A Modest Proposal

No offense Against Banned Book Week, but it always struck me as a little safe and removed. Sometimes it felt like an edgy thing for publishers. This Year But I wonder if there Should be an alternative. A complement.

Ten years ago esta December, then a California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, an early leader WHO Crips His life turned around in prison and authored several books, memoirs and arguments Against Including anti-gan g violence.Because of the international campaign to save Williams’s life, Schwarzenegger wrote a letter explaining His Reasons for Allowing the lethal injection. In the letter, some of it in a footnote, towards the end, Schwarzenegger says Essentially Williams That story was false Because of redemption in His book “Life in Prison,” written after His redemption, Williams HAD dedicated it to “” Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Ramona Africa, John Africa, Leonard Peltier, Dhoruba Al-Mujahid, George Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the other Countless men, women, and youths WHO
Have to Endure . the hellish oppression of living behind bars “In a footnote and conclusion, use the embrace of George Jackson as a reason to execute Stanley” Tookie “Williams:” But the inclusion of George Jackson on This list defies reason and is a significant
indicator That Williams is not reformed and That I still Sees violence and lawlessness as a legitimate Means to address societal problems. “Williams was murdered the next day December 13, 2005.

Ten years later, it would seem That this is a good opportunity to do two things: First, to introduce a new generation of readers and activists to this story and the words of revolutionaries like George Jackson, Leonard Peltier, and Assata Shakur, and Second , to remind the world what a right wing piece of scum is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thoughts? How would one go about spreading something like this? A poster? A "Could you get people Executed for dedicating your book to” week?
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