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Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx has officially endorsed
a Stan 'Tookie' Williams clemency campaign spearheaded
by over 150,000 youth who claim the Nobel Peace Prize
Nominee (set to be executed on Foxx's 38th birthday
next month) has saved their lives with his nine
anti-drug books and personal anti-gang mentoring over
the past decade.

"We can't let [the execution] happen," Foxx told Fox
News at the October 30th New York premiere of his
latest 'Jarhead' film. "We've got to do everything we
can to get the word out."

The Sundance and Cannes recognized 'Redemption' 2004
TV movie filmed in Toronto, Canada based on Tookie's
life story featured a stellar cast of 'Ali' actor
Jamie Foxx starring as the former Crips gang leader,
'Thin Line Between Love And Hate' actress Lynn
Whitfield playing the co-author of Tookie's books
Barbara Becnel, and Canadian Hip-Hop forefather
Maestro as former Crips lieutenant turned "Tookie
Protocol For Peace" ambassador.

Early next month Becnel and a clemency team of lawyers
from New York's Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
LLP and California's Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP
legal firms will present a petition of over 30,000
signatures asking California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger to choose a "life without the
possibility of parole" sentence for Stan 'Tookie'
Williams instead of execution due to "overwhelming
racism and discrimination at the heart of the case and
vital innocence issues," backed by a 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals 2002 ruling which praised Tookie's
"laudable work [that made him] worthy of consideration
for clemency."

To view testimonies of support for Stan 'Tookie'
Williams from members of the Chicago Public Schools
District, the American Library Association, the Swiss
Parliament and fellow Nobel laureate Archbishop
Desmond Tutu visit the official Tookie.com web site.

For more about the Stan 'Tookie' Williams clemency
petition signed by teachers, professors, juvenile
correctional officers and law enforcement officials
around the world visit the new SaveTookie.org web
site.

And be sure to request the campus radio PSA from Stan
'Tookie' Williams produced by Park Hill Entertainment
in America and serviced by Lyrical Knockout
Entertainment in Canada on your local radio station.