Chronology of Events for the Year 2000

March in Sacramento

January 08, 2000
Bigamy charge could send man to 25 years-to-life under 3-strikes. Click here for more information.

January 09, 2000
Tom Lowrie, Member of the FACTS Family Dies of Heart Attack.

January 17, 2000
FACTS is part of Martin Luther King Parade in Los Angeles. Click here for more information.

January 26, 2000
Clauder initiative pulls out of petition drive this year. Click here for more information.

January 31, 2000
SB79 Does not receive enough votes to pass Senate. Click here for more information.

February 1, 2000
Two Jurors tossed from panel for refusing to be part of process to give life sentence for $300 bike theft. Click here for more information.

February 5, 2000
Car Caravan to Get Out the Vote in Los Angeles. Click here for more information.

February 12th and 19th, 2000
More Caravans Send Out the Message to the Streets of LA. Click here for more information.

February 18, 2000
Three Strikes in the Washington Post. Click here for more information.

February 25, 2000
Claremont Conference on Women, Prisons and Injustice. Click here for more information.

February 26, 2000
March and Rally in Santa Ana. Click here for more information.

February 27 and 28, 2000
Contra Costa Newspapers Analyze Use of 3-Strikes Law in Their County Versus Other Counties. Click here for more information.

February 29, 2000
Assemblymember Rod Wright introduces bill to amend 3-strikes law. Click here for more information.

March 4, 2000
March and Rally in LA and Candle Light Vigil in Orange. Click here for more information.

March 7, 2000
Proposition 21 Passes (62% to 38%) and Broadens the California Three Strikes Law. Click here for more information.

April 4, 2000
Assembly Bill 2447 passes out of Assembly Public Safety Committee and FACTS has rally in Sacramento. Click here for more information.

April 20, 2000
Three Strikes and FACTS on Court TV. Featured was FACTS member Vivien Moen who talked about her son Doug.

April 20, 2000
Suit filed Against Proposition 21. Click here for more information.

April 29, 2000
Conference at Claremont and March and Rally in South-Central LA. Click here for more information.

May 7, 2000
60 Minutes covers California 3-Strikes. Click here for more information.

May 9, 2000
Three Strikes featured in web magazine Salon. Click here for more information.

May 11, 2000
Alabama state legislature votes to let non-violent offenders off the hook on 3-strikes law. Click here to read the article in its entirety.

May 15, 2000
California 3-strikes bill--AB2447--gutted because of Gov. Davis. Click here for more information.

May 31, 2000
Drug Treatment Initiative (Prop. 36) that Affects 3-Strike Law Gathers Enough Signatures for November Ballot. Click here for more information.

June 1, 2000
AB2447 Does not Receive Enough Votes in Assembly for Passage. Click here for more information.

June 14, 2000
California Three Strikes Project fails to get enough signatures for ballot initiative to amend 3-strikes law. Click here for more information.

June 24, 2000
FACTS has demonstration against Governor Davis at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Click here for more information.

July 15, 2000
FACTS joins demonstrations at prisons as part of nation-wide protest against the prison industrial complex. Click here for more information.

August, 2000
FACTS announces its top 100 unjust Three Strike stories prior to DNC convention in Los Angeles.

August 13-14, 2000
FACTS Takes Part in Mumia March and Attends Rage Against the Machine Rally. Click here for more information.

August 15-16, 2000
FACTS Takes Part in Shadow Convention, Bike Riders Arrested, and Demonstrations Against Prison Industrial Complex and Police Brutality. Click here for more information.

November 4, 2000
FACTS has its 3rd annual Fund Raiser Dinner at the Furama Hotel in Los Angeles.Click here for more information.

November 7, 2000
Proposition 36 and Cooley wins as DA in Los AngelesClick here for more information.


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