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sunlit_musicPetition: Save an innocent man from execution
The following text in italics is from emails by Amnesty and Get Up! organisation:
In April 1991 in St. Louis, Missouri, two young white women plunged from a bridge into the Mississippi River. Three African American youths, who may well be innocent, are paying for the crime - all sentenced to death. One man has been executed, one had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment and the third, Reggie Clemons, sits on death row right now, at risk of execution.
The case against Reggie is one with no physical evidence, two highly questionable witnesses - both of whom were initially charged with the crime - and a trail of alleged police coercion, misconduct from lawyers on both sides of the case, and racial inequities so sharp that a growing number of human and civil rights supporters, including actor, Danny Glover2, are taking notice and calling for immediate justice.
Donate: Fight mining industry scare campaign in Australia
Super rich mining companies are running full page ads in the papers this week, trying to scare the Government into abandoning their new tax on mining profits.
Let's hit back with our own parody ad, exposing the real beneficiaries of the mining industry's scare campaign--super rich CEOs. Can you make it happen?
The big miners are trying to hold our economy hostage, with thinly veiled threats of sending their investment elsewhere in full page newspaper ads. Sound familiar? It's the same strategy they've been using for years to thwart action on climate change.
We can't afford to let another mining boom pass us by without securing a fair share of the wealth for those who own the resources: the Australian community.
So what is this super profits tax? The proposal is simple: a 40% tax on profits made from exploiting Australia's non-renewable natural resources such as coal and other minerals. It means more of the profits from Australia's mining boom will end up in the community, not on the balance sheets of corporations. Donate here: www.getup.org.au/campaign/KeepAustraliaStrong
