Joint Action for Mumia will meet to prepare to Disrupt ‘business as usual’ at the Federal Court on February 28, 2000 with a mass civil disobedience
The next meeting (sorry for the short notice) will be:
Sunday Jan 16 at 6PM
HERE Local 2850
548 20th St - Oakland (enter thru 21st St parking lot - Mumia Sign)
(located between Telegraph & San Pablo)
(exit BART at 19th St & proceed west)
We have much work to do, and I’m sure you’ll want to be filled in on the work that’s already been done. Since the last meeting, Pastor Lorenzo Carlisle from the United Church of Christ has signed on to help mobilize the faith community to participate in the civil disobedience as has Global Exchange.
We will complete the picture of what the action will look like generally, as well as taking up the other issues that had to be cut short at the last meeting. We will continue to focus on out-reach for the event and should have new posters ready.
Besides coming to the JAM mtg and preparing for the CD, please make plans to attend the event being organized for January 29 in Oakland at the Alice Arts Center by United for Justice. It should be an excellent opportunity, in a relaxed environment to enjoy yourself, meet some new friends and pay tribute to the struggle to free Mumia and all the other political prisoners. I reprint the call for that event:
Greetings Sisters & Brothers:
UNITED FOR JUSTICE: Bay Area Coalition to Free Mumia & All Political Prisoners Presents:
LOCKDOWN 2000: A Cultural Revelation
Alice Arts Center, 1428 Alice St., Oakland (theater and dance studio)
6-ll p.m., Sat., 1/29/00, sliding scale $10-$25 (no one turned away)
food child care wheelchairs welcome
Featuring: Michael Franti /Spearhead
Babatunde Lea Quintet
Amandla Poets
Madupue w/Avotjca & Tarika Lewis
Keynote: Ida McCray Robinson of Families with a Future Upsurge!
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Dorsey Nunn and Eric Norberg are working together to mount a "healing wall" of prisoners’ photos in the Theater lobby. Please send photos of loved ones behind the walls to United for Justice, c/o Koncepts Cultural Gallery, 1428 Alice St., Oakland, 94612 (copies please; we can’t be responsible for returning originals.)
Sponsors: The Educultural Foundation, Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Vanguard Foundation, KPFA Hard Knock Radio; Marina Drummer, Local 1200, La Pena