Monday, June 7, 2010

Mobilise for the Mumia Abu-Jamal Meeting in Brixton on 10th June and visit of Robert Bryan - Mumia's lead counsel



Save Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal and and support Global Abolition of the Death Penalty

"Mumia's very life hangs in the balance. So we badly need international activism & pressure" - says Robert R.Bryan - Lead Counsel to Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Defence Campaign in the UK invites you to meet :

ROBERT R.BRYAN - LEAD COUNSEL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL IN BRIXTON TO UPDATE YOU ABOUT THE CASE OF MUMIA ABU JAMAL ON 10TH JUNE 2010.

ABOLISH THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY – FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW

Date & Time: 7 PM –10 pm Thursday 10th June 2010
Venue: KARIBU EDUCATION CENTRE, 7 GRESHAM ROAD, BRIXTON, LONDON SW9 7PH
(Third Right Street From Brixton Tube Station)


Organised by

George Jackson Socialist League
Democracy and Class Struggle


Supported by

Global Afrikan Congress
Fight Racism Fight Imperialism
World Peoples Resistance Movement (Britain)
Pan Afrikan Society Community Forum
Afrikan Socialist International
Partisan Defence Committee
Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain


Keynote speaker

Robert R. Bryan - Lead Counsel to Mumia Abu-Jamal


Other Invited Speakers:

Steve Headley of RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Worker)

Selma James of Global Women’s Strike

Glenn Watson of Global Afrikan Congress

Luwezi Kinshasa of Afrikan Socialist International

Also speakers from Fight Racism Fight Imperialism and Partisan Defence Committee


Mumia Abu-Jamal and The Global Abolition of the Death Penalty

The death penalty has the ultimate form of punishment is unacceptable in a civilized society and undermines human dignity. (U.N. General Assembly, Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty, Resolution 62/149, Dec. 18, 2007; reaffirmed, Resolution 63/168, Dec. 18, 2008.)

Mr. Abu-Jamal, a renowned black journalist and author, has been on Pennsylvania’s death row for nearly three decades.Mr Abu-Jamal has become a global symbol, the "Voice of the Voiceless", in the struggle against capital punishment and human-rights abuses. There are over 20,000 awaiting execution around the globe, with over 3,000 on death rows in the United States.

The 1982 trial of Mr. Abu-Jamal was tainted by racism, and occurred in Philadelphia which has a history of police corruption and discrimination. Amnesty International, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, "determined that numerous aspects of this case clearly failed to meet international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings. [T]he interests of justice would best be served by the granting of a new trial to Mumia Abu-Jamal. The trial should fully comply with international standards of justice and should not allow for the re-imposition of the death penalty." (A Life In the Balance - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, at 34, Amnesty Int’l, 2000; www. Amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/001/2000.)

See you in Brixton on 10th June - Save the Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal - sign petition Now
http://mumialegal.org/node/72

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