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This ad raises questions
about Pataki’s true motives: If he’s
really for the Latino community, then why
hasn’t he reformed the Rockefeller
drug laws that are destroying Latino communities?
Just as President Bush is sending people
to die for an unjust war for oil, Pataki
is sending people to prison for an unjust
‘war on drugs’. The ad ran on
July 13, 2004 in El Diaro.
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Julie Colon’s mother,
Melita Oliviera, is serving a harsh 13 years
sentence under the Rockefeller drug laws,
leaving her five children behind. Most prisons
are located in upstate New York, while most
Rockefeller drug law prisoners are Blacks
and Lationos—like Melita—from
New York City. As a first time, nonviolent
offender, Melita’s story is just one
example of the atrocity that is the Rockefeller
drug war. This Ad ran on Friday June 18,
2004 in HOY New York.
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In the Spring of 2004,
Governor George Pataki met with the Mothers
of the Disappeared / Plaza de Mayo from
Argentina. The Mothers were instrumental
in bringing down the corrupt military dictatorship
in Argentina, and they traveled to New York
to urge Governor Pataki to enact real reform
of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Governor Pataki
promised the Mothers—and New York’s
Latino community—that he would act.
This ad ran in El Diaro May 31 and
July 19, 2004.
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New York City, already
attacked once by terrorists, is listed by
the Bush Administration as a ‘target
city’. Yet Governor Pataki continues
to waste public money by refusing to reform
the failed, racist Rockefeller Drug laws.
This ad, which never ran in a major publication,
raises questions about Governor Pataki’s
priorities.
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This ad references a meeting
in spring 2004, between New York State Senator
Joseph Bruno and the world-renowned Mothers
of the Disappeared / Plaza De Mayo in Argentina.
The Mothers, who helped bring down the military
dictatorship in Argentina, came to New York
to meet with Senator Bruno to urge him to
enact real reform of the Rockefeller drug
laws. Senator Bruno gave the Mothers’
his word. Will he deliver? This ad ran in
the Legislative Gazette (Albany)
on the week of July 19, 2004.
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This ad, appearing in El
Diario and Hoy during the week of July 13th,
calls on Governor Pataki to end the catastrophe
that is the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Even
as terrorists plot to attack New York, Pataki
continues to waste hundreds of millions
on locking people up under the racist Rockefeller
drug laws. The resources wasted on the failed
drug war could be better spent on supporting,
not destroying, Black and Latino communities.
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This is another variation
on the July 13th ad.
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 This
ad, which ran in the Legislative Gazette
(Albany) during the week of June 11 and
July 13, 2004, highlights the case of Lisa
Oberg, who was born in prison as the result
of her mother's arrest for a first time
low level drug offense.
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This ad highlights the
case of Hilda Garcia, whose husband was
sentenced to 15 years to life and died in
prison. Her husband, a first time nonviolent
offender, was desperate for clemency. But
his unjust sentence under the Rockefeller
drug laws eventually became a death sentence.
Almost 94% of all those imprisoned under
the Rockefeller drug laws are Black and
Latino—yet Governor Pataki and the
Republican Senate still refuse to address
these racist laws. This ad ran on Friday
June 18, 2004 in El Diario.
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 The
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo emphatically
ask Sen. Olga Mendez: If we confronted a
brutal Dictatorship why can't you confront
Gov. Pataki and your republican friends
in the NY State Senate. This ad ran in El
Diario in May 2004.
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The institutional racism
which define the Rockefeller drug laws are
a national and international disgrace. The
numbers speak for themselves: almost 94%
of all those incarcerated under Rockefeller
drug laws are Black and Latino, despite
the fact that whites and people of color
use and sell drugs at approximately the
same rate. The powerful District Attorney
Association is a staunch opponent to real
reform, perhaps because their careers are
dependent on these racist laws.
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This ad, appearing in El
Diario and Hoy, calls on Governor
Pataki to reunite Latino families.
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Pataki failed to reform
the Rockefeller drug laws, even as he asked
the Latino Community for their support.
This ad demands that there will be no support
for Pataki without justice for Rockefeller
families.
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Back in 1998 and 1999,
Pataki refused to alter the Rockefeller
drug laws despite the fact that over 93%
of all those incarcerated under these laws
are Black and Latino, even though whites
use drugs at approximately the same rate
and are a larger proportion of the population
in the state. Pataki wasn’t troubled
enough by the institutional racism to do
anything about these failed laws. As a result,
families and communities continue to suffer.
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