Forwarded message: Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 22:08:52 -0400 Reply-To: Progressive News & Views List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Progressive News & Views List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: PNEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mumia Programming on Free Speech TV [*****PNEWS CONFERENCES****] From: Prison Activist Resource Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| Forwarded by PARC and the Prison Issues Desk ||| (see next msg. for schedule) ------------------------- Subject: Mumia Programming on Free Speech TV During late July and early August, Free Speech TV/The 90's Channel will pre-empt much of its previously-scheduled programming to examine the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, and its implications. Topics will include Mumia and his situation, as well as the context: race and racism; police conduct in Philadelphia, Mumia's hometown; Cointelpro and its efforts against the Black Panthers; political prisoners in the United States. Free Speech TV's explicit agenda is to raise the public's awareness of the case and mobilize the public to spare Mumia's life. Our second purpose is to raise the larger issues Mumia's case implicates. Around the programming, we will air announcements which urge viewers to contact Pennsylvania Governor Ridge and the Supervising Judge LeGrome Davis requesting clemency for Mumia, to send copies of letters to the Philadelphia Enquirer, and to contact Equal Justice USA and the Intl. Concerned Friends & Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal for more information. By a separate posting, I am transmitting carriage information on Free Speech TV programming. Please be advised that times are subject to change, as FSTV is launching this weekend. -- John Week of 7/22: Peoples Video Network: Free Mumia! (excerpts - part 1) (1995, 30:00) This video chronicles the protests by thousands of Mumia supporters in Philadelphia in the week following the signing of the death warrant, and speeches by his lawyers, friends and family who argue in support of his appeal. Producer: Peoples Video Network Contact: Key Martin @ Peoples Video Network: (212)633-6646 Week of 7/29: Deep Dish TV: Behind Censorship Part 8 : Political Prisoners and POWs in the US: Break the Walls Down (1991, 29:00) Footage compiled from over 40 social justice media productions chronicles the perspectives of political prisoners and prisoners of war within the U.S. Historical footage is combined with interviews of activists from revolutionary movements waged by African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans and Whites against oppression. The prisoners, victims of government sponsored attacks on liberation movements in the U.S. and its colonies, discuss how they and their companions have been murdered, forced underground, driven into exile and unjustly imprisoned since the late 60's. Producers: Kenyatta Tyehimba & Ada Gray Griffin Contact: Cynthia Lopez @ Deep Dish TV (212)473-8933 Political Playhouse (1995, 28:30) An interview with Alexander Cockburn, columnist for The Nation, focusing on the history of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case as a travesty, with some astute observations about the politics of racism, the death penalty, and making an example of Mumia, not unlike the execution of the Rosenburgs 42 years ago at the height of the Red Scare. Producer: Philip Craft Contact: Philip Craft @ Political Playhouse: (206)282-2102 Framing the Panthers in Black & White (1990, 30:00) This tape looks at the history of the Black Panther Party and its calculated destruction by the FBI through the COINTELPRO programs in the late 60's and early 70's. COINTELPRO targeted the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King Jr., SNCC, The American Indian Movement, and Puerto Rican "Independentistas", among others. In particular, Framing the Panthers in Black and White charts the life of one ex-Panther, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (formerly Richard Moore), who has just been released from prison after 19 years. His release was the consequence of a protracted court case which revealed that he was targeted and framed by the FBI. Producers: Annie Goldson & Chris Bratton Contact: Veena Cabreros-Sud @ Third World Newsreel: (212)947-9277 Death Row Notebooks: (1994, 14:00) Death Row Notebooks is structured around an interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal. Abu-Jamal has been placed in highly punitive conditions. For example, he is denied reading material and visitors because he refuses to cut his hair for religious reasons. In the tape Abu-Jamal describes his early history in Philadelphia, his work as an information officer with the Black Panthers, his interest and later affiliation with MOVE, his arrest, and imprisonment. Producer: Annie Goldson Contact: Mindy Farber @ Video Data Bank: (312)345-3550 The Color Line: Racism In America (1992, 10:00) Investigates racism through the testimony of a variety of individuals who negotiate ethnographic and multicultural terminology to show that race is as much about economics as it is about personal value and identity. This tape compiles interviews gathered from people living in different sections of New York City during the summer of 1990. People on the street responded to two questions posed by the videomaker: 1) what is the cause of racism in America? and 2) how would you identify yourself? The tape serves as a testament to the complexities of race and racism by allowing the opinions of a diverse group of individuals to be heard in an open-ended presentation. Producer: Steve Zehenter Contact: Mindy Farber @ Video Data Bank: (312)345-3550 Reverse Big Brother (1990, 1:00) This alternative commercial advertises the aggressively democratic use of home video equipment to record local news of community activism and other events that don't make the headlines for political reasons. Stating that "once 'Big Brother' was the state watching the people, now the people can begin watching the state," this video urges citizens to break the state's control of information and reclaim their power. Music by Elliot Sharp. Producer: Paul Garrin Contact: Mindy Farber @ Video Data Bank: (312)345-3550 Week of 8/5: Black and Blue (1987, 58:00) A powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality and sympathizers unravel a pattern of biased violent police behavior from the tenure of Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo to the bombing of Osage Avenue. This documentary is a testimony to long-standing tensions between police and people of color in communities throughout the U.S. Producer: Lamar Williams Contact: Veena Cabreros-Sud @ Third World Newsreel: (212)947-9277 Peoples Video Network: Live From Death Row (excerpts) (1995, 30:00) Readings from the writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal, entitled Live From Death Row, performed at Cooper Union by Bernard White of WBAI radio; Noel Hanrahan of Equal Justice USA; John Edgar Wideman, author of the introduction to the book; Melvyn Van Peebles, filmmaker; Ann Montgomery of Sisters of the Sacred Heart; civil rights attorney William Kunstler; former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad; MOVE bombing survivor Ramona Africa; and playwright Terry Bisson. Producer: Peoples Video Network Contact: Key Martin @ Peoples Video Network: (212)633-6646 Peoples Video Network: Free Mumia! (excerpts - Part 2) (1995, 30:00) See prior description Producer: Peoples Video Network Contact: Key Martin @ Peoples Video Network: (212)633-6646 Week of 8/12: Deep Dish TV: Behind Censorship Part 7: Political Prisoners and POWs in the US: Can't Jail the Revolution (1991, 29:00) The lives and words of Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and the Puerto Rican Independentistas are the framework for the histories of Geronimo Pratt, Dylcia Pagan, Mumia Abu- Jamal and Alejandrina Torres. The isolation, physical abuse and injustice endured by the young activists trapped by COINTELPRO twenty years ago make a mockery of the United States human rights policies. With Assata Shakur and William Morales, they are powerful voices for justice and self-determination. Producers:Kenyatta Tyehimba & Ada Gay Griffin Contact: Cynthia Lopez @ Deep Dish TV: (212)473-8933 ______________________________________________________________ John B. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. 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