Stanley “Tookie” Williams faces execution
GUESTS: Barbara Becnel, Oakland based activist, co-author with Williams.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked this Tuesday to grant clemency to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles Crips gang who has been serving more than 2 decades on death row. Tookie, the author of award winning childrens’ books, has also been nominated numerous times for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Literature Prize and was visited in prison by Winnie Mandela. Stanley “Tookie” Williams is scheduled to be executed this December 13th for four murders. In 1992, a judge recommended clemency rather than execution. Oscar winning actor Jamie Foxx played Tookie’s character in a cable TV film called “Redemption”. Foxx has joined nearly 30,000 others in signing a petition to the governor appealing for clemency.

For more information, visit www.tookie.com
To find out how you can help, visit www.savetookie.org

The Black Penalty
GUESTS: Dortell Williams, Uprising commentator

Dortell Williams is an inmate at Lancaster State Prison here in California and a regular listener of Uprising and other KPFK programs. He files today’s commentary called The Black Penalty.

Dortell can be reached at dortellwilliams@cellpals.org.

Fusion: LGBT POC Film Festival
GUESTS: Kimberly Yutani, a Fusion programmer, and Roberta Munroe, a film maker

For the third consecutive year, Outfest, LA’s premiere gay and lesbian film festival, presents Fusion. Fusion is the only multicultural, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, people of color film festival in Los Angeles. Beginning tonight, November 11th, at the Egyptian theater, Fusion is a three day, fourteen program festival of film, music, workshops, and panels. Some of the weekend’s highlights include screenings of Margaret Cho’s new narrative film, “Bam Bam and Celeste,” as well as “Is it Really So Strange?” a documentary about Latino Morrisey fans in Southern California.

For more information, visit www.outfest.org

Black Commentator
GUESTS: Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator

The Black Commentator is an online political magazine bringing you commentary, analysis and investigation from a black perspective. Today’s commentary is the unrest in France.

The Black Commentator is online at www.blackcommentator.com.

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion
GUESTS: Mark Ames, author of “Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond”

On September 14th 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, a man named Joseph Wesbecker went to work at the Louisville Courier Journal, and opened fire killing eight of his co-workers and severely wounded twelve others, before shooting himself dead. It was the day that workplace rage shooting sprees left the confines of US post offices and into the white-collar workplace. Wesbecker’s killing sprees were blamed on the fact that he was severely depressed and taking Prozac. But my next guest, Mark Ames, claims that such workplace shootouts, increasingly common in the US, are the consequence of a deadly cold corporate culture shaped by Reaganomics, and cut-throat capitalism. They are in fact, according to Ames, like modern-day slave rebellions.