network of organizations share skills and experiences both at conferences and online. Since our founding in December of 2008 NCADP has, through emails or their website, provided us with many useful tools such as informational handouts and documents required for accreditation as a nonprofit. They have advised us on practical issues such as what contact management system will fit our needs; their online/phone workshops have improved our skill level, and their report of progress made in other states are keeping us informed and helping us find the energy to work for abolition in our state.