Peacetalks: Mumia Abu Jamal, legal update

Mumia Abu-Jamal Is In Danger

Rally In Oakland To FREE MUMIA!

4 PM Friday September 15th 2006,
Alameda County Courthouse, 12th and Fallon Sts, south side

Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent!
For Labor Action To Free Mumia! End the Racist Death Penalty!

Award-winning journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has
been on death row for almost a quarter of a century, for a crime he
didn't commit. The State of Pennsylvania still wants to execute him, and
his case has been put on a "fast track" to a final resolution.

Briefs have been filed in what may be his last appeal, which is now
before the 3rd Circuit Court. But we cannot rely on the courts to free
Mumia; the courts are still refusing to hear MOUNTAINS of evidence which
conclusively shows his innocence!

"In over three decades of litigating death-penalty cases, I have not
seen one in which the government wants so badly to kill a client" -
Robert R Bryan, attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal.

In 1995, we mobilized by the thousands to save Mumia from a date with
death. In 1999, longshore workers shut down West Coast ports to free
Mumia. In 2006, it's time to get back into action to free Mumia!

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The victim of a politically motivated frame-up of monumental
proportions, Mumia is an anti-war, anti-imperialist, social justice spokesman
with the courage to defy the system from his jail cell despite a
determined conspiracy to silence him forever. Known as the "Voice of the
Voiceless," Mumia is the first to point out that his case is just one among
many injustices of this racist, capitalist system.

Perpetrated by notoriously racist and corrupt Philadelphia police and
prosecutors, the frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal is supported by leading
elements in both the Democrat and Republican parties. The US ruling class
is so committed to murdering this "dangerous" inspirational figure that
a resolution--full of lies about Mumia's case--has been introduced in
Congress to demand that the city of St Denis, France re-name a street
which was dubbed "Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal" in a recent ceremony!

In the US, Mumia Abu-Jamal has been made the "poster boy" for
maintaining the death penalty by the powerful few. But to the world, Mumia is a
hero and symbol of resistance to racist oppression and injustice.

All those who are involved in social justice movements should help
champion his freedom and publicize actions for his freedom.

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Rally to FREE MUMIA!
Be at the Alameda County Courthouse, 12th & Fallon Sts, south side,
Oakland CA, 4 PM Friday September 15th 2006.

Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent! For Labor Action To Free Mumia! End the
Racist Death Penalty!

Rally initiated by the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
(LAC), PO Box 16222, Oakland CA 94610. 510 763-2347 or
LACFreeMumia [at] aol.com.

Endorsers: The Mobilization To Free Mumia; Frances Goldin, Mumia’s
literary agent; Marsha Feinland, Senatorial candidate, Peace and Freedom
Party; Todd Chretien, Green Party*; Robert Irminger, IBU*, ILWU*; Jack
Heyman, ILWU*; Bob Mandel, exec bd, Oakland Educational Association*;
Cristina Gutierrez, Barrio Unido; Bill Mandel, 37 years on KPFA*; Nat
Weinstein, Socialist Viewpoint; Fred Hirsch, Plumbers & Fitters #393*; Jack
Ford, past-pres, Teamsters #921*; Dave Welsh. Letter Carriers #214*,
del., SF Labor Council*; Workers World Party, SF; Emily Maloney; Michael
Parenti, author, commentator; Alexander Cockburn, columnist,
Counterpunch*; Steven Argue, Liberaton News; Jane Jackson, Oakland Gray Panthers;
Noelle Hanrahan, Prison Radio; Jeff Mackler, Senatorial candidate,
Socialist Action; Alice Walker, author; Answer Coalition, SF; Socialist
Organizer; Partisan Defense Committee; Kiilu Nyasha, former Black Panther,
Radio KPOO*; Kwame Somburu, public school teacher; Goapele, recording
artist/ChangeITall.org; JR, Prisoners Of Conscience Com., Block Report
Radio (KPFA & KPOO)*; Curly Estremera, Former Black Liberation Army;
Black Berets of San Jose; No More/No Mas (De Anza Col.*); International
Bolshevik Tendency; Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Com.; Jason Mottley,
BA, Motion Picture Operators #169 IATSE.* Melvin Dickson, editor
Commemorator; International Socialist Organization (ISO); Freedom Socialist
Party (FSP); Radical Women (RW); Steve Zeltzer, KPFA Labor Collective;
Internationalist Group; Mary Ratcliff, exec. editor, Bay View, National
Blaxk Newspaper (Endorsers agree with "Free Mumia" and the above 3
slogans. They do not necessarily agree with other text here, or with other
LAC statements.) * organization listed for purposes of identification
only.

For more information on Mumia's case, go to the following web sites:
http://www.mumia.org, http://www.freemumia.org, http://www.chicagofreemumia.org,
http://www.laboractionmumia.org.

Mumia's legal defense badly needs funds. This is a critical time for
the
legal defense, headed by Robert R Bryan of San Francisco. Please help!
Make
checks payable to: Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and
send
them to: PO Box 16222, Oakland CA 94610. Seventy-five percent (75%) of
all
contributions received under this appeal will go directly to Mumia's
legal
defense fund. The remainder will support the work of the LAC.

- Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

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For more information on Mumia's case, go to the following web sites,
links added by Liberation News:

Yet Another Witness Comes Forward and Refutes The Frame-Up Of Mumia
Abu-Jamal!
http://www.freemumia.com/policecoercion.html

Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
http://www.laboractionmumia.org/

International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
http://www.mumia.org/freedom.now/

Free Mumia Coalition, NYC
http://www.freemumia.com/

Socialist Action Free Mumia Site
http://www.freemumia.org

Chicago Committe To Free Mumia Abu_Jamal
http://www.chicagofreemumia.org/

Liberation News
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news