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Steffanie Pinch

The Activist Toolkit: Africville, unionizing non-profit workers, mad survivors guide, radical research, access to information

By Steffanie Pinch
| January 19, 2012

As the validity of same-sex marriage for non-residents is thrown into question and striking workers outside the Ottawa Booth street Salvation Army fall out of the mainstream media, you begin to wonder: how do you get reliable, alternative information about these and other important issues? This week at the toolkit we're holding politicians accountable, for their policies, for inaction on our history and for systemic oppressions.

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Troy Davis

A crowd of protesters hold up pictures of Troy Davis's face to their own

On September 21, 2011 Troy Davis was shamefully murdered by the the state of Georgia. He was executed after being given the death penalty even though there were (and remain) serious doubts about his guilt.


The case

In 1989, police officer Mark Allen MacPhail was killed near a fast food restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. Davis surrendered himself to police, confident in his innocence. His trial began in 1991, which found him guilt of murder. Davis appealed this decision many times and throughout the case discrepancies began to emerge.

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