Bay Area forums to hear author of book on Kevin Cooper
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A coalition of social justice activists in the San Francisco Bay Area has organized a Feb. 5-12 book tour for J. Patrick J. Patrick O’Connor has been the editor and publisher of O’Connor, the author of “Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Mur Crime Magazine since 1998. He was a reporter and bureau ders and the framing of Kevin Cooper.” O’Connor’s new manager for United Press International, editor of Cincinnati book provides a detailed analysis of Cooper’s case and expos Magazine, and an associate editor of TV Guide. He is the au es the broken criminal “justice” system in the United States. thor of “The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal,” which was pub Kevin Cooper has been on death row at San Quentin for over 25 years, falsely convicted of the murders of a California fam Tour sponsors include the Kevin Cooper Defense Commit ily and their houseguest in 1985. “Scapegoat” demonstrates tee, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Campaign to End how the San Bernardino district attorney’s office framed Coo per for the murders, and how the court system has failed him at Public forums with O’Connor and other prison activists will almost every turn in his long appeal process. If it were not for include Laney College in Oakland, 7 p.m., Wed., Feb. 8; UC a court-ordered moratorium on executions in California over Berkeley, 7 p.m., Fri., Feb. 10; and San Jose Peace & Justice the lethal injection controversy, Cooper—with no appeals re Center, 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12. For information on these and maining—would have been executed by now. It is expected other meetings, contact: [email protected]. n 10 SOCIALIST ACTION FEBRUARY 2012 lished by Lawrence Hill Books in 2008. the moratorium will be lifted in late 2012. the Death Penalty, and many other groups.