Ona MOVE!
A few words in support of the efforts of Prison Radio and Noelle Hanrahan its executive director, to raise funds to keep the wolf from the door. If you are a long time listener to my commentaries you have prison radio to thank for them. In 1992 Prison Radio began recordings from the state dungeon at Huntingdon Pennsylvania. If you walked in on us you would have thought you were in the control booth of a funky radio station. We did good work together, so good that NPR asked us to share our work with them, until they got scared off. But prison radio has done far more than pass me the mic, it has given us the haunted voices of jail juveniles, incarcerated kids, those who are truly rarely heard. It has also told the story of women behind bars, for example AIDS patients and survivors at the women’s dungeon in Chowchilla California. In short Prison Radio has brought you the voices of those behind the walls, the fastest growing public housing development in America. For this and its other works it deserves your generous financial support.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Catch Mumia update on Democracy Now Thursday 9/7
Members of the French delegation which traveled to Philadelphia today to meet with Mayor Street and to hold a major Town Hall Meeting will appear tomorrow on the award-winning national radio program Democracy Now. The delegation included Julia Wright, daughter of legendary writer Richard Wright and leading spokesperson for Mumia in France; Patrick Braouezec, Representative for Saint Denis in the National Assembly of France and former Mayor of Saint Denis; and Raphael Barontini, Coordinator of the Mumia Committee in Saint-Denis and Coordinator of the ceremony naming a Saint Denis street for Mumia, Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Monday, September 04, 2006
URGENT MESSAGE FROM International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
TOWN HALL MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
AFSC, 15th and CHERRY STREET, PHILADELPHIA
This event is critical towards beating back an F.O.P. inspired attack on Mumia that is designed to lead to his legalized, sanitized murder, which is most serious and escalating by the day!!
At this critically urgent stage in the fight for Mumia's life the Fraternal Order of Police have been waging a vicious campaign to try to kill him. When the city of Saint-Denis, France named a street in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal the FOP went crazy. Racist, conservative politicians introduced resolutions laced with dangerous lies in Philadelphia City Council, The House and Senate aiming to bully the French government to change the name of the street. "
Old news? Hell no! The aforementioned bullying now includes blatant lies that are falsifying documents to get Mumia executed, AND a statement that Mumia hit Officer Daniel Faulkner several times before allegedly shooting him. They are COUNTING on us to SLEEP on this and it's OUTRAGEOUS!! Hold up... As if that weren't enough.... this
blood-thirsty lynch mob is also stating that Mumia has exhausted all appeals, when he in fact has a handful of appeals left, therefore misleading many to believe that he is going to be executed anyway, so why not aquiesce to the F.O.P.'s demands!! TRICKNOLOGY IS IN FULL EFFECT, STRUGGLE PEOPLE!!!!
CHECK IT: This bullying has also included attacks on French Mumia supporters, including Sis. Julia Wright, whose HOME suffered an attempted break-in and frightening unidentified surveillors sitting outside of her home. Further intimidation has included men dressed as police officers tearing down the street signs honoring Mumia and vandalizing sites designated by the French activists in support of Mumia!!
FURTHERMORE, H. Con. Res. 407 is being purported as being in the "people's" name ... and we MUST let them know before they resume session on SEPTEMBER 15 that they are not speaking for ANY of us, they are speaking for the F.O.P.!!!! BEFORE SEPTEMBER 15!!!
The ICCFMAJ needs YOU to be at the very important meeting on SEPTEMBER 6 IN PHILADELPHIA. Don't worry about food, cuz food and refreshments will be provided for FREE! Just show up, bring whoever! There will even be free documentary DVD's given away on the case of Mumia.
WE NEED YOU to be ready to fight back against the mounting offensive against
Mumia and his supporters WORLD-WIDE. The French Delegation is EMERGENTLY flying back here to obtain much-needed support and WE GOTTA BE ON POINT. YOUR support is needed to beat back the F.O.P. attempts at anti-Mumia legislation!!
Join us, Wednesday, September 6th at the AFSC at 15th and Cherry in Center City Philly. Stand in solidarity with the delegation who will fly into Philly from France in order to put pressure on US officials and to clear the air about the lies surrounding the street naming for Mumia. Come at 5:30 pm to view The Framing of an Execution - a documentary on Mumia featuring Danny Glover and Angela Davis. Then at 6:30 join us for a work oriented town meeting to strengthen the international struggle for Mumia and all political prisoners.
The Delegation from France includes: Patrick Braouezec, Representative of the French National Assembly, Julia Wright, ICFFMAJ spokesperson in France and daughter of acclaimed author Richard Wright and Rafael Barontini, Coordinator of the Mumia Committe of Saint-Denis. Speakers will include the above as well as Death Row exonoree Harold Wilson,
Attorney Michael Coard, Tonya McCleary and others.
CHAKA FATAH, WHERE ARE YOU NOW? YOU SUPPORTED MUMIA BEFORE!!! WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT NOW !!!!
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
AFSC, 15th and CHERRY STREET, PHILADELPHIA
This event is critical towards beating back an F.O.P. inspired attack on Mumia that is designed to lead to his legalized, sanitized murder, which is most serious and escalating by the day!!
At this critically urgent stage in the fight for Mumia's life the Fraternal Order of Police have been waging a vicious campaign to try to kill him. When the city of Saint-Denis, France named a street in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal the FOP went crazy. Racist, conservative politicians introduced resolutions laced with dangerous lies in Philadelphia City Council, The House and Senate aiming to bully the French government to change the name of the street. "
Old news? Hell no! The aforementioned bullying now includes blatant lies that are falsifying documents to get Mumia executed, AND a statement that Mumia hit Officer Daniel Faulkner several times before allegedly shooting him. They are COUNTING on us to SLEEP on this and it's OUTRAGEOUS!! Hold up... As if that weren't enough.... this
blood-thirsty lynch mob is also stating that Mumia has exhausted all appeals, when he in fact has a handful of appeals left, therefore misleading many to believe that he is going to be executed anyway, so why not aquiesce to the F.O.P.'s demands!! TRICKNOLOGY IS IN FULL EFFECT, STRUGGLE PEOPLE!!!!
CHECK IT: This bullying has also included attacks on French Mumia supporters, including Sis. Julia Wright, whose HOME suffered an attempted break-in and frightening unidentified surveillors sitting outside of her home. Further intimidation has included men dressed as police officers tearing down the street signs honoring Mumia and vandalizing sites designated by the French activists in support of Mumia!!
FURTHERMORE, H. Con. Res. 407 is being purported as being in the "people's" name ... and we MUST let them know before they resume session on SEPTEMBER 15 that they are not speaking for ANY of us, they are speaking for the F.O.P.!!!! BEFORE SEPTEMBER 15!!!
The ICCFMAJ needs YOU to be at the very important meeting on SEPTEMBER 6 IN PHILADELPHIA. Don't worry about food, cuz food and refreshments will be provided for FREE! Just show up, bring whoever! There will even be free documentary DVD's given away on the case of Mumia.
WE NEED YOU to be ready to fight back against the mounting offensive against
Mumia and his supporters WORLD-WIDE. The French Delegation is EMERGENTLY flying back here to obtain much-needed support and WE GOTTA BE ON POINT. YOUR support is needed to beat back the F.O.P. attempts at anti-Mumia legislation!!
Join us, Wednesday, September 6th at the AFSC at 15th and Cherry in Center City Philly. Stand in solidarity with the delegation who will fly into Philly from France in order to put pressure on US officials and to clear the air about the lies surrounding the street naming for Mumia. Come at 5:30 pm to view The Framing of an Execution - a documentary on Mumia featuring Danny Glover and Angela Davis. Then at 6:30 join us for a work oriented town meeting to strengthen the international struggle for Mumia and all political prisoners.
The Delegation from France includes: Patrick Braouezec, Representative of the French National Assembly, Julia Wright, ICFFMAJ spokesperson in France and daughter of acclaimed author Richard Wright and Rafael Barontini, Coordinator of the Mumia Committe of Saint-Denis. Speakers will include the above as well as Death Row exonoree Harold Wilson,
Attorney Michael Coard, Tonya McCleary and others.
CHAKA FATAH, WHERE ARE YOU NOW? YOU SUPPORTED MUMIA BEFORE!!! WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT NOW !!!!
Support Mumia and greet the French Delegation for their courage in confronting the U.S. Government's determination to execute Mumia!
As soon as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals granted Mumia the right to appeal on issues that could lead to a new trial, the Fraternal Order of Police and its allies began waging a vicious campaign on the internet and in the media to prevent the possibility of a new trial.
They made up a new version of what happened on December 9, 1981; they insisted that Mumia's case is closed and that no further appeals are possible, despite the recent ruling of the Third Circuit which clearly stated that the case was NOT closed; and they presented Mumia as a cold-blooded cop-killer. They then introduced resolutions in the City Council of Philadelphia, the Senate of Pennsylvania, and the US Congress denouncing Saint-Denis and France for naming a street after Mumia, insisting that the name be withdrawn, and threatening sanctions. (The resolutions were passed both in the City Council and the State Senate). Let us stand with the French, united for justice and refusing to be intimidated by the bullying of the FOP and their elected cronies and media hacks.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
AFSC, 15TH AND CHERRY STREET, PHILADELPHIA
5:30pm-6:30pm
Framing an Execution
-a documentary on Mumia featuring Danny Glover and Angela Davis
6:30pm-8:30pm
Town Meeting
- to strengthen the international work and efforts to free Mumia
SPEAKERS:
Patrick Braouezec, representative to the French National Assembly,
Julia Wright, Paris ICCFMAJ/Mumia spokesperson in France,
Rafael Barontini, Coordinator of Mumia Committee of Saint-Denis
PLUS - Harold Wilson; Attorney Michael Coard; Tonya McCleary, AFSC;
and others!
For more information please contact the:
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
(215) 476-8812 - www.mumia.org
Download the flyer at:
http://www.freemumia.com/pdfs/sep6.pdf
They made up a new version of what happened on December 9, 1981; they insisted that Mumia's case is closed and that no further appeals are possible, despite the recent ruling of the Third Circuit which clearly stated that the case was NOT closed; and they presented Mumia as a cold-blooded cop-killer. They then introduced resolutions in the City Council of Philadelphia, the Senate of Pennsylvania, and the US Congress denouncing Saint-Denis and France for naming a street after Mumia, insisting that the name be withdrawn, and threatening sanctions. (The resolutions were passed both in the City Council and the State Senate). Let us stand with the French, united for justice and refusing to be intimidated by the bullying of the FOP and their elected cronies and media hacks.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
AFSC, 15TH AND CHERRY STREET, PHILADELPHIA
5:30pm-6:30pm
Framing an Execution
-a documentary on Mumia featuring Danny Glover and Angela Davis
6:30pm-8:30pm
Town Meeting
- to strengthen the international work and efforts to free Mumia
SPEAKERS:
Patrick Braouezec, representative to the French National Assembly,
Julia Wright, Paris ICCFMAJ/Mumia spokesperson in France,
Rafael Barontini, Coordinator of Mumia Committee of Saint-Denis
PLUS - Harold Wilson; Attorney Michael Coard; Tonya McCleary, AFSC;
and others!
For more information please contact the:
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
(215) 476-8812 - www.mumia.org
Download the flyer at:
http://www.freemumia.com/pdfs/sep6.pdf
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Hear Mumia's latest radio commentaries at prisonradio.org
Hear Mumia's latest radio commentaries at prisonradio.org
Address Given by Didier Paillard, Mayor of Saint-Denis
Address Given by Didier Paillard, Mayor of Saint-Denis, France at Inauguration of Street Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal
Saturday, April 29, 2006, 11 AM
Deputy Mayor, Elected Representatives, dear friends who have come from the United States, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is very rare for a city to name a street after someone who is still alive. We are doing that today because of these exceptional circumstances. For over a quarter of a century, in the most powerful country in the world, a man who was sentenced to death, is in danger at any moment of being executed, despite assertions of his innocence.
In this struggle for his survival, Mumia Abu-Jamal has already won a victory: he has broken the wall of silence, and has little by little become a symbol.
It is a symbol for justice, for the abolition of the Death Penalty, for the respect of the fundamental rights of a human being.
It is a symbol of resistance against a system which has the arrogance to reign over the world in the name of those same human rights which it tramples with complete impunity on its own soil.
It is a symbol of absolute opposition to racial discrimination, which we know still exists today when it is the African-American population which has the highest rate of poverty, of homelessness, of incarceration, and of AIDS.
In naming a street in honor of Mumia Abu Jamal in Saint-Denis, we solemnly express our solidarity with the ongoing struggle for this man.
The inauguration which brings us together today gives continuity to a commitment on the part of the city of Saint-Denis to everything related to human dignity.
This morning, we sponsored the citizenship of 80 private citizens granting them the legal status and dignity that the law prevented them from receiving under the authority of France.
Tomorrow, we will meet again to commemorate the national day of deportation, paying homage to the victims of the Nazi barbarity.
In several weeks, in this same square, we will salute the memory of the Spaniards of Saint-Denis who participated in the Resistance (ed. note: referring to the anti-Franco resistance).
The action which brings us together today continues a fundamental tradition in the history of the social and political movement of our country. Over time, generations identified themselves with the struggles carried out by courageous freedom fighters. The names and the periods have changed but the profound spirit of these movements remain universal. Today it is Mumia, yesterday it was Sacco and Vanzetti, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Angela Davis, Victor Jara, Nelson Mandela.
The dynamism of the Saint Denis Committee to Free Mumia also brings honor to our city. When the activists petitioned us to give special recognition to this particular struggle, naturally the city granted the request.
Tradition calls for the names of places or streets to commemorate a page in our collective history. In Saint-Denis we thus have:
- numerous names of streets that are the names of resisters from the Second World War era
- a Place Julian Grimau, the name of a militant condemned to death by the Franco dictatorship
- a Che Guevara Avenue
- a Bobby Sands Street
In addition, very recently, we named two streets Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Dib, two great Algerian writers who embody the struggle against the obscurantism of fundamentalism.
Next we will be naming a street Cecile Brunschviecg, the name of this activist who was one of the first women to enter the government under the Popular Front, in an era when women were still denied the right to vote.
These names commemorate a work or a struggle that we wish to inscribe in the collective memory.
The city of Saint Denis is the first in France, and perhaps elsewhere, to name a Mumia Abu-Jamal Street.
This initiative takes on special importance at a moment when international pressure can create the possibility of a significant advance, thus eliminating the risk of killing an innocent person.
It is completely intentional that this street is situated in a section of Saint-Denis that is in the midst of being transformed, a section in which new residents are moving in, where there is growing economic activity, a section resolutely facing the future,
Rue Mumia Abu Jamal is thus beside:
- Human Rights Square,
- Children’s Rights Square
- the street Rol Taguy, the liberator of Paris in 1944
- the street Eleanor Rubiano, an anti-Nazi resister who was deported.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am certain that behind the bars of his cell, at this very moment, despite the time difference, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is aware of this inauguration is with us in his thoughts.
In the name of all of you, in the name of the residents of Saint-Denis, we salute Mumia, we salute your courage, and we hope to find you very soon, among us, a free man.
Saturday, April 29, 2006, 11 AM
Deputy Mayor, Elected Representatives, dear friends who have come from the United States, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is very rare for a city to name a street after someone who is still alive. We are doing that today because of these exceptional circumstances. For over a quarter of a century, in the most powerful country in the world, a man who was sentenced to death, is in danger at any moment of being executed, despite assertions of his innocence.
In this struggle for his survival, Mumia Abu-Jamal has already won a victory: he has broken the wall of silence, and has little by little become a symbol.
It is a symbol for justice, for the abolition of the Death Penalty, for the respect of the fundamental rights of a human being.
It is a symbol of resistance against a system which has the arrogance to reign over the world in the name of those same human rights which it tramples with complete impunity on its own soil.
It is a symbol of absolute opposition to racial discrimination, which we know still exists today when it is the African-American population which has the highest rate of poverty, of homelessness, of incarceration, and of AIDS.
In naming a street in honor of Mumia Abu Jamal in Saint-Denis, we solemnly express our solidarity with the ongoing struggle for this man.
The inauguration which brings us together today gives continuity to a commitment on the part of the city of Saint-Denis to everything related to human dignity.
This morning, we sponsored the citizenship of 80 private citizens granting them the legal status and dignity that the law prevented them from receiving under the authority of France.
Tomorrow, we will meet again to commemorate the national day of deportation, paying homage to the victims of the Nazi barbarity.
In several weeks, in this same square, we will salute the memory of the Spaniards of Saint-Denis who participated in the Resistance (ed. note: referring to the anti-Franco resistance).
The action which brings us together today continues a fundamental tradition in the history of the social and political movement of our country. Over time, generations identified themselves with the struggles carried out by courageous freedom fighters. The names and the periods have changed but the profound spirit of these movements remain universal. Today it is Mumia, yesterday it was Sacco and Vanzetti, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Angela Davis, Victor Jara, Nelson Mandela.
The dynamism of the Saint Denis Committee to Free Mumia also brings honor to our city. When the activists petitioned us to give special recognition to this particular struggle, naturally the city granted the request.
Tradition calls for the names of places or streets to commemorate a page in our collective history. In Saint-Denis we thus have:
- numerous names of streets that are the names of resisters from the Second World War era
- a Place Julian Grimau, the name of a militant condemned to death by the Franco dictatorship
- a Che Guevara Avenue
- a Bobby Sands Street
In addition, very recently, we named two streets Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Dib, two great Algerian writers who embody the struggle against the obscurantism of fundamentalism.
Next we will be naming a street Cecile Brunschviecg, the name of this activist who was one of the first women to enter the government under the Popular Front, in an era when women were still denied the right to vote.
These names commemorate a work or a struggle that we wish to inscribe in the collective memory.
The city of Saint Denis is the first in France, and perhaps elsewhere, to name a Mumia Abu-Jamal Street.
This initiative takes on special importance at a moment when international pressure can create the possibility of a significant advance, thus eliminating the risk of killing an innocent person.
It is completely intentional that this street is situated in a section of Saint-Denis that is in the midst of being transformed, a section in which new residents are moving in, where there is growing economic activity, a section resolutely facing the future,
Rue Mumia Abu Jamal is thus beside:
- Human Rights Square,
- Children’s Rights Square
- the street Rol Taguy, the liberator of Paris in 1944
- the street Eleanor Rubiano, an anti-Nazi resister who was deported.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am certain that behind the bars of his cell, at this very moment, despite the time difference, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is aware of this inauguration is with us in his thoughts.
In the name of all of you, in the name of the residents of Saint-Denis, we salute Mumia, we salute your courage, and we hope to find you very soon, among us, a free man.
New pictures from the naming of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal
View the latest pictures from the naming of "Rue Mumia
Abu-Jamal" at:
Picture of the Mayor of Saint Denis
Picture of Free Mumia Coalition Co-Chair and Ossining NAACP Vice
President in Saint-Denis
Picture of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal
Abu-Jamal" at:
Picture of the Mayor of Saint Denis
Picture of Free Mumia Coalition Co-Chair and Ossining NAACP Vice
President in Saint-Denis
Picture of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal
Monday, May 15, 2006
Video Podcast of the naming of Rue Mumia Abu Jamal
Download and check out the new video podcast of the naming of a street in St. Denis, France, in honor of journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. The naming of Rue Mumia Abu Jamal is part of an ongoing struggle to free Mumia, who sits on Pennsylvania's death row.
Download the Video from Peoples Video Network at www.peoplesvideo.tv/bm/
Download the Video from Peoples Video Network at www.peoplesvideo.tv/bm/
Harry Belafonte speaks out on the naming of Rue Mumia Abu Jamal
Actor, singer and social justice activist Harry Belafonte speaks on the naming of Rue Mumia Abu Jamal in St. Denis, France.
VIEW THE VIDEO
VIEW THE VIDEO
Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal Video
On April 29, 2006, a newly constructed street in Saint-Denis, (a town of 100,000 bordering Paris), was named Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal. In attendance was the mayor, deputy mayors, representatives of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC), and a large and very diverse group of individuals and organizations from France and the Carribean. Julia Wright, daughter of the lated noted writer Richard Wright, speaks of the significance of this event as well as the 2003 granting of honorary citizenship to Mumia by the City of Paris, in the following video.
VIEW THE VIDEO
VIEW THE VIDEO
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Free Mumia Abu Jamal
A large delegation of US activists will travel to France April 27 – 29 to join a ceremony in the French city of Sainte Denis to name a newly constructed street in honor of Mumia Abu Jamal. The new street, built spefically to bring attention to Mumia's struggle for justice, leads to the Nelson Mandela Stadium, the largest stadium in France.
Members of the delegation include Pam Africa, director of International Concerned Families and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, Ramona Africa of MOVE, a survivor of the 1985 massacre of MOVE members at the hands of US police, Leslie Jones, of Youth for Mumia, Suzanne Ross, of the New York City Free Mumia Coalition and activists Sundiata Sadiq, Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr., Akua Njeri, Sam Jordan and videographer Johnnie Stevens.
Check back here for reports and photos from the delegation members, beginning April 27.
Members of the delegation include Pam Africa, director of International Concerned Families and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, Ramona Africa of MOVE, a survivor of the 1985 massacre of MOVE members at the hands of US police, Leslie Jones, of Youth for Mumia, Suzanne Ross, of the New York City Free Mumia Coalition and activists Sundiata Sadiq, Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr., Akua Njeri, Sam Jordan and videographer Johnnie Stevens.
Check back here for reports and photos from the delegation members, beginning April 27.
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