Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:50:13 -0700
From: LAFSPRW6@aol.com (by way of Michael Novick <part2001@usa.net>)
August 30, 1999
FROM: Los Angeles Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu Jamal
8124 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90048
CONTACT: James Lafferty/Office: (323)653-4510, days
For Release: Immediately
Do Not Use After: September 25, 1999
RE: MARCHES AND RALLIES
LOS ANGELES -- Saturday, September 25, 1999
The L.A. Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal is calling two
marches and rallies on Saturday, September 25 to demand a new, fair trail
for the award winning Black journalist who has been on death row since
1982.
Jamal and legions of supporters in the U.S. and throughout the world
maintain that he was framed for the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia
policeman, characterize him as a political prisoner behind bars for his
radical beliefs and activism, and have asked the U.S. Supreme court to
review his case. Los Angeles marches and rallies are being held in
conjunction with educational and cultural events and demonstrations across
the country during the week of September 19-25, on the eve of the Supreme
Court's October session.
The first demonstration will be in South Central L.A.'s Leimert Park, at
43rd and Degnan at 11:00am (gather at 10:00am). The second will be at Le
Conte and Westwood at 7:00pm. Planning meetings for both events are
Wednesdays, September 8, 15, and 22 at 7:00pm at Holman United Methodist
Church, 3320 West Adams.
For information call (323)653-4510, (310)397-6801, or (310)649-0357.
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From: "Kiilu Nyasha" <kiilu@sirius.com>
On a MOVE! Poetry for Mumia!
Wednesday, September 22, 1999, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. in honor of National
Mumia Awareness Week the Bay Area chapter of the National Writer's Union
and United For Justice: Bay Area Coalition to Free Mumia and All Political
Prisoners will host simultaneous readings at multiple sites throughout the
Bay Area:
Marcus Books, San Francisco store, 1712 Fillmore. Host: Kiilu Nyasha.
Featured: Devorah Major and Opal Palmer Adisa "Daughters of Yam"
accompanied by Babatunde Lea (drummer/percussionist).
Black Repertory Group, 3201 Adeline Street, Berkeley. Hosts: Darlene
Roberts and Kathy Parker "Sistahs Wid' Gaps, featuring Lee Williams,
Cacanja Ras Zulu and Paradise.
Deja Brew, 5850 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland. Host: Marvin X, featuring
Tureedah Mikell, Abdi Rahidi and Steve McCutchen
La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley - Café Poetry
hosted by Wanda Sabir. Raymond Nat Turner, Joyce Young, and Professor
Terrence
Elliot's - Black Song & Poetry Ensemble from Contra Costa College will be
featured.
World Ground Café, 3726 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland. Host: Abena Songbird.
Featured: Sabrina Taylor and Margo Pepper.
These events are free! Folks are encouraged to go to the reading nearest
home, and to bring some poetry of their own for the open mic potpourri
afterwards.
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From: "Mumia Week" <info@j4mumia.org>
September Organizer #6
No. 6, September 1, 1999
www.j4mumia.org
Mail to: 511 Ave. of the Americas, #186, New York, New York 10011
Phone: 212-924-8585, Fax: 212-766-1867, E-mail: info@j4mumia.org
SAN FRANCISCO REPORTS ON MUMIA AWARENESS WEEK
Sept 19 — flyering at Black churches in SF and Oakland.
Sept 21 — poetry reading at Marcus Bookstore in Oakland; National Student
Youth Day Oakland high schools.
Sept 22 — Bookstore readings for Mumia, sponsored by the Bay Area chapter of
National Writers Union and United for Justice, 7-9 pm at:
Marcus Books, 1712 Fillmore, SF.
Black Repertory Group, 3201 Adeline St, Berkeley.
Deja Brew, 5850 San Pablo Ave., Oakland.
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.
World Ground Café, 3726 MacArthur Bvd, Oakland
Sept 24 — Mumia and the Death Penalty, 6-9 pm at the St Joseph the Worker
Church, 1640 Addison Street, Berkeley with Ishmael Reed, UC Political
Science professor Bruce Cain, Hastings Law School Professor Rory Little,
Occidental College Associate Professor Gabrielle Foreman, author Melody
Ermachild Chavis and activist Kiilu Nyashu. Moderator: Emil Guillermo;
sponsored and hosted by Oakland PEN.
Sept 25 — The Mobilization to Free Mumia — Car Caravan; UC Berkeley; Oakland
(event being planned by Jericho Movement).
The Labor Action Committee of the Bay Area is organizing a Union Week of
Action for Mumia Sept 19-25th: lunch time teach ins or talks; getting unions
to pass resolutions; and an action by as many labor unions as possible.
Right now, they are calling on the AFL CIO to undertake national action for
Mumia; and follow up on Walter Johnson's call for 2 and 4 hr work stoppages
for Mumia.
PENSACOLA PLANS WEEK OF ACTIONS
Pensacola proves you don’t have to be a big city to put on a week of events
for Mumia Awareness Week.
Sept. 20, 8:00 pm — Freeschool at Van Gogh’s Coffee House on Mumia and the
death penalty.
Sept. 21, 8:00 pm — “Poets and Protest” at Van Gogh’s Coffee House.
Sept. 22, 8:00 am and again at 3:00 pm — protest in front of Federal Court
Building.
Sept. 23, 4 pm — Critical Mass (bicycle action). Meet at Vietnam Memorial.
Sept. 24, 7 pm — Sidewalk March, from Sluggo’s across Palafox Ave.
Sept. 25, 7pm — Vigil at Ferdinand Plaza, playing Mumia CDs. Bring signs.
MORE THAN 100 EVENTS NATIONWIDE FOR “MUMIA 911”
Los Angeles features Art Speaks!, a day long festival, and an evening of
Readings of Works by and about Mumia Abu-Jamal. In New York, hip hop and
rock shows, all day program at the Brecht Forum, art shows around the city.
In San Francisco, 11-4 pm: Dolores Park — between 18th/19th Street and
Dolores SF — Michael Franti and friends: Spearhead, The Coup, Digital
Underground, with speakers: Angela Davis and others.
Many more programs in New York, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, plus cities
from Minneapolis to Berlin. Read the complete list of events for the
National Day of Art to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Saturday,
September 11 (“9/11”) at www.mumia911.org. Phone 888-456-5056.
We need reports from YOUR city or school on what’s happening September 25.
Also send reports on actions planned for the International Youth and Student
Day, Tuesday, September 21.
BLACK COMMUNITY ACTION INFO
Sunday, September 19: Churches for Mumia
Wednesday, Sept. 22: Housing Projects for Mumia
Friday, September 24: High school and college walkouts to do mass leafleting
for Mumia.
Saturday, September 25: Join major national actions for Mumia across the
country.
These actions being coordinated nationally by the Jericho Movement, The Code
(a youth group), and the New African Liberation Front. For info contact:
718-949-5153 and 718-398-1766.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PRINTING NEEDED
Checks should be made to “Black United Fund/Mumia,” marked in the memo
field: “September week” and returned to Black United Fund, 2227 N. Broad
St., Philadelphia, PA 19132-4502
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FOP CAMPAIGN LISTS SPECIFIC "BOYCOTT" TARGETS
*In an unprecedented move, The Fraternal Order of Police
(FOP) have announced that they are boycotting hip hop artists
who have shown support for death-row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal.
The list of artists includes Public Enemy, The Roots, Everlast, The
Beastie Boys and De La Soul. Mumia was convicted in 1982 of killing
a police officer and is currently on death row. There has been a great
deal of controversy over the fairness of his trial however, and many
experts believe that he deserves a new trial. For more info on Mumia
Abu Jamal and the National Day of Art devoted to him taking place
on Saturday, September 11 go to: www.mumia.org
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From: Mark Clement <MClement@bruderhof.com>
Following is the list of Mumia Supporters as it appears on the FOP web-site.
Please forward widely.
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal
The following persons or organizations lent their names to a paid
advertisement in support of the man convicted of murdering
Philadelphia Police Officer Danny Faulkner which appeared in the New York
Times either on August 9, 1995 or October 16,
1998. (NOTE: Affiliations are for identification purposes only. They do not
necessarily imply any institutional endorsement of
the views expressed by the individual listed.)
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal Which Appeared in the New York Times -
10/16/98
Shana Alexander, Author
Dr. Ricardo Alvarez/Hydra Mendoza & Family
Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
W. Coody Anderson, WHAT-AM, Philadelphia
Johann Christoph Arnold, Author, Bruderhof
Ed Asner
Asner Family Foundation
Houston Baker, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Beach/George Lippman, FireWorx
Hugo Adam Bedau, Tufts University
Harry Belafonte
Daniel Berrigan, Peace Activist
Philip Berrigan, Plowshares
BiblioMANIA@mediawest.com, a free-speech E-Mail list
Carolyn M. Birden, Community College of Philadelphia
Terry Bisson
Joy Blakeslee
Brecht Forum/NY Marxist School
Bruce B. Brugman, S.F. Bay Guardian
Dennis Brutus, Franklin Pearce College
Buffalo Group of SUNY Faculty, Staff & Students
John L. Burton, President Pro Tempore, California State Senate
Rev. Dr. Calvin 0. Butts, III
Dr. Wilma Caffentzis, New Hope, PA
California Nurses Association
Campaign to End the D.P., Chicago, IL
Owen Chamberlain, Nobel Laureate
Chinosole, Editor of Schooling the Generations
Noam Chomsky
David B. Christie, Netscape Communications Corp.
Chumbawamba, Leeds, England
Pat Clark, Philadelphia, PA
Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.
Kevin Coffee
Comite de Soutien a Mumia Abu-Jamal and friends, Marseille, France
Committees of Correspondence
James H. Cone, Professor of Theology
Richard & Carol Crossed
Elizabeth E. Cuprak
Ronnie Dadone, West Chester, PA
Angela Y. Davis
Ossie Davis
Walter E. Davis, Kent State University
David Demarest, Carnegie Mellon University
Nina Dibner, Committee Seeking Equal Justice, Inc.
David Dinkins, Former Mayor, City of New York
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party
E.L. Doctorow
Katherine Donahue
Christine Donner, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice
Sandra E. Drake
Julien Dray, National Assembly of France
Educators for Mumia, City-As-School, New York
Michael Eisenscher
Toby Emmer, Committee to Return Sylvia Baraldini to Italy
Frank Emspak, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin
Ernest Erpleding, Luxemburg
Peter B. Evans, U.C., Berkeley
Fair Play for Mumia Komiteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mike Farrell
Wynne Ferguson, Alliance for Democracy
Carol Bernstein Ferry
French Solidarity Youth Caravan for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Paris & Niort, France
Friends of Leanna Washington, Philadelphia, PA
Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal of New York City
Frances Goldin, Literary Agent/Housing Activist
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero
Jerry Gordon, Trade Unionist
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Detroit
Jeannett Beaulieu Haas
Bill Hagel, Ethical Culture Society of Queens
Ilan Halevy, P.L.O. Envoy to the Socialist International
DeeDee Halleck, Paper Tiger Television
Stuart Hanlon, Attorney for geronimo ji Jaga
Woody Harrelson
Sue Harris, Ph.D., People Video Network
Steven Hawkins, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Edward Herman
Aundre Herron, Northern California ACLU
Gorka Ramos Hervella & Sonia Navvab Akbar, Barcelona, Spain
Rev. Carter Heyward
Sander Hicks, White Collar Crime/Soft Skull Press
Barbara Hiken
Danny Hoch
Arlic & Adam Hochschild, founder, Mother Jones
Bette & Teresa Holliday
Victor & Lorraine Honig
Vincent Hughes, Pennsylvania State Senator
Noel Ignatiev, New Abolitionist, Inc.
Independent Pittsburgh Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rev. Jesse Jackson
geronimo ji Jaga, political prisoner in U.S. for 27 years
Harold Jamison, Major, U.S.A.F. (Retired)
Joseph John, Elwood City, PA
Just Justice, anti-death penalty group, France
Sister Somayah Kambui, liberation songstress
Stephen Katzan
Donna Katzin/Alan Altschuler
Barbara Kingsolver
Earll & Maxine Hong Kingston
Arthur Kinoy, Center for Constitutional Rights
C. Clark Kissinger, Refuse & Resist!
April & Jim Knutson, Pastors for Peace
Jonathan Kozol
Ronald L. Kuby
John Landis
Henry Lesnick, Hostos Community College
David Lester, film maker
Jamila Levi, human rights activist
Jeff Mackler, Socialist Action
Kim Malcheski
Judy Margulis
G.F. & Rose Markham
Frederick Marx, producer/director, Hoop Dreams
Peter Matthiessen
Catherine M. McCann
Susan McDonough, SEIU #715
Brian McWilliams, Int'l. President, I.L.W.U.
Ellen & Robert Meeropol, Rosenberg Fund for Children
Jean Luc Melenchon, Senate of France
Marie-Claire Mendez France, widow of French Foreign Minister
Kathleen Mirante, M.D.
Kim Moody
Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party
Very Rev. James Park Morton, Interfaith Center of New York
Kamau B. Moyenda
Nancy Nadel, Oakland City Council
National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild/New York Chapter
National Peoples Campaign
Molly Nolan, New York University
Joel Norvell
Oakland Education Association, CTA-NEA
Sally O'Brien, WBAI
Office of the Americas, Los Angeles
One Struggle, Miami
Elizabeth Pearson, Interfaith Pilgrimage for Peace & Justice
Katha Pollitt
Rage Against the Machine
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
Shauna Rice/Geoff Pitt Reeves
Refuse & Resist!/Atlanta
Adrienne Rich
Matthew Rinaldi, National Lawyers Guild
Robert Rockwell, M.D., Refuse & Resist!
David Roediger, University of Minnesota
Donald & Suzanne Rudalevige, United Methodist Church
John Ruhland
S.F. Bay Area Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Anna E. Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
Celia Scott, Mayor, Santa Cruz, CA
Pete Seeger
Toshi Aline Seeger
Peter Sellars
John Seman
Seven Women Political Prisoners, U.S. Federal Prison, Dublin, CA
Lou Shaw
Maudelle Miller Shirek, Vice Mayor, Berkeley, CA
David Silver/Alan Berkman
Solidarity, a socialist-feminist organization
Solidarity Distributors, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
Bob Stein, Refuse & Resist!
Charles Stein, professor emeritus
Gloria Steinem
Michael Stipe
Richard Stone, Fresno Center for Nonviolence
Mark Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
Dan Tenenbaum, Seattle Mumia Defense Committee
The Thread of Unity, a family investment corporation
Thirty Postal Workers, Miami, FL
Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History
Peter & Anthony Turner
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate
Twin Cities Coalition to Defend Mumia Abu-Jamal, Minnesota
Coosje van Bruggen
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Inst. For Devel. of Pan African Policy, Ghanna
Alice Walker
Victor Wallis
Per Walsooe, Judge of the Supreme Court of Denmark
Donna Wallach, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Michael W. Warren, Esquire
Fr. Paul Washington, Philadelphia, PA
Cornel West
Western Massachusetts Citizens for Mumia
Western Pennsylvania Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
John Edgar Wideman
Erick Wijk, Sweden
Howard Winant, Temple University
Daniel P. Wirt, M.D.
Debra & Ian Wolf-Mackler
Julia Wright, Int'l Concerned Family & Friends of MAJ, France
Rev. Angela Ying, Seattle Presbytery
A. Young, Vending for Freedom
Young Images, Beverly Hills, CA
Paul Zarembka, SUNY at Buffalo
Howard Zinn, Author, A People's History of the United States
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal Which Appeared in the New York Times - 8/9/95
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Director, National Conference of Black Lawyers
Shana Alexander, Author
Laurie Anderson, Artist
Maya Angelou, Poet
Paul Auster, Author
Alec Baldwin
Russell Banks, Author
John Perry Barlow, Cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Richard J. Barnet, Institute for Policy Studies
Derrick Bell, Legal Scholar
Dennis Brutus, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
David Byrne, Lusks Bop Records
Naomi Campbell, Model, Actress
Robbie Conal, Artist
Denise Caruso, Journalist
Noam Chomsky, Professor, M.I.T.
Richard A. Cloward, Professor, Colorado University, School of Social Work
Ben Cohen, Ben and Jerry's
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Founder, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights
U.S. Representative Ronald V. Dellums
Dominique de Menil
Jacques Derrida
David Dinkins, Professor, Columbia University School of lnternational and
Public Affairs
E.L. Doctorow, Author
Roger Ebert, Film Critic
Jason Epstein, Editor, Random House
Susan Faludi, Journalist
Mike Farrell, Producer, Actor
Timothy Ferris, Author
Eileen Fisher, Clothing Designer
Henry Louis Gates, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard
University
Terry Gilliam, Film Director
Danny Glover
Leon Golub, Artist
Nadine Gordimer, Author
Stephcn Jay Gould, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
Gunter Grass, Author
Herbert Chao Gunther, President, Public Media Center
Edward S. Herman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Jim Hightower, National Radio Host and Commentator
James Hillman, Psychologist, Author
Bell Hooks, Cultural Critic
Molly Ivins, Political Columnist
Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones/Amie Zane Dance Co.
June Jordan, Poet, Professor, African American Studies, University of
California, Berkeley
Mitchell Kapor
Casey Kasem, Broadcaster
C. Clark Kissinger, Refuse and Resist!
Herbert Kohl, Educator, Author
Jonathan Kozol, Author
Tony Kushner, Playwright
John Landis, Filmmaker
Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist
Lyn & Norman Lear
Spike Lee, Director, Producer, Actor
Edward Lewis, Chairman and CEO, Essence Communications, Inc.
Maya Lin, Artist
Norman Mailer, Author
Frederick Marx, Producer, Hoop Dreams
Nion McEvoy, Editor-in-Chief, Chronicle Books
Bobby McFerrin, Vocalist, Conductor
Susan Meiselas, Photographer
Jessica Mitford, Author
Michael Moore, TV Nation
Frank Moretti, Associate Headmaster, The Dalton School
James Parks Morton, Dean, Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Paul Newman
Peter Norton
Joyce Carol Oates, Author
Dean Ornish, M.D., President, Preventive Medicine, Research Institute
Grace Paley, Author
Alan Patricof
Martin D. Payson
Frances Fox Piven, Professor, City University of New York
Katha Pollitt, Author and Associate Editor, The Nation
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Author
U.S. Representative Charles B. Rangel
Adrienne Rich, Poet, Author
Tim Robbins
David A. Ross, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
Salman Rushdie, Author
Susan Sarandon
Charles C. Savitt, President, Island Press
Andre Schiffrin, Director, The New Press
Peter Sellars, Director
Nancy Spero, Artist
Art Spiegelman, Comix Artist
Bob Stein, The Voyager Company
Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine
Sting, Musician
Michael Stipe, R.E.M.
Oliver Stone, Filmmaker
Brian Stonehill, Director of Media Studies, Pomons College
Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union
Trudie Styler, Producer, Actress
William Styron, Author
Edith Tiger, Director, National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Edward R. Tufte, Professor, Yale University
Eric Utne, Editor-in-Chief, Utne Reader
Bill Viola, Artist
Alice Walker, Author, Poet
Cornel West, Professor, Harvard University
Mare Weiss and Nancy Meyer, TV Producer and Writer
John Edgar Wideman, Author, Professor, University of Massachusetts
Garry Wills, Adjunct Professor of History, Northwestern University
Joanne Woodward
Peter Yarrow, Musician
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From: Todd Heintz <heintzt@augsburg.edu>
To: natlfop@wizard.net
DEAR MR. GALLEGOS AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE,
Please honor me by placing my name on your HONOR ROLL- the list of those
people you intend to boycott because the believe in FREEDOM and JUSTICE and
support Mumia Abu-Jamal. This will be one of the highest honors ever bestowed
on me and one which I will be proud of and will share with my friends, along
with the suggestion that they also request this honor.
I believe in Mumia Abu-Jamal's innocence and that he never received a fair
trial- a right guaranteed by the United States constitution. His trial was a
travesty of injustice and a mockery of the Constitution. If you truly want
justice for Danny Faulkner I do not believe that you will find it by having
Mumia executed- if you truly want justice for Danny Faulkner join us in
calling for a new and fair trial. If you are so sure Mumia Is guilty then why
are you afraid of giving him a new trial? What are you trying to hide?
Thank you,
Todd Heintz
heintzt@augsburg.edu
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IT'S TIME TO PICK UP THE PACE!
International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
P.O. Box 19709 - Philadelphia, PA 19143
Ph: 215-476-8812 / Fax: 215-476-7551
Web: www.mumia.org / E-mail: mumia@webcom.com
MUMIA MUST LIVE!