From: Brenda L McKee <pandora676@juno.com>
This is the activities for Mumia occurring at the University of Wisconsin -
Green Bay. We (Daughters of Nadia) felt that because Green Bay is such an
uninformed conservative city including the campus, it needed information
focusing on Mumia but also including Leonard and other political prisoners.
Information will be provided at the tables set up on political prisoners in
general but heavily focusing on Mumia, due to the urgency of his situation.
A week of information tables, video showings, a speaker, and
hiphop/poetry jam raise awareness and support for Political Prisoners.
Sponsored by Black Student Union, International Club, Intertribal Stundent
Council, and Daughter's of Nadia, events will be held for Black journalist,
Mumia Abu-Jamal and American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier.
Tues. Sept 21 7pm Niagara A
video: "Incident at Oglala, the Case of Leonard Peltier"
Weds Sept 22 7pm Christie Theatre
speaker: Sister Ifama Jackson, from Milwaukee chapter of Wisconsin
for Mumia, to tell of Mumia's case and current updates.
Thurs Sept 23 7pm World Unity Rm
video: "A Case for a Reasonable Doubt? The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal" for
all those who can't make Wednesday.
Fri Sept 24 7pm Phoenix Rm
Hip Hop/Poetry Jam: Performance by DVS Records for Mumia, Leonard and all
Political Prisoners.
On Monday and Tuesday we will set up information tables in the Library
Aclove with videos showing and literature available. They will be
staffed with the Daughters of Nadia so that any questions may be
answered.
Contact skarndt@hotmail.com or (920) 437-4075 if you have questions.
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From: Pan-African News Wire <ac6123@wayne.edu>
Mumia Leafleting This Weekend
The Coalition To Stop The Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal met Thursday night
and organized several leafleting actions to get the word out on the
Demonstration on September 24th at the U.S.-Canadian Tunnel to demand a
new trial for Mumia.
We will be leafleting at the Detroit Festival of the Arts. Please meet
at the corner of Woodward and Kirby (2 blocks north of Warren), you will
need to park and walk to this location. There will be someone there with
Mumia leaflets at each designated time. Please look for them.
Saturday, September 18th 12:00 noon and 5:00pm
Sunday, September 19th 2:00pm
There will also be leafleting at the Student/Youth Day event on Tuesday,
September 21st at 1pm in Gullen Mall at Wayne State University (by the
Student Center Building).
The next Coalition Meeting will be on Thursday, September 23rd following
the "Informational Forum on Mumia" in room 289 of the Student Center
Building at Wayne State University. The Forum begins at 6:30pm.
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THE BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
AND WSU'S NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD
PRESENTS
AN INFORMATIONAL FORUM ON THE CASE OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Mumia Abu-Jamal is the African American activist who was imprisoned in
1985 and who is on death row. Mumia's case is a subject of international
protest by those who feel he was denied a fair trial.
GUEST SPEAKER: Prominent Criminal Attorney and former
Chairperson of the National Conference of
Black Lawyers Jeffrey L Edison, Esq. will
speak on the law and politics surrounding
the Mumia case.
There will be a 30-minute video showing a live interview with Mumia
regarding the Prison Industrial Complex. This interview was filmed in
1996 in the Pennsylvania prison.
>>PLEASE COME AND LEARN ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT CASE<<
DATE: Thursday, September 23, 1999
TIME: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
PLACE: Wayne State University Student Center Building, Room 289, Detroit.
Free Admission.
Co-Sponsored by: The Coalition to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
For more information contact Kandace Jones, BLSA President.
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From: THECODENY@aol.com
The Code wil be holding a Open Mic Slam for Mumia Friday September 24th
at 7:00pm. Location Sistas' Place 456 Nostrand Ave. (corner of Jefferson)
Brooklyn New York 718 398-1766
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From: "Peter Lamphere" <peter_lamphere@hotmail.com>
As part of Mumia awareness week, the 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 AbuJamal
Frank Smith, survivor of the Attica prison uprising
Lucy Herschel, Campaign to End The death Penalty.
7:30 Wednesday, 9/22
602 Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University, 116th & Broadway
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From: "Taylor, Professor Mark" <mark.taylor@ptsem.edu>
PRINCETON SEMINARY SYMPOSIUM ON MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
___________________________
" STOPPING THE EXECUTION OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL -
Between Prison Narrative and Social Movement "
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row in Penn-
sylvania since 1982. His trial and appeals have
been seen as flawed by human rights groups around the
world. He has published two books, Live From Death
Row (1995), and Death Blossoms: Reflections from a
Prisoner of Conscience (1997). Abu-Jamal has
become the center of a national and international effort
to win him a new trial, and a focus point of a variety of
other movements against police brutality, the death
penalty, and racism in the criminal justice system. In
Alice Walker's words, his is "a rare and courageous voice
writing from a place we fear to know."
Special Speakers Present !
FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN
Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Author of "Who Set You Flowin'?" The African American
and the Black Migration Narrative ("delicious brain
food without the wordy rhetoric," Vibe Magazine).
ROBIN D.G. KELLEY
Professor of History and Africana Studies at
New York University. Author of Race Rebels:
Culture, Politics, Working Class, and Your
Mama is DisFUNKtional: Fighting the Culture Wars
in Urban America.
Moderator, Mark Taylor, Professor Theology and Culture
Princeton Theological Seminary
ALL WELCOME - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1999
HODGE HALL, RM. 6 (Near corner of Alexander Rd. and College Ave.)
Campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ
For More Information, CALL (609) 497-7918
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From: Lee Hubbard <superle@pacbell.net>
The Black List - http://www.theMarcusGarveyBBS.com
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kim McMillon
(510) 525-3948
FREE PUBLIC DISCUSSION
“MUMIA & THE DEATH PENALTY”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
6:00 – 9:00 PM AT
ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER CHURCH
1640 ADDISON STREET IN BERKELEY
Berkeley, CA (August 13, 1999) – PEN Oakland invites the public to the
free open discussion Mumia and the Death Penalty on Friday, September
24th at St. Joseph The Worker Church (1640 Addison Street in Berkeley)
from 6:00 - 9:00 PM.
This public forum is not an exercise on whether or not we as a nation
should abolish the death penalty, but rather an examination of the
historical, and cultural implications of the death penalty
and its effect on our society. Panelists will dialogue on the effects of
the death penalty on our culture? As a nation, how has the death penalty
effected us? Do we feel safer? Historically has it made a difference,
both positive and negative?
Our panelists include: noted author and UC Berkeley Professor Ishmael
Reed, UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Bruce Cain, Hastings Law
School Professor Rory Little, Occidental College Associate Professor
Garielle Foreman, author Melody Ermachild Chavis, and radio journalist
Kiilu Nyasha. The event will be moderated by journalist and news
commentator Emil Guillermo.
The goal of this public forum is to explore the human condition with our
audience, exchange ideas, values, information, and to critically look at
our society and system of justice.
Because of the high profile of condemned African-American journalist
Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has spent the last 17 years on Pennsylvania’s death
row, much of the debate will center upon this particular case. This case
has received a great deal of media attention, running the gamut from
ethnic newspapers, leading publications to a recent article in Vanity Fair.
At his 1982 trial, Mumia Abu Jamal was convicted of killing Philadelphia
police officer Daniel Faulkner. He was denied the right to defend himself,
and assigned a court-appointed attorney who was unprepared to mount an
effective defense. His political views were used to argue that
he should be put to death.
In his appeals of this conviction, Abu-Jamal presented evidence that
witnesses were intimidated and coerced to provide false testimony. Abu-Jamal
was forced to make his appeals before the same judge that sentenced him to
death in 1982. Judge Albert Sabo rejected Abu-Jamal’s bids for a new trial,
and last fall the elected justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court concurred, paving the way for Abu-Jamal’s execution.
This program will examine an issue that tears at the very heart of the
American fabric, whether or not a human being has the right to take another’s
life. Although this is not a pro or con debate on the death penalty, it
is an open forum where people will be asked to look at this issue from a
point of law, in a historical context, as well as how it relates to
their own world, and their own philosophy on life and existence. The panel
will act as facilitators, allowing the audience to explore the many layers
of
the death penalty issue.
For more information on the program, please call (510) 525-3948.
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From: "Kiilu Nyasha" <kiilu@sirius.com>
September 13, 1999
Greetings:
Hey, now -- the youth are ona move!
911 in SF.’s Delores Park in the daytime brought thousands of young folks
of every description to listen to Digital Underground and Michael Franti’s
Spearhead rock the park. I haven’t seen a rally of that spirit and
multitude since the Free Huey, Free Bobby days. It’s wonderful to
hear/feel positive lyrics/rap along with talented musicians giving their
all to the people, and to the cause of freeing Mumia, et al.
Thank goodness, speakers were few with the keynote by Angela Davis, as
eloquent and on target as ever. Davey D did a great job MCin’ -- and some
of the best talk of the day came from poets and spokenword artists. These
young ones blow my mind! They are soooo fresh and political, creative and
irreverent -- revolutionary! It’s very exciting for an o.g. like me who
has been hoping for these days to return, for our newest generation of
young adults to “get it.”
Now, it’s our (us oldies/elders) job to lend them guidance whenever,
wherever possible to prevent them at least from making the same ole
mistakes we made. “A fall in the pit, a gain in the wit.”
So that makes us plenty wise :>).
In any case, I think we’ve succeeded in passin’ the torch. Looks to me
like the youth are gonna run with it.
Mumia, you must have been smiling from morning to night on 911. Cuz while
I couldn’t be in more than one place at a time, and therefore missed a
whole lot of other 911 events, I did get to the Slammin’ for Mumia
poetry/jazz/rap/open mike event at the ILWU in SF. It too was packed (SRO)
with mostly young folks -- and the spoken word was baaadass, kickass and
conscious/militant -- with some incredible lines on you and your case, the
death penalty, prison, etc.
It’s no wonder that the Juvenile Crime Bill is on it’s way down the fascist
pipeline to further expand the new plantation and lockups (for those who
refuse to slave). But what worries me here in the Bay Area is that too
many young folks are allowing themselves to be orchestrated by their very
enemies -- into working within this rotten/entirely corrupt system.
Locally, we’ve seen well over 300 propositions or so-called initiatives
over the last few decades, yet nothing has changed except to get worse
(more prisons & prisoners, more homeless, more working poor, more
destitute, etc.). In the local June primary, e.g., these fascists spent
$100 million. Moreover, these props always pit us against one another
instead of against the corporate-run state. Then, when the vote doesn’t go
their way (after they’ve spent millions drawing the parameters and making
each bill sufficiently ambiguous and downright confusing --yes/no ???!!!),
they simply take it to court or somehow render the outcome null and void.
Bush Junior has already raised $50 million in his bid for the presidency,
and turned down government campaign funds (an entitlement) so as not to be
limited by it’s regulations. I.e., the sky’s the limit. Just recently,
the New Jersey Governor, “Whatshername,” dropped out of the Senate race cuz
some unknown multi-millionaire jumped into the race and she conceded she
couldn’t out fundraise him. Check out Forbes and Perot, among others.
Rich guys who buy their way into elections. We must stop being
orchestrated and organized by our enemies. We can take that same energy
(spent following their script), and use it creatively and much more
productively struggling to organize our communities, our peoples to meet
their immediate needs and demand a government that does the same. In a
modern society those needs must include affordable, healthy/organic food, a
living wage, affordable housing and child care, universal health care and
education (including higher education), and efficient, affordable public
transportation. Empirical evidence supports the prospect of the virtual
elimination of crime when such needs are met in a given society, making
"criminal justice" practically unnecessary, obsolete..
Mumia Awareness Week is coming up, and I anticipate similar enthusiasm and
massive turnouts here in the Bay Area to the many, varied events already
planned.
United For Justice is planning a millennium (Y2k) event in the beginning of
January at The Alice Arts Center that will include numerous performances
from various artists (jazz, hip hop, reggae, spoken word, dance, etc.) --
plus a wall of photos of prisoners. We’ll be soliciting photos of all the
political prisoners (activists/revolutionaries) and (broadening the
definition to include as political prisoners those who are simply victims
of racism and an unrighteous order) pictures of the loved ones of Bay Area
folks locked up in these Calif. gulags (33!). Dorsey Nunn and Shabaka ji
Jaga have agreed to organize the collection; and I’m recruiting some young
people to do the actual photo mounting. “A picture is worth a thousand
words.” So a thousand photos will make a helluva statement on the status
quo and the need to change it.
If anyone who reads this wants to help, contribute to pulling this event
together, please contact me ASAP. We are in the very beginning stages (I’m
awaiting a date from Edsel Matthews for our venue) and while we’ve made a
list of artists to contact, nothing is firm as of yet. So we’re still open
to suggestions, ideas, and, of course, funds. We estimate the need for
about $3,000 to pull it off successfully. We have $552.
Ona move
In struggle w/love,
Kiilu
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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!