International Labor Offensive to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal - 28:56
A coalition for an “International Labor Offensive to Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal
and All Political Prisoners” is gaining momentum.
with
Jacky Hortaut, union organizer,
member of the CGT in France; an
American studies Professor in Tours and
Clermont-Ferrand
Universities and author of a book about women in prison
dedicated to
the “Move” sisters and chair of Collectif Libérons Mumia, and
organizer
of a local chapter of Just Justice Tours Le Collectif, which
represents
roughly 10 cities, unions, human rights associations, and
political
parties in France.
and
Dr. Claude Gillaumaud Pujot, a professor in
France who wrote the
2007 Abu-Jamal biography, “A Free Man on Death Row”,
who says
“Mumia is an example to all of us because he remains an activist
even
after spending 30-plus years in hell.”
A call for freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners is
picking
up steam, with solidarity actions on his status hearing on in
Philadelphia,
plus a court hearing on April 30, which could eventually lead
to his freedom.
After years of global community meetings, protests,
petitions and legal
challenges, the people’s movement succeeded in taking
Mumia off death
row in 2011 and elevating Mumia to internationally
recognized stature.
Mumia now has name recognition rivaling top-tier
athletes and entertainers and
is considered a hero to all people seeking
liberation - having inspired millions
around the world, from Berlin to
Brazil, Georgia to Ghana, who rally regularly on
his behalf demanding he
receive release or a new trial. In France Mumia is
considered a freedom
fighter because of his advocacy for the oppressed
everywhere. Mumia is the
“voice of the voiceless,” who chronicles the legacies
of people’s struggles
worldwide and one of the greatest threats to U.S.
imperialism is the
uprising of “young Mumias” from the streets of Philadelphia
to the streets
of Paris. We’ll talk with French activists about their understanding
and
concerns that our courts in rejecting all challenges to evidence of Mumia’s
guilt have fueled questions worldwide about the fundamental fairness about
the
U.S. court system and demand that the freedom fighter Mumia, advocate
for the
oppressed everywhere be released or receive a new
trial.
Twenty-five French cities have made Mumia Abu-Jamal an honorary
citizen
including Paris and two streets have been named after him in Saint
Denis and
Bobigny. And, one-hundred and twenty European representatives have
mobilized for medical care for the now ailing Mumia, as he approaches his
64th birthday. Mumia has wrongly spent more than half his life in prison,
most
of which time was on death row and in solitary confinement, before the
Supreme
Court held that application of the death penalty to Mumia was
unconstitutional
and instead shackled him with a life-sentence for a crime,
the killing of a police
officer that he did not commit.
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