Mumia Abu Jamal

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    Brothers under the Skin (über Obama & Romney)

    [col. writ. 10\21\12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     It’s just a few days before the election; and passions are rolling like a river in spring.
    For politics in America has become a bloodless sport: my team versus your team; my guy against your guy. And like sports, it’s a perverse form of entertainment: “American Idol” – without the singing.
    There are, of course, winners and losers.
    But for most people, […]

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    Free Mumia de: (Audio-)Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on Radio Pacifica from Sep. 4, 2012

    http://voicesfromfrontlines.com/mumia-abu-jamal/#.UILjRq72at-

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    Free Mumia de: Bobigny, Frankreich: Straße nach Mumia Abu-Jamal benannt /Johanna Fernadez: A further Street Named After Mumia Abu-Jamal in France on Saturday, October 13, 2012!

    Hallo,am vergangenen Wochenende hat die französische Stadt Bobigny (nahe
    Paris) eine neue Straße nach Mumia Abu-Jamal benannt.Dazu erschienen bereits zwei Artikel:
    Rue-ing The Day (16.12.2012)
    von Linn Washington Jr.
    http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-16/news/34500523_1_abu-jamal-supporters-abu-jamal-case-paris-suburb
    und
    Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal (17.10.2012)
    von der Mumia Hörbuch Gruppe
    http://de.indymedia.org/2012/10/336410.shtml
    Mit solidarischen Grüßen

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    On Saturday, October 13, 2012, the city of Bobigny — a suburb of Paris — named a street after Mumia Abu-Jamal. It was a touching and beautiful event.

    Mumia’s son, […]

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    via Rachel Wolkenstein PHILLY BOOK LAUNCH — VERONICA & The CASE of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL

    BLACK & NOBEL BOOKSTORE, Saturday, October 20 1-3pm
    (Erie and Broad St)
    With Valerie Jones (Veronica’s sister), Ramona Africa, Michael Coard, Hakim Hopkins,
    Rachel Wolkenstein and Veronica’s family reading from her memoir.
    Read the just-out article by Linn Washington in the Philadelphia Tribune, October 16, 2012:

    New Book Reveals Sex Angle in Abu-Jamal Case
    By Linn Washington Jr.

    Members of Philadelphia’s criminal justice system brutally raped Veronica Jones – literally and figuratively.
    Two […]

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    The Politics of Style

    [col. writ. 10/14/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     
    It is a bit of a struggle to look at debates these days.
    I’ve seen plenty of ‘em over the years.
    So many that they seem to run together. Promises. More promises. Lies.
    When all is said and done, debates are exercises in PR (public relations), and mass manipulation.
    They are tools of politicians used to create images of themselves.
    For the politician isn’t […]

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    Rachel Wolkenstein: Dembe Dismisses Mumia’s Post-sentence Challenge to Life Imprisonment

    From: Litestar01@aol.com
    Date: October 5, 2012 8:20:40 AM EDT

    via Rachel Wolkenstein

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Wolkenstein

    October 5, 2012 (917) 689-4009
    Judge Dembe Denies Mumia’s Post-Sentence Motion
    NO LIFE SENTENCE!! FREE MUMIA NOW!!
    Judge Pamela Dembe President of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas affirmed her secret sentencing of Mumia Abu-Jamal to life imprisonment and dismissed Mumia’s post-sentence motion, on October 1 according to the […]

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    ‘BUTTA’ & JERRY: The Nexus

    [col. writ. 10/10/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     For many Pennsylvanians, the case of Jerry Sandusky has been a source of shock, of surprise, and/or morbid curiosity.
    Questions abound as to what happened, how could it have happened, and why?
    But that is not the focus of my attention.
    Rather, it is the case of a young boy who, disturbed and perhaps traumatized by Mr. Sandusky’s inappropriate attentions, talked to […]

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    IVK-INFO # 52

    BITTE VERBREITEN –
    Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,
    am heutigen 10. Oktober, der vor zehn Jahren zum ersten Mal als »Internationaler Aktionstag gegen die Todesstrafe« ausgerufen wurde, verweisen wir auf die Bemühungen der Vereinten Nationen, ein weltweites Moratorium gegen die Todesstrafe zu verhängen. Im Dezember wird die Generalversammlung der VN über eine entsprechende Resolution abstimmen.
    Artikel in englischer Sprache dazu bitte hier lesen:
    http://www.worldcoalition.org/moratorium.html
    1.) ATEMPAUSE IM FALL TERRY WILLIAMS:
    Die […]

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    Feeding the Beast: The Media & the MOVE Wars

    [col. writ. 10/7/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     “The Beast” was the name of a short-lived TV show, starring a talented actor, Frank Langella that perhaps lasted little more than a season.
    Although Langella was the star, the show was shot before a multi screen, constantly flashing set that represents the changing subjects of the media.
    The media was the beast, for it fed voraciously on the lives, tragedies […]

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    Free Mumia de: Richterin Dembe lehnt Mumia Abu-Jamals Widerspruch gegen lebenslange Haft ab

    Hallo,
    wie erst heute bekannt wurde, lehnte Richterin Dembe aus Philadelphia bereits am 1. Oktober Mumias Widerspruch gegen Mumia Abu-Jamals lebenslange Inhaftierung ab. Mumia hat diesen Widerspruch ja bekanntlich selbst (‚per se‘) eingereicht, nachdem er von derselben Richterin zuvor ohne seine Kenntnis verurteilt worden war ( siehe dazu auch http://freiheit-fuer-mumia.de/#jurbetrugsversuch ).
    Vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte dieser Richterin ist es nicht überraschend, dass sie erneut gegen […]

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    The State and the School Teacher

    [col. writ. 10/2/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     In theUnited States, teachers are criticized, called bad names, and occasionally, they have their pensions threatened.
    That’s bad enough, but in Mexico, an elementary school teacher who also was a community organizer in the indigenous community of El Bosque in Chiapas, was framed in the killing of 8 cops, and faces 60 years in prison.
    His name is Alberto Patishtán, affectionately […]

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    Sept. 14th Statement on Solitary

    [Speech writ. 95/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     
    Brothers and Sisters! Mis Hermanos y Hermanas! Comrades!
    Thank you all for coming together here.
    You may think that you know something about solitary, but you don’t. You may have a loved one in prison who has experienced it, and told you about it.
    But still I say, you don’t know it.
    You know the word; but between word and the reality, a […]

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    World Premiere of Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal –An interview with filmmakers Noelle Hanrahan and Steve Vittoria (Litestar01)

    From: destroycapitalism
    Sent: 9/29/2012 12:47:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time

    http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2012/09/documenting-life-of-revolutionary.html

     

    (Photo of Mumia Abu-Jamal during recent contact visit.)

    World Premiere of Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    –An interview with filmmakers Noelle Hanrahan and Steve Vittoria
    By Angola 3 News

    On October 6, the new documentary film entitled Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal, will be making its world premiere at […]

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    ‘Butter’ Gets To Breathe

    [col. writ. 9/30/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     With less than a week before his scheduled execution, Terry ‘Butta’ Williams, after many years of hearing “no” in every court he’s ever entered, finally got a “yes.”
    Terry won not just a stay of execution, but a ruling from the court that his penalty hearing was flawed –and so his death sentence was lifted, and a new sentencing hearing […]

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    Rachel Wolkenstein: Mumia, Veronica Jones and Kathy Boockvar

    From Rachel Wolkenstein

    ON NRCC ATTACK OF KATHY BOOCKVAR

     I do not know Kathy Boockvar or her views on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case. But I was co-counsel for Abu-Jamal when her husband Jordan Yeager represented witness Veronica Jones in “hanging judge” Albert Sabo’s courtroom in 1996. Yeager was a young lawyer for a witness challenging the police coercion that caused her to lie at Abu-Jamal’s trial, leading to […]

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