{PBJFlorida} Fwd: FW: Grassroots Petition Drive to Suspend FL Executions

Here's the message that Mark Eliot is sending around. What are you sending around to enlighten people to the injustices inherent in the Florida policy of Capital Punishment?

 

Penny Villegas

Professor Emerita of Communications and Peace Studies

Member of the Peace and Justice Initiative 

Phones: 407.582.2287 and 407.758.5283

Valencia College, East Campus 3-30

Box 3028

Orlando, FL 32803

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

§  Black Elk (1863-1950)

 

 

---

From: ---Mark [melliott3@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 7:21 PM
To: Penny Villegas
Subject: Grassroots Petition Drive to Suspend FL Executions

This week a small group of thoughtful, determined citizens in Central Florida began a grassroots petition drive asking Gov. Scott to suspend executions in light of the record number of Death Row exonerations. This petition was begun  in memory of Joe DuRocher, who passed away in 2012. For many years, Joe was the elected Public Defender for Orange and Osceola Counties.This is an authentic grassroots petition drive and is off to a good start. As more signatures are gathered and incremental goals are reached, this petition will be promoted and distributed by it's e-petition drivers to vastly larger audiences. Please consider supporting this effort. I am. This is the message I have been putting up alongside it in social media and elsewhere:

Florida holds the national record for most innocent people freed from Death Row. Last month, Seth Penalver became number 24. Tell the governor to suspend executions to prevent the possible execution of other innocent people. This government program is broken. We need answers, not more executions.

http://signon.org/sign/the-death-penalty-in?source=c.em.cp&r_by=72411

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

---Margaret Mead

Best Regards,
----Mark

Mark Elliott
Executive Director

Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, FADP
P.O. Box 82943
Tampa, FL  33682
727-215-9646

FADP is a coalition of individuals and organizations united to abolish the Death Penalty in Florida

--

Penny

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PBJFlorida" group.
To post to this group, send email to pbjflorida@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pbjflorida+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pbjflorida?hl=en.