[CUADPUpdate] Death of a Friend & This & That....
Abraham J. Bonowitz
abe at cuadp.org
Sun Jun 10 17:27:05 EDT 2007
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CONTENTS
Death of a Friend
Bob Nave wins teaching award
JOB announcement
Dropping By....
DEATH OF A FRIEND
Mary from Washington State sent the
following. Agnes has been a long-time and
regular donor to CUADP. Not long ago she sent me
a copy of her book about her correspondence with
a death row prisoner, along with a request for us
to discuss it. I must confess that I could not
find the time to get too far into it, but I did
try, and I did try to reach her several
times. We played phone tag but kept missing each
other. I regret not connecting.
More about the book is here: http://www.cuadp.org/books.html#1420875922
More about Agnes is here: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/personal/agnes.htm
and here: http://www.sanjuanislander.com/records/obits/agnes-vadas.shtml
Mary, from Friday Harbor Amnesty International Group #607, sent this:
>Friends,
>
>Many of you may have known Agnes Vadas, the longtime group coordinator
>of the Friday Harbor group in Washington state. One of her group members
>wrote this morning with the news that yesterday, on June 3, she passed
>away.
>
>A survivor of the Holocaust and talented violinist, she devoted many of
>her later years to tirelessly working for human rights. She was
>passionate about ending the death penalty, and just in the past few
>years published a book of letters between herself and an inmate on death
>row in Ohio. She was a very spunky and passionate lady, and once you met
>Agnes, you couldn't help but remember her.
>
>She will be greatly missed here in Washington state and in the human
>rights movement.
>
>Mary Grybeck
>Bellingham, WA
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CELEBRATION OF BOB NAVE
Celeste wrote:
>I am very pleased to pass along the good news
>that Bob Nave, one of our hardest working
>colleagues in the abolition movement, has been
>honored with a prestigious peace award from the
>Connecticut Education Association. See below
>for details. Congratulations, Bob! What a
>wonderful spotlight on both your good work and
>the need to end the death penalty!
Congratulations, Bob!
--abe
PRESS RELEASE
LOCAL TEACHER WINS STATE AWARD FOR PEACE EDUCATION
Robert Nave, teacher at Plymouth High School, is
being awarded the Mahatma Gandhi - Martin Luther
King Jr. Peace Award by the Connecticut Education
Association, to be presented at their 2007 Awards
Dinner. Mr. Nave is nationally known for his work
to abolish the death penalty. He is the Executive
Director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish
the Death Penalty and sits on state, regional and
national committees for Amnesty International.
Sister Helen Prejean, a death penalty
abolitionist and author of the book "Dead Man
Walking", (later made into a major motion
picture), has worked closely with Mr. Nave to
bring an end to capital punishment. "The progress
we see of the death penalty being abolished in
this country is due in no small part to heroes
of human rights like Robert Nave", she said recently.
In the classroom, Mr. Nave, a social studies
teacher, seeks to promote the interest and
involvement of students in issues such as the use
of non-violence, the rights and needs of various
races, ethnicities, genders and sexual
orientations, and criminal justice reform. He
has brought in speakers on these topics,
organized students to go to peace demonstrations
in Connecticut, New York and Washington, D.C .,
organizes annual student bus trips to Osborne
Prison in Somers, and has operated a hugely
successful annual Voter Registration drive since 1996.
The criteria for this award include promoting the
study of peace education materials to develop
positive attitudes among students and educators,
maintaining cooperative links with peace groups,
advocating the study of conflict
resolution without violence, and securing funds
from local, state and national sources to promote
peace education opportunities.
# 30 #
Release submitted by:
Hilary Carpenter, CNADP Vice-President:
<http://compose/?To=hilary.carpenter@gmail.com>hilary.carpenter at gmail.com
860-597-2579 and
Amy Harris, CNADP Board Member:
<http://compose/?To=amyharrisct@yahoo.com>amyharrisct at yahoo.com 860-673-1597
for more info on:
CEA: <http://www.cea.org/>www.cea.org
CT Network to Abolish the Death Penalty: <http://www.cnadp.org/>www.cnadp.org
to schedule an interview with Bob Nave:
<http://compose/?To=robertnave@cnadp.org>robertnave at cnadp.org or 203-206-9854
*********************
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
(Even though this says applications are due June
6, this was still being circulated last week, so
if this is you - it's worth a shot!)
*Job Announcement - Lethal Injection Fellowship*
*Boalt Hall School of Law Death Penalty Clinic*
*Berkeley, California*
*Overview*:
The Death Penalty Clinic (DPC) at the Boalt Hall
School of Law invites applications for its Lethal Injection Fellowship.
The DPC's mission is to expose and tackle
problems endemic to the administration of the
death penalty; seek justice for indigent clients
on death row; and offer a rich opportunity for
hands-on training to law students. The DPC
faculty -- Director Elisabeth Semel and Associate
Director Ty Alper -- are experienced capital
lawyers who also serve as a resource for lawyers
representing death row inmates nationwide.
*Job Description:*
**The DPC has created a website devoted to the
nationwide challenges to lethal injection as a
method of
execution.
(http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/resources.html.)
The DPC seeks to hire a full-time Lethal
Injection Fellow to take over all aspects of the
administration of the website, and transform it
from what is essentially a repository into a vast
clearinghouse of both public and
password-protected information related to lethal injection challenges.
In addition to posting content for the
clearinghouse, the Fellow will play a substantial
role in researching and organizing relevant content.
The Fellow will:
* Research ongoing nationwide lethal injection litigation and
solicit relevant pleadings and orders from litigators;
* Research scholarly publications in legal and medical journals
related to lethal injection in order to post relevant articles and
studies;
* Establish network of sources -- media, lawyers, legislators, etc.
-- for relevant website content;
* Work with national lethal injection legal and medical experts to
cull and publish archive of relevant lethal injection documents.
The web-based clearinghouse will be of great
practical assistance to attorneys currently
litigating lethal injection challenges on behalf
of death row inmates; will provide the public
(including journalists) with a "one-stop shop"
for up-to-the-minute lethal injection
information; and will serve as an historical
archive that will enable us to draw larger
lessons about the death penalty from our nation's
experiment with lethal injection.
*Qualifications and Experience:*
· Interest in issues related to the administration of the death
penalty and challenges to lethal injection as a method of execution
· Strong research skills, including internet-based and
legal/medical database research
· Understanding of Internet technologies and how they relate to
the operations of a large, complex website
· Experience with ongoing website content management
· J.D. degree preferred
· Experience working in a criminal defense, public defender, or
capital defense office preferred
· Experience using Web authoring, graphic design, and desktop
publishing applications such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign or
similar programs
· Experience with Adobe Professional
· Proficiency with MS Office Suite of software
· Ability to take initiative with managing detail-oriented
content and responsibility for posting fully proofed and correctly
edited content to the web site with little direct supervision
*Compensation:*
Salary is $46,872 to $56,424 commensurate with experience. A
description of UC Benefits can be found at http://hrweb.berkeley.edu
<http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/>.
*How to Apply:*
Applications are due Friday, July 6.
Applications should include the following three
documents: 1) a cover letter; 2) a resume; and 3) a list of three references.
Applications should be emailed to Clinic Director Elisabeth Semel and
Associate Director Ty Alper c/o Edwin Bish at ebish at law.berkeley.edu.
Applicants should be prepared to begin work by August 2007.
For more information about the Death Penalty Clinic, please visit
www.deathpenaltyclinic.org.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.
The School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley is committed
to the support and encouragement of a multi-cultural environment and
seeks candidates who can make positive contributions in a context of
ethnic and cultural diversity.
*******************
DROPPING BY... THE FAST & VIGIL
My former colleague, ED DiFiglia, now lives in
the DC area. Last week he wrote:
>Hey Abe,
>
>I want to participate in the fast and vigil, but
>I'm not sure what my schedule is going to look
>like for those days just yet. What's the policy for people just dropping by?
>
>Ed D./
My response: Come any time, stay as long as you
can, leave when you must and come back when you
can, if you can! The first rule of the F&V is
that there are no rules.... Each person makes
the most of it given what they have to offer and
what they seek from the experience. The main
goals of F&V are to have a presence at the US
Supreme Court, but also to have quality time with
fellow abolitionists in an environment that is neither rushed nor pressured.
Learn more at http://www.abolition.org/starvin14/
CAN'T MAKE IT TO DC?
Join dozens of organizations and a handful (at
this point) of individuals who have become
co-sponsors of the Fast & Vigil by sending a
donation to help cover the costs of this
event. It usually costs about $5,000 to pull
this off. Because I got started organizing late
this year, we are well behind in meeting the need
- only $1,275 is in the door and we are less than
three weeks away! $5 helps. $500 helps
more! Do what YOU can to join with Amy Jo Smith,
Ron Keine, Martha Mortenson, Susan Gries and Dale
Baich as individual co-sponsors of the 14th
Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
at the US Supreme Court. Even if you cannot be
there person, you CAN be there in spirit AND with tangible support....
Visit
https://www.compar.com/donation/donateform.html to make your donation today!
Many Thanks!
--abe
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