Urgent: Mumia's Life In Danger. Emergency Protests In Nyc

[fredbergen]

All Out to Defend Mumia!
Emergency Protests, Friday March 28


Today, the federal appeals court in Philadelphia upheld the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal and turned down the request for a new trial. The court ordered a new sentencing hearing but restricted the decision to either reinstating the death penalty or life imprisonment. Former Black Panther and renowned radical journalist, Mumia has already spent a quarter century on Pennsylvania's Death Row for a crime he did not commit. He was convicted and sentenced to die by the racist judicial system on the basis of his revolutionary political beliefs. This ruling shows once again that there is no justice for the oppressed in the capitalist courts.

Tomorrow, Friday, March 28, emergency protest demonstrations have been called across the country and around the world. In New York City, two demonstrations have been called for 5 p.m.-- one uptown, one downtown. The uptown demonstraton, called by the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC), is at the Harlem State Office Building at 125th and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (closest train the #2 or #3). The downtown protest, called by the Partisan Defense Committee, is outside the Federal Building, on Broadway between Worth and Duane (any train to City Hall or Cambers St.)

We encourge people to attend either demonstration. Supporters of the Internationalist Group and CUNY Internationalist Clubs will gather at the Harlem State Office Building. We will also try to be present at the Federal Building.

We urge everyone who can come to be there! Mumia's life is in grave danger. At this crucial moment, we must stand in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the struggle to save Mumia and abolish the racist death penalty. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!


Internationalist Group
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[bcbm]

This call out may be overstating the case a little bit, but he should be free nonetheless. Good luck!

[bootleg42]

Usually with Mumia, the U.S. middle class male white chauvinists turn up their racism and ignorance to a NEW level. Here's an example with me arguing (I'm bootleg42):

http://www.prosportsdaily.com/forums/showthread.php?t=206436

I bet we can find a million other examples of this.

I hope Mumia gets out of death row and out of jail itself. The guy is innocent and is a hero. FREE MUMIA!!!!!

[bcbm]

He should be freed as his trial was full of misconduct, but I doubt he's innocent at all. Of course, he was doing a favor by offing a member of an extremely racist and corrupt police force.

[fredbergen]

If you doubt Mumia is innocent then you refuse to see the evidence. Mumia is innocent, beyond a reasonable doubt. Your ignorant pseudo-"defense" of Mumia aids the legal lynch mob.

[bcbm]

Actually I've studied the case and evidence extensively. If you think a guy who came upon his brother getting beaten by a pig would be incapable of shooting the pig, you're the one who can't see. :rolleyes:

[fredbergen]

Then I have some questions for you, you scumbag prosecutor's friend,

1. How do you account for Arnold Beverly's sworn confession?

2. What gun did the bullets come from (not Mumia's!)

3. How do you account for the multiple witnesses who describe suspects fleeing the scene (Mumia was shot, beaten, and arrested on the spot).

4. Despite your "extensive" studies (yeah right, you're obviously borderline illiterate), you can't prove Mumia shot Faulkner, because nobody can, because he didn't. So you weasel out of it by saying that he was "capable" of shooting Faulkner (like any number of other equally innocent people). So if you have any doubts, why do you choose to belive the racist lynch mob and not Mumia, who has always maintained his innocence?

In conclusion, fuck off and die, you rat. Mumia is innocent!

[BOZG]

Ah come on bcbm, every strip of "evidence" against Mumia has been torn apart by his defense teams and himself over the years. This is one of the most blatant examples of a frame-up and there's no discussion needed on it.

[bcbm]

Then I have some questions for you, you scumbag prosecutor's friend,

1. How do you account for Arnold Beverly's sworn confession?

2. What gun did the bullets come from (not Mumia's!)

3. How do you account for the multiple witnesses who describe suspects fleeing the scene (Mumia was shot, beaten, and arrested on the spot).

4. Despite your "extensive" studies (yeah right, you're obviously borderline illiterate), you can't prove Mumia shot Faulkner, because nobody can, because he didn't. So you weasel out of it by saying that he was "capable" of shooting Faulkner (like any number of other equally innocent people). So if you have any doubts, why do you choose to belive the racist lynch mob and not Mumia, who has always maintained his innocence?

In conclusion, fuck off and die, you rat. Mumia is innocent!

My, my, aren't we sassy. Like I said, I could give a fuck if somebody kills a cop or not- he's doing the world a favor. But to believe beyond a shred of a doubt that he is innocent would require you to be the borderline illiterate one (I think my 3000 posts here and 19th ranked reputation suggest I'm not).

1. The same Arnold Beverly who Mumia decided not to use at the time of the affidavit's surfacing because, as his lawyer put it, "Abu-Jamal was far too honorable to propagate a lie upon which to build a case for his freedom," and who none of the witnesses reported seeing at the scene of the crime?

2. The official ballistics report shows that the bullets found in the pig's body were .38 caliber, matching the, ahem, five spent cartridges found lying next to Mumia at the time of his arrest. The report also concludes that he was shot from no more than 24 inches. If he wasn't shooting Faulkner, or at least at him, what was he shooting at?

3. Only one witness who saw someone running claimed to actually see the shooting, and he has always identified Mumia as the shooter. All the other witnesses who saw people running, in their signed testimonies, report that they did not look at the scene until at least a few minutes after the shooting (some when police were already there!) and they all saw different people running, in opposite directions.

4. I don't need to prove it, the evidence speaks for itself, despite your ad-hominems and attempts to imply I'm somehow a racist for looking at the evidence myself from a variety of sources and coming to a conclusion that isn't the popular one among leftists.

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Ah come on bcbm, every strip of "evidence" against Mumia has been torn apart by his defense teams and himself over the years.

Um, actually its the other way around. The evidence has gotten more damning over the years and they've had to resort to increasingly absurd measures to seek freedom that stray from the evidence and focus on bullshit stories (see above) or attempts to prove police misconduct and racism (which works better, though doesn't prove innocence). Whenever they get to the evidence, they get pretty soundly rejected in court.


This is one of the most blatant examples of a frame-up and there's no discussion needed on it.

If the evidence clearly suggests a frame-up (and it doesn't), then there's no need to be afraid of discussion. This is just an easy way to accept the lies and move on. I did that for a long time and then looked into it further. I think he did it, and I think he should be free regardless. Sorry. :rolleyes:

[fredbergen]

More lies from the prosecution's favorite anarchist.

1. You are quoting Mumia's former lawyer, Daniel Williams, who with Leonard Weinglass stabbed Mumia in the back by refusing to present the Beverly testimony and other exculpatory evidence. Mumia rightly canned these lawyers because of their betrayals, and Williams went on to further grease the skids of the execution in a defamatory "insider account" of the case. You misrepresent this hack job who Mumia fired, and later sued, for his betrayals, as somehow speaking for the accused, when in fact at this point both you and Williams are advocates for the prosecution.

2. The state medical examiner's report says that the bullet that killed Faulkner was a different caliber than Mumia's gun. This fact was witheld from the jury, but you lie even more than Judge Sabo and the prosecutors dared to lie.

3. Which witness are you talking about? Robert Chobert, one prosecution "eyewitness," has recanted. William Singletary says he saw a man in a green army jacket shoot Faulkner -- but Mumia was wearing a blue and red knit sweater! Five witnesses (Veronica Jones, Robert Chobert, William Singletary, Dessie Hightower and Deborah Kordansky) reported a man or men fleeing the scene, but Mumia was severely wounded and could not move!

No witness ever testified to actually seeing Mumia shoot Faulkner. The best the prosecution and its anarchist friend can do is the testimony of Cynthia White, who claims to have been present at the scene. But three prosecution witnesses testified in trial that White was not present at the scene!

Your "argument" if we can call it that, is that Mumia is guilty, but since you hate "the pigs" soooo much, he should go free regardless. I think you should reconsider your opinion of the state's racist killer cops, since without their tireless work framing an innocent man in order to lynch him, you wouldn't have so many patently false prosecution slanders to bandy about.

Mumia is innocent! Free him now!

[bcbm]

More lies from the prosecution's favorite anarchist.

Yeah, the opinion of one anarchist on a message board who calls for him to be freed is really going to sway things.

1. Mumia canned him after he published his book, not because of the Beverly affidavit (which is absurd anyway and disagrees with all eyewitness accounts, but I digress). Williams didn't stab him in the back, he merely advised against using a story that could hurt the case due to the lack of evidence.


2. No, a brief preliminary note made by the examiner suggested it may have been a .44. All the evidence presented since then, including from said examiner, has confirmed it was a .38 of the same brand and load as the shell casings found next to Mumia's gun with a rifling pattern consistent with being fired by that gun.

3. A private investigator claimed Chobert recanted. Chobert himself has not. And his statement does not say he fled very far:
"I looked up and saw the black male start running towards 12th St. He didn't get far, maybe thirty or thirty-five steps and then he fell."

Which is consistent with what the police found when they arrived on the scene. Chobert also is a witness who says he did indeed see Mumia shoot Faulkner:
Chobert: "No, I didn't see the gun."
Jackson: "Did you see the flash of the weapon?"
Chobert: "No, but I heard shots. And I saw him pointing his hand too."
Jackson: "So you assumed the shot must have come from the man who had his hand out?"
Chobert: "Because there were only two guys there [Jamal and Cook]."


Veronica Jones was two blocks away with a building between her and the scene and testified that she didn't look towards the scene until several minutes after the fact, and saw two men "sort of jogging" on a street, not "fleeing."

William Singletary said, at the scene "I heard the shots, but I didn't see what happened." He later said that he saw a number of things that make no sense, ie Faulkner calling for his children (he had none), the shooter using a .22 (ballistics problem), two shots being fire (Faulkner was hit five times), a police helicopter hovering overhead (Philly didn't have one), etc.

Hightower was also behind a building away from the scene and said he saw a man in a sweater matching Mumia's with dreadlocks run a bit in the direction opposite him and then fall (agreeing with Chobert).

Kordansky didn't look at the scene until after police had arrived.

Michael Scanlan, Robert Harkins and Albert Magilton all basically corroborate the story of Chobert.

Scanlan:
"I saw a hand come up, like this, and I heard a gunshot. There was another gunshot when the man got to the policeman, and the gentleman he had been talking to [Cook]. And then the Officer fell down on the sidewalk and the man [Jamal] walked over and was standing at his [the officer's] feet and shot him twice. I saw two flashes."

Harkins said he saw Mumia stand over Faulkner, and then:
"He [the shooter] leaned over and two, two or three flashes from the gun. But then he walked, sat down on the curb."

Do I really need to go on?


I think you should reconsider your opinion of the state's racist killer cops, since without their tireless work framing an innocent man in order to lynch him, you wouldn't have so many patently false prosecution slanders to bandy about.

I'm going off ballistics reports and eyewitness statements. I suppose the police made everybody lie about what they saw?

You also ignored my question... when Mumia discharged his handgun, what exactly was he shooting at?

[FightWarxxNotWars]

Free Mumia! The racist court and police have harmed enough people! The government wants to just keep mouths shut and what better way to do that then send someone to jail for something they didn't even do, they have no right.

[Guerrilla Manila]

Little do the authorities realize ... that the best thing they could do to ensure Mumia's heroic legacy ... is to martyr him with execution.