THE EVIDENCE MUST BE HEARD!
DEMAND MUMIA’S RELEASE NOW!
WBIX.org webcasting Teach-in 1pm-5pm, April 6, 2002
We are facing a critical moment in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, award-winning journalist and Black political prisoner on death row, framed in 1982 for the killing of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. The various powers who’ve clamored for Mumia’s execution for two decades made their first major concession on December 18, 2001. Twenty years after the original incident of December 9, 1981 in Philadelphia, Federal Judge William Yohn overturned Mumia’s death sentence based on what he interpreted as faulty instructions to the jury in 1982 during the sentencing phase of the trial. But he let the conviction for first degree murder stand. Judge Yohn ruled that at the end of 180 days (mid-June), Mumia will automatically be sentenced to life in prison (without parole!) unless the decision is appealed. Both the prosecution and Mumia’s legal team have filed appeals. Although completely innocent, Mumia is still on Pennsylvania’s Death Row. Unless we can force the courts to hear the evidence of his innocence, he faces life in prison or a possible new death sentence for a crime he did not commit. Mumia’s life is in more danger than ever before!
Despite overwhelming evidence of prosecutorial, judicial, and police misconduct in his trial, and mounting and powerful evidence substantiating Mumia’s assertion of innocence, the state and federal judicial authorities are determined to keep Mumia in prison or kill him. They can only do this by refusing to hear the previously hidden evidence that Mumia’s attorneys have discovered and presented in both state and federal courts. WE MUST FORCE THE COURTS TO HEAR THE STRONG EVIDENCE OF MUMIA’S INNOCENCE!
A key affidavit confirming Mumia’s innocence is the confession of mob hit man Arnold Beverly to the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, the crime for which Mumia was sentenced to death. This confession was found to be highly credible by Charles Honts, a nationally recognized polygraph expert. Former court reporter Terri Maurer-Carter’s affidavit that she overheard Judge Sabo say in 1982, “Yeah, and I’m gonna help ’em fry the n****r!” only confirms the total lack of impartiality we witnessed in Judge Sabo’s courtroom.
Ought we to be silent when the State forces the Voice of the Voiceless to remain caged or possibly silenced forever? Rage is the only possible response to Judge Yohn’s decision. We will not be silenced until Mumia and all Political Prisoners are free!
Judge Yohn’s decision is unjust and unacceptable. 21 stolen years is too long! Let’s bring Mumia home now!
Saturday, April 6th, 2002
Rally & March • Philadelphia State Office Bldg • 11 AM
(Broad & Spring Garden)
Teach-In • noon • Ben Franklin High School (Broad & Green)
This is Mumia’s high school, where he was given his name by his teacher Timone Ombina
and waged a struggle to have the school’s name changed to Malcolm X High School!Dick Gregory • Sonia Sánchez • Sam Jordan • Elliot Grossman • Frank Morales • Steve Hawkins • Elombe Brath
See the Beverly confession! • Hear Terri Maurer-Carter speak on Sabo’s racist remark! Listen to Veronica Jones describe how she decided to tell the truth, resulting in her arrest in the courtroom during the PCRA hearings!
Join the call to LET THE EVIDENCE BE HEARD along with Angela Davis, Mos Def, Alice Walker, Ed Asner, Jesse Jackson, Kathleen Cleaver, David Dinkins, Prof. Dennis Brutus, the Welfare Poets, Elombe Brath, Hurricane Carter, Ossie Davis, Rage Against the Machine, Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan, Cornell West, Suheir Hammad, Sonia Sanchez, Ruby Dee, Martin Luther King III, Chuck D, Danny Glover and millions more across our planet!
THE MOVEMENT STRIKES BACK WITH THE POWER OF TRUTH!
For more info, contact: International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal • icffmaj@aol.com • www.mumia.org • 215-476-8812 • For bus tickets, contact: NYC Free Mumia Coalition • 212-330-8029 • www.freemumia.com • Millions for Mumia/IAC • 212-633-6646 • www.mumia2000.org
Participating orgs. (list in formation): African-American Reconstruction League • Asians for Mumia • December 12th Movement • IFCO/Pastors for Peace • The Jericho Movement • Millions for Mumia/IAC • The MOVE Org. • Capitol District (NY) Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal • Patrice Lumumba Coalition • Prolibertad Refuse & Resist • San Romero de las Américas • Solidarity • Vieques Support Campaign • Workers to Free Mumia • Youth for Mumia
A CONVERGENCE IS CALLED ON PHILLY Sat April 6th, 2002-- WBIX.org webcasting it 1pm-5pm --
Philadelphia: March and Rally for Mumia on April 6: We are facing a critical moment in the case of award-winning journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, framed in 1982 for the killing of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. The various powers whoíve clamored for Mumia's execution for two decades made their first major concession on December 18, 2001. All Out for Mumia, April 6th: Join Dick Gregory, Sonia Sanchez and others to DEMAND FREEDOM FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, an innocent victim of police misconduct and the racist death penaltynoon. PHILADELPHIA 11am MARCH Gathering at State Office Building (corner of Broad and Spring Garden)
1pm-5pm TEACH-IN on 'Let the Evidence be heard' Benjamin Franklin High School (corner of Broad and Green) This forum will include updates on the Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin case, April 20th mobilization against war and racism in Washington, DC, struggle for reparations, a special taped greeting from Mumia, and much more. Mumia Abu-Jamal is calling all progressive forces to unite and not allow the racist courts and the U.S. government to "depoliticize" his case.
The December 18th federal district court decision that overturned Mumia's death sentence and not the first degree murder conviction, is a political maneuver to try to keep all of the suppressed evidence that could free Mumia, from seeing the light of day, especially the Arnold Beverly confession. The death penalty could still be reinstated for Mumia depending on the outcome of the state and federal appeals or Mumia could be facing life in imprison without parole, a Pennsylvania law.
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