Hello fellow .Orgers...

I received this email and felt compelled 2 post it's content here. We spend a lot of time signing petitions 4 silly things... this petition could save a life! Please take a moment 2 read this letter, and click on the Oprah site 2 sign this petition.

Read on... and thank u.

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Last Friday, the Oprah show covered a story of a Nigerian woman, Amina Lawal, who has been sentenced to death by stoning because she had a baby out
of wedlock.

She has tried to appeal the decision but has been unsuccessful, thusfar. The head of Nigeria disagrees with these stonings but has so far done nothing--partly because of the fear of not being re-elected.

I should also note that the father of the baby denied fathering the child and, hence, has escaped any form of punishment.

Amina Lawal's stoning will occur as soon as she is finished nursing her child. She will be buried up to her neck in dirt and townsmen will throw stones at her head until they kill her--which has been known to take hours.

I send out a plea to all the women reading this email and to all the men raised by women to join me and many others to help prevent this horrific and inhumane event from occuring.

All you have to do is visit the Oprah website:
www.oprah.com addressed to the Nigerian Ambassador. Just fill out your information on the bottom of the page and send it. It's as simple as that.

You can even go one step further and forward this e-mail to your friends so they can be part of the mission to save Amina Lawal.

It's your chance to save one woman's life. We can claim ignorance when doing nothing to stop vicious atrocities that we know nothing about from occuring but there is no justification if we standby and allow for these events to take place when we are fully aware of them.

Thank you very much for reading this...now I hope you take action!

Angela Thomas
Information Support Specialist
J.D. Edwards Human Resources
One Technology Way
Denver, CO 80239
303-334-4000 Main
303-334-4549 Direct
303-334-4673 Fax
800-777-3732 Toll Free
Angela_Thomas@jdedwards.com

Thanks for posting this...it's important for people to know. I sent a letter.

June7 said:

Holy fuck!

And some assholes say that the American penal system is fucked up.

Thanks June7... So many woman have suffered this awful fate in Nigeria, and other places around the world... it's beyond appalling.

(sigh)

Sometimes there are no words.

applekisses said:

My thoughts exactly. Thanks June7! I sent a letter too and so should everyone who cares about human rights.

-Satu

Love U July

Thank you for posting this, June7.

I hope that everyone who saw it took action.

Yeah, me 2.