A Matter of the Mosque
[col. writ. 8/22/10] (c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal
In Manhattan, the controversy over the placement of a mosque (or Islamic house of worship) just a few mere blocks from what is now known as 'Ground Zero' -- the site of the New York plane strikes on 9/11, rages on.Sides have been assembled, and arguments have been hurled like mental Molotov cocktails on both sides of the fray.
The argument, no matter how resolved, shows us how empty is the Constitution, which has an express provision protecting free religious practice.
What an argument for those who claim fealty to the Constitution!For a right that can't be practiced is no right at all.
One is reminded of how the Constitution 'protected' the rights of Blacks after the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution were passed from 1865 to 1870. It looked fine on paper, but over a hundred years later they had no reality in the lives of millions of Blacks, who couldn't vote, couldn't sit on juries, serve in public office, or who lived in segregated housing.The 'rights' existed on paper, but such rights being practiced offended the sensibilities of southern whites.
Sound familiar?
Americans treat the actual document (the Constitution) as Holy Writ, papers protected from the ravages of time and temperature, and held behind sophisticated security systems.As for what is says: not so much.
--(c) '10 maj-----------------

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September 6, 2010

Sisters, brothers, friends and supporters,

I wish I could sit across the table from each of you right now.  We’d share a meal and reflect on changes in this world over these 35 or so years.  Yes, I pay attention to things on the outside (as much as possible).  I know the world is in turmoil and I ache for the Native people who languish in utter poverty on reservations and in inner cities across America.  

As a young man, all I wanted to do was make a positive difference in the People’s lives.  I’ll turn 66 years old next week and I still want that.  It’s difficult to have an impact in my current circumstances, though.  That’s a constant source of frustration for me.  On the outside, given the chance to roll up my sleeves once again, I suspect I’d still be somewhat frustrated.  All that must be done is more than any one person can accomplish.  I’d still like the opportunity to do my part. 

Thinking back to those days onPine Ridge, what I remember is the funerals.  There were so many funerals... So many families lost loved ones. 

There was a powerful force at work on the reservation back then, one with a single purpose—to stamp out the last resistance of the Lakota people.  

We (the Oglala traditionals and members of theAmerican Indian Movement) stood up because we were trying to defend our People.  It was the right thing to do.  We had—have—the right to survive.  

The land was being stolen, too… used for mining mostly.  No thought was given to the disposal of toxic waste. The rivers were full of poisons.  Not much has changed, I hear. 

In those days, though, the reservation was torn apart by a tribal dispute and the federal government armed one group against another. The result was a long line of tragedies for the People of Pine Ridge… and for the People who were there that day in June 1975. 

I honestly understand the pain and anguish suffered by all concerned and I have been part of that suffering.  

I have watched people lie on the witness stand countless times and felt the doors closing on me.  

I have heard judges admonish prosecutors for allowing false evidence in and, in some cases, for participating in the falsification itself.  

The government hid evidence, too.  

Or manufactured it.  Literally. 

The courts say none of this is even in dispute anymore.  So I wonder, if the American standard of justice is still "beyond a reasonable doubt," why am I still here?  

Some people have had their convictions overturned because of one constitutional violation. The number of constitutional violations in my case is staggering. Yet, I continue to wait here for the same justice to be applied for me. 

I hope that someday someone can put it all on the table and show the enormity of the railroading I have been victimized by. 

Last year, as you know, my parole was denied.  That was a disappointment, but I am not defeated.  My fight for freedom—for my People and myself—is not over.  I am a pipe carrier and a Sundancer.  AbandoningThe Struggleis not—never will be—a consideration.  

I am an Indian man and proud of it.  I love my People and culture and spiritual beliefs.  My enemies like to suggest otherwise and seek to rob me of all dignity.  They won’t succeed.  

When I look back over all the years, I remember all the good people who have stood up for me, for a day or a decade. Of course, many have stayed with me all along the way. I think of the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who have signed petitions for me, too... people on the poorest of reservations to the highest of political offices. 

As we have learned over these many years, my freedom won’t come quickly or easily.  To succeed, the coming battle will have to be hard fought.  Please continue to help my Committee and legal team as you have always done.  Your support is more important now than ever before.  When freedom comes, it will be due in no small part to the actions you take on my behalf.  

Again, thank you for remembering me.  You can’t know the comfort you bring to an innocent man locked away from the world for so very long. 

Doksha,

Leonard Peltier
#89637-132
USP-Lewisburg
US Penitentiary
PO Box 1000
Lewisburg, PA 17837

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2M360lx1OY

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/214

http://freemumia.com/

http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=reflections-of-leonard-peltier-native-sundancer-soldier-and-us-held-prisoner-of-war-on-his-66th-birthday

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/22/as_competing_films_offer_differing_views

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkvKEN68tWo

http://bignoisefilms.org/films/tactical-media/114-justice-on-trial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V16It7OAuCo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-hK2zFgJU&NR=1

Ex-SPAND

Chuck Africa

I see C-Span a national forum

Being wasted with passive decorum

We must be wise, thoughtful and revolutionary bold

I see anotherPolitical Prisoner’s story but wonder why other’s aren’t being told

Oh Sis please remember

When in the spot light mention a MOVE member

Have we not suffered enough through time?

And am I right now begrudged forspeaking my mind?

And what about that dead sister of mine?

I feel so upset when Merles name isn’t mentioned

Does she not deserve a few lines?

I know my tongue is hard to hold onto…

Truth isn’t always kind

Don’t retreat to the narrow part of the mind

This is no slight to a forever brother of mine

It’s just an urgent message to cover all ground.

Chuck Africa, April 2010

http://wbai.org/

http://www.freedomarchives.org/

http://sfbayview.com/2010/pam-africa-100-death-penalty-abolition-must-include-mumia/

http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=stop-the-execution-of-mumia-abu-jamal-black-is-back-coalition-condemns-death-penalty

The State and RepressionBy Mumia Abu-JamalSpeech Delivered to International Anti-Repression Congress, October 8-10, 2010, Hamburg, Germany For those of us active in social movements, I'm often surprised at our surprise when the State acts in a repressive or oppressive fashion. It teaches us that the cloudy dreams of Western liberalism have pierced and permeated consciousness, often against our own stated perceptions or ideological persuasion.We have seemingly forgotten, it seems, the fundamental nature of the state, as held by Marx and Engels over 100 years ago in The Communist Manifesto, where the state is described as but “the executive committee” of the bourgeoisie.As such, there are hardly limits to the repression it will utilize to serve the rulers, especially in the stark absence of an effective counter-force.That force must be—must be—an organized, resistant people, who will fight for another way; a way out of the trap of the state — as presently conceived.As a man born in the West (specifically the U.S.), I am actually quite ignorant of the vast scope and breadth of European history, but some years ago, I read a book covering over 500 years of Europe's revolutionary history. Although perhaps little known today, that history is vibrant, insightful and inspiring.It should inform and inspire us today as we face this new empire of neo-liberalism, the latest expression of capitalism, which is a force which exploits not only external, but internal targets.Thus, societal resources are mobilized to attack foreign subjects (usually in the so-called developing world) while denying social services to the domestic population, like healthcare, education, housing and other such necessities.Indeed, the very notion of “social” is attacked by the rulers, and their corporate media, as the business model is raised and reified as the only reasonable structure upon which society is organized.In truth, for more than half a millennia, figures arose in Europe, and as part of sometimes, huge social movements, to challenge the powers and hierarchies which ruled, because they were too repressive, too exploitative or fundamentally unfair. And while many of these leaders and movements were brutally suppressed, their efforts cast long shadows through time, which we may excavate for the struggles of this hour.These historical resistance figures, many from religious dissenting groups, or small political opposition formations, did not, of course, prevail. Yet, like isles on the face of the ocean, they were tips of social mountains that were unseen, mostly unheard, yet were there nonetheless.From the late 1200s to the early-mid 1300s, arose several figures who rocked their societies with new, radical ideas. Among them, were the German monk, Meister [Johannes] Eckhart, the Florentine protester, Giano della Bella, and the Flemish Jacques van Artevelde.Of these, perhaps best remembered is Eckhart, a Dominican theologian and mystic, who raised the quite radical suggestion that man created God, and not the reverse, for which he was forced to recant. In 1329 Pope John XXII condemned his writings.Of della Bella, he put forth the Ordinances of Justice, based on radical republican ideas. Van Artevelde was a leader of several successful worker revolts in Flemish towns.These figures were followed by people like the Czech priest, Jan Hus, who, influenced by the English theologian John Wycliff, opposed the doctrine of papal infallibility; John Ball of Kent County, England, called “the crazy priest" for his popular outdoor speeches, called for an end to rule of the rich over the poor, who were but "slaves," and, Bohemian Martin Huska was a revolutionary, a free thinker and a 15th-century communist.Of course, the German priest Martin Luther, was a religious revolutionary (at least in his earlier days) who rocked the Church and state by his opposition to indulgences. He was excommunicated, after which he both married and founded his own church, which still exists today. There are over eight million Lutherans in the U.S. today.Some of these rebels fought wars against the powers of their day, Like Bohemian Hussite, Jan Zizka, who fought in some 12 battles against the Holy Roman Empire, and was considered the “Cromwell of the Bohemian Revolution.” Or Prokop Holy (Veliky), a Czech Hussite successor to Zizka, who was part of a Hussite militia called “Warriors of God,” which swept across Europe for a decade.These figures would be succeeded by English revolutionaries like Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Copp, who were generally more concerned with the crown than the church. Winstanley was considered an early socialist, who opposed royal and landlord ownership of land, which he considered the common property of all mankind. Lilburne, similarly was called a “Leveller," who was whipped in 1638 for distributing anti-clerical literature. Some time thereafter he was a Lieutenant Colonel in Cromwell's New Model Army, the force that usurped, imprisoned and later beheaded an, English King, Charles I, in 1649.Of course, to most of us, this sounds like ancient history, and we've not even rapped about François “Gracchus" Babeuf, the French revolutionary journalist, or Marx, or V. I. Lenin; or Rosa Luxemburg, for that matter.I say all this to say, revolution is in your blood. You are the great grandchildren of revolutionaries who fought across the vast expanse of Europe to try to live in freedom and equality.You may not remember them, it’s true.But when you study them, they can almost come alive again, to enrich and inspire your tomorrows. For a revolutionary tomorrow! I thank you!Ona Move!Death Row/USA [Source: 500 Years of Revolution: European Radicals from Hus to Lenin by Charles H. George] —Recorded speech at Prisonradio.org, October 2010

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THE STING OF BETRAYAL

The following was written by Mumia in 1981 to Philly WDAS General Manager Cody Anderson, after he was fired from that radio station allegedly because he no longer fit the "image" of the station.

AN OPEN LETTER TO WDAS GENERAL MANAGER, CODY ANDERSON - Submitted byMumia Abu-Jamal

Several years ago, in late 1978, while working to prepare a newscast on my weekend shift at WDAS news, I turned around to see two men: then-General Manager Bob Klein and you, then-assistant G.M., Cody Anderson, standing in the doorway of the newsroom. I recall clearly that both of you had warm words of praise for me, like ``I just want to say I really like the way you do news!'', and one added, ``You really sound good!''... the words were warm, and welcoming. I smiled, thanked the both of you, and prepared the next hour's newscast.

Several days ago, you, Cody, now General Manager, remarked during a phone conversation with me, ``I respect you, and your work, Mumia, but I believe you have a problem working within the established framework...'' Sound familiar, Cody? Soon thereafter you were quoted by a 'DAS news-staffer as saying, ``He's good, but he doesn't fit the image of the station . . . it's not the image we here at 'DAS want to project.'' Is that a true, honest quotation? IMAGE? ARE WE TALKING ABOUT A RADIO STATION, OR A T.V. STATION? AND WHO'S IMAGE CAN I PROJECT, BUT MY VERY OWN?

In the past 3 years, my hair has grown long, in a form some people call `dreadlocks'. Also in that time, I have worked in `white' radio, producing pieces good enough to garner a 1980 Major Armstrong Award (1st place NEWS) along with other staffers at WUHY's 91 Report. 91 Report whipped KYW for the prize, a coveted one in the broadcast industry. In that time, members of the local Association of Black Journalists elected me President of the group. Although I worked at a so-called `white' radio station, I produced shows dealing with the depth of the African experience in America, repeated prison interviews with members of the MOVE Organization (a group largely ignored by the so-called Black media inPhiladelphiasince their August 8th, 1978 imprisonment), concise, sensitive coverage of their murder trial, many pieces on the housing problems of both Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey, City Council, theRepublic of New Afrika, the Yoruba community in the city, the visit of Rastafarian Bob Marley, Nigerian ex-PresidentNnamdi Azikiwe, and countless others . . . Hugh Masakela, the Pointers, etc. WHAT IS THIS IMAGE NONSENSE?

Because a man's hair grows long, does that hamper his ability to write, report, broadcast, THINK? Why are so-called `dreadlocks' so objectionable, at a so-called `BLACK' Radio station, when it was a non-issue at a white one? Was it objectionable when, for almost 10 years,Georgie Woods wore a conk, a process? Was it objectionable when jocks at 'DAS began to sport the new fad, California Curls, another process? What about a jock who gets a hair transplant, goes under a surgical knife, to `regrow' hair? Any objection to the projection of those images? I didn't think so. When a Black man stops combing his OWN hair, which grows out of his OWN head, in the form of his fathers, and PROJECTS HIS OWN IMAGE, one as African as the African seed that produced him ANOTHER `BLACK' MAN OBJECTS! (YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOME CRAZY SHIT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, AIN'T IT?)

Long have Blacks in Philadelphia waited for a black-owned, and black-operated radio station ... is THAT IT? IS THIS THE FUTURE THAT BLACKS LONG-AWAITED, DREAMED OF AND PRAYED FOR? BLACKS ARE IN POSITIONS OF SO-CALLED `POWER', BUT IN WHAT CONDITIONS ARE THEIR MINDS, CODY? ARE THEY STILL `WHITER THAN SNOW'? IS THIS THE NEW DAY THAT BLACKS IN THE BROADCASTING BUSINESS LONGED FOR? WHAT A SAD, PITIABLE DAY. WHAT PETTINESS!! WHAT NIGGERISM!!!!

I have been offered several jobs in TV, both here in Philadelphia and across the nation, both paying nearly $35-thousand a year. Was that enough money for me to shave my head, and slip into a 3-piece suit? Not even! And my family continues it's struggle to survive to make ends meet, like most of our people. THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE, CODY, AND AS THIS IS MY HOME, THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE RIGHT HERE AT HOME. IT IS JUST SUCH NONSENSE AS IMAGE THAT KEEPS US SEPARATED AND WEAK ... WHILE WE FIGHT EACH OTHER, WHILE SILLY-ASS POLITICIANS FIGHT EACH OTHER, WHILE MUSLIMS FIGHT BAPTISTS, BUDDHISTS OPPOSE MUSLIMS, DEMOCRATS FIGHT REPUBLICANS, NIGGERS FIGHT NIGGERS, BABIES ARE BEING MURDERED AND BURIED IN SHALLOW GRAVES BY THE SCORE! IS MY IMAGE, MY ESSENCE, CODY? IS THAT SHIT REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE, AFRICANS EVERYWHERE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL? Is it important to the people who listen to WDAS, at 29th & Dauphin, Germantown & Chelten, or 11th & Kater Sts., whether I comb my hair, or not, or whether I wear a neck-chocker, or not? Aren't they concerned about the world around them NEWS NEWINFORMATION ABOUT OUR LIVES? And who can do it better, Cody? When I worked at 'DAS, I also worked at WUHY which means I worked 7 days a week, 2 days on the weekend for WDAS, and 5 days a week for WUHY. For a measly $100 dollars a week I hustled, worked, time over over-time, newscasts, and anything else ... FOR WHAT? So News Director, Charles Harmon could come up to me, and tell me he needed ``someone more flexible''? HAVE you found it yet? Out of the countless many who have come, and gone thru that newsroom, has someone more FLEXIBLE been found? Has someone more committed, more able, been FOUND? IT WAS WRONG THEN, FORHARMON TO FIRE ME, A BULLSHIT, EMPTY REASON HE KNEW, YOU KNEW, AND I STILL KNOW, IT'S STILL WRONG! But, this time, the wrong will not be borne in silence.

I WILL NOT GRIN, AND BEAR IT, AND WAIT FOR A BETTER OFFER. I WILL NOT PRODUCE WORK MEANT FOR BLACK MINDS AND BLACK EARS, FOR A WHITE RADIO STATION. I WILL STRUGGLE, AND BATTLE, UNTIL THIS ONE WRONG, HAS BEEN RIGHTED. AS FOR MY IMAGE ... LIKE ALL LIFE FORMS, IT WILL CHANGE FOR NOTHING IN LIFE STAYS THE SAME. BUT, I WILL NOT GO UNDER THE BLADE FOR A PAYCHECK FROM YOU! I WILL BE JUDGED, ON MY WORK, MY RECORD AMONG MY PEOPLE, MY COMMITMENT TO THE RIGHTNESS OF THE STRUGGLE OF THE AFRICAN TO FIND DIGNITY WHEREVER HE WALKS, NOT ON THE SMALLNESS OF OTHERS, AND THEIR LACK OF SIGHT. IT IS IRONIC, IS IT NOT, THAT A BLACK MAN SHOULD BLOCK ANOTHER BLACK MAN, FROM PERFORMING WORKS IN THE INTEREST OF BLACK PEOPLE? IT IS A STATEMENT OF OUR TIMES, AND A STATEMENT OF A MENTALITY THAT MUST BE ERASED IF WE ARE EVER TO SURVIVE!

``...HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN, AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT...''

Mumia Abu-JamalPresident/Association of Black Journalists
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BLACKGROUND INFO:

The frame-up of Mumia for the murder ofDaniel Faulknerwas NOT the first time that this system had attempted to frame him:

From the moment Mumia joined theBlack Panther Partyat the age of 14, he became one of the chief targets of Hoover's notorious "Counter-Intelligence Program" (COINTELPRO). Over 700 pages of FBI files were obtained after almost three years of fighting for them, which illustrate wide-ranging collusion between theFBIand the Philadelphia Police Department--particularly its Civil Disobedience Unit (CDU) and Intelligence Division "red squads"-- extending to at least four other security agencies, including the Naval Investigative Service Office, Military Intelligence, Office of Special Investigation and theSecret Service. The files prove that years before Mumia was framed in the death of a Philadelphia cop, the feds repeatedly tried to set him up on serious felony charges--including murder-- without any basis. This was S.O.P. (standard operating procedure) in the government's COINTELPRO war on black militants. The lies range from the absurd--the photo appended to the files is not of Mumia--to the outlandishly sinister.

When the governor of Bermuda was assassinated in 1973, the feds tried to link the killing to Jamal, who had never been anywhere near Bermuda. They also falsely sought to paint him as an "urban guerrilla" associated with theBlack Liberation Army, marking him to be assassinated by the cops the way BLA leader Zayd Shakur was.

The files repeatedly noted that Mumia was an effective and articulate spokesman and writer for theBlack Panther newspaper, who "made the BPP look good because his approach was very positive." Indeed, not one among the steady stream of reports to FBI headquarters on Jamal's Panther activities, which were compiled at the rate of virtually one a week, indicated that he was ever engaged in anything other than public speaking and writing.

Yet despite the FBI's acknowledgement that Jamal "has not displayed a propensity for violence" and was not once found with a gun throughout this period of intense surveillance, the files regularly labeled him "Armed and Dangerous"--a license for the cops and G-men to shoot first and ask questions later.

"They believe what you write, what you say. And it's got to stop. And one day, and I hope it's in my career, that you're going to have to be held responsible and accountable for what you do." --Frank Rizzo, then Mayor of Philadelphia, a statement which is included as part of Mumia's COINTELPRO files.

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 The Way of Zinn
[col.writ. 11/13/10] (c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal 

   For the late historian, Howard Zinn, one of his greatest beefs was war, especially imperial wars.

   It was therefore fitting that his last book dealt with war, war for empire and capital.  His last work, published posthumously, was The Bomb, which attacked the central rationale supporting the U.S. use of nuclear bombs on Japan -- indeed on Japanese civilians.

   Zinn, ever the social critic, examined the bombing of Japan in August of 1945 from the perspective of today's discussions about terrorism, to show America's deep hypocrisy:

         When private bands of fanatics commit atrocities we call them "terrorists",

         which they are, and have no trouble dismissing their reasons.  But when

         governments do the same, and on a much larger scale, the word "terrorism"

         is not used, and we consider it a sign of our democracy that the acts become

         a subject to debate.  If the word "terrorism" has a useful meaning (and I think

         it does, because it marks off an act as intolerable, since it involves the indiscriminate

         use of violence against human beings for some political purpose), then it applies

         exactly to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki {p.27}.

   For Zinn, all war was a violation of the most fundamental of human rights -- the right to life, dignity and social progresses.

   Zinn, if he were alive today, would be equally critical of the continuing carnage in Iraq andAfghanistan, made possible in part, then as now, by the acquiescence of what he derisively called "totalitarian liberals."

   As an historian, he knew well that wars began with lies, and ended in disaster, destruction and loss.

   [Source: Zinn, Howard, The Bomb (San Fran. City Lights Bks, 2010]

--(c) '10 maj

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The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia! 
Audio of most of Mumia's essays are at: http://www.prisonradio.org

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When Murder Ain't Murder
[col. writ. 11/6/10] (c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 With the sentencing of former BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cop, Johannes Mehserle, for the killing of Oscar Grant, the system announces its evaluation of the worth of a Black young man from Oakland, California.

 Mehserle was sentenced to 2 years; and with time offs, and good behavior, he may do only 7 months; for killing a man.

 Seven months -- excuse me -- for killing a Black man.

 After all is said and done, Mehserle may end up doing less time that rapper  Lil' Wayne did for only possessing a gun -- rather than using one.

 And therein lies the tale of the American prison industrial complex.

 Can you imagine any set of facts, any convergence of chance,

 personalities or fate, that could have had Grant as the shooter, and Mehserle as the shot, and Grant sentenced to essentially, 7 months in jail?

 Neither can I.

 And that, I think. says it all.

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The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia! 
Audio of most of Mumia's essays are at: http://www.prisonradio.org

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/306

http://atlantapost.com/2010/11/12/revisiting-the-injustice-of-the-justice-system-the-case-of-mumia/

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/27/fbi_raids_homes_of_anti_war

http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/mondo-we-langa-seeks-full-review-by-8th-circuit-of-his-cointelpro-tainted-trial

http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/calendar.html

that turkey hobama has not pardoned mumia....shame!!!

http://theloop21.com/videos/obama-pardons-turkeys

hobama inc freed roman polanski...

will mumia be freed too????

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/polanski_backers_gave_34k_to_obama_dnc.html

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/07/15/why-did-obamas-doj-botch-roman-polanskis-extradition/

http://www.newsmax.com/Hirsen/Roman--Polanski--Obama--Eric--Holder--Department--Justice--DOJ/2010/07/19/id/365030

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/15/opinion/la-le-0715-thursday-20100715

http://sfbayview.com/2010/round-2-3rd-circuit-court-panel-re-hears-issue-of-abu-jamals-death-penalty-on-orders-of-supreme-court/

http://sfbayview.com/2010/two-messages-from-mumia-%E2%80%93-from-a-week-ago-and-from-1981/

http://www.amazon.com/We-Want-Freedom-Black-Panther/dp/0896087182/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Death-Row-Mumia-Abu-jamal/dp/0380727668/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

http://www.amazon.com/Jailhouse-Lawyers-Prisoners-Defending-USA/dp/0872864693/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290974721&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/All-Things-Censored-Mumia-Abu-Jamal/dp/1583220224/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Blossoms-Reflections-Prisoner-Conscience/dp/0896086992/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_5

http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Our-Fathers-Examination-African-American/dp/1592210198/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCSDWa9fR1M&feature=player_embedded

http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/736313887/roman-polanski---one-bold-serial-pedophile-rapist--countless-bolder-coddling-excusers/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRGFZ1eLJO4

http://www.markclarkmemorial.com/

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/11/25/obama-pardons-turkeys-but-not-people-what-does-that-mean/

http://thejerichomovement.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1rHLhTX1Tc

http://www.jerichony.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbpMejFSSI

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/24/the_black_power_mixtape_danny_glover

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5203/assassinated_by_the_state/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ldf-joins-mumia-abu-jamal-defense-team-115514004.html

http://blackagendareport.com/content/mumia-film-producer-says-nov-9-death-penalty-hearing-critical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUr5qvBLpk&playnext=1&list=PLC798D8A0C43376A1

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 Revolutions to Come

[col. writ. 2/26/11]  (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal

As fires of rebellion and resistance flash through ancient Arab cities, the nations' pundits (especially those of the rightish variety) warn us of impending doom, in the form of rising gas prices, and the bugaboo of near-hysterical proportions -- Islamists.

  But there's a funny thing about rebellions and revolutions.  They may begin one way, but no one - No One - knows where they will end.  That's the nature of revolutions!

   The voices of America's pundit class have apparently forgotten that the Founders that they like to revere and praise as Prophets of Freedom, were -- well, revolutionaries, who stood against the most powerful empire of the age -- the British (with a little help and money from the French)

   The very notion of having a nation without a king was, well -- a revolutionary idea.  That's why, when France had its revolution a few years later, the crowned heads  of Europe got together (conspired, really) to beat them into the ground.  For, back in those days, the conventional wisdom was that kings and queens ruled by the will of God; hence, the divine right of kings.

   The American, French, and Haitian Revolutions put a real dent into such notions.

   Abe Lincoln, speaking as a Congressman in 1848, told his fellow members: "It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines and old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones."

   The forces roiling today in several North African and Persian Gulf countries have been held in check for generations by powerful, repressive and ruthless governments, many of whom have been staunch U.S. allies.  The forces which have been unleashed in recent weeks threatens to upend many, if not most of the old relationships and understandings that formed the basis of 

U.S. Mid-East policy.

   Remarkably, none of the 'experts' on the region, few of the scholars, and virtually none of the talking heads on TV and cable had a clue, until the dam broke and the boiling rage burst forth.

   We have no idea when our where these forces will dissipate.  They may radiate for years. They may, indeed, spill out into other areas of the world.

   That too, is the nature of revolution.

--(c) '11 maj

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Cracks in the Empire

[col. writ. 2/20/11] (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Despite what talking heads in corporate media proclaim, there hasn't been a revolution in the North African countries of Tunisia or Egypt, or the Persian Gulf's Bahrain. These have been rebellions.

For revolutions transform whole societies - they just don't remove a few leaders.

 That's why much of U.S. reporting is so misleading. They want to call it a Revolution, applaud it, and freeze it, while their handpicked leaders or purchased armies seize the reins of power.

   That said, isn't it curious that most of the countries where rebellions are most widespread are headed by presidents or princes who are U.S. allies?  And these allies have used their armies and police to suppress their people, who oppose deeply unpopular policies of their rulers?

   These rebellions pose serious challenges to the U.S. empire, for they threaten to dismantle the repressive regimes that undergird U.S. Middle East policy. They are still building, still emerging, across the entire region, and espousing a democracy that the U.S. neither wants nor truly supports.

   Remember the indecision with which it initially faced Egyptian unrest?  'Nonviolence on both sides?'

   When one side has tanks, guns helicopter gunships and fighter jets, and the other side has -- well, sticks -- what can that mean? The U.S. wants quiet. Period.

   For, if the choice is between democracy and stability, it'll opt for stability every time, for globalization requires stability, and globalization is the instrument of empire.

   Indeed, it is but another word for colonialism -- the control of other states by a central, imperial state.

   But this empire is also a debtor nation, which manufactures little, and has to beg abroad to pay its vast armies, and support its global apparatus.

   As colonies peel away, or are taken back by their people, the empire decays, first by inches, then by fee, and soon --by miles.

   We may be witnessing the end of something huge.

(c) '11 maj

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GERONIMO [ nee Elmer G. Pratt] Returns to His Ancestors
[col. writ. 6/4/11] (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal

   On Thursday, June 2, 2011, came word that former Black Panther leader, Geronimo Ji-Jaga [nee Elmer G. Pratt) died in exile in Tanzania.
 
   Geronimo's life was one of intense and almost total warfare, from battles in his youth on behalf of the U.S. empire in the steaming jungles of Vietnam, to his membership and leadership of the L.A. chapter of the Black Panther Party, where he fought for his people.
 
   The FBI-inspired killing of L.A. Black Panther leader Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter led to Geronimo's rise as the chapter's deputy Minister of Defense, and during a police raid on the Central Avenue office on December 8th, 1969, Geronimo so prepared the site that it withstood over 6 hours of a police paramilitary assault with automatic weapons and grenades.
 
   Geronimo's prominence and shine in the shadows of Hollywood so disturbed the state, local and federal governments that they framed him for a murder that it was impossible for him to commit, and sent him to prison for 27 years.

   When he was freed, it was because of an insistent, national movement, and because federal government files revealed he was nearly 300 miles away when the murder took place, and the state's chief witness was not only an LAPD undercover agent, but a snitch for the L.A. DA's office as well as the L.A. Sheriff's Department, an agency that formerly employed him.

   Upon his liberation, Geronimo, after going across the country to thank his supporters, left the land of his birth and joined a small expatriate community near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
 
   Like several other ex-Panthers, he could never trust his life nor his freedom to the American government.
   And though he spent the balance of his years under a brilliant African sun, one suspects he longed for the rhythms of his native Louisiana, which remained in his speech and its accents.
 
   It was in Louisiana, after all, where he learned about  Black armed self-defense, for this was fertile ground for the Deacons for Defense, and armed body which resisted and forcefully discouraged Ku Klux Klan violence in the region.

   Geronimo Ji-Jaga, a warrior for his people, returns to his ancestors.

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The Prison
[col. writ. 12/17/11]

  (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Every prison is the same; and every prison is different.

Every prison has its own mythos, (think Alcatraz, Sing Sing, Attica), its own rhythm. hard, cool, tight, relaxed, severe or super max. And every prison is run by class -as in how courts or administrators have classified a crime according to whose interests are threatened. For example, in every 'hole" in the State, where all Death Rows are sited, men and women with the worst sentences live the least contentious lives.  If they can afford it, (really if their family can), they TV, radio and other amenities -if they can afford it.  Some work prison jobs for the glorious wage of around $35 to $50 a month (yes, a month) There, every mind is attuned to the ultimate sentence -death - and against such an immensity, amenities seem trivial.  Yet Death Row is a class (as in classification) and beyond it lies a chasm of classifications that are as maddening as they are mundane - AC (Administrative Custody), DC (Disciplinary Custody), PC (Protective Custody), and beyond.

All are lock-up statuses, all have their distinct rules of what is or isn't allowed, and all have degrees of repression. Every major U.S. history book has described America as virtually classless, with rigid class distinctions more a British or European thing. How then can a Nation that claimed classlessness give birth to such institutions that are so riddled with class differentiations? Because America was never classless, and not only did it have rigid classes, it had  (and has), caste, more rigid than stone.   Millions of Blacks live in such a caste, as noted recently in Michelle Alexander's excellent work, The New Jim Crow. The ruling, wealthy class built prisons and courts to protect them and their wealth from the masses.  They also built the ideological illusion of classlessness, which is maintained through their media.  They brayed about freedom, while erecting the most massive prison complex (the prison-industrial-complex) this earth has ever seen. The built Prison Nation.

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COMPETITION ON THE CORNER

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

The 3rd Avenue El in the Bronx was a major thoroughfare in the borough, and as such was a prime site for one trying to sell The Black Panther.

I had recently been assigned to the Bronx office and in an attempt to sell my 50 copies, I chose a stop on the line where the foot traffic would be quite heavy, as people descended from the elevated train ride. At roughly the same time, another young Black man elected to stop at the busy corner with the intention of selling his wares.

His wares were essentially the same as mine—newspapers. There, however, the similarity ended, for it was clear from his product that competition was inevitable.

The young man wore a dark-green iridescent suit and a brightly colored bow tie. His hair was cut close to his scalp in the "hustler" style, with a thin part cut in, his face shaved hairless. He carried with him a multi-colored plastic shopping bag that appeared to be filled with copies of Muhammad Speaks.

As I surveyed his wares, he was surveying mine. We looked at each other and understood that neither would relinquish the corner to the other.

And so, we began selling in earnest.

Shouts of "Help Us Free Huey!" mingled with "Salaam Aliekum, brother!" as we struggled to sell our product.

"Yo, brother! Find out what’s happenin’ that the white power structure ain’t gonna tell ya! Check out The Black Panther—only a quarter!"

"Salaam Aliekum, Sister! Come on back to your own! Read Muhammad Speaks! Twenty-five cents!"

For nearly an hour the sales continued, fed and famished by the flow of passerby debarking from the trains hissing to a stop overhead. After a while, we got into a conversation:

"Brother, you got to get with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and stop following those devils like Marx and Lenin and ’em."

"Well, bro’—you should get with the Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, and the Black Panther Party."

"You should follow a Black man, brother, not some Jews like Marx and Lenin!"

"We revolutionaries, brother, and we study about revolutionaries from around the world. We don’t care what race they is."

"I can see that, brother," glancing at a copy of The Black Panther, pointing to a cover picture of an Asian, full-haired man. "Who is that, brother?"

"That’s Kim Il-Sung, the leader of North Korea, and a revolutionary."

"You see what I’m saying, brother? Here you go talking ‘bout another guy! He ain’t got nothin’ to say to Black people, brother!"

"Well, if that’s so, brother, why he in yo paper Muhammad Speaks?"

"What you talkin’ bout, brother?" he asked, seemingly stunned by the question.

I read and studied his paper quite regularly, for its layout, news, and commentary, but I doubted if he ever read any of ours. This seemed only logical for someone assigned to the East Coast Ministry of Information office, and I remembered reading this week’s issue of Muhammad Speaks.

"Check it out, brother, in yo international news section."

In disbelief, he turned the pages until, sure enough, an article appeared bearing a photo of Kim Il-Sung. He looked at it, and then turned to me, smiling.

"Yes sir, brother. Yessir. Um-humm."

"And what we learned from him was the idea of Juche, a Korean word that means self-reliance!"

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ARE THE POLICE TARGETING ELDER PANTHERS?

By Bro. Zayid Muhammad

For those of you who think that COINTELPRO is a thing of the remote past, think again.

We have, upon bullet and bone solid information and belief, we have good reason to believe that it is alive and well!

            On Dec. 12, the NY police department, in tow, with federal agents, raided, ransacked and ravaged the home of elder NY Black Panther legend, Cyril Innis, best known to his comrades as ‘Capt. Bullwhip,’ for his tough, no nonsense taskmaster demeanor.

            They went to the job of Panther cub, Shaka Shakur, who did some stellar stabilizing the NY chapter for the New Black Panther Party. Young Shaka was working at the historic National Black Theater in Harlem and arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm that was purportedly ‘found’ at Capt. Bullwhip’s apartment, where Shaka had been staying just recently.

            None of us are perfect. Not in our personal, nor in our public or political lives. As for any and all issues facing the cub Shakur, this particular piece is at best, ‘out of character’.

What is clear is that Capt Bullwhip, a personal hero, if I must say so, is indeed a survivor of the deadly and sinister COINTELPRO wars aimed at the Party, in general , and at the NY Panther operations in particular.

            Just several years ago, Kamau Sadiki, from the Party’s Brooklyn chapter and father of Assata Shakur’s daughter, Kikuyu, found himself hauled off into an Atlanta courtroom and charged with the 1970 killing of an Atlanta police officer! He was put before an edgy Post 9/11 jury, associated with ‘terrorism’ by his prosecutors, convicted and put in prison for life. The judge, one Stephanie Manis, incidently has overseen the railroaded of Imam Jalil Abdullah El-Amin, best known as the legendary H. Rap Brown under similar circumstances!

            Before Kamau was ‘jammed’ in Georgia, they first sought to frame here in New York first, and they tried do it something hideous at that!... on sexual assault charges! When those efforts failed, they took him further south, like the plantation did years ago with rebellious slaves who needed to be ‘broken.’

Even more recently, Francisco Torres, just recently survived an effort to have him reprosecuted for the case that landed the NY 3,Herman Bell, Jalil Muntaqim and the late Albert ‘The Avenging Angel‘ Washington, later known as Sheikh Nuh, in prison since the early 70’s. (Sheikh Nuh died in captivity several years ago.)

            Instead of looking at the NY3 survivors, Herman and Jalil, as the model prisoners they have been for years, and instead of coming to terms with all the long repressed exculpatory evidence withheld from them, and laying the groundwork to release these men, they came after Francisco. First in New York, and when that failed, they tried to take it Cali (California)!

            Only by the grace of the god our ancestors, these backwards repressive efforts were met well-organized and well-mobilized responses from that almighty ‘x’ factor, the people. Thankfully, and we think, consequently, that sinister effort to reprosecute ‘Cisco fell flat on their faces.

            Thankfully, again, in this case, it was that ‘x’ factor that was key…the people!

            As soon as word got out, and it got rather quickly, thanks to ‘Whip’s comrade Shep Olugbala, those well respected and much appreciated community survival programs that ‘Whip and Shaka have been working with, immediately became transformed into emergency mobilization response networks!

            When it came time for young Shaka to be arraigned, dozens of supporters had already surrounded the 44th precinct where he was detained. Not only that, others had the precinct’s phone ringing off the hook! This was an exemplary response. The latter detail is as important as all the others because it is key in insuring that our soldiers who find themselves in captivity are not isolated where they can be then become subject to unspeakable abuse! Study what happened to the incredible Don Pedro Albizu Campos, or what happened to Sekou Odinga. Remember they literally did put Assata ‘under the jail’ in my backwards upsouth New Jersey. To be more to the point, our freedom fighters once captured and isolated have endured unspeakable abuse. Many of the torture methods that the CIA exported to the most dangerous dictatorships in the southern hemisphere, many were first practiced in full guinea pig form on our freedom fighters!

            The New Black Panther Party would like to salute all of those who sounded the drum to the aid of Captain ‘Whip and to Shaka. More importantly, we would like to salute all of you who heard the drum sound and answered!

            We say ‘Hell no to COINTELPRO’! Hands off Captain Bullwhip and Shaka Shakur!

Free All Political Prisoners! Black Power!All Power To The People!

Bro.Zayid Muhammad, Nat’l Min of Culture, New Black Panther Party

 
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day. 
Nothing gold can stay.

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URGENT MESSAGE RE: MUMIA ABU JAMAL

As most of you already know, Mumia was transferred to SCI-Mahanoy in upstate PA. more than a month ago, directly after Phila. prosecutor Seth Williams announced that he wasn’t pursuing the death penalty in Mumia’s case.  This meant that Mumia’s sentence went from death to life in prison without parole.  Since arriving at SCI-Mahanoy, Mumia has been in the hole, on AC (administrative custody) status, solitary confinement, even though there is no valid reason for him to be in the hole. The conditions are tortuous and much worse than the conditions on death row.  These conditions have been condemned by the United Nations as tortuous.  Since arriving at Mahanoy, Superintendent John Kerestes and his staff have gone from one thing to the next to vent their fury and racism on Mumia.  First they claimed to be waiting on paperwork that Mumia’s sentence is a life sentence and not death, but Mahanoy has no death chamber so Mumia would never be sent there if he still had a death sentence.  When people saw right through that, Kerestes said that Mumia has to cut his hair before going into general population, now he’s saying that Mumia has to let them take his blood (something Mumia really doesn’t want to do) before he can be in general population.  Mumia has been in prison for 30 years so why this sudden demand for his blood now.  It is crystal clear that Kerestes and his staff are doing everything they can to keep Mumia in the hole under these tortuous conditions, and it’s all rooted in racism and their fury at all the world-wide attention that stays focused on Mumia, after all these years.  They’re furious that their plan to legally kill Mumia ain’t working.  They’re torturing Mumia for the same reason the Romans tortured Jesus Christ, because he won’t go along with the lies of the system and racism.  Prison policy has nothing to do with what they’re doing to Mumia and everybody should be clear on this.  We must be vigilant over Mumia, including organizations that can visit him on an official basis.  We must continue to flood Supt. Kerestes with calls and emails.  Mumia is up in serious racist KKK territory and we must have his back.  We’ve brought Mumia too far to get lax now.  Remember, the power of the people is a force to be reckoned with when the power of the people stays consistent and united.

International Concerned Family And Friends Of Mumia Abu Jamal and

The Move Organization

https://www.change.org/petitions/transfer-and-assign-mumia-abu-jamal-to-general-population

As most of you already know, Mumia was transferred to SCI-Mahanoy in upstate PA. more than a month ago, directly after Phila. prosecutor Seth Williams announced that he wasn’t pursuing the death penalty in Mumia’s case.  This meant that Mumia’s sentence went from death to life in prison without parole.  Since arriving at SCI-Mahanoy, Mumia has been in the hole, on AC (administrative custody) status, solitary confinement, even though there is no valid reason for him to be in the hole. The conditions are tortuous and much worse than the conditions on death row.  These conditions have been condemned by the United Nations as tortuous.  Since arriving at Mahanoy, Superintendent John Kerestes and his staff have gone from one thing to the next to vent their fury and racism on Mumia.  First they claimed to be waiting on paperwork that Mumia’s sentence is a life sentence and not death, but Mahanoy has no death chamber so Mumia would never be sent there if he still had a death sentence.  When people saw right through that, Kerestes said that Mumia has to cut his hair before going into general population, now he’s saying that Mumia has to let them take his blood (something Mumia really doesn’t want to do) before he can be in general population.  Mumia has been in prison for 30 years so why this sudden demand for his blood now.  It is crystal clear that Kerestes and his staff are doing everything they can to keep Mumia in the hole under these tortuous conditions, and it’s all rooted in racism and their fury at all the world-wide attention that stays focused on Mumia, after all these years.  They’re furious that their plan to legally kill Mumia ain’t working.  They’re torturing Mumia for the same reason the Romans tortured Jesus Christ, because he won’t go along with the lies of the system and racism.  Prison policy has nothing to do with what they’re doing to Mumia and everybody should be clear on this.  We must be vigilant over Mumia, including organizations that can visit him on an official basis.  We must continue to flood Supt. Kerestes with calls and emails.  Mumia is up in serious racist KKK territory and we must have his back.  We’ve brought Mumia too far to get lax now.  Remember, the power of the people is a force to be reckoned with when the power of the people stays consistent and united.

International Concerned Family And Friends Of Mumia Abu Jamal and

The Move Organization

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/18/sadism-in-the-cell/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fyRVa4lzRo&list=FL2OFfSyqFMfqIPU_BexopXg&index=17&feature=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSwYKD7iayI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzQYrJ0eP4&feature=related

http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/national/mumia-moved-into-the-general-population/article_20e81512-492b-11e1-bcbc-001871e3ce6c.html

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/28/146036688/abu-jamal-moved-into-general-prison-population

http://dreadtimes.com/blogs/entry/-URGENT-UPDATE-RE-MUMIA-ABU-JAMAL

hobama is a bankster/mexican gun runner/mexican drug dealer crony...
shame!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16924314

http://lists.topica.com/lists/mumiacolumns/read

A very vivid and moving account!!
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Comrades, Brothers and Sisters:
 
Heidi Boghosian and I just returned from a very moving visit with Mumia. We visited yesterday, Thursday, February 2. This was Mumia's second contact visit in over 30 years, since his transfer to General Population last Friday, Jan 27. His first contact visit was with his wife, Wadiya, on Monday, January 30.

Unlike our previous visits to Death Row at SCI Greene and to solitary confinement at SCI Mahanoy, our visit yesterday took place in a large visitor's area, amidst numerous circles of families and spouses who were visiting other inmates.  Compared to the intense and focused conversations we had had with Mumia in a small, isolated visiting cell on Death Row, behind sterile plexiglass, this exchange was more relaxed and informal and more unpredictably interactive with the people around us...it was more human.  There were so many scenes of affection around us, of children jumping on top of and pulling at their fathers, of entire families talking intimately around small tables, of couples sitting and quietly holding each other, and of girlfriends and wives stealing a forbidden kiss from the men they were there to visit (kisses are only allowed at the start and at the end of visits). These scenes were touching and beautiful, and markedly different from the images of prisoners presented to us by those in power. Our collective work could benefit greatly from these humane, intimate images.

When we entered, we immediately saw Mumia standing across the room. We walked toward each other and he hugged both of us simultaneously. We were both stunned that he would embrace us so warmly and share his personal space so generously after so many years in isolation. 

He looked young, and we told him as much. He responded, "Black don't crack!"  We laughed.

He talked to us about the newness of every step he has taken since his release to general population a week ago. So much of what we take for granted daily is new to him, from the microwave in the visiting room to the tremor he felt when, for the first time in 30 years, he kissed his wife.  As he said in his own words, "the only thing more drastically different than what I'm experiencing now would be freedom." He also noted that everyone in the room was watching him.

The experience of breaking bread with our friend and comrade was emotional. It was wonderful to be able to talk and share grilled cheese sandwiches, apple danishes, cookies and hot chocolate from the visiting room vending machines.

One of the highlights of the visit came with the opportunity to take a photo. This was one of the first such opportunities for Mumia in decades, and we had a ball! Primping the hair, making sure that we didn't have food in our teeth, and nervously getting ready for the big photo moment was such a laugh! And Mumia was openly tickled by every second of it. 

When the time came to leave, we all hugged and were promptly instructed to line up against the wall and walk out with the other visitors. As we were exiting the prison, one sister pulled us aside and told us that she couldn't stop singing Kelly Clarkson's line "some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this." She shared that she and her parents had followed Mumia's case since 1981 and that she was overjoyed that Mumia was alive and in general population despite Pennsylvania's bloodthirsty pursuit of his execution.  We told her that on April 24 we were going to launch the fight that would win Mumia's release: that on that day we were going to Occupy the Justice Department in Washington DC. She told us that because she recently survived cancer she now believed in possibility, and that since Mumia was now in general population she could see how we could win. She sent us off with the line from Laverne and Shirley's theme song - "never heard the word impossible!"- gave us her number, and asked us to sign her up for the fight. 

We're still taking it all in. The journey has been humbling and humanizing, and we are re-energized and re-inspired!!

In the words of City Lights editor, Greg Ruggiero:"

"Long Term Goal: End Mass Incarceration. 

Short Term Goal: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!"

--Johanna Fernandez

Facebook Link to Photo
http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Lawyers-Guild/338038119888

The Gift of DuBois
(col. writ. 2/21/12) © '12 Mumia Abu-Jamal

William Edward Burghardt DuBois(1868-1963) was a true Renaissance man.
He made history when he became one of the first Black men in America to win a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895, but this was just the beginning.
He went on to work for citizenship rights for Black Americans, for Africans throughout the then-colonized world, and for all whom he called 'the darker races'.

He is perhaps best known today for his now-classic The Souls of Black Folk, a beautifully written collection of essays, poems, odes and autobiographical prose that tells the story of Black Americans of the period. He displays an eloquent, elegant advocate for a people who have just recently left slavery, and are facing repression, peonage and death.
He was thus a powerful spokesman for education for those whom literacy was once a crime punishable by death.
He was one of the co-founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and wrote scathing editorials for the organization's journal. The Crisis for some 28 years.

His outspokeness and growing radicalism earned him expulsion from the group he helped found, but it didn't stop his work.
Yet he remained as radical as ever and just as outspoken.

In 1960. several years after the Eisenhower presidential election, DuBois condemned the millions of dollars spent to fund the effort for commercials to sow fear and unease in the electorate.

Decades before the Occupy Movement he would criticize U.S. rulers as "Instead of being in- dividuals, are organized corporations who suppress freedom by monopolizing wealth."

He fought for 45 years for African Freedom and Independence.

In 1963. he traded his U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of the West African nation of
Ghana, where he spent his last months of life.               

W.E.B. DuBois -- a fighter for freedoml

[ DuBois. W.E.B •• The Education of Black People--Ten Critiques: 1906. (New York: Monthly Review Press. 1972).)

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The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia! 

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Audio of most of Mumia's essays are at: http://www.prisonradio.org

http://avoiceforneli.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--X8u6frKTI&context=C3ca1e44ADOEgsToPDskIZaExz5RQGJ5ry6AgBdkzx

http://www.occupythejusticedepartment.com/

http://prisonradio.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/from-cell-to-screen-the-story-of-mumia-abu-jamal-part-i/

http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/760356180/on-the-public-execution-of-trayvon-martin---10-undeniable-facts/?page=8&jump=1525066807&leftcmt=1#1525066807

http://jalilmuntaqim-behindthewalls.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppma6nN6vws

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/jerichocointelpro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xIkvCkjac&feature=my_favorites&list=FL2OFfSyqFMfqIPU_BexopXg

http://web.mac.com/ultrawave/ultrawavemedia.com/More_L.A._Panthers.html

http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/breaking-down-understanding-our-enemies/25899-black-panthers-us-what-really-happened.html

http://agentfiles.tumblr.com/post/4895552379/agent-assassin-of-malcom-x-william-bradley-rat

http://thesoulfather.com/geronimo-pratt-on-elaine-brown-role-that-sex-played-in-cointelpro-against-the-black-panther-party/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLOLTC2wXk

http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Why%20Was%20Hearst%20Kidnapped%204.html

http://www.laweekly.com/content/printVersion/61513/

http://www.prisonradio.org/

Primary Colors

[col. writ. 3/22/12]

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Since the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson(1896) case, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the racist principle and Illusion of "separate but equal", many states passed laws for "white primaries", where white voters essentially decided which candidates could run for which office, the Black vote--when and where it existed at all--was but a cynical referendum on candidates chosen by others--both usually sworn to uphold rigid white supremacy.
In 1946 the Supreme Court's Chapman v. King case abolished the all-white primary (in Georgia) as unconstitutional, thus paving the way for the 1954 Brown v. Bd. of Education decision.
That was generations ago, and although white primaries are still illegal, the look of today's Republican presidential primaries eerily reflects'Back to the Future.'
For these candidates seem to be racing for yesteryear, the days of "Ozzie & Harriet", "Dobie Gillis"--and, yes-segregation.
The voters were whiter than the nation's white population, significantly so--with the vast majority in their 50s or older.
In South Carolina, one of the states with the largest Black populations, 98% of primary voters there were of the Caucasion persuasion.
Recently, former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, won in Illinois with nearly 450,000 votes. That sounds like a lot until you consider that there are around 13 million people in llinois! That means that Mitt "won" with about 1/25th of the vote.
Seriously.
Of all primary voters to date, perhaps 4 million people have voted.
Four million--in a nation with around 312-t0-315 million people. (That's around the size of the population of Connecticut).
This truly is a blast from the past.
Kind of like the movie: "No Country for Old Men."
 (c) '12 maj================
The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRGFZ1eLJO4&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLE5F63F555C7A94FC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6D3HIFne8

http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/looking-back-at-huey-newtons-thoughts-on-gay-rights-in-the-wake-of-obamas-endorsement/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mtOnNqma1I&list=FL2OFfSyqFMfqIPU_BexopXg&index=1&feature=plpp_video

http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/758055237/happy-2012/?page=58&jump=1525784664&leftcmt=1#1525784664

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzTglwoZ-SM

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ytab

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2043088/George-Junius-Stinney-Was-youngest-person-executed-US-innocent.html

http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-all-be-tv-soldier-boy-grip-george.html

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http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/did-mexican-official-blow-lid-off-cia.html

http://dreadtimes.com/