MUMIA Releases NEW BOOK!/Events Planned Nationally!-gctid33589

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YOUR SUPPORT IS GREATLY NEEDED,
ATTEND AND/OR HOST YOUR OWN EVENTS!
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via: info@freemumia.com

NEW BOOK! View Book at Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC

JAILHOUSE LAWYERS: PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS V. THE U.S.A.
Authored by MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
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APRIL 24 MUMIA'S BIRTHDAY NATIONALLY COORDINATED "MORE THAN A BOOK PARTY"  EVENTS

Mumia writes:  

"This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities but in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America .. It is law learned in a stew of bitterness, under the constant threat of violence, in places where millions of people live, buy millions of others wish to ignore or forget"      

Let's use the opportunity of the publication of this brilliant and moving, vintage Mumia book to build the momentum for his case, to raise the money we desperately need in these challenging economic times, to get the word out – to produce literature, flyers, posters, videos, DVD's;  to send organizers out to help build new chapters and strengthen old ones, TO GET THE PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREETS ... all the work that we must do in order to FREE MUMIA as he faces LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE OR EXECUTION!

In the spirit of Mumia's book, we dedicate these "More Than a Book Party" events to the thounited snakesnds and thounited snakesnds of jailhouse lawyers who practice their craft in their own and their brothers' (and sisters') struggle for justice, against all odds and with the high risk of being subjected to the venom, punishment, and brutality of the prison system that is directed against them more than to any other sector of the prison population.  THESE ARE THE HEROES AND SHEROES WE WILL HONOR.  INVITE SOME OF THEM WHO ARE FORMER PRISONERS TO PARTICIPATE IN YOUR "MORE THAN A BOOK PARTY EVENTS!!!  
 
MUMIA BIRTHDAY "MORE THAN A BOOK PARTY" APRIL 24TH EVENTS ALREADY SCHEDULED IN:

-PHILADELPHIA  

-NEW YORK  (NOTE:  SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY  APRIL 25TH BY THE FREE MUMIA COALITION TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH OTHER EVENTS)

-SAN FRANCISCO
-PITTSBURGH
-PORTLAND
-BOSTON
-WOODSTOCK
AND OTHERS !

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:  
215 476-8812
212-330-8029

TO ORDER BOOKS CONTACT: STACEY@CITYLIGHTS.COM
OR CALL (415) 362-1901

FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GRASSROOTS WORK: (FUNDS WILL GO TO BOTH INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND THE FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL COALITION (NYC)) ONLINE GO TO:
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC
OR MAIL CHECKS TO:
FREE MUMIA ABU JAMAL COALITION, PO BOX  16, NEW YORK, NY 10030
(CHECKS FOR BOTH ORGANIZATIONS PAYABLE TO:  FMAJC/IFCO)

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FREE MUMIA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!
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April 24, 2009
On April 24 and 25, 2009, in Philadelphia, Oakland, New York, Seattle and other cities around the U.S., "More Than A Book Party" events will he held, marking the release of death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal's new book Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A published by City Lights.

For more info: Abu-Jamal News - Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Friday, April 24th, 6:00 pm
Philadelphia, PA: The Church of the Advocate
Church of the Advocate

A "More Than A Book Party" event will he held simultaneously with similar events around the US, marking the release of death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal's new book Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A published by City Lights.

Other speakers include: Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News; Amin, formerly "Harold Wilson," the 122nd person freed from death row in the US; Ramona Kmt, Minister of Communication for the MOVE Organization; Steven Hawkins, Executive Vice President of the NAACP, formerly with the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Linn Washington Jr., Philadelphia Tribune columnist, Temple University Professor of Journalism, author of Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives from the Bench; and I Abdul Jon, longtime supporter of MOVE and Mumia.

1801 W Diamond St., Philadelphia, PA

For more info:

Event Marking Mumia Abu-Jamal's New Book to be Held at Historic Church of the Advocate | Philadelphia Independent Media Center

Friday, April 24th, 6:30 pm
Oakland, CA: Humanist Hall
humanisthall.org

City Lights in association with Prison Radio announce:

The Bay Area Book Party and Celebration

for the Release of Jailhouse Lawyers by Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Join Angela Davis, Ed Mead, Avotjca, Killu Nyasha and many others.

Friday, April 24th at 6:30 PM

Celebrate the Release of Jailhouse Lawyers by Mumia Abu-Jamal, at the Humanist Hall in Oakland California.

Join Local and National authors and artists as we celebrate Mumia's life, his freedom and his birthday with a Book Release Party and Potluck dinner.

Humanist Hall, 411 28th St. in Oakland

Sponsored by City Lights, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, The National Lawyers Guild, Prisoners of Conscience Committee, Prison Radio, among others.
 
Contact (415) 362-1901 for more info or e-mail info@prisonradio.org.

Saturday, April 25th, 4:00 pm
Riverside Church: New York, NY

Come celebrate a "More Than a Book Party" with the publication of Mumia's new book on his 55th birthday.

This program will be a tribute to the heroic brothers and sisters who risk so much and endure such vicious retribution for their fight for justice behind the walls of the hidden dungeons of the united snakes.

120th Street & Claremont Avenue
Room 411, MLK Wing

 PROGRAM:
 
Opening with a performance by THE IMPACT REPERTORY THEATRE, a politically conscious youth group, nominated for an Academy Award created and coordinated by former political prisoner, "Panther 21" defendant, and now Chair of the Film Department at Columbia University, Jamal Joseph.
 
SPEAKERS:
 
Video of Angela Davis, speaking about the book and about Mumia.
 
Eddie Ellis, former political prisoner/jailhouse lawyer, advocate for prisoners and their rights, host of WBAI's weekly prisoner show, "On the Count."
 
Ramona Kmt, former jailhouse lawyer, sole adult survivor of the1985 government bombing of MOVE, Minister of Communication of MOVE.
 
Brother Amin (Harold Wilson), former 16-year Death Row prisoner, at SCI Greene with Mumia, jailhouse lawyer exonerated through DNA testing.
 
Paul Wright, editor, Prison Legal News. In Mumia's words, PLN is a "teaching tool for jailhouse lawyers in every state of the union, providing the latest cases, analyses, and criticisms of the "prison-industrial-complex," started in 1990 by Wright and Ed Mead when they were both locked up in a Washington State prison.
 
Mika'il Deveaux, spent 25 years in prison, co-founder of Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc., Director, Muslim Re-entry Initiative, former Soros Justice Fellow.
 
Chairman Fred Hampton, Prisoners of Conscience Committee, former political prisoner, fighting activist, son of the martyred Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton, Sr.  
 
Pam Kmt, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, former political prisoner, and nonstop target of police repression.

Question period, book signing, wine and cheese, etc.

Sponsored by:  The Prison Ministry of the Riverside Church and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC).

For more information:  212-330-8029 or Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC

Sunday, April 26
CEMOTAP 5th Great Debate on
"The Death Penalty and Mumia Abu-Jamal"

Salem United Methodist Church, 129th and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd, 3 PM.

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