MUMIA ABU-JAMAL--Get to Know Him!
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
By Kevin Stoda, Kuwait
I’m not certain that Kuwaitis as a whole know who Mumia Abu-Jamal is, however, approximately 5-years ago while I was traveling in Havana, Cuba, I was wearing my yellow “Free Mumia” t-shirt, many different Cubans struck up conversation with me about this elegant prisoner, who has quite unfairly been on Death Row in the USA for well over two full decades.
Manipulated testimony, mishandled and lost evidence and fictional police reports that were way-out-of-line to the facts on the ground have haunted Mumia Abu Jamal since December 9, 1981 when he was first was charged with murdering a police officer.
Since then writers from Germany and all over the planet have written exposes about the apparent framing of Mumia. This is why even poor people in Cuba, who hardly ever read a newspaper, still know who Mumia is. [I just did a search on YAHOO for “Mumia Abu Jamal” and there were 3.5 million links.]
In the United State, one can access the spoken words of Mumia on private-, public-, national-, and local radio broadcasts from Kansas City to Texas & from Miami to L.A. Programs, like Democracy Now, present his speeches and interview Mumia on world issues occasionally.
One can, of course, also, access his writings and speeches on-line, for example, at:
South End Press http://www.southendpress.org/ or
Mumia Jamal’s Freedom Journal http://www.mumia.org//freedom.now/
On one of my favorite website’s, Op-Ed News http://www.opednews.com/
, recently had a good example of Mumia’s writings about W. Bush’s attempt to delink American collective Vietnam War-era memory by obfuscation in his speech for a Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City held in late August 2007.
Mumia’s article and well written response was called “A ‘Lesson’ from Vietnam”.
I really felt Mumia’s short article was concise and reflected the insight people all over the world have received by meeting Mumia, reading Mumia’s writings, listening to Mumia’s speeches or interviews, and in following his case. [See the link below to Mumia’s article Vietnam memory.]
INNOCENCE
Mumia Abu Jamal’s case needs to be looked into by all Americans in the wake of the public recognition made last month that the Texan, Kenneth Foster, had had his sentence for a similar fraudulently prosecuted case commuted last month in Austin, Texas—i.e. the state most of the planet knows as the Land of Death Row & Executions.
How do I know that Texas is known so-well around the planet for executing peoples when countries like China and North Korea do executions so discretely by the hundreds and thousands each year?
First of all, I have traveled to about 100 countries on the planet earth over the past two decades.
Second, I like wearing t-shirts. That is, in the Middle East—from Qatar to Kuwait, from the UAE to Egypt—people have spoken to me in support of my TEXANS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (TACP) t-shirt on numerous occasions over the past foru or five years.
[Naturally, one of these observant Arabs was a young executive working for Al-Jazeera TV, who spoke me to about it and shook my hand on seeing it one day as my flight onto to Kuwait landed for an hour in Qatar.]
In short, what I have written previously is absolutely true: Americans are Living Life Out-Loud around the world each and everyday.
We wear our culture and its crimes on our sleeves—and on our t-shirts—as well as in the TV programs & cultural artifacts we export each and every day.
Don’t take my word for it! Talk to others! See the world from their eyes!
At the very least, do your own research on Mumia, Mumia’s writings, and his claim to innocence on the web—before you leave the borders of the USA.
Someone abroad (even from Saudi Arabia or Iran) may want to speak to you about Mumia and capital punishment in the USA—so be prepared! [Do your research and know where you stand before you go!]
NOTES
Abu Jamal. Mumia, http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mumia_ab_070830_a__22lesson_22_from_viet.htm
“Exclusive: Mumia Abu Jamal Speaks to DN”, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/16/1536225
“How the Philedelphia Cops Framed Mumia Abu-Jamal”, http://www.mumia.org//freedom.now/
International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, http://www.mumia.org/index3.html
Justice for Mumia Abu Jamal, http://www.mumia2000.org/
By Kevin Stoda, Kuwait
I’m not certain that Kuwaitis as a whole know who Mumia Abu-Jamal is, however, approximately 5-years ago while I was traveling in Havana, Cuba, I was wearing my yellow “Free Mumia” t-shirt, many different Cubans struck up conversation with me about this elegant prisoner, who has quite unfairly been on Death Row in the USA for well over two full decades.
Manipulated testimony, mishandled and lost evidence and fictional police reports that were way-out-of-line to the facts on the ground have haunted Mumia Abu Jamal since December 9, 1981 when he was first was charged with murdering a police officer.
Since then writers from Germany and all over the planet have written exposes about the apparent framing of Mumia. This is why even poor people in Cuba, who hardly ever read a newspaper, still know who Mumia is. [I just did a search on YAHOO for “Mumia Abu Jamal” and there were 3.5 million links.]
In the United State, one can access the spoken words of Mumia on private-, public-, national-, and local radio broadcasts from Kansas City to Texas & from Miami to L.A. Programs, like Democracy Now, present his speeches and interview Mumia on world issues occasionally.
One can, of course, also, access his writings and speeches on-line, for example, at:
South End Press http://www.southendpress.org/ or
Mumia Jamal’s Freedom Journal http://www.mumia.org//freedom.now/
On one of my favorite website’s, Op-Ed News http://www.opednews.com/
, recently had a good example of Mumia’s writings about W. Bush’s attempt to delink American collective Vietnam War-era memory by obfuscation in his speech for a Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City held in late August 2007.
Mumia’s article and well written response was called “A ‘Lesson’ from Vietnam”.
I really felt Mumia’s short article was concise and reflected the insight people all over the world have received by meeting Mumia, reading Mumia’s writings, listening to Mumia’s speeches or interviews, and in following his case. [See the link below to Mumia’s article Vietnam memory.]
INNOCENCE
Mumia Abu Jamal’s case needs to be looked into by all Americans in the wake of the public recognition made last month that the Texan, Kenneth Foster, had had his sentence for a similar fraudulently prosecuted case commuted last month in Austin, Texas—i.e. the state most of the planet knows as the Land of Death Row & Executions.
How do I know that Texas is known so-well around the planet for executing peoples when countries like China and North Korea do executions so discretely by the hundreds and thousands each year?
First of all, I have traveled to about 100 countries on the planet earth over the past two decades.
Second, I like wearing t-shirts. That is, in the Middle East—from Qatar to Kuwait, from the UAE to Egypt—people have spoken to me in support of my TEXANS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (TACP) t-shirt on numerous occasions over the past foru or five years.
[Naturally, one of these observant Arabs was a young executive working for Al-Jazeera TV, who spoke me to about it and shook my hand on seeing it one day as my flight onto to Kuwait landed for an hour in Qatar.]
In short, what I have written previously is absolutely true: Americans are Living Life Out-Loud around the world each and everyday.
We wear our culture and its crimes on our sleeves—and on our t-shirts—as well as in the TV programs & cultural artifacts we export each and every day.
Don’t take my word for it! Talk to others! See the world from their eyes!
At the very least, do your own research on Mumia, Mumia’s writings, and his claim to innocence on the web—before you leave the borders of the USA.
Someone abroad (even from Saudi Arabia or Iran) may want to speak to you about Mumia and capital punishment in the USA—so be prepared! [Do your research and know where you stand before you go!]
NOTES
Abu Jamal. Mumia, http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mumia_ab_070830_a__22lesson_22_from_viet.htm
“Exclusive: Mumia Abu Jamal Speaks to DN”, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/16/1536225
“How the Philedelphia Cops Framed Mumia Abu-Jamal”, http://www.mumia.org//freedom.now/
International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, http://www.mumia.org/index3.html
Justice for Mumia Abu Jamal, http://www.mumia2000.org/
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