Help free Mumia by signing the petition to Philly District Attorney Larry Krasner and Pennsylvania…
International Supporters Call for Release of Key Files and Freedom for Mumia
December 9, 2017
To:
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner
From:
Concerned Members of International Community
A Call to Release the District Attorney and Police Files
Relevant to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case and to Free Abu-Jamal Now
We, the undersigned individual and organizational members of the international community concerned with issues of human rights, call your attention to an egregious example of human rights violations in your respective jurisdictions: the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Specifically, we call on you both, key officials with the power to determine Abu-Jamal’s fate, to:
- Assure that all the District Attorney and police files relevant to Abu-Jamal’s case, be released publicly as the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas is reviewing the potential involvement of retired Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille in a conflict of interest when he reviewed Abu- Jamal’s case as a PA Supreme Court Justice.
- Release Abu-Jamal now from his incarceration. That given the mounds of evidence of Abu- Jamal’s innocence and even more evidence of police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct, his unjust incarceration, including almost 30 years on death row, his twice near-executions, his prison-induced illness which brought him to the brink of death, and the lack of timely treatment for his hepatitis-C which has left him with a condition, cirrhosis of the liver, which poses a potential threat to his life … we call for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal now.
SUMMARY OF THE CASE AND AN UPDATE ON RECENT EVENTS
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an internationally renowned US political prisoner, widely honored (with streets and cities named after him, including the award of Honorary Citizenship of Paris) for his piercing indictments of the racial inequities and brutal imperial powers of the United States. Abu-Jamal was originally targeted for “surveillance” and “neutralization”, that is, assassination, when he was a 15 year-old spokesman for the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its notorious COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence) program, designed and implemented by J. Edgar Hoover. By the age of 26 Abu-Jamal was an award-winning radio journalist with a wide following, known as the “voice of the voiceless” and outspoken in his defense of the MOVE organization and other targeted individuals and organizations.
On December 9, 1981, Mumia saw a police officer assaulting his brother. When he approached the scene he was critically shot, brutally beaten by the police, framed for the murder of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner and, in a sham of a trial, sentenced to death. Abu-Jamal is innocent. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), and those who support the organization politically and financially, have continued to clamor for Abu-Jamal’s death and consider it a crime that he has survived.
The legal challenges to Abu-Jamal’s conviction expose the systemic injustice of the U.S. criminal injustice system. The police and prosecution manufactured the evidence of Mumia’s guilt—the ballistics evidence was false, the witnesses were coerced to lie, and the so-called confession was fabricated. The evidence of Abu-Jamal’s innocence, was known to police on the scene. The police knew that Officer Faulkner was shot and killed by someone other than Abu-Jamal. Numerous witnesses saw the likely shooter run from the crime scene. Rights to due process and a fair trial were denied: these included the right to a jury selected without racial discrimination, the right to counsel of the defendant’s choice, the right to self-representation, the right to resources to challenge the prosecution’s case and hold the prosecution to its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Abu-Jamal’s frame-up did not begin or stop with the police and prosecution. The U.S. judicial system and its judges are increasingly recognized as racially and class biased and largely accounting for the mass incarceration we see in the US. The trial and post-conviction judge was the infamous Judge Albert Sabo, known as the “king of death row” for sentencing to execution more people than any other judge in the entire U.S. As both the trial and postconviction appeal judge, despite international denunciation by legal experts of his biased practice and rulings in the court room, Sabo denied every single challenge to Abu-Jamal’s conviction from 1982-1997!
In 2002 a court reporter disclosed that at the start of the 1982 trial, she overheard Judge Sabo telling another judge that he was going “to help them fry the ‘n—r’.” Judge Sabo’s clear exposure of his gross racism was deemed not relevant by Philadelphia Judge Pamela Dembe who agreed that Sabo’s language was heinous, but asserted that he had nonetheless been fair during the trial and had shown no racial bias.
Dembe also ruled that the confession of a man who swore he, and not Abu-Jamal, shot and killed police officer Faulkner, should not be heard in the court. In 2003 the Pennsylvania (PA) Supreme Court upheld these rulings and denied Abu-Jamal a new trial.
Defeating two death warrants in 1995 and 1999, because of massive international protest, now imprisoned for 36 years, almost thirty of those years on death row, Abu-Jamal continues to fight his conviction in the courts and with strong international support that extends from the U.S. to Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
In December 2001 a federal court judge ruled that Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was illegal. But Abu-Jamal remained locked in solitary confinement on death row for ten more years while the prosecutor appealed twice to the federal appeals court and twice to the U.S. Supreme Court. After the DA lost in the courts in the attempt to reinstate the death penalty, Abu-Jamal was transferred off death row in December 2011. He was then peremptorily sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. A sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is a sentence of slow death in prison.
Subsequently, the FOP initiated various efforts to stop Abu-Jamal’s publications but were defeated by a powerful legal and grassroots battle. Yet the persecution of Abu-Jamal continued including the medical malfeasance that resulted in near death from diabetic shock, a mistreated painful and debilitating skin condition, and the prolonged refusal to treat Abu-Jamal’s hepatitis C that has left him with cirrhosis of the liver. Cirrhosis of the liver can certainly develop into cancer and surely imposes a high risk of a much shorter life span. It took sustained international protest and the judge’s order that Abu-Jamal be given the hep C cure, and that denying him that cure, was cruel and inhuman punishment, for Abu-Jamal to finally be treated appropriately.
Now, Abu-Jamal has a new legal challenge in the Pennsylvania courts on the grounds that PA Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille had a conflict of interest when he denied Abu-Jamal’s appeals from 1998-2014. The new action is based on a precedent setting U.S. Supreme Court decision, Williams v. Pennsylvania, that a judge who had been personally involved in a critical prosecutorial decision violates the defendant’s right to an impartial judicial review if he then gets to rule on the case as a State Supreme Court Justice. Castille was the Philadelphia elected District Attorney during Abu-Jamal’s first appeal process, after his conviction and death sentence, from 1986-1991. He was a PA Supreme Court Justice from 1994 to 2014, during which time Abu-Jamal’s case came before him multiple times.
Castille was elected DA and then judge with the support of the FOP. He ran for Supreme Court Judge bragging that he put 45 men on death row. Given his pro-police and pro-death penalty positions, there is no doubt that Castille had a significant personal interest in upholding Abu-Jamal’s conviction and death sentence. Abu-Jamal made application to Judge Castille to recuse (remove) himself from deciding on his appeals in 1996 and in 2012. Castille denied both requests insisting that he could be fair.
The Williams decision began a new legal fight for Abu-Jamal’s freedom. Since August 2016 demands have been made for the DA’s office to open its files and documents that show Castille’s personal interest in Abu-Jamal’s case. The DA has alternately stalled, denied the existence of memos and files, and now reluctantly released evidence of Castille’s actions to get execution warrants signed against convicted “cop killers.” But to date, the DA argues that this is not proof of Castille’s direct involvement in Abu-Jamal’s case. We demand the full public disclosure of the police and prosecution files. If Abu-Jamal wins this new challenge there will be a new appeal, opening the door for a reversal of his conviction.
Abu-Jamal’s fight for hepatitis C treatment resulted in his medical treatment through a federal court ruling that now serves as precedent for prisoners in PA and around the U.S. to obtain treatment. Abu-Jamal’s legal challenge against judicial bias in his case is an attack on the prevalence of such bias by criminal court judges. The public release of the state’s files prosecuting Abu-Jamal will similarly expose the frame-up against this innocent man and, potentially, of others.
Mumia Abu-Jamal should never have been arrested or convicted. His life is in danger every minute that he remains imprisoned. He cannot be allowed to die in prison from a prison-induced illness or from old age!
We demand: Public disclosure of the police and DA files!
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Now!!
FINAL SIGNERS’ LIST (PLUS INTERNATIONAL LABOR RESOLUTIONS)
(January 24, 2018)
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Some Prominent International Signers Include:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa
Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican Nationalist hero, recently released from 35 years of US Federal incarceration
Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France, President, Frantz Fanon Foundation; Expert, ex-chair of the UN Working Group on People of African Descent, Human Rights Council
Patrick Braouezec, Honorary Member of French Parliament
Heike Hänsel, Member of German Parliament (MdB), Deputy Chair of DIE LINKE in the German Parliament, Supt of working group on foreign policy
Sabine Lösing, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Vice-Chair: Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Member: Committee on Foreign Affairs; Confederate Group of the European United Left—Nordic Green Left & DIE LINKE, GERMANY
Søren Søndergaard, Member of Danish Parliament, Former member of European Parliament
Holger K. Nielsen, Member of Danish Parliament, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tariq Ali, Author
Daniel Gluckstein, National Secretary, Democratic Independent Workers Party, Member, Continuation Committee, International Workers Committee Against War and Exploitation
Nambiath Vasudevan, Trade Union Solidarity Committee Mumbai, Continuation Committee of the International Workers Committee
Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Danny Glover, Actor, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF
Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University Divinity School
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist
AFGHANISTAN
Nasir Loyand, Left Radical of Afghanistan, Foreign Relations Responsible
ARGENTINA
Adolfo Baria , Secretary General, Single Trade Union of Workers of the Port Administations (SUTAP)
Mauricio Zarzuelo, International Secretary, SUTAP, ARGENTINA
AUSTRALIA
Piergiorgio Moro, labour activist – Melbourne
Bob Carnegie, Maritime Union of Australia, Queensland Branch Secretary
AUSTRIA
Matthias B. Lauer, Chairman, Christianity and Social Democracy Committee Austria (ACUS), Member, Federal Party Council, Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)
Dr. Heinz Leitner, retired official of the Federal Ministry of Labour, former member of Austrian Board of Paroles
BANGLADESH
Bangladesh Jatiyo Sramik Federation (BJSF trade union center)
Gonotantrik Mazdoor Party (Democratic Workers Party)
BELARUS
Yury Hlushakou, Organisation committee of the Social movement “Razam”
Valery Pankratov, City of Gomel organisation of the political party “Fair world”
Valery Klimov, City of Gomel organisation of the political party “Fair world”
Yulia Ester
Andrey Ponossov, Organisation committee of the Social movement “Razam”
Nikolay Dedok, journalist, former political prisoner
BELGIUM
Nordine Saidi, Activist, Decolonize Belgium, Bruxelles Pantheres
Peter Terryn, Coordinator, Solidarity for All
Marc Storms, Member, ACV-TRANSCOM (UNION)
BURUNDI
Paul Nkinzimana, Professor Emeritus, University of Burundi
CANADA
Bruce Allen, Vice-President, Niagara Regional Labour Council, St. Catharines, Ontario
Susan P Stout, activist, retired member Unifor (a trade union “for all”) North Vancouver, BC
Ken Collier, MSW, PhD, retired academic, Mission, British Columbia
Thomas C. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
B. Ross Ashley, Retired hospital worker, member of the SEIU, Executive member of the Toronto-St Paul’s Constituency Association of the New Democratic Party, Supporter and Former Member of the Steering Committee of the NDP Socialist Caucus, Member of the Liaison Committee of Trotskyists in Canada.*
Ben Martin, Payday Men’s Network
Don Schweitzer, St. Andrews College, Saskatoon
COLOMBIA
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Writer, COLOMBIA
Helmer Eduardo Quinones, Consejo Nacional de Paz Afrocolombiano, COLOMBIA
DENMARK
Nikolaj Villumsen, Member of Parliament
Christian Juhl, Member of Parliament
Eva Flyvholm, Member Parliament
Finn Sørensen, Member of Parliament
Henning Hyllested, Member of Parliament
Jakob Sølvhøj, Member of Parliament
Jesper Kiel, Member of Parliament
Johanne Schmidt- Nielsen, Member of Parliament
Maria Reumert Gjerding, Member of Parliament
Pelle Dragsted, Member of Parliament
Rune Lund, Member of Parliament
Stine Maiken Brix, Member of Parliament
Søren Egge Rasmussen, Member of Parliament
FRANCE
Samuel Legitimus, President, James Baldwin Collective, Paris
Diarapha H. Diallo, Just Justice, Tours
Lievin Feliho Chair, Soliho (Solidarity with Africa), FRANCE/BENIN
Francois Geze, Editor La Decouverte
Gustav Massiah, Economist
Magali Bessone, Professor
Aline Pailler, Journalist
Samuel Marie Fanon, Expert, FRANCE/UKRAINE
Norman Ajari, Professor
Floren Roiz Monreal, PAYS BASQUE
Genevieve Foulde, Retired Nurse, BDS Militant
Stéphane Knapp, Democratic Independent Worker’s Party, National Secretary
Anicet Le Pors, Former Minister, Union Office, FO University, Brest
Dennis Gallie, retired auto worker
Amadou Gueye, Molecular Biology Applications Specialist
Niaso Tchitchim, Meduim
Blas Tristan, Worker
Victoria Melgar, Human Rights Militant, Rochechouart
Leila Noui, Id surol NIL, Education/Art
Zorobabel-Laplagne Loïc, Designer
Djigui Diarra, Actor/Director/Journalist
Osange Silori-Kieffer, Journalist
Cecile Gilloux, Teacher
Michel Petrequin, Retired Union Leader
Livia Profeti, University of Rouen
GERMANY
HW Schuster, Chairman of the Workers’ Commission of the SPD in Dusseldorf
Charlotte Kates, International Coordinator, SAMIDOUN, Palestinian Prisoners’ Solidarity Network
Bettina Wegner, Singer-Songwriter, Berlin
Birgit Gärtner, Journalist, Hamburg
Heinrich Becker, Chairman of Retired Teachers in Trade Union of Science and Education (GEW) in County Hessen
Mathilda Legitimus, Pan African Working Group of Munich
Elisabeth Krammer, architect, Munich
Bernhard Thiesing, Journalist, Berlin
Dr. Sidonie Kellerer, a.r.t.i.e.s, Research Lab, Koln University, Koln
Bolger Barth, History Department, University of Cologne
Heiko Kauffmann, Peace Prize Awardee, Aachen 2001
Milla Lippke, Cologne
Georg Neubauer, Nuernberg
HAITI
Berthony Dupont, Editor, Haiti Liberte
Frantz Latour
Henriot Dorcent
Didier Leblanc
Edgar Lafond
Kim Ives
Jackson Rateau
Marquez Osson
Jean Stefan
Roger Leduc
Marie Laurette Numa
Isabelle L. Papillon
Robert Garoute
Benjamin Dupuy
Ed Rainer Sainvill
Eric Gartia
Edmund Bertin
Mona Péralte
Jacqueline P. Dupont
Frantz L. Dessources
Jacques Marie-Françoise Ferdinand
Maude Jean-Marie
Bertin Jean-Marie
Erlande Louis Clermont
Lunie Bataille
Lesly Vallon
Jocelyn Gay
Lyonel Jean Alcindor Villate
J. Fatal Piard
Solanges Pierre-Noël
Marlene Jean-Noël
René Fritz-Gérald
HUNGARY
Droppa Gyorgy
INDIA
Nambiath Vasudevan, Trade Union Solidarity Committee Mumbai, Continuation Committee of the International Workers Committee
JAPAN
Doro-Chiba, the Japanese Railway Workers Union
Akiko Hoshino, Co-Chair, Hoshino Defense Committee (of longest held political prisoner in Japan)
Imai Kyohei, Independent journalist, Tokyo
MAURITIUS
Lindsey Collen, Writer
LALIT, Political party
MAYOTTE
Inchaat – nadjnat Said Mansoib, MAYOTTE
MEXICO
Carolina Sandana, Writer, MEXICO
THE NETHERLANDS
Ratsamy Siamnouay, Teacher
Christina M. Schiavoni, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Morjan Boelsman
PAKISTAN
Anwer, President APTUF, Chief Organizer, Railway Workers Union (OpenLine)
Rubina Jamil, General Secretary APTUF, President All Pakistan Workers Confederation
Kamran Sagheer, President, workers Union of NisAR art press
M. Ilyas, Joint secretary, APTUF
Muhammad saeed, Executive member Railway Workers Union (Workshop)
Sakhi Khan, General Secretary Railway Workers Union (OpenLine)
M. Ashraf, Secretary APTUF, President Workers union Capital Industry
Khalida Ashraf, Secretary, APTUF women’s-wing
Amna Bhatti, (Working in Highnoon Needlepoint Garment Industry)
Shazia Butt, Secretary women’s wing, Gulzar welfare Association
Rehmatullah, President, Youth wing APTUF
Fatima Bhatti, Secretary, Youth wing APTUF
Akbar Khan, President, National Bank Employees Federation
Khursheed Ahmed Khan, General Secretary Wapda Hydo electric central union
PALESTINE
Nancy Lee, EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE, PALESTINE (US)
PANAMA
Yvette Modestin, Afro-Panamanian
PORTUGAL
Antonio Mariano, President, National Dockworkers Council, Lisbon
Raquel Varela, Labour Historian, Lisbon
Dr. Ana Carnival
PUERTO RICO
Olga I. Sanabria Davila, Committee for PUERTO RICO at the United Nations
RUSSIA
Mark Vassilev, Historian
Dmitry Kostenko
SENEGAL
Gnokhobaye Diouf, Secretary General of the Association Black Farmers, Coordinator of the Secretariat of the Organization of Pan-Africanists, Representative of International Youth Workers Committee
SOUTH AFRICA
Duna Monwabisi, Black Consciousness Party, National Convenor, Krugesdorp
Socialist Azanian Youth Revolutionary Organization
SPAIN
Jordi Aragunde, General Coordinator, International Dockworkers Council, Barcelona, SPAIN
SWITZERLAND
Anouk Essyad, solidaritéS
Olaya Soto, solidaritéS
Jorge Lemos, solidaritéS
Térence Durig, solidaritéS
Jérémie Wuillemin, solidaritéS
Noémie Rentsch, solidaritéS
Marie Jolliet, solidaritéS
Aurélie Gay, solidaritéS
Paola Salwan Daher, solidaritéS
Mamounaz Mayoraz, solidaritéS
TANZANIA
Kabwe Zitto, Act Wazalendo Party
Issa Shivji, Professor-Director of Nyerere Research Center
Fatma Alloo, Media Women’s Association
UKRAINE
Aliona Lyasheva, « Spiln’e » magazine
Aleksey Albu, Union « Borotba »
UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE
Selma James, Co-coordinator, Global Women’s Strike
Crissie Blackwell, Sara Callaway, Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Nicola Mann, Women Against Rape
Michael Kalmanovitz, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Payday in the UK, an international network of men working with the Global Women’s Strike
Sam Weinstein, Payday
Georgio Riva, Payday Men’s Network
Caroline Barker State Registered Nurse, London
Kim Sparrow, Single Mothers’ Self Defence
Jai D. Hudson, President of “Of Royalty” Art Collective
Jane Doolan, Islington UNISON and UNISON NEC member
Terry Luke, UNISON
Mike Calvert – Islington UNISON
Adenike Johnson – Islington UNISON
Michael Calderbank – Islington UNISON
Fiona Monkman – Islington UNISON
Sean Fox- Haringey UNISON and UNISON NEC member
Samantha Tyler – Islington UNISON
John Hendy QC, labor attorney
Richard Gill, Islington UNISON
Barbara Lowe, Islington UNISON
Dion Goncalves, Islington UNISON
Jane Doolan- Islington UNISON and UNISON NEC member
Karen Raynor, Bradford UNISON
Dave Statham, Forest of Dean Constituency Labour Party (CLP) & GMB Holborn branch.
Mike Arnott, Dundee TUC
Marian Brain, CWU Birmingham and Black Country, and Worcester Branch and Ladywood CLP
Doreen Mcnally, trade unionist, Liverpool
Diana James Islington Unison & CLP Lewisham East
Donna Sloane, Member of Labour and Unite
Brian Lawton, Unite , Sheffield Hallam CLP
Stephen Smellie, UNISON South Lanarkshire and UNISON NEC
Tony Goss, Torbay CLP
Tony Greenstein, Executive, Brighton and Hove, Trade Union Council
Crissie Amiss, London
Didi Rossi, Community Worker, London
NOTE: UNISON is a large public sector workers’union in the UK
U.S.A.
Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Danny Glover, Actor, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF
Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University Divinity School
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist
Wadiya Jamal, Mumia’s wife
Keith Cook, Mumia’s brother, District Director, NC NAACP State Conference
Kathleen Cleaver, JD, Faculty Emory University Law School
Gerald Horne, Historian
Marc Lamont Hill, Author, Professor, Temple University
Minister Gregory Muhammad, Nation of Islam, Student Prison Reform Minister, Delaware Valley Region, Philadelphia
Estela Vazquez, First Vice President, Local 1199 SEIU
Basyn Hasan, Democratic Party City Committee Member, Pennsylvania Prison Society
Philly REAL Justice
Decarcerate PA
Labor Against Racist Terror, Social Media Project
Ashley (Ash) Williams, Activist and Organizer in Charlotte (NC) Uprising
Carmen Guerrero, Coalicion Fortaleza Latina, PA
Coalicion Fortaleza Latina, PA
Marylin Zuniga, 2nd grade teacher, Oakland, CA
Minnie Bruce Pratt, UAW/National Writers Union 1981*
Norman Solomon, Coordinator, RootsAction.org
Vanessa Brown, Pennsylvania State Assembly Representative, 190th District
Charles Barron, New York State Assemblymember and Operation POWER, Founder
Inez D. Barron, New York City Councilmember and Operation POWER, Founder
December 12th Movement International Secretariat
International Association Against Tortures
Workers World Party
Dr. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian, Author, Professor Emerita, California State University
Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Long time Freedom Fighter, Former Political Prisoner
Amina Baraka, Artist, Activist
Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View, National Black Newspaper
James R Smith, Author, Journalist, Venice, California
Mark Lewis Taylor, Ph.D. Princeton Theological Seminary, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture, Theology, Religion and Society
Lamont Lilly, Journalist/Organizer, 2016 U.S. VP Candidate, Workers World Party, Member, Black Alliance for Peace
Lewis Gordon, Professor
Nelson Maldonada Torres, Professor
Sandra Joy, Ph.D., LCSW, Professor, Sociology Department, Rowan University
Diane Fujino, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara*
Jackie DiSalvo, Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Gerda W. Ray, Associate Professor, History, University of Missouri
Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts dept., Berklee College of Music, Boston
Thomas Dublin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SUNY Binghamton
Havard Winant, Distinguished Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robyn Spencer, Associate Professor, History, Lehman College, City University of NY
Pete Farruggio, Associate Professor, Retired, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Johanna Fernandez, Assistant Professor History, Baruch College, City University of NY; Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
Kara Lynch Associate Professor of Video and Critical Studies, Hampshire College
Ruth Needleman, Indiana University, Professor Emerita
Evan M Fales, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of Iowa
Norman Conti, Ph.D., Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
Les Gottesman, Professor Emeritus, Golden State University, San Francisco, California
Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Chair of Mumia’s M.A.Thesis, South West Labor Association.
Mechthild Nagel, Ph.D., United Voices of Cortland, NY
Ira Gladnick, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Jay Hanes, Associate Professor, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Jean Halley, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Women and Gender Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
Noah De Lissovoy, Associate Professor, Culture Studies in Education, University of Texas, Austin
Geoff Hagopian, Professor of Math and Computer Science, College of the Desert
Sally Jane Gellert, Occupy Bergen County, NJ, Committees of Correspondence
Rosemari Mealy, Ph.D., Board Member, IFCO (Interreligious Foundation of Community Organizations)-Pastors for Peace
Alice Sturm Sutter, Retired Nurse Practicioner, Member, Uptown Progressive Action, Union Square Women in Black
Kathe Karlson, VENCEREMOS BRIGADE
RazakhanWali, Nation Time Judicial Research
Lisa Nicole Spees, Director of Virginians for Judicial Reform
James Early, Institute for Policy Studies, Board Member
Don Rojas, Journalist; Institute of the Black World
Ron Daniels, President, Institute of the Black World, Professor, York College, CUNY
Lionel Jean Baptiste, Congress to Fortify Haiti
Howard Kamm, National Association of Blacks for Reparations in America (‘NCOBRA)
J. Curtis McIntosh, MD, Co-chair, CEMOTAP (Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People)
Zayid Mohammad, Artist, Activist
Maria Teresa “Mariposa” Fernandez, Artist, Activist
Sam Anderson, Black Left Unity Network
Esperanza Martell, 36 Mujeres Para Oscar Lopez Rivera
Lillian Jimenez, Latino Educational Media Center
Harold Wilson, 120th Exonerated PA Death Row Survivor
Michelle Gross, President, Communities United Against Police Brutality, Minneapolis, MN
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
New York State Prisoner Justice Network
Naomi Jaffe, NY State Prisoner Justice Network
Bryan Pfeifer, Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement
Julian Kunnie, First Nations Enforcement Agency
Food Not Bombs Solidarity
Greg Ruggiero, Editor, City Lights Books
Micki Dickoff, Filmmaker
Claude Marks, Freedom Archives
Willow Katz, MS, California Families Against Solitary Confinement, Prisoners Hunger Strike Solitary Coalition*
Michael Warren, Esq.
National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco/Bay Area
Roger Wareham, Esq.
Mimi Rosenberg, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society, Radio Producer, WBAI
Joan Gibbs, Esq.
Jeffrey L. Edison, Esq. National Conference of Black Lawyers, Michigan Chapter
Rachel Wolkenstein, Esq., legal advocate and political activist for Mumia since 1987, co-counsel for Mumia, 1995-1999 (in Judge Sabo’s court)
Florence Morgan, Esq.
Aleta Alston Toure, New Jim Crow Movement, Jacksonville/ Savannah
Berta Joubert-Ceci, MD, Editor, Mundo Obrero.
Alan Benjamin, Editor, The Organizer newspaper
Mya Shone, Co-producer, Taking Aim
Ralph Schoenman, Co-producer, Taking Aim
Bonnie Weinstein, Co-Editor, Socialist Viewpoint magazine
Zaliya Adamu, Student, California State U, East BMicay
Colin “Papa Bear” Neiburger, Peace Day, Asheville, NC
Jonathan Keller, Peace Now
Lauren A. Schmidt, Citizen of Earth, Madison, WI
Bronx Community Greens
Margaret L Seely, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Ian MacDonald, Queens Counsel, Member of the English Bar
Cinque Brath, President, Elombe Brath Foundation
Toby Emmer, Director, UAW, Worker-Family Education Program*
Johnnie Stevens, Community Labor, United for Postal Jobs and Services
Traven Leyshon, Pres. Green Mountain Labor Council*, AFL-CIO
Lallan Schoenstein, SEIU Retiree
Dan Kaplan, Executive Secretary, San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493
Haldon C. Sutton, 1st VP, SW Florida, UAW Retired Workers Council
Steve Gillis, Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751; Administrator, Boston School Bus Drivers 401(k) Plan
Ken Riley, President, International Longshoremen Association, South Carolina
Elizabeth Nikazmerader, President,
UE Local 203
USW Local 8751
Shane Hoff, SMART 1741
Lynne Stewart Organization, Ralph Poynter, Co-founder
New Abolitionist Organization, Ralph Poynter and Betty Davis
Mike Gimbel, Retired Executive, Local 375, AFSCME
Sara Catalinotto, UFT Member, Local 2
Perry Genovesi, Shop Steward and Delegate, Local 2187 DC 47, AFSCME
Jack Heyman, Chair, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, Oakland, CA
Susan E. Davis, National Writers Union, United Auto Workers Local 1981
Martha Grevatt Trustee UAW Local 869*
Lenny Potash, Executive Board Member, AFSCME Retiree Chapter 36
Nancy Adelman, Granny Peace Brigade
Laura Whitehorn, Former Political Prisoner
National Jericho Movement
Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition
Linda M Thurston, War Resisters League
Ellen Barfield, War Resisters League
John M Miller, War Resisters League
Susan Kingsland, War Resisters League
Tara Tabassi, War Resisters League
Pancho Valdez, Workers World Party
Eseibio Halliday, Black Panther Party Volunteer Committee, Oakland, California
Ana Vasquez, Potrero Hill Projects Tenant & Family Advocate San Francisco, CA
Eric Gjertsen, Payday Men’s Network, Pennsylvania
John Pietarom Writer, Musician, Cultural Organizer
Demitrus Evans, Esq., The Evans Exoneration Project
Black Solidarity Education Committee, Inc., Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, President
Julie Davis Carran, Westchester Martin Luther King Institute for Nonviolence
Amanda McCaw, History teacher, Parkway NW HS, School for Peace and Justice
The Oakland Education Association (representing 2900 teachers), Oakland, CA
Bob Mandel, Oakland Teachers for Mumia
Bob Wells, Oakland Teachers for Mumia
Rachel H. Girshick, Designer and business person, Owner/operator, Silver Web, Conn.
Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles*, Former Board member, Pacifica Foundation*
Savannah Hawkins, Educational Consultant; Owner, Lusory
Mark Demming, Retired teacher and attorney, Oakland, CA
Chris Kaihatsu, Rev.LeftSpace, Chicago
Roger Batchelder, San Diego, CA
Michael Carano, Teamsters Local 348,. Retired, Tallmadge, OH
Wayne Gibb, Forestville,
Cat Brooks, Co-Founder, Anti-Police-Terror Project, Oakland, CA
Joan Malerich, Anti-imperialist Activist, Minneapolis, MN
Shannon Butts, Member, National Registry of Marriage Friendly Therapists, LGBTQ Friendly
Rebecca Wilk, Legal Secretary, Woodstock, NY, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, (NYC), Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
Steve Kirschbaum, VP, USW Local 875, MA
Newland F. Smith, 3rd, Librarian Emeritus, Seabury – Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL
Pilar Burgos, Marai van Dam, Translator
Rev. Jim Conn, CLUE, Member of Board; Board Climate Action, Santa Monica, United Methodist Church Retired
Margaret L Seely, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Marta Guthenberg, M.D.
Judith Arnold, R.N., Ph.D.
Nydia Leaf, Retired Educator
Marilyn Vogt-Downey, Brooklyn, NY
Judith Ackerman
Yvette Felarca, anti-fascist defendant, CA
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), CA
VENEZUELA
William Camacaro, Founder, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, VENEZUELA (US)
ZIMBABWE
Mafa Kwanisai Mafa, OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Memory Mupandawana – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Simbarashe Gwenzi – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists
Takesure Pambuka – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Tafirenyika Shoko – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists
Chenai Mupandawana – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Prince Gapara – Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union
Tapiwanashe Chikwinho – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Diana Nkomo – Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union
Shadreck Sorojena Matindike – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists
Kudakwashe Shambare – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Samson Chuma – Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union
Enock Nherera – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Caleb Kuranga – OCRFI Zimbabwe Section
Brian Konzo – Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union
Runesu Gumbo – Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists
Farai Kalubi – Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL SUPPORT GROUPS, US AND INTERNATIONAL
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ)
The MOVE Organization
Educators for Mumia
International Action Center
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
Mobilization to Free Mumia (California)
Oakland Teachers for Mumia
Committee to Save Mumia
Prison Radio
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Oakland, CA
Free Mumia Network, GERMANY (Free Mumia Berlin, Free Mumia Frankfurt, Free Mumia Heidelberg, and Free Mumia Nurnberg)
French Collective Libérons Mumia (encompassing 100 organizations and municipalities including Paris), FRANCE
Saint-Denis Mumia Committee, FRANCE
Amig@s de Mumia de México, MEXICO
Pam Africa, Chair, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ), Minister of Confrontation for the MOVE Organization
Ramona Africa, Minister of Information of MOVE Organization, Sole Adult Survivor 1985 Bombing of MOVE, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dr. Suzanne Ross, International Spokesperson, ICFFMAJ
Betsey Piette, Mobilization 4 Mumia
Joe Piette, Mobilization 4 Mumia
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* For identification purposes only
Labor Resolutions and Letters
Attached are several important labor resolutions and letters to DA Larry Krasner issued by the international network of support from Mumia. They are very significant additions to our INTERNATIONAL LETTER.
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 Resolution to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
ILWU Local 10 letter to DA Larry Krasner
National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba (Doro-Chiba) (JAPAN) letter to PA’s Governor & DA
National Union Of Metalworkers Of South Africa (NUMSA) Protest letter to Gov Wolf on Mumia
Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Queensland Branch letter to DA Larry Krasner
