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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:21:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: "A. Stahl" <adstahl-AT-blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Academics for Mumia (fwd)


You may wish to page down to "Press Release" to learn how you can add 
your signature to this project.

Aletha Stahl
University of Iowa
adstahl-AT-blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Modhumita Roy <mroy-AT-emerald.tufts.edu>
To: afrlit <AFRLIT-AT-acuvax.acu.edu>
Subject: Academics for Mumia (fwd)

Dear List Members,
In the past several weeks I have forwarded information about the Mumia 
case.  Although I have not heard anything back from anyone--nor any 
discussion about it--I am taking the liberty of sending out this message.

The need is urgent since Pennsylavania is set to execute Mumia on the 17th.

Modhumita Roy

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Subject: Academics for Mumia

You are likely picking up on this notice already -- for an Academica for
Mumia Abu-Jamal newspaper ad. But here's a recent version of the info.







Contacts:  AMAJ Coordinator, Prof. Mark McClain Taylor, c/o
Princeton Theological Seminary, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542.
Phone: (609)  497-7918.  Fax: (609) 497-7728.  E-Mail:
<f40taylr-AT-ptsmail.ptsem.edu>.

                            



                            NOTICE

               DONATIONS NEEDED FOR NEWSPAPER ADS


   AMAJ is aiming to have 500 names of university and college
teachers in  the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER on August 11, to publicize
our Declaration of  support for Mumia Abu-Jamal. To be ready for
that date we need the names  by Aug. 6.

   We also, obviously, need funds as close to that date as
possible. Signers are contributing as they can. We need $30 to
$60 from each signer. If you can do more, great!

   Even if you are not an academic, and just want to support our
project  financially, you are welcome to contribute. Send checks
payable to AMAJ.   AMAJ is obtaining a non-profit, tax-ID status.
If you send "AMAJ"  contributions care of me, Mark Taylor at
Princeton, I will take it from  there.

   Thanks everybody. Keep working at anything and everything for
Mumia.


                              Mark McClain Taylor

__________________________________________



FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION                                       JULY 27, 1995

CONTACTS:  AMAJ Coordinator, Prof. Mark McClain Taylor, Princeton
           Theological Seminary, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542.
           Phone: (609) 497-7918.   Fax: (609) 497-7728.
           E-Mail: <f40taylr-AT-ptsmail.ptsem.edu>


                           PRESS RELEASE
                           _____________

                AMAJ IS STILL GROWING WITH 200 SIGNERS:

                NOW AIMING FOR HUNDREDS OF NEW NAMES !


   Any faculty out there with affiliations to academic institutions,
please lend your names to AMAJ, and sign on with support for the
"Declaration for Mumia Abu-Jamal." Send your name and addresses to the
above contacts. We are compiling names and money for large ads in THE
NEW YORK TIMES and THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.

   AMAJ held a highly successful press conference in Philadelphia on
Tuesday, July 25, 1995. Almost all the press covered us - some fairly,
some not. The PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER published a story on us under the
heading, "Academics, 144 Strong Seek New Trial". We are not only getting
our position out there, we are getting a saner speech out into the
public arena, to counter the incendiary bloodlust of Philadelphia Mayor
Rendell and of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.

   Special respect goes out to the Philadelphia-based faculty who led
the way and addressed the press eloquently: from the University of
Pennsylvania, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (History), Farah Griffin (English),
E. Ann Matter (Religious Studies and Womens Studies), Antonio McDaniel
(Sociology), and Ines Salazar (English), and from Temple University were
Rebecca Alpert (Women's Studies), and Daniel Tompkins (Classics), and
from Swarthmore College, Mark Wallace (Religious Studies).

   Here is the "Declaration" we have been presenting to the press, and
which we hope you can sign:


                   A DECLARATION FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL

   Across our many differences as scholars and citizens, we in unity
declare our concern that full and deliberate justice be extended to Mr.
Mumia Abu-Jamal.

   As faculty of the tri-state area of Pennsylvania/New Jersey/New York,
and increasingly throughout the nation and world, we

          - PROTEST Governor Ridge's signing of Mr. Abu-Jamal's
              death warrant.

          - DEMAND Judge Sabo's removal from the case.

          - CALL for a stay of execution AND a new trial.


                ========  END DECLARATION  =======
Some prominent signers include Manning Marable, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Cornel West, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Nell Painter, Richard A. Falk,
Molefi Asante. The main point, though, is that MANY of us are signing
this for Mumia and for what he stands. Send your name now if you can.

Mark McClain Taylor, AMAJ Coordinator
Princeton Theological Seminary ***** NOTES from TAYLOR,MARK (MARK TAYLOR
-AT- TEMPLE) at 7/27/95 1:58p




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