File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9811, message 16


Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:48:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: AUT: Mumia (fwd)



>
>
>Perdone, no es en castellano!
>Es un testo sobre el prisioniero Mumia Abu-Jamal en los Estados Unidos de
>America. Su requerimiento por un nuevo procedimiento judicial fue
>recusado.
>
>*************************************************
>This information is from the site:
>
>http://www.mumia.org
>
>
>There are many demonstrations announced worldwide for November 7th.
>
>*************************************************
>MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S BID FOR A NEW TRIAL TURNED DOWN
>
>    MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION TO SAVE MUMIA'S LIFE
>
>                         SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1998
>
>                            STATE OFFICE BUILDING
>                     BROAD ST. AND SPRING GARDEN AVE.
>                                     12 NOON
>
> JUST AS WE EXPECTED THE SUPREME COURT TURNED DOWN MUMIA'S BID
>FOR A NEW TRIAL - WE MUST ACTIVATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE NETWORK
>                                       NOW!!!
>
>       NO BUSINESS AS USUAL !!!! WE ARE ALSO PLANNING A MASSIVE
>    DEMONSTRATION ON THANKSGIVING DAY.  WE ARE GOING TO SH0W
>   PHILADELPHIA TOURISTS HOW TO HAVE A REAL THANKSGIVING DAY
>                              PARADE FOR JUSTICE.
>
>                                   protest calls to:
>
>           Governor Tom Ridge - Voice -717-787-2500 Fax - 717-783-4429 -
>
>            D.A. Lynn Abraham - Voice - 215-686-8700 Fax - 215-686-8024
>
>         US Atty Gen. Janet Reno - Voice - 202-514-2000 Fax - 202 514-4371
>
>
>
>                 A Statement From Death Row
>
>         by Mumia Abu-Jamal, SCI-Greene, Waynesburg, PA
>
>
>October 31st, 1998
>
>Once again, Pennsylvania's highest court has shown us the best justice
>that FOP money can
>buy.  Ignoring right reason, their own precedent, and fundamental justice,
>they have returned
>to the stranglehold of death.  In their echoes of the tortured logic of
>Judge Albert Sabo, they
>have reflected a. striking fidelity to the DA's office.  If it is fair to
>have a tribunal who are in
>part admittedly paid by the FOP-and at least one justice who can double as
>DA one day and
>a judge the next in the same case--then fairness is just as empty a word
>as "justice."  To
>paraphrase Judge Sabo, it is "just an emotional feeling."
>
>In recent months the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld death sentences
>in cases where
>an impartial reading of transcripts or pleadings would make an honest
>affirmation all but
>impossible.  They have ignored all evidence of innocence, overlooked clear
>instances of jury
>taint, and cast a dead eye on defense attorneys' ineffectiveness.  What
>they have done in my
>case is par for the course.  This is a political decision, paid for by the
>FOP on the eve of the
>election. It is a Mischief Night gift from a court that has a talent for
>the macabre.
>
>I am sorry that this court did not rule on the right side of history.  But
>I am not surprised.
>Every time our nation has come to a fork in the road with regard to race,
>it has chosen to
>take the path of compromise and betrayal.  On October 29th, 1998, the
>Pennsylvania
>Supreme Court committed a collective crime: it damned due process,
>strangled the fair trial,
>and raped justice.
>
>Even after this legal legerdemain [sleight of' hand] I remain innocent.  A
>court cannot make
>an innocent man guilty.  Any ruling founded on injustice is not justice.
>The righteous fight for
>life, liberty, and for justice can only continue.
>
>Mumia Abu-Jamal
>
>
>
>Thanks to all the signatories who financed the New York Times ad, and to
>all the workers
>who supported the campaign, the ad successfully countered the lies
>perpetrated against
>Mumia.
>
>We have printing 10,000 copies of the ad, and each signatory will receive
>one in the mail
>soon.
>
>Bulk copies (25 or more) of the reprint can be ordered for 15 cents each
>(which includes
>shipping) from:
>
>International Concerned Family & Friends
>P.O. Box 19709
>Philadelphia, PA 19143
>215-476-8812
>
>Refuse & Resist!
>305 Madison Ave, Suite 1166
>New York, NY 10165
>212-713-5657
>
>Mobilization to Free Mumia
>3425 Cesar Chavez St.
>San Francisco, CA 94110
>(415) 821-0459
>
>
>Support Mumia's Right to Speak Out! Help Mumia publish his
>magazine, The Freedom Journal, by advertising! Call (215)
>476-8812 for info.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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