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Mumia Abu-Jamal:
U.S. Political prisoner fighting for his life
Stand with Mumia on
Dec. 13. The Evidence WILL be heard! 22 Years is Enough! Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal!!!
Saturday, December
13th, 2003, Stand With Mumia in Philadelphia Rally, March, Conference
for freedom fighter brother Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rally at 10:00am at 7th
& Fairmount Streets, at the Friends Neighborhood Guild. This
is the neighborhood where Mumia grew up.
March at 11:00am
to Benjamin Franklin High School, Broad and Green Streets. This
was Mumia's high school, where he was given his name by his teacher
Timone Ombina and waged a struggle to have the school's named
changed to Malcolm X High School .
Indoor Conference
and Rally at 1:00pm at the High School. Hear the evidence that
the courts refused to admit in the recent PA Supreme Court Rejection
of the motions of Mumia's attorneys. Learn about government terrorism
and intimidation against witnesses!
Legal presentations
by attorneys Sam Jordan and Michael Coard.
Hear from witnesses
in Mumia's case like Terri Maurer-Carter, Veronica Jones
Be present
for a possible appearance by Arnold Beverly, the man who has
confessed to the killing of officer Daniel Faulkner and has passed
two lie detector tests regarding his testimony-yet the courts
refuse to hear his testimony and will not arrest him, despite
his insistence that he assassinated Faulkner-not Mumia--during
a police/mob hit on the officer because of Faulkner's interference
with police involvement in drug and prostitution rings in Center
City Philadelphia in the early 1980's.
For more information
please call 215-476-8812, or e-mail icffmaj@aol.com ICFFMAJ
www.mumia.org
December 9,
2003 will mark the 22nd anniversary of the day Mumia was shot,
beaten and almost killed by police as the frame up against him
began. Mumia has spent 22 years on death row for a crime he did
not commit. Mumia continues to be the "Voice of the Voiceless,"
most recently speaking out eloquently about victims of U.S. war
and terrorism.
Massive evidence
has surfaced since the PCRA hearings in 1995 and 1996 proving
Mumia's innocence: a compelling confession by Arnold Beverly
that he shot Officer Faulkner-not Mumia; a testimony that corroborates
important details of his confession from former FBI agent Donald
Hersing, and several affidavits that support Beverly's account.
Court reporter Terri Maurer-Carter has signed an affidavit stating
she heard Judge Sabo, Mumia's original judge, say "I'm going
to help them fry the nigger" in 1982 during Mumia's trial.
Federal Judge
Yohn has rejected a petition for confessed killer Arnold Beverly
to testify, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has also rejected
both the Beverly confession and Terri Maurer-Carter's statement
proving Judge Sabo's blatant racism.
Mumia is now
fighting his last battle in the court system. If Mumia does not
get justice now, he could be legally murdered by the U.S. government
just like Shaka
Sankofa:
innocent, Black, poor and revolutionary. Only the power of the
people can force the government to free Mumia. Join us on December
13th in Philadelphia!
Legal Update:
Mumia's attorneys charge D.A. with faking death of key witness
PHILADELPHIA,
March 11, 2002. Mumia Abu-Jamal's attorneys charged the Philadelphia
District Attorney's Office with "faking the death"
of key prosecution witness Cynthia White in legal briefs filed
today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and
last Friday in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The attorneys
argue in the briefs that, "As the frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal
is increasingly coming apart at the seams, the District Attorney
in her desperation to keep the evidence which proves Mumia's
innocence from being heard has now gone so far as to resurrect
the hoax of Cynthia White's supposed death."
According to
Mumia's attorneys, during 1997 state court hearings before Judge
Sabo the District Attorneys' Office tried to pass off three stapled
together pages from three different documents as an official
New Jersey death certificate for Cynthia White. The name on the
death certificate was "Cynthia Williams, aka Mildred Saunders,"
and the Social Security number turned out to belong to a woman
named Migdalia Cruz who was born in Puerto Rico in 1957. When
challenged to provide fingerprint evidence that the dead body
was actually that of Cynthia White, the D.A. called as a witness
a New Jersey police officer who brought into court a fingerprint
card with the dead woman's fingerprints.
But the officer
admitted on cross-examination that the fingerprint identifiers
did not correspond to Cynthia White's fingerprints. In other
words, the fingerprint evidence proved that the dead woman was
not Cynthia White. In their legal briefs, Mumia's attorneys argue
that the District Attorney recently injected the hoax of Cynthia
White's death into Mumia's appeals in a desperate attempt to
keep the evidence which proves Mumia's innocence out of the courtroom
and, specifically, to defeat their motion to send the case back
to Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe to take testimony in open
court from Yvette Williams. Williams, in a sworn statement recently
filed in Mumia's state and federal appeals, says that she was
in jail with Cynthia White in December 1981 soon after Police
Officer Daniel Faulkner was killed and that White told Williams
the police forced her to testify that Mumia had shot Faulkner
even though White did not see the shooting.
According to
Williams, Cynthia White was in the area of 13th and Locust when
the shooting took place, but was high on drugs and did not see
the shooting. In other developments, eminent California attorney
Michael Yamamoto filed a "friend of the court" brief
in the federal court of appeals in Philadelphia supporting Mumia's
claim that he is innocent of the murder of Officer Faulkner.
According to Yamamoto, his own independent review of the evidence
reveals that Mumia Abu-Jamal was "wrongfully convicted based
upon the testimony of unreliable witnesses, all of whom were
either inherently suspect at the outset or subsequently shown
to be testifying falsely."
Yamamoto concludes
that the evidence at trial, when combined with the new evidence
that has recently come out, "can be shown to overwhelmingly
support" Mumia Abu-Jamal's innocence.
Yamamoto is
the immediate past president of the California Attorneys for
Criminal Justice, a specialized bar association of over 2,000
of California's top criminal defense attorneys. He was recently
appointed to the California Judicial Council's task force on
jury improvement by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme
Court.
Who is Mumia?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
is an award-winning African-American journalist, the author of
several books, and a political prisoner currently sitting on
Pennsylvania's Death Row. He was convicted and sentenced to death
for the alleged murder of a white policeman on December 9, 1981,
in a trial defined by prosecutorial, judicial, and even defense
attorney misconduct.
Mumia became
politically involved in struggles for justice at the age of 14
as a co-founder of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party. As a
journalist and radio broadcaster, Mumia used his talents to expose
the systemic oppression of ordinary people whose stories would
otherwise remain untold; for this he was called the "Voice
of the Voiceless." Mumia was elected President of the Association
of Black Journalists. For these actions, he gained the loathing
of the corrupt Philadelphia "powers" and police. On
the evening of December 9, 1981, Mumia came upon the murder scene
of a police officer. Upon arrival at the scene Mumia was shot
by a police officer and nearly killed.
International
and U.S. notables and prestigious organizations, including Amnesty
International, the Congressional Black Caucus, the European Parliament,
members of the British Parliament, and millions across the world
all agree: Mumia never had a fair trial. Eyewitnesses testifying
against the police version were coerced to change their accounts;
evidence proving Mumia's innocence was hidden from the defense.
Judge Albert Sabo openly expressed his hatred of Mumia (court
stenographer Terri Maurer-Carter heard the judge say "Yeah,
and I'm going to help them fry the n****r") and conspired
with the prosecution.
In 1999 a man
named Arnold Beverly confessed to the murder that Mumia is on
death row for. His confession is backed up by a lie detector
test and he is willing to testify at any time. Outrageously,
the courts have refused to bring him in. On December 18th, 2001
Federal Court Judge Yohn made a decision which upheld Mumia's
unjust conviction but challenged the death sentence. However,
Mumia is still on death row. There could be a new sentencing
hearing where the only options would be life in prison without
parole or the death penalty. This is not just, Mumia is absolutely
innocent and must be free. Please join us in the struggle for
justice! International
Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal 215-476-5416 ICFFMAJ@aol.com
www,MUMIA.org
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