Statement from Mumia Abu-Jamal

Turid Sandberg Jacobsen (tsihle@online.no)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:16:02 +0200

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STILL OPP MANN/KVINNE-STERKE LØRDAG 24. APRIL KL. 14.00 PÅ JERNBANETORGET!

Det finnes masse nyttig informasjonsmstoff om Mumia Abu Jamal på følgende URL:
http://www.mumia.org/

Dette er CCADP's (Canadian Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty) web-sider og her vil du også finne audiofiler der Mumia presenterer sitt syn på dødsstraffen og endel andre ting. Mumia har klart å gi den rasistiske bruken av dødsstraffen et "ansikt", og hans bidrag til å belyse denne problematikken har vært formidabelt.

Jeg poster her en oppfordring og en takk fra Mumia Abu Jamal rettet mot europeere generelt som engasjerer seg og demonstrerer:

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"A STATEMENT FOR APRIL 24, 1999, TO BE USED IN EUROPE"
(Posted by Jamal_News Service on 4/21/99)

by Mumia Abu Jamal

Thank you all for coming. Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! I thank you all, throughout Europe, from the bottom of my heart for the support of this day.

This is far more than one man's birthday celebration. It is a celebration of life and clarion call to something missing from the courtrooms and cages of America. The call for justice, for people's justice, where a man or woman is not damned because of their poverty or their politics, where death row is not a black reserve situated out in the boondocks, where judges are not mere politicians in black robes. This celebration shows us that the call is being heard by more and more people, and heard by enough may mean change for our repressive status quo. From the corrupt courts of Chicago to the county in Enid, Oklahoma, to the slave pens that surround the Courts of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, cops have created confessions when they needed them and the courts have sustained these lies with writs of approval. This gathering condemns such practices, and I thank you all the more. This celebration is a celebration of life, of the will to be free, of he will for justice for all of us, not jus
t one man.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I urge you to work for freedom, for justice, for liberation and for an end to the racist death penalty in the United States.

Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! From death row, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal"

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Håper at så mange som mulig setter av denne dagen!

Hilsen
Turid Sandberg Jacobsen

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STILL OPP MANN/KVINNE-STERKE LØRDAG 24. APRIL KL. 14.00 PÅ JERNBANETORGET!
 
Det finnes masse nyttig informasjonsmstoff om Mumia Abu Jamal på følgende URL:
http://www.mumia.org/
 
Dette er CCADP's (Canadian Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty) web-sider og her vil du også finne audiofiler der Mumia presenterer sitt syn på dødsstraffen og endel andre ting. Mumia har klart å gi den rasistiske bruken av dødsstraffen et "ansikt", og hans bidrag til å belyse denne problematikken har vært formidabelt.
 
Jeg poster her en oppfordring og en takk fra Mumia Abu Jamal rettet mot europeere generelt som engasjerer seg og demonstrerer:
 
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"A STATEMENT FOR APRIL 24, 1999, TO BE USED IN EUROPE"
(Posted by Jamal_News Service on 4/21/99)
 
by Mumia Abu Jamal
 
Thank you all for coming. Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! I thank you all, throughout Europe, from the bottom of my heart for the support of this day.
 
This is far more than one man's birthday celebration. It is a celebration of life and clarion call to something missing from the courtrooms and cages of America. The call for justice, for people's justice, where a man or woman is not damned because of their poverty or their politics, where death row is not a black reserve situated out in the boondocks, where judges are not mere politicians in black robes. This celebration shows us that the call is being heard by more and more people, and heard by enough may mean change for our repressive status quo. From the corrupt courts of Chicago to the county in Enid, Oklahoma, to the slave pens that surround the Courts of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, cops have created confessions when they needed them and the courts have sustained these lies with writs of approval. This gathering condemns such practices, and I thank you all the more. This celebration is a celebration of life, of the will to be free, of he will for justice for all of us, not just one man.
 
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I urge you to work for freedom, for justice, for liberation and for an end to the racist death penalty in the United States.
 
Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! From death row, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal"
 
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Håper at så mange som mulig setter av denne dagen!
 
Hilsen
Turid Sandberg Jacobsen
 
 
 
 
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