TOOKIE'S BODY ON VIEW TODAY: MEMORIAL
SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY: Foxx, Snoop,
Jesse, expected to attend service at L.A.
church; Farrakhan will officiate.
*A memorial service for executed Crip co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams will be held Tuesday (Dec. 20) at a South Los Angeles Church before his ashes are to be flown to South Africa and scattered, per his last wish. In the meantime, it's been announced that there will be a public viewing of Williams today, Monday, December 19, 2005 from 3 pm until 9 pm at the House of Winston Mortuary
located at 9501 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.
Supporters of the late San Quentin inmate-turned-peace activist, including Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Rev. Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon, Danny Glover and Sean Penn, are expected to attend the ceremony to be held at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam will preside over the service, according to organizer Jasmyne Cannick.
"This is an opportunity for people who knew Mr. Williams, who were friends with Mr. Williams, who respected his work to be able to pay their final respects," Cannick told the Los Angeles Times.
The church, at 7900 S. Western Ave., holds about 1,500 people, organizers said. The service will be shown on jumbo screens located outside of the building for any overflow crowd.
The memorial service will also be broadcasted live via web cam on
www.savetookie.org, according to an email from activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.
Williams, 51, was convicted of murdering four people in 1979. He was executed by lethal injection Tuesday, hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his petition for clemency. His case drew international media attention, in part because Williams had become an anti-gang activist and had been nominated
for a Nobel Peace Prize.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said officers would patrol the area but would not intrude on the service.
"We will monitor it like we would any other large event like this," Lt. Paul Vernon told the Times. "We don't anticipate any problems."
source: eurweb.com
SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY: Foxx, Snoop,
Jesse, expected to attend service at L.A.
church; Farrakhan will officiate.
*A memorial service for executed Crip co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams will be held Tuesday (Dec. 20) at a South Los Angeles Church before his ashes are to be flown to South Africa and scattered, per his last wish. In the meantime, it's been announced that there will be a public viewing of Williams today, Monday, December 19, 2005 from 3 pm until 9 pm at the House of Winston Mortuary
located at 9501 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles.
Supporters of the late San Quentin inmate-turned-peace activist, including Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Rev. Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon, Danny Glover and Sean Penn, are expected to attend the ceremony to be held at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam will preside over the service, according to organizer Jasmyne Cannick.
"This is an opportunity for people who knew Mr. Williams, who were friends with Mr. Williams, who respected his work to be able to pay their final respects," Cannick told the Los Angeles Times.
The church, at 7900 S. Western Ave., holds about 1,500 people, organizers said. The service will be shown on jumbo screens located outside of the building for any overflow crowd.
The memorial service will also be broadcasted live via web cam on
www.savetookie.org, according to an email from activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.
Williams, 51, was convicted of murdering four people in 1979. He was executed by lethal injection Tuesday, hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his petition for clemency. His case drew international media attention, in part because Williams had become an anti-gang activist and had been nominated
for a Nobel Peace Prize.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said officers would patrol the area but would not intrude on the service.
"We will monitor it like we would any other large event like this," Lt. Paul Vernon told the Times. "We don't anticipate any problems."
source: eurweb.com
