Mass March & Rally
Saturday Dec 6th San Francisco
Assemble: 11:30 am Panhandle Oak & Baker
SF Rally: 1:30 pm UN Plaza - Market & 7th Street
Speakers: Pam Africa, Coord, Int'l Friends and Family of Mumia Abu Jamal; Ossie Davis, actor, Co-chair Comm to Save Mumia Abu Jamal: Afeni Shakur, former political prisoner, mother Tupac Shakur; Noelle Hanrahan, Prison Radio Project/Equal Justice; Ron Kovic, Vietnam Vet, author, Born on the Fourth of July; Robbie Merropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Dir Rosenberg Fund for Children; Angela Davis, former political prisoner, Prof. UC Santa Cruz; Rev Amos Brown, SF Bd of Supervisors, Minister, Third Baptist Church of SF; Maudelle Shirek, Vice Mayor, City of Berkeley; Robert Bryan, attorney, past Chair, Nat'l Coal to Abolish the Death Penalty
Entertainment: EW Wainwright's African Roots of Jazz featuring Phazia Kujichagulia, griot; Dr. Loco's Rocking Jalapeno Band and others
Greetings: Walter Johnson, Sec-Tres SF Labor Council AFL-CIO; Aundre Herron, ACLU, N Calif ACLU; Kiilu Nyasha, Nat'l Steering Comm Jericho '98; Christina Vasquez, Dir, Companeros del Barrio; Reginald Lewis, Young Comrades; David Lester, producer and National Council member of Refuse & Resist!; Rep. October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality; Lance Lindsay, Exec Dir, Death Penalty Focus of Calif; Devora Major, poet; Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action; Pierre LaBossiere, Coord. Bay Area Haitian Amer Comm; Michael Parenti, author; Paul George, Dir. Peninsula Peace & Justice Ctr; Eric Mar, Assoc Dir, N. Cal Coal. for Immigrant Rights
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning Black journalist and radio commentator. he has been on death row for 15 years for the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer. He was convicted despite clear evidence of his innocence and gross misconduct by the police, District Attorney and the judge at his trial. His case is currently before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Key witnesses against Jamal have recanted their previous testimony, stating that they were coerced by police. Mumia Abu Jamal's case has won national and international support, ranging from resolutions signed by scores of European members of parliament to the broad support around the country. His attorney Leonard Weinglass notes "Mumia considers his case not as a vehicle for his own salvation, but a vehicle to help all 3100 death row prisoners, and the 1.5 million who are languishing in a prison system that is completely out of control".
Important Emergency Response: In the event that the Pennsyvlania Supreme Court rules against Mumia Abu Jamal's appeal, there will be an emergency demonstration the following day at 5 pm at Powell & Market Street in SF
For more information contact the Dec 6th Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu Jamal, 3425 Cesar Chavez Street, SF CA 94110; Phone: 415-821-0459; FAX: 415-821-0166
This event has been endorsed by Refuse & Resist!; Oct 22nd Coalition; Art vs Cops; ACLU; Geronimo Ji Jaga; Alice Walker; Ossie Davis; Angela Davis; Mike Farrell, Co Chair Comm to Save Mumia Abu Jamal and too many others to name....
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