Yasmeen

Yasmeen is pleased to announce the release of her tribute to Stanley Tookie Williams, entitled In San Quentin: A Song for Tookie.

The new single is both an elegy to Tookie's transformation and protest of the heedless action of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in turning a deaf ear to nationwide pleas for a commutation of the death sentence of the former Crips co-founder who renounced gangs and devoted the last 15 years of his life to personal development and promoting life-affirming alternatives to the waste of violent criminal lives led by troubled youth.

In San Quentin deftly evokes Williams personal achievement, the moment in December 2005 his gathered supporters awaited the "midnight call" that never arrived, and the way the state took the life of a dignified warrior for peace.

The CD artwork includes a mural of Tookie and his message to posterity.