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Save
the Life of MUMIA
Abu-Jamal!
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Leonard Weinglass, Chief Legal Counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal,
has sounded the alarm: The next 90 days will be more critical
to the life of Abu-Jamal, than the preceding 17 years.
Federal
District Court Justice Willliam Yohn must decide whether or not
to grant review to the record of false evidence and official perjury
that punctuated the 1982 trial where Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted
and sentenced to death through the most systematic violation of
his civil and constitutional rights. On Pennsylvania's death row
for 18 years, Abu-Jamal, an award-winning journalist, proudly
and resolutely stands before his would be executioners proclaiming
his innocence while championing the cause of all who suffer injustice
and repression.
This
is the decisive moment! We will fight to stop the execution
and demand a new trial where for the first time, the court can
hear the long-suppressed evidence that points to Mumia Abu-Jamal's
innocence.
We
call upon every organization that cherishes human and democratic
rights, in every country, to reach out to greater numbers of people
than ever before to join a vast international mobilization to
save the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Our
voices are representative and embrace every walk of life. There
are religious leaders who have embraced our movement: Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Martin Luther
King III and Reverend E. Randell Osburn of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. There are political leaders: Nelson Mandela,
Danielle Mitterand, Dick Gregory and multiple members of parliament
across Europe to Brazil, and Martinique as well as the Japanese
Diet and the European Parliament. There are writers and artists:
Aime Cesaire, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Harry Belafonte, Ossie
Davis, Danny Glover and Paul Newman.
There
are trade union leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe
and the United States. The International Longshore and Warehouse
Union, which last year shut down the West Coast of the United
States in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, has raised the banner of
worker action and solidarity everywhere.
Mumia
Abu-Jamal has been targeted by state authorities for over thirty
years, a record revealed in 800 pages of secret FBI and police
files now in the hands of the defense. May 13 also marks the 15th
anniversary of the murderous police bombing of the MOVE headquarters
in Philadelphia. Mumia's support of the democratic rights of the
MOVE organization was a key factor in drawing police attention
to him.
Neither
the courts nor the holders of government power are immune to public
outcry. Let us make the political price of official murder and
injustice in Mumia's case too high to pay as we reach across every
boundary and frontier to mobilize in our many millions to save
the life and win justice for a heroic figure. Let us insist that
when the judicial process is perverted to violate fundamental
rights, the government intervene to ensure equal justice before
the law.
Stop
the execution! For a new trial now! Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Issued
by:
The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal;
The Emergency National Conference to Save the Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
February 19, 2024, New York City; May 13 Coalition/Mothers Against
Police Terror;The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the
National Coordinators of Mumia's Defense as follows:
- Pam
Africa, International Concerned Family
and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Safiya
Bukhari, New York Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-
- Jamal
Herman Ferguson, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee
- C.
Clark Kissinger, Refuse and Resist!
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Jeff Mackler, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (California)
- Monica
Moorehead, International Action Center
- Joan
Parkin, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
- Marcus
Rediker, Western Pennsylvania Comm. to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Muhjah
Shakir, Jericho Amnesty Movement
- Mark
Taylor, Academics for Mumia
- Leonard
Weinglass, Chief Legal Counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Steve
Wiser, The Bruderhof Communities
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