If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Mumia Abu-Jamal's Legal Defense make out a cheque to The National Lawyers Guild Foundation earmarked "Mumia" and send it to:
Committee to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
P.O. Box 2012
New York, NY, 10159
100 percent of donations are used for legal defense, all others involved are volunteers
As well as watching the Trailer for the film and spreading the word, if you have a moment, please check out the following websites:
The Fog of War, Bus 174, Taking Liberties, Death in Gaza, Mr. Death, Sicko, Bowling for Columbine, My Architect, Supersize Me, Shake Hands With The Devil, The God Who Wasn't There, Battle for the Holy Land (Channel 4), Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, Grizzly Man, Paradise Lost, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Rize, Ghosts of Cite Soleil
Other
Snowcake, Redemption Man, My Little Eye - In fact go out and rent anything by Marc Evans, Willow (for Ollie), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Half Nelson, The Big Lebowski, Twenty Four Seven
Books
Top of the list has to be Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate and It's worth picking up anything else he's ever written, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Cloud Atlas, We Did Nothing, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Obviously Mumia's Books especially Live from Death Row, The God of Small Things, Amy Goodman's Books, Noam Chomsky's work, Anthony Arnove's 'Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal', A people's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chuck Palahniuk's work, Mark Thomas, Richard Dawkins, Gore Vidal, Studs Terkel, Shake Hands With The Devil by Romeo Dallaire (only ook to also feature on my doc list), Freakonomics, Last Man Standing (about Geronimo Pratt), Illusions, Haruki Muakami, The Giro Playboy, Irvine Welsh, Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness.
For books by Mumia or about Mumia's case read Killing Time by Dave Lindorff, Race Against Death by Michael Schiffman, Ona Move by Terry Bisson, Executing Justice by Dan Williams, The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life Hangs In The Balance by Amnesty International
And Books by Mumia are Live From Death Row, All Things Censored, Death Blossoms, We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party, Faith of our Fathers and coming soon a book about Jail House Lawyers in Association with Legal Action for Women and the Global Women's Strike.
My name is William Francome. I was born on December 9th 1981, during a snow storm in London. At almost exactly the same time over three thousand miles away in Philadelphia, a police officer was shot and killed. A prominent journalist was also shot at the scene and was subsequently arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
The journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, has always protested his innocence, however during a trial that has been criticised for it's flaws, he was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. He has been on death row ever since and has become America's most famous death row inmate. As an author of 5 books from prison and a regular broadcaster (over the phone from death row) he has become a lightning rod for those on both sides of the political divide, not only in the U.S but around the world. He has won the backing of Amnesty International and Nelson Mandela while at the same time receiving scorn from many who consider it an affront to celebrate a convicted murderer.
Now... I'm going on a journey to find out more about what might have happened that night, about the city where it all took place and about the political and moral turmoil that surrounds the case....I'm going to find out about the man who's been in prison my whole life.
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Ex-Black Panther Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in Murder Case
By Greg Stohr
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and Black Panther whose conviction for the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer sparked international controversy. The justices, without comment, left intact a federal appeals court ruling that upheld Abu-Jamal’s conviction, turning away his contentions that prosecutors sought to exclude blacks from the jury. He was convicted in 1982 by a jury of 10 whites and two blacks.
The case is Abu-Jamal v. Beard, 08-8483.
Just a small change (Changeless change) Real change that you could believe in' would be an end to Empire, and an end to wars for corporate greed, not just a change of the shade of the political managers. That change, I'm afraid, is still to come. - Mumia Abu-Jamal
We wanted to give all our friends a gift, so here's the gift of film; a tastefully sized web video player running a couple of hours worth of the best short films in the world to you, for free (some people expect you to pay for films you know). Perhaps the coolest thing of all is that it even updates when we add a new film each week. So, enjoy the gift, watch some films, and if one isn't grabbing you hit the >| icon to skip to the next one or you can hit the book icon for more info on a film and links to the filmmakers, there's all kinds. Have a great weekend! xCoffee
Yes We Can CHANGE the United States Policy on HAITI
the rЭvolution continues...
End The Occupation Now!
Haiti has been under attack by U.S., Canada, France and other European powers since they fought and won their liberation in armed struggle with the French forces in 1804 .
Now is the Time For Real Pan-African Political and Economic Independence,
By Any Means Necessary!
FOCUS ON
· African People in the U.S. Education and Involvement
· A Pan African Foreign Policy
· U.S. International Human Rights Abuses - Criminal Offenses
· The Politics of Food
· Exploitation of Haitian Natural Resources
· WHICH WAY FORWARD?
Community Forum
U.S. Hands Off Haiti
End the Occupation Now!
Sun. , March 29, 2009 at 3pm
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Manjani Jackson is a mouthy New York teenager who believes her life’s purpose is to lead her “deaf, dumb, and blind” brothas and sistahs into The Revolution. On one of the worst days of her life, tragedy strikes, landing her at an all white school. Although she is working on getting along, the racist students make it impossible, and before long, the administration crosses the line, forcing Manjani into political action. Then one of her events gets out of hand, sending her on the run. Her journey leads to a place where bittersweet lessons about liberation are learned as her comrades turn against her. Only tough love, spiritual revelations, and self-determination will help her find her place in the struggle.
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