April 24 event in Oakland celebrating Mumia Abu-Jamal's new book

City Lights in association with Prison Radio Announce the Bay Area Book Party and Celebration- for the Release of Jailhouse Lawyers by Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Join Local and National Authors, Artists - as we celebrate Mumia's life and his freedom. (it is his birthday as well).

Friday April 24th; 6:30 pm Humanist Hall 411 28th St. in Oakland. (also a potluck dinnner)

Sponsored by City Lights, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, The National Lawyers Guild, Prisoners of Conscience Committee, Prison Radio, among others.

--FROM CITY LIGHTS BOOKS:

Dear Friends and Supporters Working to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,

We are writing to let you know that Mumia Abu-Jamal's new book JAILHOUSE LAWYERS: PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS V. THE USA, featuring an introduction by Angela Y. Davis, will be released by City Lights Books in March 2009.

In JAILHOUSE LAWYERS, Mumia presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and in some cases, to win their freedom. In Mumia's words, "This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America … It is law learned in a stew of bitterness, under the constant threat of violence, in places where millions of people live, but millions of others wish to ignore or forget. It is law written with stubs of pencils, or with four-inch-long rubberized flex-pens, with grit, glimmerings of brilliance, and with clear knowledge that retaliation is right outside the cell door. It is a different perspective on the law, written from the bottom, with a faint hope that a right may be wronged, an injustice redressed. It is Hard Law."

JAILHOUSE LAWYERS will be available from City Lights Books at a 30% discount weeks before you can get it at any other bookstore, or from Amazon.
Sign up for an email alert and when the book becomes available for sale we'll shoot you an email letting you know:
http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100448090

If you are planning to organize an event or would like to order in bulk, we can also offer you a 45% discount on any bulk orders of 20 copies or more. The book retails for $16.95, for orders of 20 copies or more the discounted price would be $9.32 per book, plus shipping and handling. Prepayment would be required and books are nonreturnable.

If you or your organization would like to place a bulk order, please contact Stacey Lewis at 415.362.1901 or stacey [at] citylights.com.