West Memphis 3 Awareness - 2nd & 3rd June, Benefit Raffle, First Prize Pearl Drumkit!

revileandy

Friday 2nd June Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin.

Doors 7pm Sharp, Live Music from 7.30 till 12.30pm approx, with live Rock/Metal club till late. Raffle including prizes of a Pearl Drumkit from Musicmaker, and Signed T-shirt from Eddie Vedder.

Bands:
Stand Up Guy
Eyesclosed
Primed
Parhelia
Triggerman
Laminate

Admission €10 Raffle tickets available inside the venue.
I.D. required

Saturday 3rd June Fibber Magees, Parnell Street Dublin

Doors 9pm,

Bands:

Residual Effect
Sinocence
Silent Conflict

Admission €4, i.d. required

Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. Evidence?

The same police officers coerced an error-filled “confession” from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late— Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994.

Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40.

For over 12 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment.

info: westmemphisthree@hotmail.com

revileandy

bump

Tom65

I'd love to go, but can't due to the ol' Leaving Cert. Any chance I could get a postal raffle entry...I really would like that signed shirt

Good luck with it either way.

revileandy

Tickets for the raffle are on sale in Music Maker, Exchequer St - ask for Leon, the tickets are €5

IamMetaldave

Last bumpage.