THIS DECEMBER LET´S TAKE ACTION TO FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!

"...I dream of freedom.  It is the sweeetest word I have ever heard and eah night I dream of it. I dream of a country and a world where the death penalty exists only in our memories, where it is history. I dream of the abscence of bars,  the abscence of shackles, and the abscence of the threat of death." –MAJ

On 9th of December, the day that Mumia Abu Jamal will have spent 28 years behind bars, we invite you to participate in a protest to demand his freedom in front of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City or wherever you may be.  There will be protests in Philadelphia and other cities across the world in support of Mumia, who continues to fight for revolutionary change in the world from his cell on Death Row.
    Since the first moment of his detention for the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner, the youth jornalist understood that he was paying the price for struggling for African-American people since he was just 13 years old as a part of the students movement, then as a member of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a jornalist and a support of the MOVE organiation.  He has continued stubborn challenge to power even in the most vulnerable of situations, and he has never stopped being a threat to the police, prosecutors, judges, politicians, jornalists, and businesses the want him dead.
    Lynne Abraham, the prosecutor of Philadelphia, would love to crown his career with the reimposition of the death penalty against Mumia and the signing of the death order by the governor, Ed Rendell, who has been pushing for it before his adminstration ends in 2010 so that he can gain even more political prestige. The recently elected prosecutor, Seth Williams, is also pushing for Mumia´s death.  If they cannot kill him, they want him to die in prison in silence.
    Each year the forces of law and order in Philadelphia celebrate a dinner on December the 9th to reafirm their commitment to the death of Mumia.  This year they are going to premier a new documentary, “The Barrel of a Gun”, which pushes for the impostion of the death penalty in Mumia´s case and will be shown thourghout the country. Meanwhile, the national and international propaganda on Fox News, Der Spiegel, and other corporate media outlets continue to call for his death
    This past april the U.S. Supreme Court, refused to hear Mumia´s petition and in effect decided that he will not get a new trial.  They have yet to decide whether or not they will hear the petition for the prosecutor to reimpose the death penalty, which was revoked by a judge in 2001.  As we speak the Supreme Court is deciding another relevant case, which could make it much easier for the prosecutor to reimpose Mumia´s execution.         On November 12th, folks from Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Atlanta, Baltimore, Toledo, Puerto Príncipe and Berlín marched to the office of the Justice Secretary in Washington D.C. to demand a new investigation into the extensive civil rights violations as an attempt to stop the efforts for kill him and open up the possibility of his freedom.  They demanded freedom for all the political prisoners, including Leonard Peltier, the “MOVE 9,”  the “Cuban 5”, “the Angola 3,” the “Dix5,” Cisco Torres, Jalil Muntaquim, Herman Bell, Sundiata Acoli, Jamil Al-Amin, Mutulu Shakur, Marilyn Buck, Ruchell Magee, Hugo Pinell, Carlos Alberto Torres, Oscar López Rivera, Álvaro Luna Hernández, Daniel McGowan, Jeff Luers, and dozens of others. They also demanded an end to the presucution of Muslim families by the U.S. government.
    The struggle for Mumia´s freedom is alaso a struggle for freedom for all of the political prisoners in the world, incuding Amadeu Casellas, the Mapuche prisoners in Chile, and the more than 11,000 Palestinians in Isreali prisons.  It is a struggle for the freedom of all the political prisoners in Mexico.  As the government brutally repsonds to the demands and struggles of the people, workers, students, and youth, we demand freedom for Ignacio del Valle, Felipe Álvarez, and Héctor Galindo, who the government wants to bury behind bars for their entire lives for defending their landss; for all the prisoners in Molino de la Flores; for all the compañeros from Bachajón, Chiapas, who refused to be forced off their lands; for the prisoners from Tierra y Libertad Organization in Guerrero;  for Víctor Herrera and the young people detained on October the 2nd for being youth and being rebellious in Mexico City and in Oaxaca; for the electricians from the SME in Queretaro who are defending their jobs; for the prisoners in Campeche who refuse to pay the expensive electricity bills; for the prisoners in Santiago Xanica who are defnding their costums and way of life in Zapotec communities; for all the prisoners from the Loxicha region who are resisting the respression from the Oaxaca Goverment; for Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno, unjustly accused of killing Brad Will, and many more.
     As the military and the police recieve more equipment and training from the U.S. and Isreal and as they implement more and more imperialistic repression, we fight against the death penalty, the torture, the “disapearances”, the prison industry, and the construction of more prisons in Mexico and in the world. 
    We hope to see you in front of the U.S. embassy on December 9th at 4 pm.

Freedom for Political Prisoners!   Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal Libertad!

Amig@s de Mumia, México                                                                   presoslibertad@riseup.net