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On April 21 at 12:01AM, Robert Alton Harris
was scheduled to be executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison.
Hundreds of demonstrators had gathered in front ofİthe East gate
of the prison. I had coordinated with Amnesty International, Death
Penalty Focus and the Peace Navy,İthat when they concluded their
minute of silent meditation, THE SOUND OF LIONS ROARING exploded
out of the night from a series of speakers placed on boats anchored
in the Bay around San Quentin. This roar of protest represented
our collective sense of rage, sorrow and anger we felt towards the
barbaric practice of state sanctioned murder. The roar was heard
by the warden inside the walls of the prison who sent the US Coast
Guard to take control of our boat and deliver us to the custody
of the Marin County Sheriff's Dept.
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