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OUT NOW! [speech writ. 7/1910] (c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Submitted by Ms_Anthrope on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 1:09pm.
OUT NOW! [speech writ. 7/1910] (c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Ona Move! It's been two years now into the Obama administration, and
despite the hopes of millions who voted for him, the wars are getting worse
-- not better. The Obama administration is engaged in more predator attacks
than the Bush administration, and there are rumblings for a war with Iran.
Meanwhile, the anti-war movement has been quiescent, as if Obama bombs are
somehow better than Bush bombs! Isn't it time to heighten the anti-war
movement? War poisons everything; for the state expands its reach and
powers through war.
NOW IS THE TIME; NOW IS THE SEASON:
ANTI IMPERIALISM IS THE PERFECT REASON;
IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN WERE FALSE WARS FOR OIL,
IT'S TIME TO BRING THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT TO A BOIL!
These wars aren't against foreign countries alone; they're against you, your
communities, your schools, your civil liberties. These wars have resulted
in so called black sites (secret prisons), torture, extraordinary rendition,
attacks on Arab-Americans and American Muslims, equally under Bush and
Obama. They have bankrupted the treasury, destabilized the region, and
created conditions for horrific 'blowback '.
NOW IS THE TIME; NOW IS THE SEASON;
ANTI IMPERIALSM IS THE PERFECT REASON.
IRAQ - AFGHANISTAN WERE FALSE WARS FOR OIL,
IT'S TIME TO BRING THE ANTI WAR MOVEMENT TO A BOIL!
Thank you, Onamove! Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia!
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ABOVE: See/Sea Great Chant!
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...and FREE L.P.
Dear {Sad} Grand Words from L. Peltier
Submitted by Ms_Anthrope on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 10:22pm.
Forwarded on behalf of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
June 26, 2010
Greetings,
I want to first say thank you--thank you for taking the time and
making the commitment to come to this place--but thank you mostly
for remembering. Sometimes I sit in this cage and I find myself
wondering if anyone really remembers. Many days, remembering is
all my mind allows me to do. So, again, thank you. Thank you for
bearing witness and being a part of a living memory.
But maybe the most important thing I'd like to say is don't
forget. Not ever.
You must be the historians who keep this lesson alive because
this story isn't about one day, one event, one person, or even one
lifetime. This is a story that goes all the way back to the day a
misguided fool, whose name I won't even mention, led his troops in
an attack on innocent people at the Greasy Grass, and in the process
got himself and over two hundred of his troopers killed. And while
the victors on that day had no choice but to defend themselves,
we have been the victims of a genocidal revenge that continues
until this very moment. So don't forget. Not ever.
It is vengeance that preoccupies the mind of the colonizer. It
is this fervor to show us who is boss that led to the massacre
at Wounded Knee, the theft of the Black Hills, the establishment
of boarding schools, and the criminalization of our languages
and traditional ways. It is vengeance that armed the GOON squads,
killed our leaders, and surrounded our people at Wounded Knee again
in 1973. Revenge is why they today prosecute Indian people for the
crimes they know the government committed during their murderous
campaigns of the last generation. Vengeance is what killed Joe
Stuntz, Anna Mae Aquash, Buddy Lamont and so many others. Getting
even is what keeps me in prison. So don't forget. Not ever.
All of these events are bound together, interrelated and
interdependent. And quite clearly the lesson they intend for us
to learn is don't defend yourselves. Don't stand up for what is
right. Don't think for yourselves. Don't choose to be who you
are. Don't remember your ancestors. Don't live in defense of the
Earth. Don't you do it! Don't even think about it. If you do,
this government--this mindset of control--will unleash an attack
so vast it will even seek to destroy our genetic memories. So don't
forget. Not ever.
In days past, some among our people were induced to become
"scouts". For whatever reasons, these individuals made possible
the treacherous campaigns that resulted in the deaths of countless
innocent people. These days--sadly--there are still these types
amongst us. The government preys on the weaknesses of these people,
inducing them to turn against the rest of us. The government
uses this treachery to cover up state sanctioned murder and
terrorism. They do this and then tell us that what we remember
didn't really happen at all, as though memory or truth is something
to be shaped and molded to fit a preconceived outcome. So don't
forget. Not ever.
We gather today after decades and generations of blood and trauma. We
gather in defiance.
And we remember.
We remember not just one day or one event, because remembering what
occurred on June 25 or June 26--or any particular date--is important,
but not as important as an understanding of the ongoing campaign
of colonization. This is a continuing human drama of slaughter
and uncontrollable bloodlust and we're still here, engaged in
our running defense; praying for balance, peace and justice; and
trying to make some sense of it all. Perhaps, in the face of such
a menace, the most important thing we can do is remember. So teach
your children. Pass this knowledge. Don't forget. Not ever.
Remembering is resisting and, if we remember, then we'll be free
one day. Free of their mindset. Free of their theft. Free of their
guns and their bombs. Free of their cages. Free to be who we are.
And free of their fear. That's the truest freedom of all and true
freedom is what this is really all about, not the illusion of
freedom they offer us.
So don't forget. Not ever.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier
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Mumia
1999 SCOTUS rejects writ of certiori appeal
Calling All Abolitionists - Stand Up for Mumia Abu-Jamal!
WE URGE ALL OUR FRIENDS AND MUMIA SUPPORTERS, AS WELL AS OPPONENTS OF THE DEATH PENALTY, TO SIGN THIS STATEMENT INITIATED BY THE CAMPAIGN TO END THE DEATH PENALTY.
Calling All Abolitionists - Stand Up for Mumia Abu-Jamal!
We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the letter, signed by some US
abolitionists, opposing Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal's
participation in the World Congress Against the Death Penalty and claiming that
highlighting his case hurts the cause for abolition in the U.S. (see
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/116. See also Dave Lindorff's article
about this at http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/117 ). We stand in
solidarity with Mumia, who has spent the past twenty-eight years on death row,
the victim of a trial and court procedures fraught with racism, and police,
prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. Mumia currently faces a grave threat: the
US Supreme Court has accepted an appeal to re-instate Mumia's death sentence,
and Philadelphia's District Attorney has pledged his intention to pursue his
execution. Mumia urgently needs our support, and we call for a new trial for
him now.
We reject any call by abolitionists to put "coalition-building" with law
enforcement over and above the struggle for justice of any death row prisoner,
be they innocent or guilty. We also reject the logic of having police
organizations that fight tooth and nail for the execution of those with
unpopular views as a partner or ally. Many police organizations – as well as
prosecutors and judges-- have organized against our efforts to win justice for
Mumia, and have served as guardians of an unjust "justice" system. We deplore
divisive strategies that seek to exclude death row prisoners from our movement.
We call on all participating organizations in the World Congress to re-affirm
their support for Mumia Abu-Jamal and all death row prisoners in our struggle to
end the death penalty worldwide.
Signed:
Albany Political Prisoner Support Committee
Albany Social Justice Center
Anthony Arnove, Co-Author, Voices of a People's History of the United States
Sylvia Barnard, Professor, University at Albany
Barbara Becnel, Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Network
Megan Behrent, Delegate, United Federation of Teachers/AFT*
Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, CODEPINK
Kwame Binta, UNIA-ACL
Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Center for Constitutional Rights
Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Johanna Fernandez, Department of History, Baruch College/CUNY
Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Marty Goodman, former Executive Board Member, Transport Workers Union Local 100,
NYC*
Teresa Gutierrez, May 1st Coalition
Ron Hampton, Executive Director, National Black Police Association
Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate, Governor of New York
Lawrence Hayes, Former New York death row prisoner
Larry Holmes, International Action Center
International Action Center
International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
International Socialist Organization
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Kevin Cooper Defense Committee
Candace Lider, Troy Area Labor Council
National Black Police Association
Kiilu Nyasha, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
Joan Stallard, Wash., DC, Coordinator, CODEPINK
Andy Thayer, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism; Co-Founder, Gay Liberation
Network*
Marissa Torres, Chapter Chair, United Federation of Teachers/AFT*
Carlos Villarreal, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay
Area Chapter
Barry Weisleder, Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'action socialiste, Canada
Cornel West
*Organization for identification only
If your group would like to sign onto this statement, please contact
nyc@nodeathpenalty.org. We plan to post this statement with group endorsements
as widely as possible.
Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:53 pm
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PETITION TO SUPPORT MUMIA IN OPPOSITION TO CALL FOR"THROWING HIM UND
WE URGE ALL OUR FRIENDS AND MUMIA SUPPORTERS, AS WELL AS OPPONENTS OF THE DEATH PENALTY, TO SIGN THIS STRONG STATEMENT INITIATED BY THE CAMPAIGN TO END THE... info@freemumia.com
mumianyc
Jul 27, 2010
12:40 am
Free Mumia!
The United States of Lyncherdom
By Mark Twain
[MT wrote this essay in the summer of 1901, in reaction to a newspaper account of the Missouri lynching he mentions at the start. He even thought of using it as the introduction to a subscription book history of lynching in America. He decided, however, not to publish it at all, and told his publisher that if he went ahead with the book on lynching "I shouldn't have even half a friend left down there [in the South], after it issued from the press." The essay was published 13 years after his death, by Albert Bigelow Paine, in Europe and Elsewhere.]
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And so Missouri has fallen, that great state! Certain of her children have joined the lynchers, and the smirch is upon the rest of us. That handful of her children have given us a character and labeled us with a name, and to the dwellers in the four quarters of the earth we are "lynchers," now, and ever shall be. For the world will not stop and think--it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample. It will not say, "Those Missourians have been busy eighty years in building an honorable good name for themselves; these hundred lynchers down in the corner of the state are not real Missourians, they are renegades." No, that truth will not enter its mind; it will generalize from the one or two misleading samples and say, "The Missourians are lynchers." It has no reflection, no logic, no sense of proportion. With it, figures go for nothing; to it, figures reveal nothing, it cannot reason upon them rationally; it would say, for instance, that China is being swiftly and surely Christianized, since nine Chinese Christians are being made every day; and it would fail, with him, to notice that the fact that 33,000 pagans are born there every day, damages the argument. It would say, "There are a hundred lynchers there, therefore the Missourians are lynchers"; the considerable fact that there are two and a half million Missourians who are not lynchers would not affect their verdict.
http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam482e/lyncherdom.html
Anne Rice
;)
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vid of a naughty boy... {snicker snicker}
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