Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:53:07 +0100 (MET)
Subject: M-G: Re: Urgent Mumia Call (fwd)


I am sending this to everybody i know..

Bob Malecki

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>Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:51:00 -0800 (PST)
>From: C. Clark Kissinger <73447.1527-AT-compuserve.com>
>To: Prison activist list subscribers <prisonact-list-AT-igc.org>
>Subject: Urgent Mumia Call
>
>URGENT CALL TO ACT IN DEFENSE OF MUMIA (February 18, 1997)
>from Refuse & Resist!
>
>In the last few days, Pennsylvania prison authorities have launched a series of
>crude new attacks on Mumia Abu-Jamal. Because these attacks are aimed at
>further isolating Mumia from his supporters, they must be responded to 
immediately.
>
>These attacks may also be in preparation for the announcement of new adverse
>decisions by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, with the purpose of placing Mumia
>in Disciplinary Custody which would cut off his phone privileges and cut
>off his access to the media completely-in other words an "official gag." 
>Further, these attacks come following the publication of Mumia's new book 
Death 
>Blossoms. This time officials may not wish to attack him directly for 
writing a book, 
>and are looking for other ways to apply the censor's hand.
>
>Here is what has happened:  On Thursday, February 13, Mumia was told that he
>would have to cut his hair, and he had ten days to comply.  Mumia wears his
>hair in natural "dreadlocks" for religious reasons, just as other prisoners 
wear
>religious head coverings.  He has worn his hair this way for the 16 years
>he has been held captive.  In 1985, immediately after the bombing of the MOVE 
>house in Philadelphia, Mumia and the MOVE members in other Pennsylvania prisons
>were all ordered to cut their hair.  They refused, and Mumia was thrown into
>"the hole" until 1992 when then Gov. Casey rescinded the order.
>
>The second thing that happened is that Mumia's attorney who is handling his
>civil suit against the prison authorities, Jere Krakoff of Pittsburgh, was
>barred from visiting Mumia at the prison.  He has visited Mumia as his attorney
>on six previous occasions.
>
>Third, Mumia was handed a letter on legal matters sent by his attorney Leonard
>Weinglass, where the envelope had been torn open and the words "cop killer"
>were written across the front.
>
>Fourth, Chris Zimmerman, a member of the Bruderhof community and the
>Pennsylvania Prison Society was grabbed and thrown out of the prison
>following a visit.  He has now been permanently barred from the Pennsylvania
>Prison system.
>
>These outrages must be responded to immediately.  In addition to mounting
>visible public protest, prominent people, religious and governmental officials
>must be called on to speak out.
>
>Letters of protest can be sent to:
>
>Acting Superintendent Vaughn, State Correctional Institution at Greene, 1030 E.
>Roy Furman Hwy., Waynesburg, PA 15370-8089. Phone 412-852-2902; fax 412-
>852-2909 and 412-852-5502.
>Martin Horn, Commissioner of Corrections, Department of Corrections, P.O. Box
>598, Camp Hill, PA 17001-0598. Phone 717-975-4859; fax 717-977-0132.
>
>
>Please send copies of protest letters to the International Concerned Family &
>Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, P.O. Box 19709, Philadelphia, PA 19143.  Phone
>215-476-8812; fax 215-476-7551.
>
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