[Peace-discuss] New Action (ICJPE) - Call In Day (Thu 8/6): Demand TAMMS REFORM!!!

[Stuart Levy]

The 8th Day Center for Justice is calling for a statewide
callin for TAMMS Reform, this Thursday, Aug. 6th.

Note the links to the Belleville News-Democrat (bnd.com),
whose investigative reporting series on TAMMS began today!

(We got this notice thanks to the statewide IL Coalition
for Peace, Justice and the Environment (icjpe.org),
of which AWARE is a member.)

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ACTION NAME: Call In Day: Demand TAMMS REFORM!!!

DATES: Aug  06, 2009 through Aug  06, 2009

ORGANIZATION: 8th Day Center for Justice

MORE INFO: www.YearTen.org

DESCRIPTION: CALL-IN TO QUINN on THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

Tie up the phones!    Taxpayer revolt.   Tell Quinn how you feel about Tamms.
Contact the Governor and tell him: "Reform Tamms Supermax or Cut the Funding."

Make sure you leave your name and address or your call will not be counted..
Forward this widely. Quinn needs to see that calls are coming from all over the
state.

Office of the Governor in Springfield: 217-782-0244
Office of the Governor in Chicago: 312-814-2121

~ Call on Thursday, August 6 ~

1.. THIS ISN'T EASY READING
The first in a two-part series about Tamms supermax prison began today. Help us
take advantage of this exposé.

Lead story
http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/865377.html

Sidebar on Joseph Herman
http://www.bnd.com/233/story/865355.html

Belleville News Democrat editorial
http://www.bnd.com/editorial/story/866411.html

Sidebar on a day in the life
http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/865454.html

Sidebar on Ozzie Picket
http://www.bnd.com/233/story/865365.html

Interview with Randle about reform
http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/865544.html

Register with the site and post a comment. Please help us turn the tide of the
vicious responses. We need some comments from citizens who oppose these
misguided and inhumane policies. Applaud the Belleville News Democrat for its
commitment to real journalism. This press is the result of something all but
extinct in America: investigative reporting. As you all know, the IDOC makes it
nearly impossible for anyone to obtain any information about the supermax, but
that did not stop these reporters who worked for many months on the story.



2. HOW DOES THE TIMING OF THIS ARTICLE AFFECT THE CAMPAIGN?
At our Day of Prayer for a New Direction, the IDOC announced that Director
Michael Randle is planning some reforms at Tamms. Will these be structural or
superficial reforms? It depends on our activism. Governor Quinn will make the
final decision about what to do with the supermax. This article obligates each
of us to pay him a call.



3. THE BUCK STOPS WITH QUINN
Tell Governor Quinn that superficial changes are not enough. Either Tamms gets
a significant, structural overhaul, or he stops asking taxpayers to foot the
bill for state-sanctioned torture.

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