A Plaque for Anita
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on July 4, 2008
Topic :About Anita
Anita's longtime friend and colleague Vida Zandnia and Anita's family were on hand for the unveiling of a plaque marking the site of the first The Body Shop store site in Brighton this week. Vida, a personification of the kind of vital entrepreneurial spirit Anita inspired, was the person who paid to have the memorial plaque created and installed in Anita's memory. She also wrote a beautiful tribute to Anita in an issue of the Brighton and Hove Argus. Click through to read it.
Free Herman and Albert NOW
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on June 26, 2008
Topic :Human_rights
We didn’t have much time to celebrate the remarkable news that Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace had been released from solitary confinement after 36 years in March, and that Albert had won a recommendation for his conviction to be overturned by a federal magistrate judge in June. Instead, we have seen disappointing if unsurprising evidence that the prison administration and the state are digging in their heels, willing to fight with the nastiest tactics to keep Albert and Herman under their control, humiliated and punished at every turn for the minorest infractions - often imagined or concocted by the prison administrators themselves. It is time for us to tell Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal that enough is enough. No one is served by the continued torture of these men for a crime they did not commit.
Nuclear Answer
Posted By Anita Roddick on June 20, 2008
Topic :Global Warming
Gordon Brown is firmly rooted in the past. Especially outdated, dangerous and dirty energy production. He's even thinking about giving the go-ahead to new coal-fired powered stations, the worst thing he could for global warming. Perhaps worse than his aviation expansion plans.
Bring Binyam Back To Britain
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on June 12, 2008
Topic :Human_rights
Please support our fellow activists at Reprieve to help bring Binyam Mohamed back to Britain by joining them in London on Sunday (15th June):
AS GEORGE BUSH VISITS LONDON, REPRIEVE TELLS BUSH AND BROWN: BRING BINYAM BACK TO BRITAIN
Where: Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery
When: 3 pm, Sunday 15 June
Who: Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith, former Guantánamo prisoners, Barney the Dinosaur and other special guests
Great Decision for Albert!
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on June 10, 2008
Topic :Human_rights
Fantastic news from the Angola 3 camp! A federal magistrate has recommended that Albert Woodfox's conviction be overturned and vacated! The long opinion, in which the magistrate agreed with every single one of Albert's arguments (biased jury selection, manufactured evidence, evidence of innocence, and gross failure by his defense attorney), could well be the first stone to fall in what we hope is an avalanche leading to Albert and Herman's quick vindication and freedom!
