http://www.phillyimc.org/en/node/66594

I wish Chuck Africa's plea for dying prisoners could be posted around the world like Mumia's writings are.

For some reason, my posting of Chuck Africa’s plea that elderly dying prisoners be allowed to spend their last days with family and friends, was separated from the other Move Mumia material.

Prejudice is not only whites thinking that blacks are less then human but prejudice people believing that prisoners and especially Move prisoners, aren’t human like the good folk on the right side of the law. Chunk Africa’s plea can show, blinded by civilization, people that dying prisoners are human and in the process that Chuck is also human.

His parole hearing is in May, and by then his plea could be posted all over the world and if he gets parole, maybe next year he can help one or two others get parole as well. PS, two woman and one man were so far denied parole. Don’t accept the Inquirer’s word on anything.

His plea starts off:

I write this letter to communicate a grave concern of mine and maybe yours once reading this.

A sea of apathy floods the cell blocks and corridors of Graterford State Prison as scores of elderly/terminally ill inmates are dying at a rapid and alarming pace. The mere fact of anybody dying is not remarkable by itself; but cold indifference can border on the inhumane when people capable of easing needless suffering fail to act. It is not my intent to suggest that there is a quick fix to a complex situation involving many individuals. However . . .

Click these links for the rest of his letter and more information.
www.phillyimc.org/en/node/66594
www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/6330
blackcommentator.com/272/272_col_move_9_must_be_paroled.html
A slightly similar appeal by Mumia
emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=129

For Chuck Africa’s life story click on his picture at
www.onamove.com

I knew Move when they used to wash cars and Mumia when he volunteered at Community newspaper. A lot has change but the punishment mill grinds endlessly on.
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