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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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