U.S. activists in solidarity with political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dec. 6 was declared an International Day of Solidarity with death row political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Events were held in France, Switzerland, Germany, England and Mexico, while in the U.S. events were organized in Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, Portland, San Diego and other cities. Mumia’s lawyers are currently appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court for a new guilt-phase trial, while the Philadelphia district attorney is appealing to the same court in an effort to execute Mumia without a new sentencing-phase jury trial. The following are summaries of some of the U.S. events.

Hundreds of spirited and determined demonstrators straddled both sides of a circular drive around Philadelphia’s City Hall across from District Attorney Lynn Abraham’s office on Dec. 6 to confront her attempt to fast track the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Abraham, known as “the deadliest DA in the U.S.,” has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Abu-Jamal’s death sentence, despite mounds of evidence of his innocence. The largely youthful crowd filled the frigid December air with chants of “No Justice, No Peace! Until Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Released!”

The rally opened with a phoned-in solidarity greeting live from Venezuelan campesino leader Braulio Álvarez, a member of the National Assembly representing the Yaracuy states.

Álvarez called from a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Caracas where Venezuelans gathered to present a letter to the U.S. ambassador calling for the state in Pennsylvania to immediately liberate Abu-Jamal.

Pam Africa of the MOVE organization and International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal challenged the assertion by District Attorney Abraham that there was no evidence that Abu-Jamal was innocent or denied a fair trial. Africa called on Captain William Fisher, head of Philadelphia’s Police Department of Civil Affairs, to come forward, and she proceeded to pile his arms with mounds of books, files, CD’s and photos containing evidence that has been gathered over the years to take to Abraham.

Noting that in 1981 and again in 1985 both the police and district attorney were given copies of photos taken by independent photojournalist Pedro Polakoff that contradicted prosecution witnesses’ accounts, Africa challenged Abraham’s position that evidence proving Abu-Jamal’s innocence was not timely and therefore could not be admitted to court. Africa noted that the prosecution had these photos, yet kept them from defense attorneys.

The rally was followed by a march past the Union League on S. Broad Street, where earlier in the day President George W. Bush was present to see his portrait hung. Some protesters carried placards with a photo of Bush behind bars for war crimes with the slogan “Jail Bush! Free Mumia!”

At 13th and Locust streets the march stopped for a brief enactment of the 1981 crime scene, where Hans Bennett of Journalists for Mumia outlined the contradictory statements of state witnesses that have since been exposed as lies by Polokoff’s photos and other eyewitness accounts.

The march concluded with another spirited rally as protesters occupied Market Street outside the Federal Court building, where speakers included Manolo de los Santos of the Iglesia San Romero de Las Américas; Suzanne Ross of the New York Free Mumia Coalition; and Ashanti Alston of the Jericho Movement, who spent more than a decade in prison. Alston spoke of the need to free all political prisoners, including Leonard Peltier and the San Francisco 8.

Monica Moorehead of the International Action Center spoke on Abu-Jamal’s refusal to compromise his principles and his continued political contributions through radio commentaries and weekly columns on issues from imperialist wars abroad to the economic crisis at home. “With almost two million people foreclosed out of homes this year and millions unemployed, we have to link these wars at home when we raise the political struggle against prisons, police brutality and stop and frisk. Mumia would want us to.”

Fight Imperialism, Stand Together organizer Larry Hales remarked that it has been 39 years since the murders of Black Panther members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by Chicago police. “We don’t want to wait 39 years to observe another anniversary about Mumia. Young people today aren’t being educated about the great social movements, but they are going to be radicalized as they fight back against the conditions they face today, and they’ll come to understand the importance of raising political prisoners’ demands.”

Student and community activists in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal met on Dec. 2 in Missoula, Mont., on the campus of the University of Montana (UM) to hear Larry Hales, an International Action Center organizer, and see the film distributed by the Peoples Video Network, “The Framing of an Execution: Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Media.”

Rachael Carroll, an organizer with the Montana Human Rights Network and Montana Abolition Coalition, a statewide movement against the death penalty, also spoke. The coalition was also a sponsor of the event.

Carroll reported that the Montana component of the prison-industrial complex is part of the racist trend throughout the United States, where members of oppressed nations are imprisoned and receive death sentences far beyond their numbers in the population. She said, “American Indians in Montana are about 6 percent of the population, but Indian women comprise between 42 percent and 75 percent of all women in prison in the state. In addition, Indian men comprise more than 22 percent of both prisoners and those receiving the death penalty.”

Both Hales and Carroll spoke about the need for people to get involved in local and statewide actions against the racist death penalty as well as to support Mumia and demand that his legal lynching be stopped. Both organizers encouraged those present to follow the advice of Mumia to “Organize! Organize! Organize!”

Elisabeth Stoeckel, a UM graduate student, chaired the meeting and represented the Social Justice Action Network, an event sponsor and a UM organization that provides social work graduate students with the opportunity to get involved with social justice activities on campus and in the community. Other UM groups supporting the event included Students for Economic and Social Justice, Students for Peace and Justice and the International Action Center in Montana.

The day before the Missoula event, activists and members of Amnesty International and the IAC gathered In Dillon, Mont., on the campus of the University of Montana Western. They heard Larry Hales speak about Mumia’s case and then engaged in a lively discussion to plan further actions in support of Mumia and the statewide movement against the death penalty in Montana.

The meetings in Missoula and Dillon were the first held in the state by the International Action Center in Montana, and are seen by state organizers of the IAC and other involved groups as stepping stones to building a statewide network to not only oppose the racist death penalty and the unjust imprisonment of oppressed and poor people, but also to engage in other political action against economic and political injustice.

Activists in the fight to free U.S. political prisoners gathered in Buffalo to watch a new video, “Fighting for Mumia’s Freedom: A Report from Philadelphia.” They also watched a CBS-produced program, “West 57th,” that told so much truth about the case of Leonard Peltier that it outraged the government when it was aired in the 1980s. A lively discussion followed.

Nearly 100 people braved a snowstorm in Cleveland on Dec. 6 to protest the 27 years of wrongful imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal and to recommit to the struggle for his freedom.

Abu-Jamal’s life was put in the context of J. Edgar Hoover’s war against the Black Panther Party by Abdul Qahhar, chair of the Cleveland chapter of the New Black Panther Party. Devin Branch of the Cleveland October 22 Organizing Committee described Abu-Jamal’s frame-up and the important aspects of his legal case.

Rev. Nozomi Ikuta and Yahya Abdussabur spoke about the situation of the Puerto Rican freedom fighters still in prison and the frame-up of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (the former H. Rap Brown).

Messages of solidarity from prisoners falsely convicted in connection with the 1993 Lucasville prison uprising were read. The audience cheered recent victories in the campaign for the Lucasville prisoners as counted out by Sharon Danann of the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network. Jackie Thomas, spouse of Lucasville prisoner Rasheem Matthews, told how they tracked down the witnesses who testified falsely against Matthews and urged the audience to pack the courtroom during Matthews’ new trial.

Artists from the Hip Hop Workshop, a project aimed at keeping youth out of gangs while creating music without offensive language, provided poetry, dance, rap and hip-hop. The event was seen as a step toward a broader campaign on prison issues.

On Dec. 7, the African American Artists and Writers hosted an Evening of Solidarity to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal at the Malcolm X Library in Southeast San Diego.

A number of attendees left the Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North American Labor Conference in Tijuana early and walked across the U.S./Mexico border to be a part of this gathering. This made the meeting truly international, linking the struggle to free Mumia with the struggles of the many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that were represented at the conference.

Sylvia Telefaro of AAWA opened the discussion by saying, “We are all warriors on the ground—stepping up the struggle to free Mumia.” Speakers included John Parker, Los Angeles International Action Center; Sabrina Green, Free the Move 9 and International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; and Paul LouLou Chery, general secretary of the Federation of Haitian Workers. Dave Welsh of the Haiti Action Committee was scheduled to speak and interpret for Chery, but was delayed at the border to support a Haitian brother, Benissiot Docios, who was detained. (Docios was allowed through Customs only after he paid a “fine” of hundreds of dollars.)

Parker spoke about how important it is to link up the issues of people all over the world, stressing that Mumia’s essays are about this type of solidarity. Parker noted that Mumia rarely writes about himself. Green gave an update on the Move 9 and initiated a phone call to Pam Africa, who applauded the solidarity action. Africa gave an update on Mumia’s case and a Dec. 6 march in Philadelphia. On The Move showed a video by Hans Bennett (see www.abu-jamal-news.com).

Elder Eusi Kwayana, a local activist, member of the Langston Hughes Poetry Circle and a native of Guyana, spoke about a letter that he wrote in May to the Brazilian government concerning the disappearance of Haitian civil rights activist Lovinski Pierre-Antoine. Kwayana was central in bringing together Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese people during Guyana’s independence struggle. Kwayana said that what the state is trying to do to Mumia is “a lynching.”

Zola Mohammad spoke of the struggle to free freedom fighters Imam Jamil and Leonard Peltier. Dianne Mathiowetz of Atlanta said, “Let us not forget Troy Davis. We send revolutionary greetings to the Cuban 5 and all political prisoners.”

Jim Moreno, a poet with the Langston Hughes Poetry Circle who attended the Tijuana conference, recited a poem that was inspired when he talked to LouLou Chery. One question in the poem concerned the hunger of the people of Haiti, to which Chery responded that the people hunger for the return of democratically elected president Bertrand Aristide.

Chery spoke of solidarity and unity and the work that is taking place to build the Federation of Haitian Workers (CTH). He said that Haiti is a poor country with a strong and rich history.

This was also just released by WW:

Prisoners support Mumia Abu-Jamal

On Dec. 6, at Cleveland’s event protesting the injustice of 27 years of wrongful imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, two of the prisoners framed on false charges in connection with the 1993 Lucasville, Ohio, prison uprising sent these excerpted messages of solidarity, which were read by their relatives.

Due to widespread campaigns for their freedom, both prisoners are finally out of solitary confinement after more than 15 years. Mosi O. Paki, an uprising participant, never received a trial but was charged with an internal prison rules infraction. Greg Curry’s charges materialized out of thin air when he refused to testify falsely against other prisoners following the uprising.

Revolutionary greetings, comrades and brothers and sisters. Revolution means change, which is overdue for the innocent but railroaded Move 9 and the “voice of the voiceless,” Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Since learning about Mumia in early 1989, I find it hard to separate him and the Move Organization, nor the staged railroading and ongoing confinement of the innocent voice of Mumia’s that spoke truth to corruption and falsehood. This brother never failed to step to the plate for the people’s benefit. Let us all step to the plate for this brave, innocent brother until he is released from this nearly three decades of wrongful confinement. From one political prisoner for another—Free Mumia Now!

Greetings. I’d like to first thank all of you who participate in struggle. Your efforts and energy keep the sunlight bright. I’ve read much about Mumia Abu-Jamal [and] his unselfish love for oppressed people, so it’s really great to see international support for justice in his case.

I can recall reading W. E. B. DuBois once saying, “It’s easy to gather support for the famous and well off. But who will defend the less known?” There are many of us with solid evidence who, all things equal, would be set free. Please, comrades, become familiar with our cases and get to know us personally. Many of us are prepared to join you in struggle and growth.

Never forget Fred Hampton & Mark Clark

Thirty-nine years ago Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated in Chicago on Dec. 4, 1969, in a pre-dawn police raid on West Monroe Street. President Richard Nixon, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and Cook County State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan were responsible.

At least 28 members of the Black Panther Party were killed as a result of the FBI’s COINTELPRO extermination program, which was approved by the Nixon administration.

The Chicago Tribune ran photos of a door supposedly filled with bullet holes to prove that the police were fired upon. Upon examination these holes turned out to be nails. There is an ongoing struggle to rename Monroe Street after Hampton, a move bitterly fought by the local cops.

Hampton grew up in Maywood, a Black suburb just west of Chicago. A natural leader, Hampton became a revolutionary and infused everyone around him with his optimism.

Hampton was a tremendous organizer who helped make the Illinois Black Panther Party chapter the largest in the country. I remember a 1969 Chicago rally to free Panther Chairman Bobby Seale where six buses came from the small Black community of Rockford, Ill.

Cops busted Hampton for handing out hundreds of ice cream bars to kids. While in jail, Hampton won over the leader of the Young Lords to revolutionary politics.

Hampton was only 21 years old when he died, yet the FBI had already over 4,000 pages of information on him. That’s how dangerous he was to the capitalists. Cops fired additional bullets into Hampton’s head to make sure he was dead.

In a 2006 interview with WW reporter Eric Struch, Fred Hampton Jr. talked about his father and Chicago: “In this city, in particular, the names do not even change, and the actual criminals, how they have been rewarded, they have been elevated. There is no better example that we can lay out than the present mayor of Chicago and the former state’s attorney, Richard Daley, who is the son of gangster Daley Sr., who during his tenure was responsible for how the assassinations of Chairman Fred and Mark Clark had went down.”

Hampton Sr. used to say, “You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution.” We must not let the wealthy execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was 15 years old when he helped form the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party.

If Hampton and Clark were alive today, they would be with the courageous workers occupying the Republic Windows factory in Chicago.

Inspiring displays of international solidarity at workers’ conference in Tijuana

The fifth Cuba/Venezuela/Mexico/North America Labor Conference, with representation from eight countries and virtually every region of the U.S., took place the weekend of Dec. 5-7 in Tijuana, Mexico. Sponsors of the conference included the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange; Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas; World Organization for the Right of the People to Healthcare—Service Employees International Union 1199 NY; International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five; National Network on Cuba; Venezuela Solidarity Network; International Action Center; Cuba Solidarity New York; Southwest Workers Union; and Converjencia de los Movimientos de los Pueblos de las Americas; among others.

The issue brought up by speaker after speaker throughout the three-day conference, and the theme of the Dec. 5 evening social, was freedom for the Cuban Five and humane visitation rights—especially for Olga Salanueva and Adriana Perez, who are denied all access to their loved ones. These five heroic Cuban revolutionaries, arrested, tried and imprisoned in the U.S. for their efforts to expose the criminal plans of counterrevolutionary terrorists based in Miami, must be set free!

It is the height of hypocrisy on the part of the U.S. government that these men, who at great personal risk dedicated themselves to exposing terrorist activities, have been held captive in U.S. federal prisons for more than 10 years. Magali Llort Ruiz, the mother of Fernando González, one of the Five, spoke on several occasions during the conference and was honored with several gifts during a presentation by Clarence Thomas, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 Executive Board member.

The Dec. 5 evening program, in a hall hung with banners honoring the Five and U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, included presentations by Cheryl LaBash, one of the main conference organizers, who called on U.S.-based unions to follow the example of British trade unionists who educate and engage workers on the case of the Five; Alicia Jrapko, leader of the International Committee for Freedom for the Cuban Five, who condemned the U.S. government for the heartless punishment inflicted on family members of the Five by preventing family visits; Andrés Morejón of ICAP, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, who spoke of the tremendous solidarity that Cuba and the Five have received from organizations and committees all over the world; and Silvia Garcia, representing the Cuban National Assembly of Peoples Power, who provided details of the legal struggle to free the Five. Solidarity messages were also read.

The Dec. 6-7 sessions were chaired by conference organizers Cheryl LaBash and Ignacio Meneses, and by SEIU Local 1199 leader Radames Rivera.

Ernesto Freire Cazanas, head officer of the Foreign Relations Department of the CTC (Cuban Workers Confederation), led off the Dec. 6 morning session with dramatic figures highlighting the achievements of the Cuban Revolution, both domestically and with regard to international relations. He praised the conference for providing the opportunity for communication among the various countries present.

Larry Holmes of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights spoke for Teresa Gutierrez, who was unable to travel due to illness following a trip abroad. He observed that the election of Barack Obama reflects enormous changes in the U.S. working class. The huge outpouring of immigrant workers in May 2006 was the first indication that Obama could win. Holmes noted that the primary reason for the increasing repression of immigrant workers is their ability to influence non-immigrant workers. Holmes emphasized the necessity for Black and white workers to stand with their immigrant sisters and brothers this coming May Day.

Ramón Carmona, representing the World Federation of Trade Unions, reported on the May 2008 trade union conference in Quito, Ecuador and urged everyone’s attendance at the next conference, which will be held in Brazil. Carmona concluded his presentation with the observation that the terrible repression of trade unionists in Colombia is an indication of how frightened the capitalist rulers are of the workers.

Edgar Paez, from the National Board of Sinaltrainal, the Colombian union of food industry workers, gave a detailed description of the murderous repression being suffered by workers and trade union activists in Colombia. But in the face of this state terrorism and a crushing economic collapse presently affecting millions of Colombians, the working class is fighting back. Paez noted that among the struggles presently underway in Colombia are a work stoppage by truckers and cane cutters and a strike by court workers.

Representing the Confederation of Haitian Workers was General Secretary Paul LouLou Chery, who remarked that Haiti is “the mother of freedom in our region.” Haiti achieved its independence from France by defeating the racist colonial power militarily in 1804. But he also commented that Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere, with 5 million workers but only 200,000 formally employed. The food situation is grave following the devastation of recent hurricanes. Solidarity in the form of material aid is urgently needed.

Concluding the session, Ignacio Meneses thanked SEIU Locals 721 and 1199, and UNITE HERE Western Region, Local 2. It was their enthusiastic assistance that ensured a successful conference.

Elmer LaBog, chairperson of Kilusang Mayo Uno, a revolutionary organization of the Filipino working class, spoke of the impact of so-called globalization in the Philippines: repressive laws, no job security, many violations of International Labor Organization standards, militarization, assassinations and massacres. The Filipino workers’ strategies of resistance include demonstrations, strikes and cultural activities that educate and organize the workers.

Mario López Choque, general secretary of the Confederation of Bolivian Workers, provided a detailed description of the struggle of the Bolivian workers and peasants, beginning in the year 1982, to free themselves from the tentacles of imperialism. The struggle continues and he concluded with the demands, “All bosses out of Bolivia! U.S. ambassador and USAID out of Bolivia!”

Edgar Sarango, the vice-president of the Confederation of Workers of Ecuador, spoke of a 10-year-long crisis in Ecuador: terrible social instability, divisions among the workers, political opportunism, devastating inflation and the consequent emigration of 2.5 million citizens. The program of the present government, led by Rafael Correa, includes a struggle against corruption, the defense of national sovereignty, institutionalizing the democratic process, expanding social services and protecting natural resources. Sarango emphasized that the class struggle will continue as long as classes of rich and poor exist. He concluded, “Nothing will stop us!”

UNITE HERE Western States Joint Board director and international vice president Cristina Vasquez addressed the growing economic catastrophe for workers in the U.S. She noted that one in 10 families is behind in their mortgage payments or facing foreclosure. She commented that the unions helped Barack Obama get elected. Now “we have our list of demands. Immigration reform was first on the list when we met with the transition team in [Washington,] D.C.” Second on the list is health care for everyone. Third is an employee free choice act—the so-called card check. Finally, she emphasized, “No more ‘free trade’ agreements!”

Rosie Martinez, chairperson of the Latino Caucus of SEIU Local 721, focused on the exploitation of women workers, calling special attention to the plight of maquiladora workers. She introduced Hermandad Mexicana leader Gloria Saucedo, who has set up the “Casa de Elvira Arellano,” a shelter in Tijuana for undocumented workers victimized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and pushed back into Mexico with no resources. Saucedo received a standing ovation from conference attendees.

Clarence Thomas, executive board member of Local 10 of the ILWU, recounted the proud history of his local, noting that Local 10 organizer Harry Bridges was himself an immigrant worker who understood the connection between race and class. Thomas suggested that although the workers find it difficult to compete with lobbyists and corporate lawyers who defend the rich, we have the ability to take action at the point of production and must use that weapon.

The Dec. 6 dinner included a program focusing on U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row for 27 years and, following a Supreme Court ruling, once again facing the possibility of execution. Hosted by Sabrina Green of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, it included a live hookup with activist and Move member Ramona Africa, and a recorded message to the conference from Mumia himself.

The Dec. 7 meeting focused on the struggles of immigrant workers and conference resolutions. Benjamín Prado, central committee member of Union del Barrio, exposed the border wall as an illegitimate border, forming part of a U.S. military strategy that criminalizes workers and condemns many to their death for simply seeking work.

Fernando Castillo of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union described the struggle of the Cananea miners, whose militant strike sparked the Mexican revolution of 1910. Their current struggle is challenging the sellout Mexican government and its neoliberal policies, protesting the proposed selling off of the national oil company and ongoing state repression, including the recent arrest of Cananea miner leader Pavón Campos.

Juan Jose Gutierrez, leader of the Movimiento Latino USA, provided an overview of where immigration reform stands with the election of Barack Obama. He spoke of the historic marches of 2006, the repression that followed and the duty labor unions have to support immigrant workers’ rights.

The conference completed with a global resolution that continued the unifying process begun in Ecuador last May with the Quito Declaration. There was also a resolution supporting the Republic Window and Door workers’ sit-in, an endorsement of a May 2009 Workers’ Solidarity Month, support for framed-up ILWU workers and for Mexican miners. The sixth labor conference in Tijuana is planned for Dec. 2009 to continue uniting workers of all the Americas.

This report has focused on the presentations of scheduled speakers, but there was also very active participation on the part of the audience. Of special note was the remarkable translation service provided throughout all three conference meetings on Dec. 6 by Miami-based FIST organizer Mike Martinez. The reporter would also like to thank Ben Prado of Unión del Barrio for the additional information provided for the preparation of this report.

Comments

Rally

Submitted by jon peppers (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:15pm

For those who do not know, the Mumia rally in Phila. on Dec 6th was a no show. Bikers circled the City Hall in support of the murdered Officer Faulkner...no Mumia demos. They then went to 13th and Locust to the location where Mumia executed Officer Faulkner...again..no Demos. They retraced their steps back to City Hall...again no demonstrators. As to the demonstrators in other countries and several in the U.S. y'all don't have a clue as to the FACTS...proven and affirmed..Mumia Abu jamal...guilty of murder.

Jon Pisano

Mumia Rally In Phila 12/6

Submitted by Wheelman (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:47pm

To bring the truth, which I know is hard with the Mumidiots, there was NO demo in Phila on 12/6. I know because I was one of the bikers there to exercise OUR right to assemble and protest and apparently were the only dedicated supporters out there. Maybe the truth is finally sinking in and people are realizing what a farce this "activist" really is? We can dare to dream can't we????

Demo

Submitted by jon peppers (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 7:08pm

Mr. Wheeler, you mean to tell us there was NO demo in Philadelphia as posted regarding support for the convicted and AFFIRMED murderer Mumia Abu Jamal...geez,, the Mumia supporters lied again as they do with the " new found evidence"....SHAME

No more madness please. I

Submitted by kirsten willis (not verified) on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 1:40pm

No more madness please. I dont like seeing violence out there. We should love each other.

you guys are worse liars than...

Submitted by HansBennett on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 8:00pm

...Joseph McGill, or Ed Rendell.
There were several hundred protesters. And, I didn't see a single FOP thug out with their skull masks and confederate flags (maybe they had trouble reading the advertisement for the event, and arrived too late?), to try and intimidate us, as they do sometimes, like they did on April 24, 2007. Here are a few photos of your comrades from that day:

http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2007/04/mumia-abu-jamal-rally-on-apr...

Demo

Submitted by jon peppers (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 8:14pm

Well Hans,,, you have NO documentation as to the false rally in Phila for your convicted affirmed murder Jamal now do you? You post is crap and you try to link the skin heads to those of us in Law Enforcement who only want Justice for a murdered human being who happened to be an on duty UNIFORMED Officer affecting an arrest. BTW..if YOU were there you would have heard the thunder and I'm sure there would have been photos as we have

Jon Pisano

Photos

Submitted by Wheelman (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 9:47pm

Hey Jon, why not post the pics you have of US there in the midst of the non protest? Then again, the facts and truth never seem to matter much to this group anyway so it wouldn't do much good I would suppose. Just a thought.

Demo

Submitted by jon peppers (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:10pm

The Pics I have were sent to me by another LEO. It really shows a several great shots of City Hall and surrounding areas and the time mark is about every 15 minutes within the hour. Great shoppers..even one picking his nose

This is great!

Submitted by HansBennett on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 8:44pm

You are only discrediting yourself further. But of course anyone dishonest enough to claim that Mumia got a fair trial is certainly dishonest enough to make your kind of assertions. Fortunately for Mumia and his supporters, you make us look very good.

Two equal lies: "Mumia got a fair trial" and "there was no Dec. 6 protest"-- both equally absurd and as easy to disprove.

As to proof of the Dec. 6 Mumia demo, how about the photos in this article itself?

And, the photos of your racist comrades are of those biker cops that come out and try and intimidate us--as in that day in April 2007. I hope readers will take a closer look for themselves.

While those confederate flags do make it a bit hard to distinguish the bikers from the neo-Nazi skinheads, these are the photos of the skinheads here:

http://phillyimc.org/en/node/66592

Demo

Submitted by jon peppers (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:01pm

Mmmm Hans..the COURTS both state and FEDERAL have ruled Mumia received a fair trial and AFFIRMED his conviction for the MURDER of Officer Faulkner. What don't you and your group understand? Y'all are only making fools of yourselves when you pursue something that has been ligitated and reviewed so damn many times and the verdict and evidence STANDS. As to the mass Demos...there WAS NONE in Phila as posted and we have PROOF of that

jon pisano

Nonsense

Submitted by Wheelman (not verified) on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 9:45pm

What photos? I saw 1 unsubstantiated photo at the very top which represents nothing, could be from anywhere and anytime. I worked the demo LAST YEAR to protect your group while you exercised your right to free speech and assembly which is where your other skinhead pics are from. This year I did not have to work that particular detail and for that matter, NO ONE DID, because simply IT DID NOT HAPPEN. My group was there for a substantial amount of time and anyone who was in the area of Center City can attest to the sound and sight of our presence. Can your group do the same? Were YOU there that day?? What time did this so-called demonstration take place? Stop the lies. Stop the nonsense. Could it be that your misguided and misinformed group is finally losing its steam?

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