Global Women's Strike and Payday men's network who work out of the Crossroads Women's Center participated in a protest on the night Troy Davis was executed and were quoted in the Metro newspaper. The protest took over the street and blocked traffic.

Protestors Stop Traffic at 15th and Market Streets

Alex Wigglesworth    Metro Philadelphia    21 September 2011 07:58

Martina Correia on Execution of Troy Davis: "My Brother’s Fight Will Continue"

(Democracy Now! website)

Mumia on murder of Troy Davis - on what the movement has achieved and hopeful of what it can accomplish

About 20 of us from the Global Women's Strike, Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike and Payday men's network went to the vigil against the execution of Troy Davis, organised by Amnesty Intl. Europeans Incensed Over Execution of Troy Davis

Due to her child’s illness, Christina Swarns, lead lawyer for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was scheduled to speak in London and Paris, has regretfully had to cancel her trip to Europe, and cannot be with us on friday night.

We are enormously fortunate that Prof. LINN WASHINGTON of Temple University, Philadelphia, is in London and has agreed to speak.