SPRING OFFENSIVE FOR MUMIA
Even in the midst of U.S. military aggression against Iraq, we say: FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!
FREE MUMIA WEEK 2003, a week of Mumia activities on the 35th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination. From Friday, March 28th through Saturday, April 5th, groups will be organizing Free Mumia activities in the context of their particular work. On the afternoon of Saturday, April 5th, there will be a convergence of everyone in a cultural celebration at House of the Lord Church honoring Dr. King & dedicating ourselves to winning Mumia's release from death row and from prison.
To date, the following are planned:
Friday, March 28th: The Jericho Movement will be celebrating its fifth anniversary with dinner and an event at St. Mary's Church in Harlem from 6 to 10 p.m. This will also be the opening event of Free Mumia Week. Invited speakers include: NYC Councilmember Charles Barron, Rev. Lucius Walker of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, former political prisoner Alan Berkman, Pam Africa of Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, former political prisoner Susan Rosenberg, families of political prisoners/pows, former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn. There will also be cultural performances and videos of political prisoners. For more information, please call: 212-502-1143.
Throughout the week, there will be STREET screenings of the Arnold Beverly confession (to the crime for which Mumia has been sentenced to death!) and other Mumia videos by a video team.
Morgan for Mumia (postal workers for Mumia) will hold STREET screenings of the Arnold Beverly confession outside of the Morgan postal center during the week, educating workers about Mumia's case.
Sunday, March 30th: Resistance in Brooklyn will be doing Chalk for Mumia throughout the week. Come to 263 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 5D in Brooklyn. If you want to Chalk for Mumia! For more information, please call 718-399-8366.
The Jericho Movement will host a dinner and educational event on the similarities between Mumia's case and that of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown). To be held in Queens, date and place to be announced.
Saturday, March 29th, 5 PM. The Queens Green Party will host an educational/fundraising party in Queens. Place TBA.
Friday, April 4th: International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia in Philadelphia will hold a teach-in and Amicus Brief Joinder (signing on to the legal brief supporting Mumia) outside City Hall, 15th & Market Streets at 11:00 a.m.
Also Friday, April 4th, 6:30 PM. ProLibertad will do a Spanish language film showing on the case of Mumia in Quisqueya (Washington) Heights at El Centro Tambouril, 2005 Amsterdam Ave. For more information, please call: 718-601-4751.
Saturday April 5, 2003 1 to 5 PM, join Us for a Community Cultural Celebration! House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Avenue (Between Nevins & Bond Sts., A & C trains to Hoyt St., 2,3,4,5 trains to Nevins St.)
MC'd by Imhotep Gary Byrd with performances by Amiri & Amina Baraka, Suheir Hammad (of Def Poetry Jam), Ngo Thanh Nhan, House of the Lord Church Gospel Choir, Ngoma, and many others Food will be sold by women from the Church
April 24th, 2003 March & Rally to Demand Mumia's Immediate Release! 11 A.M. Philadelphia City Hall 15th & Market Streets DEATH ROW? SHUT IT DOWN!
WHAT'S THE WORD? Harrisburg!
Just as the people of South Africa struggled against the racist apartheid system in their country, we in the United States have been waging a war against institutionalized and systemic racism for several centuries now. Although there have been some victories, racism is endemic in the United States, a white settler state just like South Africa. Mumia's case is but one example of this institutionalized racism. Despite the growing evidence proving his innocence, Mumia is still on death row, still in danger of execution for a crime he did not commit. A world-renowned journalist and tireless fighter for freedom for his people and all people, Mumia is on death row precisely because he is a Black man who dares to speak truth to power. As the South African struggle proved, only the people have the power to deliver an enduring blow against the racist state by freeing Mumia and all political prisoners.
Since Governor Ryan of Illinois recently set a precedent by releasing four people from death row in that state and commuting all other death sentences to life in prison, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia is organizing a march and rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the anniversary of the Effective Death Penalty Act to demand that Gov. Rendell free Mumia and shut down Death Row in Pennsylvania. In Mumia's words, Governor Ryan "sent shock waves across the nation when he issued four pardons to men sitting on the Condemned Units of the state's prison system, opening the doors of the dungeon for four men, one of whom sat in the shadow of the gallows for nearly two decades. Speaking in a soft, Midwestern accent, his words were as damning as the death sentences that his orders negated: 'The system is broken.' . . . Hours after his unprecedented announcement of the pardon package, Ryan's office would announce another earth-shattering event: the full commutation of every man on Death Row in the Prairie State. By the end of the week, 167 folks would no longer be on Death Row. . . . the one-term governor struck a mighty blow against the Death System in America." The Coalition will be organizing buses to this important rally.
Sponsors of Free Mumia Week 2003 (list in formation): The New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, ProLibertad, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Green Party (NYC), IAC/Millions for Mumia For further information, call the Free Mumia Coalition Hotline: (212) 330-8029 / www.freemumia.com / info@freemumia.com
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." - Frederick Douglass
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND ARAB & MUSLIM DETAINEES!
THE POWER OF TRUTH IS FINAL! MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: STILL INNOCENT! STILL ON DEATH ROW!
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