THE STATE, - A COLD BLOODED KILLER.

       

         The state is the most brutal organisation on the face of the planet, it has no hesitation in sending its own people to foreign lands to kill and maim innocent civilians in their homeland, it will unleash weapons of unimaginable devastation on cities and villages in country after country killing and injuring thousand, and claim the actions are legitimate. These brutal actions do not make the state's cold blooded legalised killing of one of its own citizens any less barbaric.

         This is a statement from Amnesty International on the recent execution of Troy Davis.

          In the early hours of this morning, after a torturous delay of more than 4 hours, the state of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis by lethal injection. Despite the serious doubts about his guilt. Despite millions calling on Georgia to reconsider.

Write a message of solidarity to Troy's family

         Like you, I am not only sad but outraged that this has happened. I was there last night with hundreds of others at a vigil outside the US embassy. We continued to hope, right up until the last moment, that those with the power to do so would wake up and prevent this injustice. They did not

       Today, Georgia didn't just kill Troy Davis, they killed the faith and confidence of Georgians, Americans and Troy Davis supporters worldwide in the US criminal justice system.

My colleague, Wende at AIUSA met with Troy yesterday to convey the support that he has had from all of you. He asked us to deliver this message back to you:

"The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me. I'm in good spirits and I'm prayerful and at peace." Troy Davis

Soon we will channel all the outrage we’re feeling into redoubling our efforts for all the other Troy Davises. But today, we simply stand in solidarity with Troy’s family on this darkest of days. Send a message to Troy’s family now

You must know that your support has been a huge comfort to Troy and his family. Thank you for everything you have done.

I am Troy Davis. You are Troy Davis. We will not stop fighting for justice.



Kate Allen
Amnesty UK Director

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DO WHAT I SAY, NOT WHAT I DO.

           The powers that be, tend to criticise hoodies and those who cover their faces at demonstrations marches etc. claiming that if you have nothing to hide, then why cover your face. Of course you and I know that when it comes from the mouths of the state apparatus, they never practice what they preach. It is one set of rules for you and I, and another for them and their minders.

          Well it is much the same with the austerity cuts, you've all heard the the Cameron, Osborne millionaires mantra, “We are all in this together”, or Nick the Clegg's message spewed out at the recent Liberal Conference, “We are all facing hard, very hard, times ahead.” These type of statements coming from the mouths of a cabinet that has 23 millionaires, speaking to people on minimum wage, on benefit, lousy pensions and facing horrendous winter fuel bills, Yea man, we are all in this together, my arse.

"We're all in this together boy."

          When will we wake up to the fact that we are being taken for a bunch of mugs by a group of crooks and liars? Nothing they say or do will in any way benefit us the ordinary people, their crap about “managing the economy” is all about saving the wanker bankers and doing their damnedest to cover the loses of their millionaire friends in the financial sector after their greed feast. They know who their friends are!!!

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WILL IT BE A MERRY CHRISTMAS??

       Our dupicious millionaire politicians are still feeding us crap about improving the economy by austerity cuts, while those in the know are more or less saying it is all over and we are heading for the biggest collapse of the financial system - ever. The Greek people are in the front line of the harshest attack on anybody's living standards seen in Europe. They are expected to accept wage cuts, pension cuts, social service cuts, increase taxes, plus VAT up to 23%, a new porporty tax on all property, increased unemployment and price increases on energy and food. The attacks on the general public will become more vicious and more wide spread as the greed created crisis rapidly deepens.

      At the moment we have mass demonstrations in Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, with plans for co-ordinated union demostrations in the UK. The various goverments are not listening to the people, they can't, they are impotent in the face of the dictates from the leader of the banking cartel, the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers) and the policy from them will continue to be, screw the people and hand the tax payers money to the banks. In this corporate fascist system we live under they hold total power over the political class and the International Mankind Fuckers will not allow their cartel to go down. When will the demonstrations turn to open revolt?

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THE BIGGEST PONZI SCHEME - EVER.

    

          While the gangster banksters try to save their arses by screw the general public with a little help from their buddies, the governments, you and I are suppose to appeal to those very gangster's buddies by saying, please don't shut our library, our local school, please don't decimate our health service or our social services, please don't make us unemployed, etc. Why do we fall for this illusion of Representative democracy that is a cover for the biggest ponzie scheme the world has ever seen?

A little explanation of how the ponzie scheme works.

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HAS OUR TIME COME!!!

        Today the various states only survive with an delusional and perpetual threat, which in turn allows the state to continually increase surveillance and control over it citizens. The individuals ever increasing desire for freedom is always a threat to the state and its power. The time has long since gone, if it ever existed, when the state was deemed to do the bidding of its citizens and be the protector of the individuals freedom. Today the state is what I call the corporate world's minder and hit squad, its main function being to protect and further the markets and resources of the various corporate groupings around the world. Invariably that is what wars are all about. The desire for freedom by the individual is a grasp at anarchism, though few recognise it as such, but the states ever tightening grip on our freedom of movement and expression drives us ever further along that path. Has our time come??

      The following is a short extract from WHAT PISSED ME OFF!! It might provoke a little bit of debate, and that can't be a bad thing.

       Democracy today consists in the invention or reinvention of spaces, movements, ways of life, economic exchanges and political practices that resist the imprint of the state and which foster relations of equal liberty. The struggles that take place today against capitalism and the state are democratic struggles. At the same time, however, we might sound a certain note of dissatisfaction with the term “democracy.” We can echo Bakunin, who finds the term democracy “not sufficient.” As Derrida himself said of democracy: “[A]s a term it’s not sacred. I can some day or other, say, ‘No, it’s not the right term. The situation allows or demands that we use another term …’” The situation is changing, and the new forms of autonomous politics that are currently emerging demand the use of another term: anarchism.

       Shipwrecked on the craggy shores of state power, anarchism is now moving to the forefront of our political imagination. There has been a certain paradigm shift in politics away from the state and formal representative institutions, which still exist but increasingly as empty vessels without life, and toward movements. Here new political challenges and questions emerge – concerning freedom beyond securities, democracy beyond the state, politics beyond the party, economic organization beyond capitalism, globalization beyond borders, life beyond biopolitics – challenges and questions that anarchism is best equipped to respond to with the originality and innovation that our new situation demands.  Read the article in full.

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DEPRIVATION TO END HUMILIATION!!!

        The Greek foreign minister Mr. Venizelos stated that the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers) had failed to “give a definitive and complete answer to the attacks on the Euro.” and said that Greece had been blackmailed and humiliated. His answer to the blackmail and humiliation of the Greek people was the need to do three things.

 1. Greece achieving its 2011 and 2012 fiscal targets. This translates into, slash the living standards of the Greek people and put them in a state of deprivation for the next 15 to 20 years or more. His 2^nd point: Achieve annual budget surpluses “as soon as possible”. Translation, sack thousands of public sector workers, pushing unemployment to previously unseen levels increasing the poverty of the ordinary people. Mr. Venizelos's 3^rd. Point; Carry out structural changes to allow Greece to become more competitive and productive. Translation; Sell off all Greece's public assets at bargain prices to the rich investors of the greed driven corporate world, in so doing, add billions of Euros to the coffers of the banking system and remove any control the Greek people might have over their own assets. This then is the Greek political class's answer to end the humiliation of the Greek people. It sounds to me that the cure is worse than the disease, think of the mess we would be in if they were in the medical profession!!

 

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IMF, CREATING A REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION.

Those who are familiar with history, well Western history, will be looking at Greece and having visions of Germany after the first world war. What the winners in that imperialist war done to Germany in the form of reparations, as a punishment, drove the German people into a spiral of deprivation, creating a revolutionary situation in which the fascists took control, with a little help from their friends. What the winners in the world war of debt, in the shape of the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers) and the others in the financial cartel, are doing to Greece is just the same as reparations, and will drive the Greek people into a spiral of deprivation, with no likelihood of a reversal for at least a generation. All this to protect the debt mountain of the winners club in this insane game of grow the debt, namely Germany and France.

It will not stop there, Portugal, Italy and possible Spain are all in the firing line in an attempt to save the mountainous debt bubble from bursting and hurting those at the top. The people of country after country will be sacrificed by having their living standards slashed at the dictate of the International Mankind Fuckers, at all costs, the billionaires at the top of the festering heap must be saved. The financial system most survive, even if it means the people have to live in rabbit warrens or sewers.

You lot will have to tighten your belt.

We are lead to believe that this is the only game in town and we the people must take our medicine to save the system. This message is of course, pumped out by those very people who created the fantasy world of growth and debt, the very people who will make sure that they will not suffer for their greed and believe that we the people have a duty to suffer so as to save their arses. Why do we accept such shit? We don't need them, they need us. We make and distribute everything on this planet, they do nothing but live off our backs. They could of course be creating their own demise, simply by creating a revolutionary situation in each country in turn could see their selfish self centred greed driven ideology go up in smoke.

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KILLED EARNING YOUR BREAD.

    

      Across the globe people die just trying to earn their crust of bread, some might have been unavoidable, but most of the others were in all possibility caused by lack of proper health and safety regulations being in place or not being enforced. Health and safety often competes with profit and profit comes first in this capitalist system. Money is sacred, money is scarce, but there's always another worker there to take the place of the killed worker.

      The recent mining disaster in Wales where 4 miners lost their lives due to flooding is a stark reminder that even today in this country, mining is still a very dangerous occupation. Today for me, as the son of a miner, is a very poignant day, September 18 is the 52 anniversary of one of the worst mining disasters in the UK. My father worked in the mine and retired just about a month before the disaster.

Memorial to the miners who lost their lives in the Wester Auchegeich Colliery disaster.

      In September 18^th. 1959, 47 men lost their lives in a coal mine near the village of Auchengeich. The cause of the disaster was a faulty fan purifying the air in the colliery that caught fire due to an electrical fault. The men, who were on their way to start their shift at approximately 6:50am. were in bogies travelling to the coal face to start their days work. Forty three were found dead in the bogies, one seemed to have fallen off and three were found some way from the carriage dead by the side of the track. They had all died because of the intense smoke that developed in the tunnel. There were in fact just a few hundred yards from safety. The mine was eventually flooded to put out the fire; there was only one survivor from the crews. The Mining accident was one of the worst within the UK in the 20th century, widowing 41 women and leaving 76 children without a father.

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BOMBS AND DEATH OR NURSES?

        Ten years of bloodshed, death, pain and anguish for the Afghan people, over 1500 US deaths and almost 400 UK deaths, for what? The cost of the Afghan 10 year war is shattering both in its cost in human life, also the financial cost. What could that financial package have done other than kill and maim? Billions for death and destruction while at the same time cutting back on social services. It is hardly the hallmark of a civilised society. 

 

The only beneficiaries of war are the arms traders and their associates.

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IT WILL BE WON OR LOST ON THE STREETS.

     While we in this country mobilise against the millionaire bankers' cuts to our living standards, we should not lose sight of the fact that this is not a UK problem. This is a crisis in capitalism across the globe. The financial system is in effect bust, and has to claw in money from the public to save the bankers arses. They have to raise more money from the people and take ownership of all public assets to shore up their greed gotten billions.

      As far as Europe is concerned, Greece is probably at the front line and what is happening there is in all probability coming our way. Recently the Greek government introduced a new tax very much reminiscent of Thatcher’s Poll Tax: every single house owner in the country is to face an “emergency tax” ranging between 3-20 euros per square meter (depending on their property value, location etc). Even people on unemployment benefits are not to be spared of the tax, only offered a discount instead. Practically, this means that an average household of, say, three bedrooms (approx. 100 sq m.) would have to pay an additional of 1,000 euros (!) annually in tax. It doesn't stop there, a staggering increase in VAT (from 13% to 23% for many products), and the effective sacking of thousands of public sector workers. Of course there are the usual exceptions from the new tax, no not the poor hard working, but the more leisurely, religious-use buildings owned by the Church will be exempt. The Orthodox church is the largest property owner in Greece.

      All this information looks innocent on paper, just statistics, percentages, numbers, but when it hits you personally the human effect is a different story. It means poverty in the present time with it likely to continue for decades, destroying the future of the next generation, stress and anguish which at times can be unbearable. Friday 16 September in the Greek Northern city of Thessaloniki, a 55-year old man tried to set himself alight in front of a branch of Piraeus Bank, in protest and desperation for his mounting debt to the bank. He was rescued by passers-by and police and has been transferred to hospital.

      You can write, text, send emails to your MP, decide to change who you vote for at the next election and it will all be to no avail. This is not a national crisis, it is global and it will be won or lost on the streets. It is the system that has to be changed, not the bums on seats of power, nor the smiling faces at the podium.
Some of the details here were taken from

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

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WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON ---???

  
       Union busting is part and parcel to the capitalist system, it is not one company nor one coutry it is the way the capitalist system works across the planet. The last thing the capitalists want is for the workers to be organised and work together to improve and protect their pay and conditions. A fragmented and unorganised workforce can easily be exploited, wages and conditions can be eroded when the workers don't stand together. It is obvious that it is in the interest of every worker to be an active member of their union and stand united in solidarity with all workers who find themselves in dispute with their employer.

Stand with Longshore Workers 21! HOORAY FOR UNIONISTS willing to be arrested! In a dispute raging through the summer in Longview, Washington, over 120 members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have been detained by cops, including Local 21 President Dan Coffman and International President Robert McEllrath. The unionists are fighting to stop international conglomerate EGT Development from breaking a longstanding master agreement the ILWU has at the Port of Longview's publicly subsidized grain terminal. Members of the ILWU are contractually entitled to work the 50 jobs at the terminal, but EGT sued the port for the right to bring in nonunion workers, and inflamed tensions by importing members of Operating Engineers Local 701, who have crossed picket lines to work. On September 7, hundreds of ILWU members stood on railroad tracks to block a train carrying grain to the facility. Police in riot gear attacked protesters with clubs and pepper spray. The next morning, police reported that hundreds of ILWU members from Northwest locals and supporters broke down the gates of the EGT terminal, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain. Security guards retreated and no one was hurt or arrested. An emergency meeting of ILWU locals also shut down other Washington ports. THE ILWU SEES THIS BATTLE as critical to thwart unionbusting drives at other grain terminals. It is all that and more. The struggle at Longview is part of the nationwide resistance against the bosses' austerity attacks. It continues the mobilization begun in Madison, Wisconsin last year. Longview originated as a timber town and longshoremen have worked the Columbia river port for more than 80 years. The community and ILWU won't roll over for EGT, scabs or court orders. The challenge for the rest of organized labor is to mount real national support for this struggle, including stopping the Operating Engineers Union Local 701 from providing scabs. Readers can support these brave unionists by defending them in the press, and by sending donations and messages of solidarity to President Coffman, ILWU Local 21, 617 14th Ave, Suite B, Longview, WA 98632, or email: ilwu21@iinet.com. For background information on the struggle see: Here's why Longshore workers are so angry.

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INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES ANNIVERSARY CYCLE RUN.

       A group of cyclists will set off from Edinburgh next Monday (19 September) for a tour of Britain and Ireland to remember the volunteers from the British Isles who joined the International Brigades.

       Organised by the National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 (NCCC), the IBMT-supported ride will mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades in October 1936 to fight General Franco’s fascist-backed revolt against the Spanish Republic.

       Seven cyclists will complete the entire 645-mile itinerary, with others joining them for shorter parts of the route. They will call at International Brigade memorials along the way, where wreaths will be laid and homage paid to the 527 men and women from Britain and Ireland who were killed in the war in Spain.

       The cyclists will arrive in London in time for the IBMT’s annual general meeting on 1 October and the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on the following day.

       IBMT members are invited to support the riders, by joining them for parts of their route or by attending the ceremonies of remembrance at International Brigade memorials.

ITINERARY.

19 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh; to Glasgow via Blantyre and Rutherglen IB memorials; 60 miles.

20 September: Assemble 9.30am at “Pasionaria” IB memorial, Custom Quay, Glasgow; to Cairnryan; 85 miles.

21 September: Cairnryan by ferry to Larne; onwards to Belfast; 25 miles.

22 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Saint Anne’s Square, Belfast; to Dundalk; 55 miles.

23 September: Dundalk to Dublin; 55 miles.

24 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Liberty Hall, Dublin; to Arklow; 62 miles.

25 September: Arklow to Rosslare; 58 miles.

26 September: Rosslare by ferry to Fishguard; onwards to St Clears; 33 miles.

27 September: St Clears to Cardiff via IB memorial in Swansea; 62 miles.

28 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Cathays Park, Cardiff; to Bristol; 55 miles.

29 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Castle Park, Bristol; to Streatley; 35 miles.

30 September: Streatley to London via Reading IB memorial (at 9.30am); join more cyclists at Olympia at approximately 3pm; arrival at IB memorial and mural in Cable Street at approximately 5pm; 60 miles.

MORE INFORMATION

NCCC clarioncc@yahoo.co.uk

IBMT secretary@international-brigades.org.uk

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UK SHOW TRIALS.

         As usual The Commune  has come up with an excellent article on the upper class hatred of the working class as displayed in the recent "show trials" after the August riots. Taimour Lay explains the meaning of these post-riot show trials'.

         The criminal courts’ reaction to the riots was to instinctively follow the hysteria of a panicking government and a shocked police. Of 3000 people arrested, 1000 were charged in August alone. Magistrates have been sending hundreds to jail (an average of five months for theft or handling stolen goods), with the majority remanded in custody until a Crown Court can hand down an even longer term.

- 3000 arrested nationwide

- London’s Met police set ‘target’ of 3000 convictions

- six months jail for stealing a £3.50 bottle of water

- five-month sentence given to mother-of-two who ‘handled’ stolen pair of shorts

- burglary charge and jail threat for stealing two scoops of ice-cream

- rioters’ families face being turfed out of council houses, benefit cuts

        It is hard to overstate quite how extraordinary this spasm of rushed ‘justice’ has been. Sentencing principles have been thrown out the window: it hasn’t helped defendants to plead guilty, be young, have a clean record, turn themselves in, express remorse, come from an abusive home or take a bottle of water as opposed to a plasma TV. Bail rights have been systematically disregarded. These are show-trials if the only aim is deterrence.

Continue reading HERE.

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ANARCHITECTURE.

        I have just listened to a new release by a group called Beltaine's Fire, this is their third album and has 14 tracks and is called ANARCHITECTURE. It goes under the heading of Anarchist Jazz/funk folk-rap with Celtic roots. Though the music is not my style, I found the lyrics excellent and in some cases inspiring. Some of the lyrics manage to express the disgust and loathing most folks have for the job they need to do just to earn their crust of bread, the deep resentment at continually having to accept a servile role in a pointless society of consumption, where all we seem to do is make an elite bunch of parasites richer. The album is priced at $8 and I think it is well worth a visit to their site. They claim, "this is what revolution sounds like" see what you think.

It's crime & punishment, rhyme & reason

and when we fight back, they call it treason

So I say what I mean, mean what I say

our future's been stolen so I live for today

crime, punishment, rhyme, reason

burnin up inside but outside - freezin'

balanced on a wire like 10 miles high

desperately tryin' to remember how to fly

most ya'll ain't prepared for the truth I spit

I fight back like Warsaw while ya'll walk into Auschwitz

ya'll think I'm the one who's crazy?!! What's your malfunction?!

Understand where we stand, we're at history's junction

consumption can't save you, you can't fill the hole

put your coupons away, they won't save your soul

ya'll so indoctrinated, can't even tell what's right

addicted, conflicted, conscripted to fight

crusades and wars as they treat us like whores

and when we fight back they control us with force

sensational tv violence desensitizes

so that when it's real no one realizes

or understands the impact of culture combat

distressed, dissociated, can't even contact

our own histories, long memory gone

so we don't know who we are or where we've come from

 

     You can listen to Anarchitecture online as streaming mp3s
and read all the lyrics at
http://beltainesfire.bandcamp.com/album/anarchitecture -

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UNITE AGAINST FASCISM - -SUCCESS.



        Unite Against Fascism is proud that the protest on Saturday kept the racists
and Nazis our of the city centre of Edinburgh. As over 400 people,
overwhelmingly from Edinburgh, joined the protest, we demonstrated that the
streets of Edinburgh belong to anti-racists.

       The hand written placard stating “We love haggis pakora” best summed up the
spirit that made the march so positive. The diverse groups represented on our
march, from LGBT groups to Muslims, black and white was a living example of our
city maintaining it’s proud tradition of welcoming all communities.

       As our march held the city centre the racists in the Scottish Defence League
and their violent friends were humiliated as they were hidden on a quiet
street, invisible to the people of Edinburgh. Instead of the mobilization of
500 they had boasted about bringing, less than a hundred made it to their
assembly area.

         And their day got even worse……
Some members of the SDL went down to a bar in Leith to drink after the march.
However someone called the police and the SDL were then held inside before
being bussed out.

Join or donate
We desperately need money to keep up the fight against the far right, please
join or donate at:
http://uaf.org.uk/join-donate/

And finally…..

Stv coverage
http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/269741-far-right-protest-passes-without-incident/

Photos from the demo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanbrown/sets/72157627520500767/

BBC Coverage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14861594#story_continues_1


Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Edinburgh-Against-the-Racist-SDL/243430722357693

COMING UP
Love Music Hate Racism Gigs - Sat 26th and Sun 27th November.
Sat will be a all Ska night with 3 of Scotland’s biggest ska bands "Big Fat
Panda" "This R2 Tone" and "Red2RED"
Sun will be Indie/rock with "Diego" "SaucyJack" and either "after me the flood"
or "Morris Major"
More information to follow.

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SAVE TROY DAVIS.

                                                                                                             An appeal from Amnesty International, this could be our last chance the life of Troy Davis. A judge in the US state of Georgia has ordered the execution of Troy Davis to take place on Wednesday 21 September 2011. After 20 years on death row, Troy has exhausted every avenue  for appeal from the state level to the Supreme Court. We now  have only one hope: clemency. The Georgia parole board meets on Monday 19 September. They could decide to allow Troy’s execution to go ahead as scheduled – or they could grant clemency and therefore commute  his sentence to life in prison or life without parole. This is Troy’s last chance to avoid execution. Please email the Georgia parole board and urge them to grant clemency Over 300,000 of you have already signed a global petition for Troy, and many more have written to him personally over the years.  But right now we must continue to remind the state of Georgia that in a matter of life and death there is no room for doubt - and there are massive doubts in this case: No physical evidence links Troy to the crime of which he was convicted. Seven of the nine non-police witnesses on whose evidence he was convicted have since recanted or contradicted their testimony. Many witnesses stated they were pressured or coerced by police. Nine individuals have signed affidavits implicating an alternative suspect. As long as there is hope we must continue to fight – for Troy, for his family, for his fundamental human right to life and to be spared this ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Take action – send an email now These are dark days for Troy and all of us who have supported him over the years – but remember: execution is not inevitable. I will be in touch soon to update you on events and any other ways you can help. However, for now it is essential that you email the parole board straight away. Time is fast running out for Troy. In hope, Clare Bracey Death Penalty Campaigner ann arky's home.