Attention: Activists - Tune in & Pass it On Key Social Justice Speakers on Alternative Radio including Sister Helen Prejean speaking on -Death Row - for Alternative Radio USA on 2XX Community Radio 1008AM 9:00am Thursday 29 April Sister Helen Prejean is the guest speaker on this Thursday edition of Alternative Radio USA brought to you by Community Radio 2XX. Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Sister Helen Prejean is a very lively nun who talks about both sides of the tragedy of murder, serving as spritual counsellor to death row inmates and the families of victims. She is the author of the best selling book Dead Man Walking, based on her experiences transgressing the Death Row and civil society divide. The book was made into a Hollywood movie of the same name. Mahatma Ghandi said " An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind". No one seems so blind toward capital punishment as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China and the United States - the only five countries to withhold their vote in the United Nations for a moratorium on the death penalty. An Amnesty International investigation concluded that the death penalty in the United States is applied arbitrarily and is subject to bias based on the defendant's race and economic status. In this address recorded by David Barsamian for Alternative Radio USA, Sister Helen Prejean examines the practice of capital punishment, drawing on life stories from Death Row and the detail of Amnesty International investigations in the United States. Alternative Radio USA is produced weekly in Denver, Colorado and broadcast by Community Radio 2XX each Thursday morning following the 9:00am 2XX News Bulletin. Alternative Radio USA brings leading critical thinkers, authors and activists recorded on left progressive speaking tours of North America to an international audience though a weekly, hour long, key note address broadcast on community radio stations through out the English speaking world. For further information phone Maeve Wingate, 6247 4082 2XX - People Powered Community Radio http://www.peg.apc.org/~2xxrad LL.ND -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
