Fair Trade Month Celebration and Discussion of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Celebrate Fair Trade Month and Help Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
by John Thielking

There will be a potluck celebration, speakers, discussion and video showing about Fair Trade and Mumia Abu-Jamal at the upstairs gallery behind the Pagesincolor.com retail store at 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA on Sunday, October 15, 2006 from 12PM-6PM.

The schedule includes the following:
12PM-2PM Food, ice cream, fair trade music and Mumia's commentaries.
2:00-2:05 Fair Trade Video DVD
2:05-2:30 John Thielking and Donna Wallach on Fair Trade and Mumia
2:30-2:45 Arnold Beverly Confession and status of Mumia's case after the suspension of the death sentence by Judge Yohn in 2001.
2:45-3:45 Howard Keylor from the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
3:45-4:15 Video: Mumia on The Prison Industrial Complex
4:15-5:25 Video: Elliot Grossman on Mumia or Framing an Execution: ABC News and the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
5:25-6:00 Edouard Rollet of Alter-Eco on Fair Trade
6:00-? Discussion and socializing.

Why these issues are related:

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a wrongfully convicted prisoner who has been on Pennsylvania's death row since 1982. For background info check out http://www.freemumia.org . Mumia does political commentaries that you can listen to and read on http://www.prisonradio.org . Some of his work includes criticism of the exploitation of third world labor and prison labor as well as criticism of the capitalist system that oppresses people around the world.

Fair Trade is a new and growing economic system that pays workers a gauranteed minimum price for the crops that they produce or ensures that the workers are paid a living wage for the crafts that they produce. This allows the workers' quality of life to be much improved, they can send their kids to school and so on. For more info on Fair Trade, check out wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade .

Pagesincolor.com
888 E Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95116
408-924-0846

Directions: From hwy 101 just south of the 880 interchange, take the Santa Clara St exit and go West on E Santa Clara St until you get to 19th st. There is parking inside Roosevelt Park, off of N 21st st, or along 19th or 17th streets.

Note that if you park in Roosevelt Park parking lot you will need to move your car after 7PM. (The park closes at sunset).