Important! I Need Y'alls Help Now!!

[nattyreb]

i need my Assata Speaks fam to really, REALLY, help get these regular updates broadly posted on Mumia. The information is coming out incredibly fast and furious and as much as i try to post it everywhere, i simply cannot.

There are 50-eleven Ning groups that y'all post to, PLEASE POST THESE UPDATES THERE. Please post to your Facebooks, MySpaces, BlackPlanet, Playahata, Sports, Entertainment, Gossip, Religious, Cultural, wherever, whatever, PLEASE DO A FEW EXTRA CLICKS wherever you're at and post updates on Mumia. Just like you read about Obama in every corner, that's EXACTLY how Mumia's name needs to be out there right now. This is the ONLY WAY we have a chance to save his life, we need to pull out all the stops RIGHT NOW.

Below is a very important posting, it's a simple radio show that turned out to be incredibly powerful that happened on WBAI last night. It's just excellent for those who don't know the legal arguments that prove all of the misconduct that happened in his case, and it is engrossing.

Encourage them to subscribe to the topica mailing list at the end of the posting, i send everything out there as soon as i get it and may not even get it posted here, asante sana, y'all!
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The WBAI Show last night gave out so much information that it is something
that everyone should listen to, it clearly spells out exactly how the system has
ignored it's own laws at every turn and has an answer to every question that
the kill-crazy cops and their supporters raise to try and murder our Bro. It's
up to ALL of us to build a movement too big for that to happen!! The
radio show is riveting, not boring, please listen to it and use it for P.E. !

PLEASE HELP TO COVER EVERY CORNER OF THE
INTERNET WITH THESE IMPORTANT UPDATES!!
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WBAI on Mumia Abu-Jamal: featuring Pam Africa, Linn Washington, and Vincent Southerland | Philadelphia Independent Media Center

WBAI on Mumia Abu-Jamal: featuring Pam Africa, Linn Washington, and Vincent Southerland : Indybay

http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/09...0001wwlive.MP3


Listen to the April 9, 2009 WBAI Radio show "Where We Live" focusing on the case of death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the April 4 US Supreme Court ruling which rejected Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt phase trial.

The show is hosted by Suzanne Ross, who is Co-Chair of the New York City Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and features as guests:

--Pam Africa, Coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

--Linn Washington Jr,, Philadelphia Tribune columnist and Temple University professor of journalism

--Vincent Southerland, Assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

On Monday, April 4, the US Supreme Court Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt phase trial (in official legal terms, they rejected his petition for a "writ of certiorari"). Abu-Jamal's appeal was based primarily on the US Supreme Court's 1986 "Batson v Kentucky" ruling which stated that a defendant deserves a new trial if it can be shown that the prosecutor used peremptory strikes to remove otherwise qualified jurors simply because of their race. At Abu-Jamal's 1982 trial, prosecutor Joseph McGill used 10 or 11 of his 15 strikes to remove otherwise acceptable black jurors.

The US Supreme Court has not yet decided whether it will further consider the Philadelphia DA's appeal of the 2001/2008 rulings of two lower courts, which ruled that Abu-Jamal deserves a new sentencing hearing if the death penalty is to be re-instated. Therefore, if the US Supreme Court rules in favor of the DA, Abu-Jamal can then be executed WITHOUT a new sentencing hearing!

For more information on the Supreme Court ruling here.

Please sign the online petition for Mumia here: Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal Petition




Mumia's New Book On Jailhouse Lawyers

"More Than A Book Party" events to be held around US, marking the March release

Purchase Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A., directly from City Lights Books. Read the foreword by former political prisoner Angela Y. Davis and an interview with Mumia about his new book. 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."

"More Than A Book Party" events will be held in the US around April 24, to mark Mumia's birthday and the release of Jailhouse Lawyers. Read more about events in: Philadelphia (including a Revolutionary Week of Events), NYC, Oakland, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, Houston, Washington, DC, and Baltimore.

Read reviews by: Linn Washington, Jr., J. Patrick O'Connor, and Kiilu Nyasha
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EMERGENCY STRATEGIZING MEETINGS:
When: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10 am – 12 noon
Where: Abiding Truth Ministries Church, 5701 Washington, Ave. Philly
Contact: 215 476 8812 or ICFFMAJ@aol.com
GET FLYERS FOR UPCOMING EVENTS - E-mail icffmaj@aol.com

NY: Open Meeting in Response to the Outrageous and Racist Ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court
When: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Where: Solidarity Center, 55 West 17th Street, 5th Floor
(btw. 5th & 6th Avenues)
Directions: 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, F, or V to 14th Street
Sponsored by: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
freemumia.com • 212-330-8029

The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia!

Audio of most of Mumia's essays are at: Prison Radio

Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Essays
Mumia's got a podcast! Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Essays - Subscribe at the website or on iTunes and get Mumia's radio commentaries online.

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).

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC

Please mail donations/ checks to:
FREE MUMIA ABU JAMAL COALITION
PO BOX 16, NEW YORK,
NY 10030
(CHECKS FOR BOTH ORGANIZATIONS PAYABLE TO: FMAJC/IFCO)

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
215 476-8812
212-330-8029

Send our brotha some LOVE and LIGHT at:
Mumia Abu-Jamal
AM 8335
SCI-Greene
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370

WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CAN *NOT* REST!!

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[Jalili]

I'll do my best to help out.

Send me any of the information to be post and I'll send them everywhere I can

[Langalibalele]

Keep it coming, Natty Reb. I post your messages to all the groups I belong to where you do not already hit. I got your back always, my sister!

[nattyreb]

i see y'all, too, thanks for helping distribute the info!!

Forward ever!

[G.O.D.F.A.T.H.A.]

I'm down for the cause. Better late then never aye?

[Majadi]

I won't be on my computer for a minute as I am moving, I am taking a very brief vacation for a moment to get my new apt. settled but any updates on him can be sent to the AssataRadio site and I can read them as news or send them to my personal e-mail, and I will read them as news reports as well!

[Godssoulja]

Will do