Save Tookie

As many people know, Stan "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed on December 13th. For those that don't know, Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips in 1971. He was convicted of four murders 1981 and has been on death row ever since in San Quentin. Tookie has written several books including a series of children's books that teach against gang-banging. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize every year since 2001, for both Peace and Literature. Jamie Foxx potrayed him in the made for TV movie, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, last year.

Many celebrites are rallying for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant Mr. Williams clemency. Among those are Jamie Foxx, Elliott Gould, Danny Glover, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, William Baldwin, Bob Saget, Harry Belafonte, Jessica Simpson, Edward Asner, Russell Crowe, Richard Dreyfuss, Nick Carter, Bianca Jagger; politicians Tom Hayden, Mario Cuomo and Bill Rosendahl; Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu; and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. And we musn't forget Snoop Dogg who I've on CNN, MSNBC, and all over the net campaigning.

I myself don't believe in the death penalty. Life in prison is harsh enough. If he truly committed these murders, he should pay with him freedom, not with his life. This is not an eye for an eye society. Plus there is all his activism that must show how much he has reformed.

I certainly am down for the cause, and if you are, do something. Petition, call Arnold , be active so the forces that be can be reactive.

Governor Schwarzenegger: governor@governor.ca.gov, 916-445-2841, 916-445-4833 (fax)