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DESCRIPTION:Let’s Re-ignite the Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! The Labor Action 
 Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamalhas called for: An organizers meeting, 6 
 pm Wed. Oct.12th At: the Omni House  4799 Shattuck (between 47th & 48th 
 Sts), Oakland  In  the midst of on-going struggles which unite us all: 
 opposition to  rampant police killings of Black men; freedom for political 
 prisoners  including  former Black Panthers, Oscar Lopez Rivera and Leonard 
 Peltier;  opposition to the death penalty, life without parole, solitary  
 confinement;  big pharma price-gouging; immigrant deportations; the 
 Standing Rock  resistance to the destruction of both native lands and the 
 environment;  the Puerto Rican struggle against imperialist oppression; and 
 defense of  Palestinians from Zionist terror.     We  are writing to 
 advocate joining together now in a renewed fight for  freedom for Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal. December 9, 2016 will be 35 years since the  police tried to 
 execute Mumia on the streets of Philadelphia and then  framed him, with the 
 complicity of the prosecution and the court, and  sentenced him to death. 
 It took international mass mobilization to  prevent his execution. It is 
 taking protest and publicity to keep him  alive in prison and to get him 
 treatment for his Hepatitis C.   A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision 
 (Williams v. Pennsylvania)  ruled that a prosecutor cannot later sit as 
 judge over the same  defendant. This is precedent setting for Mumia who has 
 filed a new legal  action based on the fact that Mumia’s appeals of his 
 conviction from  1998 on were denied by Justice Ronald Castille who was the 
 Philadelphia  District Attorney,—his prosecutor—during his first 
 appeal. If  successful, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rulings that upheld 
 his  conviction would be overturned. Mumia would be able to re-appeal the  
 issues of his innocence, jury bias, falsified evidence to obtain a new  
 trial, if not outright dismissal of charges.  It  is unlikely that this new 
 legal opportunity to win a court battle for  Mumia’s freedom will be 
 repeated. We began the struggle for Mumia’s  freedom with the 
 understanding that the fight for Mumia is one that  encompasses the fight 
 against capitalist, racist injustice from police  street execution to the 
 legal lynching of the death penalty, to frame-up  convictions, mass 
 incarceration, and all the horrors of the U.S. prison  system. The fight 
 for Mumia is a defense of those who stand in  opposition to the policies of 
 U.S. imperialism; it is a case of Black  Lives Matter.  Mumia has never 
 succumbed to the state’s attempt to silence him. He is a beacon of light 
 and hope for other prisoners across the US, as well as for all victims of 
 imperialist war, racism and the “incarceration nation.”  We  support 
 all legal actions in Mumia’s defense but recognize that there  is no 
 justice in the capitalist courts. The Labor Action Committee to  Free Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal (LAC) focuses on mass and labor actions to free  Mumia. Without 
 such action, the new case for Mumia’s freedom will—as  similar attempts 
 have before—be consigned to the “Mumia exception”  judicial 
 waste-bucket. We continue to work to get international labor  support for 
 Mumia’s freedom and for Hep C treatment. Mumia’s struggles,  if 
 supported by a mass movement can not only free him, but also help  unite 
 struggles of prisoners and other victims of the  
 racist-imperialist-capitalist system throughout the world.  We  support a 
 renewed campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. An event is planned  for 
 Philadelphia for December 9, 2016 initiated by the Concerned Family  and 
 Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the New York Campaign to Bring Mumia  Home 
 and a call is in the works. Slogans being put forward for this event are: 	 
 Mumia is Innocent and Framed! Free Mumia, Now! Abolish the Racist Death 
 Penalty! End Solitary Confinement!  End Life Imprisonment without Parole! 
 Quality Health Care for all Prisoners! Hep C Meds for All! End Mass 
 Incarceration! Black Lives Matter! No Stop and Frisk!  We  ask you to 
 join us in an effort to reignite the struggle to free Mumia,  on all 
 fronts.  We will look forward to seeing you for an organizing  meeting at 
 the Omni house, 6 pm October 12, 2016 to plan action here in  the Bay Area. 
  See you on the 12th of October at the Omni!  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/11/18792106.php
SUMMARY:Let’s Re-ignite the Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
LOCATION:Omni House, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland, California
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/11/18792106.php
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