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Justice for Jamal - Black Panthers speak in Dublin
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event notice 
Wednesday April 04, 2007 13:15
by Donal Mac Fhearraigh
donal at swp dot ie
The Dublin leg of the Free Mumia World Tour
Wednesday 11 April 7pm in ATGWU Hall Middle Abbey St
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Screening of a new documentary that looks at the life of imprisoned political activist and former Black Panther member, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who's death sentence for killing a police officer was overturned in 2001 due to errors made during his original 1982 sentencing hearing.Featuring Abu Jamal , Howard Zinn, Naom Chomsky and Alice Walker.
Speakers:
Fred Hampton Junior,- Son of the legendary Black Panther chairman.
Noelle Hanrahan -Award winning investigative journalist and director of Prison Radio.
Move (Family Africa members)
Pam Africa -campaigner against the death penalty and leader of the struggle to get justice for JAMAL
Carlos Africa-Jailed for fourteen years as a political prisoner due to his membership of the Move organisation.
For more info check these out:
www.mumia.org
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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is a journalist and political activist from Philadelphia who was on Death Row after having been convicted of the murder of Philadelphia Police Department Officer Daniel Faulkner, but is now serving life in a Pennsylvania State Prison.[1] Abu-Jamal's case has received international attention and his death sentence became a battleground for opponents and supporters of the death penalty. Many of his supporters claim that he is innocent, that his arrest and conviction were politically motivated, and that he qualifies as a political prisoner. Many of his detractors, on the other hand, assert that he had the benefit of due process and has been legitimately convicted of murder.
In December 2001, Abu-Jamal's death sentence, but not his conviction, was overturned by Federal District Court judge William Yohn. Both the prosecution and the defense have appealed Yohn's ruling.
Abu-Jamal is presently incarcerated in the maximum-security State Correctional Institution Greene, near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
This photo was taken at the 1968 Olympics - both men gave the salute. The Black Panthers were a movement without whose emergence most people regardless of melanin would still live a time of neat hair-cuts, no irish in guest-houses, wall to wall Mephis playing on the radio & of course we still wouldn't have caught glimpse of the KKK.
RESPECT.
John Carlos & Tommy Smith
I was at the Glaway event last night. It was excellent and well worth making the effort to go along if you have any interest in social justice issues.
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