"JULY 3 - 4 : Let Freedom Ring For Mumia!"

LET FREEDOM RING FOR MUMIA! http://www.thejerichomovement.com/announce.htm

Let Freedom Ring for Mumia! The NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition in conjunction with the International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia joins with Herman Ferguson, Yuri Kochiyama, Ani Difranco, Grace Paley, Dennis Brutus, Fred Ho, Dave Dellinger, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Connie Hogarth, Toshi & Pete Seeger, Liz McAlister & Phil Berrigan, Mandy Carter, Barbara Ehrenreich, Manning Marable

and many others in calling for a

Mass Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Action

at the Liberty Bell Philadelphia, PA

SATURDAY, JULY 3

along with a simultaneous July 3 support vigil and a huge July 4 Legal March thru Philly and Rally at the Liberty Bell

In 1995, with only 10 days left before his scheduled execution, the international movement for Mumia Abu Jamal’s liberation stopped the state from killing him. Once again, the movement to save Mumia’s life has reached a critical juncture. Chief defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass has stated clearly that Mumia’s federal appeals, while not exhausted, cannot be relied upon to stop an execution. History has shown repeatedly-in the movements for women’s suffrage, civil rights, an end to the Vietnam war, AIDS care, workers’ rights and police accountability-civil disobedience has forced those in power to respond to the people’s demands for justice. The time has come for us to escalate our resistance. Mumia needs you!

Call to get more info and/or get involved! Overnight sleeping space and buses available. We invite you to contribute your local organizing talents and creativity to this national action. Make your own flyers. Form local affinity groups. Contact us to let us know how many people you are bringing to the Civil Disobedience, and what resources you need from us to support your organizing. We have----

Nonviolence/Civil Disobedience Trainers (who can help prepare your group for the arrest experience)

Civil Disobedience Flyers Planning Meeting Dates

A T-shirt design available to you for a local fund raiser Public Speakers

Contact Us With Your email, fax, phone number or address for regular updates!

212-330-8029 215-476-8812

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From: "Oct.22 National Office" Oct22@unstoppable.com

MUMIA'S LIFE IS ON THE LINE: A CALL TO DIRECT ACTION

Time is running out for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied his final appeal. While Mumia's lawyers are now taking his case to the federal courts, his chances there are slim, thanks to President Clinton's 1996 Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which drastically limits the federal courts' powers to review death cases. Mumia's only hope for a new and fair trial is if we can mobilize a bigger, broader, stronger, louder, more determined movement.

On Saturday, July 3, the anniversary of Mumia's death sentence, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia is calling for civil disobedience at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Here in San Francisco, an Independence for Mumia Day legal procession will gather at the Federal Building at noon, proceed to Union Square, and end with a direct action. We are hoping for at least 100 people to participate in the direct action and many more in the legal procession.

15,000 people marched in San Francisco in support of Mumia on April 24. International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia is calling on us to up the ante through direct action, and we know we can make a significant contribution to this in the Bay Area. When Mumia was scheduled for execution in 1995, the mass arrest of 300 torchlight demonstrators in San Francisco inspired Mumia's supporters across the country. When the U.S. went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991, 2,000 people were arrested for protesting, more than half of the protest arrests nationally.

We can make a difference by showing that people are willing to put their bodies on the line and that there will be no peace if Mumia is killed.

FireWorx and other groups and individuals have formed a coalition, Direct Action for Mumia Abu-Jamal, which is planning a campaign of direct action and legal demonstrations over the next several months while Mumia's last round of appeals are pending in the federal court system. You may have heard about the distribution of 15,000 "S.F. Chomicals" telling the real story about Mumia in Chronicle boxes throughout the Bay Area (150 people are rumored to have participated in this action.) On May 13, 22 people were arrested in front of Senator Dianne Feinstein's office when they blocked the "Philadelphia" streetcar to stop the railroading of Mumia.

In addition to Independence for Mumia Day on July 3, we are building for a large action during the national week of actions for Mumia at the end of September, and for an emergency response should Pennsylvania issue a death warrant for Mumia this summer.

Please ask your organization to endorse this call to direct action, and participate in the July 3 and future actions.

You can participate in the following ways:

Groups can endorse the direct action campaign and encourage your membership to participate.

Come to the next meeting of DAMAJ to help plan the procession and action: Monday May 24, 7:30 p.m., at the East Bay Community Law Center, Shattuck Ave in Berkeley near Adeline across from La Pena (call 415-431-3594 for future meetings.)

Form an affinity group to participate in this and future actions. An affinity group is a group of 5-15 people, some of whom are willing to risk arrest, who participate together and support each other during direct action and keep track of and support arrested members afterward.

Come to a prop making session: Saturday June 19 or Sunday June 13 at 2 p.m., call for locations.

Come to the pre-action gathering to get more information about the action: Saturday June 19 at 5 p.m., call for location. (If you can't come to the pre-action gathering, you can still participate in the action or help with the legal demonstration, but call.)

Help spread the word through your group's newsletter, mailing list, email list, meetings, etc. A flyer will be out soon.

For more information call 415-431-3594; or email: fireworx@igc.org.

Partial list of endorsing and participating groups to date: FireWorx LAGAI (lesbian and gay insurrection) East Bay United Front to Free Mumia Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex organizing committee Mustard Seeds National Lawyers Guild Jericho Amnesty Movement Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)