NEW YORK CITY EVENTS FOR MUMIA AWARENESS WEEK

For a national events listing, see the National People’s Campaign web page, www.peoplescampaign.org .

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – CONGREGATIONS FOR MUMIA

African American Day Parade

*A special call to activists of color to join the Mumia contingent of the African-American Day Parade. Meet at 12:30 pm at 111 St. between 7th Ave. (Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.) and 8th Ave.

Free video screening of A Case for Reasonable Doubt and Live from Death Row. 5 pm at City College (138 St. and Convent Ave.), NAC Building, Room 3/201. For more information, call 212-780-4770.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – PHONE AND FAX ZAP TO RIDGE AND ABC

Send phone and fax messages to Gov. Ridge and ABC all day.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – INTERNATIONAL YOUTH AND STUDENT DAY

Hunter College activities all day. Sponsored by SLAM!. Call 212- 772-4261.

Youth Rally and March Columbus Circle, marching to Times Square. Refuse & Resist! Youth Network, NYC (212) 385-9305

International Action Center volunteers’ meeting featuring reports on Mumia and from activists who have just returned from South Africa. Includes video footage of both struggles. 6:30 pm at 39 W. 14 St., #206. For more information, call 212-633-6646.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 – OUTREACH TO HOUSING PROJECTS

NYC Campaign To End the Death Penalty is hosting a LIVE FROM DEATH ROW featuring a call-in message and question and answer session with members of the Death Row 10, a group of death row inmates convicted on the basis of tortured confessions. Also speaking: Manning Marable, Professor of African American Studies/History at Columbia University, Francis Golden, Literary agent for Mumia Abu- Jamal Frank Smith, survivor of the Attica prison uprising Lucy Herschel, Campaign to End The death Penalty. 7:30 pm at 602 Schermerhorn Hall Columbia University, 116th & Broadway

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 – ANTI-DEATH PENALTY DAY

Rally at the College of Staten Island sponsored by the College Voice. 1:30 to 5 pm. For more information, call 718-982-3091.

Rainbow Flags for Mumia coalition meeting (every Thursday through October) 6:30 to 8:30 pm at 39 W. 14 St., #206. Call 212-633-6646 for more information.

1 pm: 1199 lunch-time forum and video showing at 311 W. 43rd St., 5th floor (across from headquarters building) hear the latest developments in the struggle for a new trial for more information, call Hillel at 917-548-5120

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 – STUDENT WALK OUTS

Workers World Party Forum: Fighting racist government repression

Speakers include Dona Rosa Escobar of Pro Libertad, Monica Moorehead and Larry Holmes of WWP, and a Youth and Student organizer for Mumia Awareness Week. Topics include an update on Mumia’s fight for a new trial, the ongoing struggle to free all the Puerto Rican political prisoners, the growth of the prison-industrial complex, and anti-repression struggles.

7 pm at 55 W. 17th St. For more information, call 212-627-2994.

The Code will be holding a Open Mic Slam for Mumia at 7:00pm at Sistas' Place, 456 Nostrand Ave. (corner of Jefferson), Brooklyn. Call 718 398-1766 for more information.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 – 100 CITIES FOR MUMIA

March for Mumia
Two assembly points:
12 noon at Harlem State Office Building, 125th St. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.

March to Columbus Circle at 1 pm
2:30 pm at Columbus Circle, 59th St. and 8th Ave.

At 3:30 pm, march to ABC network headquarters, through Times Square, ending at Vanity Fair magazine offices.

Sponsored by New Afrikan Liberation Front, December 12th Movement, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, International Action Center, Refuse & Resist!, Campaign to End the Death Penalty

For more information, call 212-330-8029 or 718-398-1766.

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