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Mumia Abu-Jamal

and the Death Penalty

a Fahari-Libertad Event

8:30 p.m. Wed. March 7

LC 100 SUNY New Paltz with

PAM AFRICA &

SUZANNE ROSS

 

Mumia Abu-Jamal is on Pennsylvania's death row for the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer. There is so much evidence pointing to his innocence that a worldwide movement is demanding his release, or at the very least a new trial, including Nelson Mandela, Amnesty International, Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and members of various governing bodies  such as the Japanese Diet, the British Parliament, and the European Parliament.       

Co-founder of the Philadelphia Black Panthers, Mumia is an internationally known journalist, a voice for justice, and a political prisoner.  

    Movement is expected within the next few months on his legal case, and we may have to rally once again to stop his execution. The NAACP has taken a strong stance in his defense.  

Pam Africa is the coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She travels extensively both in the U.S. and around the world to address groups working on issues of justice: the death penalty, political prisoners, torture, police brutality, and the cases of Lynne Stewart, Fred Hampton Jr., and Harold Wilson, recently exonerated and released from death row. She is Minister of Confrontation for the MOVE Organization. 

Suzanne Ross is a long-time activist against racism and imperialism. She went to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War; in the 1980s she was a national coordinator of CISPES. She is engaged full time in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and related issues (the death penalty, police brutality, the prison-industrial complex, political prisoners). A clinical psychologist and educator by profession, she is co-chair of the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC). 

 

Media ignores new developments in Mumia’s case

NPR slants the news against Mumia


Amnesty International calls for a new trial for Mumia (2000):
 

THE DEATH PENALTY

 

MOVE
This is an important part of our history that we must confront squarely with the truth. We need to be vigilant not trust the government when it comes to violence against people who are different. What happened in Wako is not that different from what happened in Philadelphia. Many students are very surprised to learn that their government bombed a house in a Philadelphia neighborhood destroying 50 homes and killing six people.

Nobody Was Supposed to Survive

 (a story about the incident by Alice Walker)

Sponsored by Fahari , the Middle East Crisis Response  Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc., the Black Students Union, Democracy Matters, the Feminist Majority, the Poetry Association,and other community and college organizations.
For information call 845-657-5759
 Wheelchair-accessible