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Pictures from May 11th SF Mumia March
On May 11th at 11AM, about 300 people gathered at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco to protest for the freedom of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. At around 1PM the march moved up Market St. to the Civic Center where a rally was held.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his innocence! Mumia had no criminal record.
For the last 20 years, Abu-Jamal has been locked up 23 hours a day, denied contact visits with his family, had his confidential legal mail illegally opened by prison authorities, and put into punitive detention for writing his first of three books while in prison, Live From Death Row.
His case is currently on appeal before the Federal District Court in Philadelphia. Mumia's fight for a new trial has won the support of tens of thousands around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, The European Parliament, Alice Walker, Paul Newman, Maya Angelou, Sister Helen Prejean, Danny Glover, Rage Against The Machine, the Detroit and San Francisco City Councils, Amnesty International, and many others. Mumia Abu-Jamal's fate rests with all those people who believe in every person's right to justice and a fair trial.
"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 , Oct. 31, 1998
Facts about Mumia's 1982 trial:
* The policeman was killed with a 44 caliber gun. Abu-Jamal's gun which he was licensed to carry as a night-time taxi driver, was a 38 caliber.
* The police never tested Abu-Jamal's gun to see if it had been recently fired. They never tested his hands to see if he had fired a gun. They have never shown Abu-Jamal 's gun to be the fatal weapon.
* No police officers present at Abu-Jamal's arrest claimed to have heard Jamal's "confession" until two months after it allegedly occurred. This was right after Abu-Jamal had filed police brutality charges.
* Abu-Jamal's doctor said that Abu-Jamal, who was unconscious, said nothing. He reported that a nurse found police with loaded guns pointed at Mumia as he lay unconscious in his hospital bed.
* William Singletary, a Vietnam veteran and local businessman, saw the whole incident and has testified that Abu-Jamal was not the shooter. However, the police forced him to change his story and intimidated him into leaving Philadelphia.
* Other key witnesses, such as Veronica Jones -- who now testifies in support of Abu-Jamal, were harassed into giving false testimony. Two prosecution witnesses were given special favors, including exemption from criminal prosecution, for their testimony.
Elements in an unfair trial:
* The Judge, Albert Sabo, sentenced more people to death than any other sitting judge in the US.
* The public defender didn't interview a single witness in preparation for the trial, and didn't have funds for defending a capital case.
* The prosecutor removed 11 qualified African Americans from the jury. He also argued for the death penalty because of Mumia's membership in the Black Panther Party, a practice later condemned as unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
* The racial bias of Philadelphia's courts has resulted in 120 people on death row, all but 13 non-white.
http://www.freemumia.org
For the last 20 years, Abu-Jamal has been locked up 23 hours a day, denied contact visits with his family, had his confidential legal mail illegally opened by prison authorities, and put into punitive detention for writing his first of three books while in prison, Live From Death Row.
His case is currently on appeal before the Federal District Court in Philadelphia. Mumia's fight for a new trial has won the support of tens of thousands around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, The European Parliament, Alice Walker, Paul Newman, Maya Angelou, Sister Helen Prejean, Danny Glover, Rage Against The Machine, the Detroit and San Francisco City Councils, Amnesty International, and many others. Mumia Abu-Jamal's fate rests with all those people who believe in every person's right to justice and a fair trial.
"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 , Oct. 31, 1998
Facts about Mumia's 1982 trial:
* The policeman was killed with a 44 caliber gun. Abu-Jamal's gun which he was licensed to carry as a night-time taxi driver, was a 38 caliber.
* The police never tested Abu-Jamal's gun to see if it had been recently fired. They never tested his hands to see if he had fired a gun. They have never shown Abu-Jamal 's gun to be the fatal weapon.
* No police officers present at Abu-Jamal's arrest claimed to have heard Jamal's "confession" until two months after it allegedly occurred. This was right after Abu-Jamal had filed police brutality charges.
* Abu-Jamal's doctor said that Abu-Jamal, who was unconscious, said nothing. He reported that a nurse found police with loaded guns pointed at Mumia as he lay unconscious in his hospital bed.
* William Singletary, a Vietnam veteran and local businessman, saw the whole incident and has testified that Abu-Jamal was not the shooter. However, the police forced him to change his story and intimidated him into leaving Philadelphia.
* Other key witnesses, such as Veronica Jones -- who now testifies in support of Abu-Jamal, were harassed into giving false testimony. Two prosecution witnesses were given special favors, including exemption from criminal prosecution, for their testimony.
Elements in an unfair trial:
* The Judge, Albert Sabo, sentenced more people to death than any other sitting judge in the US.
* The public defender didn't interview a single witness in preparation for the trial, and didn't have funds for defending a capital case.
* The prosecutor removed 11 qualified African Americans from the jury. He also argued for the death penalty because of Mumia's membership in the Black Panther Party, a practice later condemned as unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
* The racial bias of Philadelphia's courts has resulted in 120 people on death row, all but 13 non-white.
http://www.freemumia.org
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Crime does't pay.
Is this piece of shit worth crying about? Think about it.
defend china, cuba, north korea, vietnam against imperialism?
sickning... first off, china practices imperialism...
second off, having been born and lived in a 'communist' country, the people in those countries would be much better off under capitalism. at least then they'd have some freedom.
ugh.. authoritarian commies are idiots...
sickning... first off, china practices imperialism...
second off, having been born and lived in a 'communist' country, the people in those countries would be much better off under capitalism. at least then they'd have some freedom.
ugh.. authoritarian commies are idiots...
http://www.danielfaulkner.com debunking all of the pro-Mumia lies including the .44 caliber bullet lie, the "running man" lie, and now the Arnold Beverly lie (which isn't even mentioned here for some reason, leading me to suspect this entire "article" was just cut-and-pasted from some pro-Mumia site that hasn't even been updated since the mid 90s). Oh yeah, he's not even on death row anymore (the death sentence was overturned in December, though he's still GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!).
For more information:
http://www.danielfaulkner.com
Oh, Arnold Beverly was mentioned in the first paragraph... I was just looking at the crib sheet of facts. But the Beverly story is still bogus: http://www.danielfaulkner.com/indexmyth17.html
For more information:
http://www.danielfaulkner.com
Surely you jest.
THIS IS THE TRUTH
Who Is Mumia?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his innocence! Mumia had no criminal record.
For the last 20 years, Abu-Jamal has been locked up 23 hours a day, denied contact visits with his family, had his confidential legal mail illegally opened by prison authorities, and put into punitive detention for writing his first of three books while in prison, Live From Death Row.
His case is currently on appeal before the Federal District Court in Philadelphia. Mumia's fight for a new trial has won the support of tens of thousands around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, The European Parliament, Alice Walker, Paul Newman, Maya Angelou, Sister Helen Prejean, Danny Glover, Rage Against The Machine, the Detroit and San Francisco City Councils, Amnesty International, and many others. Mumia Abu-Jamal's fate rests with all those people who believe in every person's right to justice and a fair trial.
"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 , Oct. 31, 1998
Facts about Mumia's 1982 trial:
* The policeman was killed with a 44 caliber gun. Abu-Jamal's gun which he was licensed to carry as a night-time taxi driver, was a 38 caliber.
* The police never tested Abu-Jamal's gun to see if it had been recently fired. They never tested his hands to see if he had fired a gun. They have never shown Abu-Jamal 's gun to be the fatal weapon.
* No police officers present at Abu-Jamal's arrest claimed to have heard Jamal's "confession" until two months after it allegedly occurred. This was right after Abu-Jamal had filed police brutality charges.
* Abu-Jamal's doctor said that Abu-Jamal, who was unconscious, said nothing. He reported that a nurse found police with loaded guns pointed at Mumia as he lay unconscious in his hospital bed.
* William Singletary, a Vietnam veteran and local businessman, saw the whole incident and has testified that Abu-Jamal was not the shooter. However, the police forced him to change his story and intimidated him into leaving Philadelphia.
* Other key witnesses, such as Veronica Jones -- who now testifies in support of Abu-Jamal, were harassed into giving false testimony. Two prosecution witnesses were given special favors, including exemption from criminal prosecution, for their testimony.
Elements in an unfair trial:
* The Judge, Albert Sabo, sentenced more people to death than any other sitting judge in the US.
* The public defender didn't interview a single witness in preparation for the trial, and didn't have funds for defending a capital case.
* The prosecutor removed 11 qualified African Americans from the jury. He also argued for the death penalty because of Mumia's membership in the Black Panther Party, a practice later condemned as unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
* The racial bias of Philadelphia's courts has resulted in 120 people on death row, all but 13 non-white.
Who Is Mumia?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his innocence! Mumia had no criminal record.
For the last 20 years, Abu-Jamal has been locked up 23 hours a day, denied contact visits with his family, had his confidential legal mail illegally opened by prison authorities, and put into punitive detention for writing his first of three books while in prison, Live From Death Row.
His case is currently on appeal before the Federal District Court in Philadelphia. Mumia's fight for a new trial has won the support of tens of thousands around the world, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, The European Parliament, Alice Walker, Paul Newman, Maya Angelou, Sister Helen Prejean, Danny Glover, Rage Against The Machine, the Detroit and San Francisco City Councils, Amnesty International, and many others. Mumia Abu-Jamal's fate rests with all those people who believe in every person's right to justice and a fair trial.
"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 , Oct. 31, 1998
Facts about Mumia's 1982 trial:
* The policeman was killed with a 44 caliber gun. Abu-Jamal's gun which he was licensed to carry as a night-time taxi driver, was a 38 caliber.
* The police never tested Abu-Jamal's gun to see if it had been recently fired. They never tested his hands to see if he had fired a gun. They have never shown Abu-Jamal 's gun to be the fatal weapon.
* No police officers present at Abu-Jamal's arrest claimed to have heard Jamal's "confession" until two months after it allegedly occurred. This was right after Abu-Jamal had filed police brutality charges.
* Abu-Jamal's doctor said that Abu-Jamal, who was unconscious, said nothing. He reported that a nurse found police with loaded guns pointed at Mumia as he lay unconscious in his hospital bed.
* William Singletary, a Vietnam veteran and local businessman, saw the whole incident and has testified that Abu-Jamal was not the shooter. However, the police forced him to change his story and intimidated him into leaving Philadelphia.
* Other key witnesses, such as Veronica Jones -- who now testifies in support of Abu-Jamal, were harassed into giving false testimony. Two prosecution witnesses were given special favors, including exemption from criminal prosecution, for their testimony.
Elements in an unfair trial:
* The Judge, Albert Sabo, sentenced more people to death than any other sitting judge in the US.
* The public defender didn't interview a single witness in preparation for the trial, and didn't have funds for defending a capital case.
* The prosecutor removed 11 qualified African Americans from the jury. He also argued for the death penalty because of Mumia's membership in the Black Panther Party, a practice later condemned as unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
* The racial bias of Philadelphia's courts has resulted in 120 people on death row, all but 13 non-white.
Authoritarian communists are really state/party capitalists.
YOU PIGS ARE FUCKING FASCISTS. Even though authoritarian commies are a dying breed of idiots, PEOPLE ARE WAY WORSE UNDER CAPITALIST RUSSIA THEN THEY WERE UNDER COMMUNISM.
Look it up you fucking COP-PIGS-TROLLS.
ANARCHO-COMMUNISM (Libertarian Socialism) WILL BE THE NEXT REVOLUTION!
YOU PIGS ARE FUCKING FASCISTS. Even though authoritarian commies are a dying breed of idiots, PEOPLE ARE WAY WORSE UNDER CAPITALIST RUSSIA THEN THEY WERE UNDER COMMUNISM.
Look it up you fucking COP-PIGS-TROLLS.
ANARCHO-COMMUNISM (Libertarian Socialism) WILL BE THE NEXT REVOLUTION!
I don't know about all this trial and evidence stuff that's been printed here. What I do know is what I see and hear everyday. One thing I know for sure. Since Mumia Abu-Jamal has been behind bars, no one, and I mean no one, has stolen my hub-caps. If for no other reason, he should stay in.
>ANARCHO-COMMUNISM (Libertarian Socialism) WILL BE THE NEXT REVOLUTION!
Holy shit!! If you're leading the way I certainly hope the capitalists blow the geo-rock formations off the face of the planet and purge the Earth in a few centuries of nuclear winter before the Revolution ends!
Holy shit!! If you're leading the way I certainly hope the capitalists blow the geo-rock formations off the face of the planet and purge the Earth in a few centuries of nuclear winter before the Revolution ends!
>ANARCHO-COMMUNISM (Libertarian Socialism) WILL BE THE NEXT REVOLUTION!
We already had the Anarcho-Communism Revolution. They called themselves "Milli Vanilli".
We already had the Anarcho-Communism Revolution. They called themselves "Milli Vanilli".
we must free all political prisoner .Fight against the system and take it over to make a better life with the real meaning of freedom, We must stand up against
the true terrorist the americans. They want to take over space to point nuclear warheads at are country .Well i dont fucking think so. Burn the flag and shuve it right up your fucking ass cuz we are not gona let you indanger are lives. UNITED WE MUST.
the true terrorist the americans. They want to take over space to point nuclear warheads at are country .Well i dont fucking think so. Burn the flag and shuve it right up your fucking ass cuz we are not gona let you indanger are lives. UNITED WE MUST.
Showing support for a Cop Killer?! Great! You all belong on your own island in the middle of nowhere. Get out of my Country you comunists!
I'm all for you! I heard about it first at http://www.anti-flag.com. Is Mumia still going to the death sentance? If he is e-mail me back please. Never give in to the system. Peace Out. Peace Always. Peace, Love, Unity.
Just remember "The People United Cannot Be Destroyed"
Just remember "The People United Cannot Be Destroyed"
Remember... "The People United Cannot Be Defeated". Don't listen to those dumb people writing the letters about what they dont even know about. You guys rule.
Sincerely,
Mike
Sincerely,
Mike
Remember... "The People United Cannot Be Defeated". Don't listen to those dumb people writing the letters about what they dont even know about. You guys rule.
Sincerely,
Mike
Sincerely,
Mike
Hey, he must have killed a cop for a reason, mumia must be free, everyone is entitled to freedom even if its for a day, he should be freed!!! He Must be freed, Killing a cop; theres usually a reason to do that! Cops are nosey people c'mon get it through your heads cops are enemies, they turn peaceful protests into riots!
For more information:
http://hometown.aol.com/garbagepailmarie/m...
What in the flying shit is wrong with you!? Have you no shame! does it make you feel like a better human being knowing that your trying to free a fucking murderer. "Oh no," says the moron," hes not a murderer, he's black." That's the only reason your trying to free him. If he was white you'd fucking throw him to the sharks. But since he's african american, he should have the right to fucking run around and make an ass of himself, as to pay for the hardships of his great gandparents. Well, I'll bet they are puking in there graves, because I'm puking right now thinking about you shitheads! Doesn't it bother you to know he's making more money than you are by writing books in prison? Doesn't bother you to know that when you abolish the death penalty, your just going to make it worse because the only fucking reason that most people don't kill is because they don't want to fry. killing the death penalty just gives the worthless piece of shit more time to escape from prison! It's a disturbing world we live in and you jerks are just making it worse.
I feel bad for you, you are so blind to it all, i feel bad that you obviously dont have any common sense at all, poor poor man...
> Remember... "The People United Cannot Be Defeated".
That's what Hitler counted on.
The rest of us prefer the truth.
That's what Hitler counted on.
The rest of us prefer the truth.
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