Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Mumia is an innocent man!

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday October 03, 2006 20:34 by Spartacist Group Ireland syc_dublin at hotmail dot com 01 855 8409

The Spartacist Group Ireland is showing the Partisan Defense Committee video
From Death Row, This Is Mumia Abu-Jamal
Thursday 19 October, 7pm
Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man. A former Black Panther Party spokesman, supporter of the MOVE organisation and award winning journalist known as the “voice of the voiceless”, Mumia was framed up in 1982 on false charges of killing a Philadelphia police officer. Sentenced to death based on his political history and beliefs, Mumia has spent 24 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. The frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal shows what the death penalty is all about. It is a legacy of chattel slavery and a barbaric outrage, it is the lynch rope made legal.
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal exemplifies the race and class bias of the US justice system against workers, black people, the poor and all the oppressed. The notorious trial judge, Albert Sabo was overheard at the time promising, “I’m going to help ’em fry the n----r.” Racist jury-rigging, false testimony coerced through police threats, and prosecutorial cover-up were the basis for Mumia’s conviction. Both the Pennsylvania state courts and the federal courts have refused to consider the reams of documented evidence that prove Mumia’s innocence. Foremost is the sworn confession of Arnold Beverly that he, not Mumia, shot and killed the police officer, and that Mumia had nothing to do with the shooting.
We stand with the millions around the world—workers, students, death penalty abolitionists, fighters for black rights and immigrant rights, socialists—who have taken up the fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal now!
An injury to one is an injury to all!
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now! Abolish the racist death penalty!

[The Partisan Defense Committee is a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defence organisation which champions cases and causes in the interest of the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance with the political views of the Spartacist League (American section of the International Communist League, Fourth Internationalist). The Spartacist Group Ireland is the Irish section of the ICL.]