The Other Inauguration Audio/Text

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Mumia Abu-Jamal has recorded an audio recording about the racist violence directed against Camp Hill prisoners on January 20, 2009. Visit The Other Inauguration to download and listen to the piece, which is based on an HRC/Fed Up! report.

Forward this far and wide, media big and small, especially those who report from a dissident perspective. Ask them to get in contact with HRC/Fed Up! for more details of The Other Inauguration.

On a move,

Bret
HRC
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Root Radio host Jeremy sits down with brother Orie from the Free Mumia Coalition and MOVE Support Network to discuss the case and importance of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Show includes in depth conversation, rare audio clips, roots music and more.

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(Artist, Song, ALBUM)

Anthony B, Never Sell Out, BLACK STAR
Queen Ifrica, Genocide, FYAH MUMA
Busy Signal, Nah Go Ah Jail Again, (SINGLE)
Lucky Dube, Prisoner, PRISONER
Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch, Zack de La Rocha, Various Artists, Mumia 911, (SINGLE)
Steel Pulse, African Holocaust, AFRICAN HOLOCAUST
Stephen Marley, Iron Bars, MIND CONTROL
Beres Hammond, Last War, CAN'T STOP A MAN: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
Bob Marley, Roots, REBEL MUSIC
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[/COLOR]The Other Inauguration Celebration
[col. writ. 3/9/09] (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal


For millions of people, both in America and abroad, the inauguration of a Black person as President of the United States was a moment of transcendent history, one of meaning and significance that suggests real change in a nation that has long labored under its racist history.

This was perhaps best evidenced by the vast number of people who swarmed Washington to be part of such a day.

But for half a dozen men in Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison, in its SMU (Special Management Unit), the day will be remembered quite differently.

For that day marked a fit of beatings, electric stun gun (and shield) shocking, kicking, punching and other such treatment, accompanied by a rash of racist slurs by white guards against Black prisoners.

According to the Pittsburgh based Human Right Coalition (HRC), guards and staff launched an attack timed to the inauguration, to send the message, "F--k a historical day, y'all always going to be niggers!"

In an extensive 6 page report sent to members of the press, the HRC's Fed Up! chapter documents assaults and threats against 6 men that day: David Smith, Gary Tucker, Damont Hagan, Ronald Jackson, Willie Robinson and Jamar Perry. Some of these men were threatened with death for daring to file suits in courts against their treatment in the unit.

On the morning of the inauguration, one high-ranking guard reportedly announced over the PA system: "He (speaking of Obama), may have won, in my eyes he's still a nigger." He also stated: "There will be no showers or yard today. We are going to show you niggers who runs this SMU." *

Men were handcuffed, sprayed with hot pepper mace in the face, blinded, stripped naked and beaten in retaliation for exercising their alleged constitutional right to file a civil rights suit in an American court, on the very day that Barack H. Obama was taking the oath of office, telling the assembled throng before him and the nation and world viewing it remotely, that "we do not torture."

For more information contact:

HRC/Fed Up!
5125 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
hrcfedup@gmail.com
(412) 361.3022, ext. 4


--(c) '09 maj

{Source: * "Urgent Action Alert: 6 Prisoners Assaulted in the Camp Hill SMU on Inauguration Day, " Human Rights Coalition, Fed Up chapter (2/17/09), posted at:http://phillyimc.org/en/urgent-action-alert-6-prisoners-assaulted-camp-hill-smu-inauguration-day}

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Mumia Abu-Jamal's new book -- JAILHOUSE LAWYERS: PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS V. THE USA, featuring an introduction by Angela Y. Davis -- will be released soon! It 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 you'll receive an email letting you know: Jailhouse Lawyers, Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.
In support of Mumia and the publication of JAILHOUSE LAWYERS, organizations around the country will be holding "More Than a Book Party" events on or around Mumia's birthday, April 24, 2009. If you are planning to organize an event or would like to order in bulk, you can also receive 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@citylights.com

Let's use the opportunity of the publication of this brilliant, moving, vintage Mumia book to build the momentum for his case, to raise the money we desperately need in these challenging economic times, to get the word out – to produce literature, flyers, posters, videos, DVD's; to send organizers out to help build new chapters and strengthen old ones, TO GET THE PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREETS … all the work that we must do in order to FREE MUMIA as he faces LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE OR EXECUTION!
Please make a contribution to help free Mumia. Donations to the grassroots work will go to both INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and the FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL COALITION (NYC).

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