We'll be focusing on: the ongoing local portion of the state moratorium
campaign; working with the Columbia City Council to pass a moratorium
resolution; Feb. 20 Lobbying Day (save the date); and the upcoming
legislative session plus your ideas. Feel free to share the word, bring a
friend and come for what time you can. The Mid-MO FOR is a founding member
of the MADP-Columbia chapter. Call Jeff at 449-4585 or e-mail
jstack@no2death.org for more information.

More than 80 Columbia Houses of Worship,
Businesses and Organizations have already Endorsed
Resolutions Calling for an Execution Moratorium
& Death-Penalty Study in Missouri

-- We encourage you to thank leaders of the following religious communities,
organizations and businesses for supporting a call for a study of the death
penalty in Missouri with a concurrent moratorium on executions. Consider
patronizing those businesses that have endorsed this sensible public policy.

Houses of Worship/Religious & Inter-faith Organizations endorsing
resolutions:

1. Benedictine Sisters, Social Concerns Committee
2. Church Women United of Missouri (statewide with president based in
town)
3. Columbia Interfaith Council
4. Columbia Interfaith Peace Alliance
5. First Baptist Church, Board of Deacons
6. Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation
7. Mt. Celestial Baptist Church
8. New Horizon United Methodist Church, Missions Committee
9. Religious Society of Friends, Columbia Friends Meeting
10. Rock Bridge Christian Church
11. Russell Chapel Central Methodist Episcopal Church
12. Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Social Concerns Committee
13. Show-Me Dharma
14. St. Francis Catholic Worker Community
15. St. Luke's United Methodist Church
16. Thomas Moore Newman Center, Social Justice Commission
17. Unitarian Universalist Church--Social Action Committee
18. Wilkes Boulevard United Methodist Church Council

Businesses endorsing resolutions:

19. Alley Cat Yoga
20. Arsenic Leopard Gift Shop
21. Amazico Inc., DBA Cool Stuff
22. Bangkok Gardens
23. Bellman Computer Repair
24. Blackberry Exchange Clothing Shop
25. The Blue Note
26. Brighter Days Corp. Contract Painting & Window Cleaning
27. Clovers Natural Market
28. Columbia Books, Inc.
29. Columbia Daily Tribune (as reflected in an April 3, 2005 Editorial)
30. Day Care Extraordinaire
31. Dreamcatcher Boutique
32. Roy Finley Building and Development
33. Gaslight Mobile Home Park
34. Gotcha! Theatrical Supplies & Costume Rental
35. Hairworks
36. Hinshaw Family Properties
37. The Ink Factory
38. Kassman Insurance Agency
39. Lakota Coffee Company
40. Lee Street Deli
41. Lifecycle Consultants
42. Lindsey Rentals
43. Lotus Blossom Arts
44. Lulu's Repose Bath & Body Boutique
45. Main Squeeze Restaurant
46. Mama Bessie's Dry Cleaners
47. Maude¹s Vintage Clothing
48. Ninth St. Video Store
49. The Peace Nook
50. Peak Roofing/Construction
51. Practice of Elizabeth Alleman, M.D.
52. Practice of N.S. Goodman, Doctor of Chiropractic
53. Quick-Fix Automobile Repair
54. Rebirth Landscaping
55. Root Cellar
56. Sharp End Restaurant and Bar
57. Sparky's Ice Cream Shop
58. Uprise Bakery
59. Whizz Record Exchange
60. World Harvest International & Gourmet Foods

Groups & Organizations endorsing resolutions:

61. Amnesty International, Local Columbia Chapter
62. Amnesty International, Hickman High School Chapter
63. Amnesty International, University of Missouri-Columbia Chapter
64. Columbia MO National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) Branch
65. Food Not Bombs
66. Frederick Douglass Coalition
67. Grass Roots Organizing (GRO) ­ based out of Columbia and Mexico
68. Green Party of Central Missouri
69. Hickman High School Global Issues Club
70. Mid-Missouri American Civil Liberties Union
71. Mid-Missouri Global Action to Prevent War
72. Mid-Missouri Peaceworks

73. Missouri Association for Social Welfare (MASW)--
Central Missouri chapter
74. Missouri Rural Crisis Center
75. Missouri Symphony Society
76. Mrs. J's African-American Center and Family Institute
77. North Central Neighborhood Association
78. Ridgeway Neighborhood Association
79. UMC Catholic Student Organization
80. UMC Faculty, Staff & Students Concerned
About Democracy & Public Knowledge
81. UMC Students for Progressive Action
82. UMC Students for a Free Tibet
83. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Mid-MO branch

-- As of 22 December 2007

Friend, if your house of worship, business or other entity with which you're
associated, isn't on this list, let¹s see if we can encourage their
endorsement of a resolutionŠ..

We'd be glad to make a presentation and/or approach a contact person or you
can help do it yourself. Get in touch with us if in mid-Missouri by calling
Jeff at 573-449-4585, jstack@no2death.org or get in touch with Missourians
to Abolish the Death Penalty, logging onto www.moabolition.org,
madp@moabolition.org or calling 314-256-9810.

Please note, the Mid-Missouri FOR condemns all murder, including homicide by
the state; we work for the abolition of the death penalty and see a study
and moratorium as a cooling-down period, allowing all citizens (regardless
of how they feel morally about capital punishment) an opportunity to
considerable in a reasonable and deliberative manner, various issues
(i.e.-- wrongful convictions, arbitrariness, racism and classism) of the
death penalty. We hope at the end of a study period that Missouri officials
will realize-- as they have now in a majority of the world's nations and
more recently realized in New Jersey-- that our society can live (more
humanely and wisely) without a death penalty.