NH People of Faith Against the Death Penalty Newsletter November 2010 PDF Print E-mail
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New Hampshire
People of Faith
Against the Death Penalty
 November 2010
 
In This Issue
Kairos Conference Report
Greetings!

You have taken action to abolish the Death Penalty in NH. More than a half dozen people of faith attended the Kairos Conference in Atlanta this November.

Now is the time for the formation of a new grassroots initiative to equip clergy to preach, educators to teach, and laity to form their consciences by faith. States that have successfully repealed the death penalty have done so because a broad cross section of the state examined the repeal not a s a matter of economics, or deterrence, or vengeance but as a matter of faithfully formed consciences.

You are invited to join us December 1 at a special presentation and thereafter as part of a growing grassroots interreligious movement in New Hampshire.
Save the Date - December  1, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Kairos Conference Multi-Media Report
& Formation of NH People of Faith Against the Death Penalty

As many people of faith as possible are invited to an afternoon meeting to be inspired by stories from the Kairos
Conference by NH families of murder victims, religious leaders, concerned legislators.

You will have an opportunity to share your own encounter with murder and the death penalty and the role your faith
has played in understanding and healing.

The gathering will end with time dedicated to formation of a commitment to take action over the coming years until
NH joins those states that have repealed the death penalty.

A light supper will be provided. The meeting will conclude by 8:00 PM.


Place: The Conference Building, 140 Sheep Davis Road, Pembroke, NH 03275

Details to follow.


  


 

 

When you join almost 500 abolitionists this January in Chicago, you'll be joined by some of the best advocates in the world...

Keynote Speaker:

Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative

Plenary Speakers:

Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Karen Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center and Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Right

Gary Flowers, Executive Director & CEO of the Black Leadership Forum

Christina Swarns, Director of the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund

Bob Curley, the father of Jeffery Curley who was murdered at the age of 10

Brian MacQuarrie, Boston Globe reporter and author of The Ride

Robert Raben, President and Founder, The Raben Group (invited)

Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough, President, Philander Smith College

Mai Fernandez, Executive Director, National Center for Victims of Crime (invited)

Wayne McKenzie, Director of the Program on Prosecution and Racial Justice, Vera Institute

NCADP 2011 Awards Dinner Honorees

Vicki Schieber, NCADP Abolitionist of the Year

Sister Helen Prejean, NCADP Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree

Bill Mefford for the United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society, NCADP Lighting the Torch of Conscience Honoree

Andrea Lyons, Tom Sullivan, David Bradford, Outstanding Legal Service Award Honorees

HOW TO REGISTER

Please visit our conference website for more information about the conference and to register for the dinner and the conference.

NCADP has negotiated a specially reduced room rate of $99/night for up to 4 people in a room. Reservations can be made by clicking here or calling (800) 468-3571 (tell them that you are attending the NCADP conference to get the special rate).

Rates are good until December 3, 2010 or until all rooms are sold, whichever date comes first.

 

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Two Actions to Be Taken Now!

The NH Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty needs a diverse group of civic, educational, faith, advocacy, and business organizations to endorse it simple statement of principle.  To add a group that you belong to ... of any kind or size ... to the growing voice calling for repeal of the death penalty go to www.nodeathpenaltynh.org/Important_Links.html and click on the downloadable Sign-On Letter for Organizations.

For individuals, go to www.nodeathpenaltynh.org/Home_Page.html where you can Sign up here to become a member of NHCADP.  Membership is FREE!  We need as many members as possible to show the legislature the significant public support that exists for repealing the death penalty in NH.  Membership will also allow you to receive occasional email notices of events and news.

 

 

The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College and the Diocese of Manchester are sponsoring this program,"The Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty a Personal and Theological

Perspective."

The Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty a Personal and Theological Perspective

 



Place:    The New Hampshire Institute of Politics

               at Saint Anselm College,

               Corner of Saint Anselm Drive and Rockland Avenue, Manchester, NH


Date:   Saturday, November 13, 2010        Time: 8:30 a.m. registration

             9:00 a.m.-12 p.m. program

 

This event is free of charge

 

Register Online: www.catholicnh.org/publicsquare

By Phone:  Bro. Paul Crawford (603) 669-3100, Ext. 148

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Everyone Welcome!



From suffering a loss to becoming an


advocate for reform:


A Personal Reflection on the Death


Penalty

 

Presenter: Vicki Schieber

Vicki Schieber's daughter, Shannon, was raped and murdered on May 7, 1998 while finishing her first year of graduate school on a full scholarship at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Since this tragic incident, Vicki and her husband, Sylvester, have dedicated their career and lives to a moratorium on the death penalty. In addition to teaching many high schools and university classes on abolition,Vicki runs workshops for state conferences, is a published author, and served on the 2008 Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment. She is now actively teaching the Catholic Social Teaching on the Death Penalty with the Catho­lic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty. Vicki is the recipient of the Fannie Mae Foundation Good Neighbor Award, the Courage in Community Award of the McAuley Institute Board of Trustees and the Exceptional Community Spirit Award from Rebuilding Together of Washington, D.C. Despite her tragic loss, she does all this in the name of Catholicism, citing that "The death penalty is against our religion, a belief system in which life is held to be sacred."

 

Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty: A Theological Reflection

Presenter: Rev. Michael Kerper

 

What we can do locally to educate and advocate on this Catholic Social Teaching

Presenters: Robert E. Dunn,  Jr. and Bro. Paul Crawford, OFM, CAP., MSW

 
 
 
 
 
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