Humberto Leal Garcia was executed July 7 in Huntsville, Texas, despite a firestorm of worldwide opposition and outrage. His execution is symptomatic of the deep and ongoing crisis of U.S. capitalism, characterized by criminality abroad and racism, brutality and economic terror at home. [Continue]
The 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The Texas Moratorium Network, Witness to Innocence, campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Abolition Movement confirmed the date for this year’s march tonight and planning is now officially underway. Every year since 2000, when [Continue]
The 23rd Annual Pan African Festival at S.H.A.P.E.’s Our Park was a success! Lots of great music, dance, drumming, vendors,delicious, healthy food and a deejay like no other, Bro Zin who does SOS Radio on KPFT. Deloyd Parker, executive director of SHAPE, got the Abolition Movement a good spot for a table and we got [Continue]
Tim won many battles, inspired many young activists, and left a legacy for us all: Dare to struggle, Dare to Win! Members of the Free Radicals will welcome those attending Tim's funeral with New Orleans jazz funeral procession music. The funeral will be Friday morning, April 29, at 11 AM at St. James Methodist Church in Freedman's Town, 1217 [Continue]
The Abolition Movement was invited to do a workshop on the death penalty at the Anarchist Book Fair held at MECA on April 23-24. Hundreds of people attended the book Fair from around Texas and from Louisiana, California and elsewhere. Around 25-30 people, mainly youth, attended our workshop. Activists and friends of men on death [Continue]
El movimiento abolicionista ira este marte en protestar la execucion de Timothy Adams, execucion programada por el estado de tx este martes a las 6:pm tambien estara Juan Melendez un artista puertoriqueño acusado de un crimen que no cometio exonerado despues de pasar 18 años en una prision de Florida, Juan ha viajado por el mundo [Continue]
The Abolition Movement is going to Huntsville to protest the scheduled execution of Tim Adams by the state of Texas, set for 6:00 PM. Joining the demonstration outside the prison will be Juan Melendez, who spent 18 years on death row in Florida before he was exonerated. The execution protest will take place on the [Continue]
You’re Invited to a special Black History screening of: Justice on Trial The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Big Noise Films DATE: Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 PLACE: S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak at Alabama TIME: 4:30–6:00 PM Donation Requested $5.00 Refreshments and Discussion Following Film Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most recognized [Continue]
The Abolition Movement will wrap up our holiday card signing tonight from 6:00 until 10:00 PM at the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak. We ask YOU to join in spreading a bit of cheer into the lives of the over 300 women and men on Texas death row. Please try to bring: *Some holiday [Continue]
We held a press conference on December 9, 2010 about the Harris County District Attorney appealing to the Criminal Court of Appeal (CCA) to get Judge Kevin Fine’s hearing about the constitutionality of the death penalty as applied in Texas shut down. We had seven TV stations from Houston in attendance as well as the [Continue]
