Important Events today: 'Please Stop This' with Vicki Kiely and Mike Mitchell & 'Fighting for their Lives' with John Fugelsang & Reverend James Lawson are happening today! 'The Penalty' Documentary Film also premiered this week!
You can join us in celebrating Rev. Lawson's lifetime achievements by purchasing a table package, which includes a commemorative advertisement in the event's tribute booklet, or if you cannot make it to the event, you can commemorate the occasion with a tribute advertisement on its own. Rev. Lawson's birthday is the day before this event, so it will be a great opportunity to commemorate both occasions at once. Click here for table and commemorative advertisement info, or email events@deathpenalty.org.
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Tickets, tables and commemorative advertisements for our special 2018 event, "Fighting for Their Lives," are on sale now. Click here to purchase your tickets, or click here for table and commemorative advertisement information.
We are excited to announce that we are honoring Rev. James Lawson with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifelong dedication to civil rights, criminal and social justice, and the abolition of the death penalty. Rev. Lawson helped coordinate the Freedom Rides and the Meredith March in the 1960s, and was described by Dr. Martin Luther King as “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”
Kevin Cooper, who has been on California’s death row for 33 years for a crime he didn’t commit, will join us by phone from San Quentin, and Gary Tyler, who was sent to Angola Prison’s death row when he was just 17, and spent 41 years before being released for a crime he didn’t commit, will join us in person. Each embodies the reason we have fought for so long to end this brutal system of punishment, each embodies the humanity that strengthens our resolve to never give up.
DPF President Mike Farrell will host the event, and Nicole L. Gutierrez will introduce DPF’s new Executive Director, Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Avila.
Political commentator, actor, comedian, and Twitter phenomenon John Fugelsang will return as Master of Ceremonies and perform a comedy set.
Click here for individual ticket pricing. For information about purchasing tables or commemorative ads in the tribute book, click here to email events@deathpenalty.org. Discount codes are available for students and formerly incarcerated people - email events@deathpenalty.org to inquire.
The event will take place on today on Sunday, September 23, at the Delancey Street Foundation in Los Angeles, California. The reception will begin at 2 p.m., and the program will start at 3:15.
More information will be posted on deathpenalty.org/2018-event-la/
If you can't make it to the event, you can always make a 100% tax-deductible donation in support of the dinner. Your donation will go toward a ticket for an exoneree who might otherwise be unable to attend. Click here to donate.
My name is Vicki and I’m a cove monitor for Ric O’Barry's Dolphin Project. In the Japanese town of Taiji, thousands of dolphins are hunted, slaughtered, or taken prisoner for a life sentence in captivity EVERY year. These dolphins that are stolen are starved until they will accept and eat dead fish (they would only hunt live fish in the wild) and then forced through food deprivation to perform circus tricks for human entertainment; they are trained and shipped off in coffin-like containers to all corners of the globe. Captive dolphins are kept in a constant state of hunger....perhaps the cruelest fate of any caged animal.
The dolphins are driven into the cove by banger boats, once netted in, they are then slaughtered or removed from the ocean for the captivity process. The dolphin meat is sold in restaurants and supermarkets.
My nine-year-old daughter, Imogen, is a student at United World College-Thailand and has been with me to Japan four times to act as a mini-monitor and to stand as a child ambassador to oppose the hunting of dolphins. Aidan Darr, a 12-year-old who is also a student at UWC, watched "The Cove" movie and made a fantastic animated short film for his grade 5 exhibition last year. He will join us as Dolphin Project's newest mini-Cove Monitor in Taiji this coming October.
The purpose of the Cove Monitor is huge. We serve as an observer and report on what we see daily, sometimes hourly in order to have a record and be a witness for the rest of the world. To learn more, visit: https://
Below are the fundraisers the kids have chosen to get to Japan:
1) 23 Sept Bake Sale 1pm onwards @ Project Artisan
2) 23 Sept Live Music with Vicki and Mike 1-3pm @ Project Artisan
3) 27 Sept Screening of "The Cove" 6pm @ Project Artisan
4) Friday night market booth selling gourmet treats and movie tickets
The dolphins are driven into the cove by banger boats, once netted in, they are then slaughtered or removed from the ocean for the captivity process. The dolphin meat is sold in restaurants and supermarkets.
My nine-year-old daughter, Imogen, is a student at United World College-Thailand and has been with me to Japan four times to act as a mini-monitor and to stand as a child ambassador to oppose the hunting of dolphins. Aidan Darr, a 12-year-old who is also a student at UWC, watched "The Cove" movie and made a fantastic animated short film for his grade 5 exhibition last year. He will join us as Dolphin Project's newest mini-Cove Monitor in Taiji this coming October.
The purpose of the Cove Monitor is huge. We serve as an observer and report on what we see daily, sometimes hourly in order to have a record and be a witness for the rest of the world. To learn more, visit: https://
Below are the fundraisers the kids have chosen to get to Japan:
1) 23 Sept Bake Sale 1pm onwards @ Project Artisan
2) 23 Sept Live Music with Vicki and Mike 1-3pm @ Project Artisan
3) 27 Sept Screening of "The Cove" 6pm @ Project Artisan
4) Friday night market booth selling gourmet treats and movie tickets
Vicki Kiely, along with special guest Mike Mitchell will play a very special live performance in your home at Stage It and on Sunset TV with all proceeds going to The Dolphin Project.
Show Description:
I will perform songs from my latest EP 'I' with my cowriter and producer Mike Mitchell.
My name is Vicki and I’m a cove monitor for Ric O’Barry's Dolphin Project. In the Japanese town of Taiji, thousands of dolphins are hunted, slaughtered, or taken prisoner for a life sentence in captivity EVERY year. These dolphins that are stolen are often starved and forced to perform circus tricks for human entertainment; they are trained and shipped off in coffin-like containers to all corners of the globe.
The dolphins are driven into the Cove by banger boats, once netted in, they are then slaughtered or removed from the ocean for the captivity process. The dolphin meat is sold in restaurants and supermarkets.
My nine-year-old daughter, Imogen, is a student at United World College-Thailand and has been with me to Japan four times to act as a mini monitor and to stand as a child ambassador to oppose the hunting of dolphins. Aidan Darr, a 12-year-old who is also a student at UWC, watched "The Cove" movie and made a fantastic animated short film for his grade 5 exhibition last year. He will join us as Dolphin Project's newest mini-Cove Monitor in Taiji this coming October.
The purpose of the Cove Monitor is huge. We serve as an observer and report on what we see daily, sometimes hourly in order to have a record and be a witness for the rest of the world. To learn more, visit: https://dolphinproject.com/blog/on-the-frontlines-the-dolphin-project-cove-monitors/
We are asking for your support in our bid to raise the funds to get us to Taiji and put in five days of monitoring. In total, we need 100,000 thai baht and with your help, I’m confident we can do it. Any money left over will be directly donated straight into the Dolphin Project Cove Monitor Funds account.
We are excited to announce the California Premier Tour of The
Penalty, the acclaimed documentary from Reel Nice and
Dartmouth Films, Directed by Will Francome and Mark Pizzey.
The film chronicles the stories of an attorney desperate to prevent a botched execution, a family split by the state's decision to seek the death penalty, and a man trying to put his life back together after 15 years on death row for a crime he did not commit.
The Penalty will tour California, from the Bay Area down to Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, with six screenings in five days. At each stop, Co-Director Will Francome and Producer Laura Shacham will join local criminal justice reform advocates to discuss the ways in which the death penalty system brutalizes everyone it touches.
Details and ticket links for all of the screenings are below. You can view the trailer on our event page, at deathpenalty.org/penaltyfilm.
Don't forget to RSVP on Facebook for additional details and special guest announcements. Once you do, please help us by sharing the events far and wide.
The film chronicles the stories of an attorney desperate to prevent a botched execution, a family split by the state's decision to seek the death penalty, and a man trying to put his life back together after 15 years on death row for a crime he did not commit.
The Penalty will tour California, from the Bay Area down to Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, with six screenings in five days. At each stop, Co-Director Will Francome and Producer Laura Shacham will join local criminal justice reform advocates to discuss the ways in which the death penalty system brutalizes everyone it touches.
Details and ticket links for all of the screenings are below. You can view the trailer on our event page, at deathpenalty.org/penaltyfilm.
Don't forget to RSVP on Facebook for additional details and special guest announcements. Once you do, please help us by sharing the events far and wide.
The Penalty:
California Premier Tour
Dates, Locations, and Tickets
Monday, September 17 - Berkeley, CA
Rialto Elmwood Cinema
7:00 - 9:00 PM
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Panel Discussion Featuring
Co-director Will Francome and Former Prosecutor Darryl Stallworth -- Additional
Guests TBA
Tuesday, September 18 - San Francisco, CA
The Roxie Theatre
6:45 - 9:00 PM
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Panel Discussion Featuring
Co-director Will Francome; Attorney and DPF Board Member Nanci Clarence; and
Aundre Herron, Attorney, Comedian, and member of California Crime Victims for
Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
Wednesday, September 19 - Los Angeles, CA
Los Feliz Vintage Cinema
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
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Panel Discussion Featuring
Filmmakers and Criminal Justice Reform Advocates - Guests TBA
Thursday, September 20 - Los Angeles and Fullerton, CA
Loyola Law School, Fritz B. Burns Lounge
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public
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Refreshments at 6:00 PM.
Screening begins at 6:30. Panel Discussion Featuring Filmmakers and Criminal
Justice Reform Advocates -- Guests TBA
CSU Fullerton, Humanities Room 110
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public
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Panel Discussion Featuring
Filmmakers and Professor Stacy L. Mallicoat -- Additional Guests TBA
Friday, September 21 - San Diego, CA
Digital Gym Cinema
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Panel Discussion Featuring Filmmakers and Criminal Justice Reform Advocates
-- Guests TBA
