Stop the Legal Lynching
of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
the Mumia Fact Sheets produced by Refuse &
Resist!
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-
Letter to NY Times from Leonard Weinglass
- "...The advertisement for death ... selectively quotes from witnesses at Jamal's 1982 trial, all of whom have been thoroughly discredited in subsequent court hearings beginning in 1995. Omitted are the evidence and witnesses who have come forward to establish facts which were kept from the jury during the 1982 trial..."
- The KGO-TV Report: A Case Study in Irresponsible Journalism
- "...On May 7 and 8, 1998, KGO-TV broadcast a two-part series attacking the international movement to prevent the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal... In reality, it presented incorrect and false information on virtually every point...."
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 20
- "...On March 5, 1998, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections launched a
new statewide attack on its death row inmates. Guards swept through cells
boxing up and hauling off the personal property of inmates, and vicious new
regulations were posted. Dozens of inmates responded with a righteous hunger
strike....." [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 19
- "...Cynthia White is now dead, because Judge Sabo says she is. Never mind
that people have seen her walking around very much alive. "As far as I'm
concerned, she's dead," bellowed Judge Sabo. "I'm making a ruling. We're
finished!"...." [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 18
- "...Infighting among various Philadelphia politicians has given us a rare
look at how the system really works...." [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 17
- "...It is a very serious thing when a major American university succumbs to
pressure from the government and police, and agrees to censor the words of a
political dissident. It means that we are not so far removed as we thought
from those countries where the police shut down campuses and arrest professors
for their political views....." [In Acrobat-PDF
form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 16
- "...Pamela Jenkins has now given a sworn statement that (police officer)
Thomas Ryan asked her to testify against Mumia and to falsely identify Mumia as
the shooter, in spite of the fact that she wasn't even at the scene..." [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 15
- "...Recently a number of defendants in capital cases have been freed or
given new trials because their original convictions were the result of police
frame-ups. Their cases help us to understand how Mumia Abu-Jamal was
framed...." [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 14
- "...when a witness comes forward to tell the truth and correct a past
injustice, that should be the cause for celebration. But in Philadelphia, that
will get you arrested..." [In Acrobat-PDF
form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 13
- A key prosecution witness against Mumia, Veronica Jones, has recently come
forward and in a sworn affidavit, stated that she gave false testimony at
Mumia's 1982 trial. She said that she was coerced by police into lying. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 12
- Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Prison Radio Project have filed suit against
National Public Radio (NPR). The suit charges that NPR not only censored Mumia
by refusing to play his commentaries but has continued to silence him by
denying repeated requests that the tapes be released to him and the Prison
Radio Project. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 11
- The plot by Pennsylvania prison authorities to hold Mumia Abu-Jamal in
isolation from both journalists and his own attorneys was exposed and dealt a
serious set-back in recent hearings in federal court in Pittsburgh. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 10
- In this climate of terroristic police actions and brain-washing of the
middle-class, many people were fearful of coming forward to expose the extent
of police frame-ups. But now the bubble has burst in Philly itself. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 9
- Lynne Abraham was given an op-ed slot in the New York
Times to defend the government's clumsy attempt to frame Mumia, but only
succeeded in digging herself in deeper. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 8
- What the hearing revealed. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 7
- The state's "evidence" against Mumia is phoney, pure and
simple. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 6
- The Philly cops lie once again about the facts,
this time the court transcripts trip them up. The New York Post prints it
anyway.
[In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 5
- A Tale of Two Books. Live from Death Row
and the
squeals from the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 4
- The court sentenced Mumia Abu-Jamal to death for his
revolutionary political beliefs. [In Acrobat-PDF
form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 3
- The U.S. Suprematicst Court and unequal justice under
the law in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 2
- Who wants Mumia dead? A brief history of the
Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, and their most prominent members. [In
Acrobat-PDF form]
- Mumia Fact
Sheet Number 1
- The Big Lie spread by the Philadelphia Police department
about the shooting and arrest of Mumia Abu-Jamal. [In Acrobat-PDF form]
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