The Abolitionist Action Committee (AAC) is an ad-hoc group of individuals committed to highly visible and effective public education for alternatives to the death penalty through nonviolent direct action. The primary focus of the AAC is engaging people outside U.S. Supreme Court, most notably with two events: The annual "Starvin' for Justice: Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty" (every June 29-July 2), and an every-five-year action of non-violent civil disobedience on January 17 to mark the anniversary of first U.S. execution in the modern era of the death penalty.