Clemency for Battered Women
I was bowled away by this project after seeing a film & presentation this Friday afternoon, for me it exemplified what this conference is about:
Susan Fair founded the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project in 1991. Volunteer attorneys and advocates joined with her and distributed questionnaires to women in two Michigan prisons. Their aim was to identify women inmates who were convicted of murder and for whom the battered woman syndrome was an explanatory defense, but for whom that evidence was either not raised, raised inadequately, or rejected by the judge. Approximately 50 women were interviewed; 25 were identified as primary candidates for clemency petitions.
www.umich.edu/~clemency/clemency_manual/manual_intro.htmlsubmitted by: tomski
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
www.amnesty.orgsubmitted by: tomski
Search For Common Ground
Their goal is to: Transform the way the world deals with conflict. Emphasize cooperative solutions, pursued on a realistic scale and with practical means. Current problems - whether ethnic, environmental, or economic - are simply too complex and interconnected to be settled on an adversarial basis.
www.sfcg.orgsubmitted by: tomski
Creative Time: Artists' Response to AIDS 1984-2001
Creative Time has worked with a wide range of artists to give a strong voice to the battle against the AIDS crisis and critical issues that shape society. The attached link provides brief information on 21 activist projects presented from 1984 through 2001 that had social, political and artistic impact
creativetime.org/aids/aids.htmsubmitted by: loloweaver
