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> The following article is from the July 28 issue of Workers
> Vanguard, the Marxist working-class biweekly of the Spartacist
> League. A one year subscription to Workers Vanguard is $10.00
> (includes English-language Spartacist, Women and Revolution, and
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> Other articles in this issue are:
>
> Police-State Philadelphia
> FOP Rally to Kill Jamal--Philly Cops Threaten Organized Labor
> Statement of July 12 By Mumia Abu-Jamal
> Apartheid Death Penaly Abolished--South African Workers
> Fight to Save Jamal
> "Leftists" Serve Wall Street Journal:
> Anti-Communist Smear Targets Jamal Campaign
> Protest Deportation of Ramona Africa by Canadian Immigration!
> Vile Stalinist Attack on Italian Trotskyists
> San Francisco Examiner Smear
> The Political Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
> Chicago: Hundreds Die in Heat Wave
> Letter: Who's Revolting?
> Support NYC Drake Hotel Strikers!
> Illinois "War Zone" Workers Need Class-Struggle Leadership
> David North "Abolishes" the Right to Self-Determination--
> Part 1 of 2
>
> Stop the Execution! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!
> FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!
>
> JULY 24--Mumia Abu-Jamal is slated to be executed in barely three
> weeks. As the executioner's clock is ticking, across the country
> and around the world thousands of people are rallying to save the
> life of this fighter for black freedom. The fight to save Jamal
> has come to symbolize the struggle against the death penalty and
> the whole system of racist capitalist oppression in America. In
> these crucial weeks, we must muster all energy and strength for
> the battle which has been engaged. Particularly important is to
> mobilize the power of the organized, multiracial working class at
> the head of oppressed minorities and all those committed to
> social justice to demand: Mumia Abu-Jamal must not die!
> Jamal, the former Black Panther, award-winning black
> journalist and supporter of the MOVE organization, has been on
> death row since 1982, when he was framed up on charges of killing
> a cop. As FBI Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) files
> show, this champion of black rights had been targeted by the
> Philly cops and FBI since the late 1960s. He was railroaded in a
> far-reaching conspiracy by the Philadelphia police, judiciary and
> city rulers who run this 40 percent black city as if it were
> Philadelphia, Mississippi in the days of Jim Crow. From arch-
> racist Frank Rizzo, who as Philly's police commissioner (later
> mayor) lined up the Black Panthers naked at gunpoint in the
> street in 1970, to black Democratic mayor Wilson Goode, who
> helped carry out the murder of eleven black men, women and
> children in the 1985 bombing of MOVE, Philadelphia has come to
> symbolize black oppression in extremis in America today.
> Now Mumia Abu-Jamal struggles for his life, caught in the
> murderous net of the racist "justice" system. On June 1, the
> Harrisburg Patriot-News reported that Jamal's attorneys were
> about to file papers for a new trial. That very night, Governor
> Thomas Ridge signed Jamal's death warrant, ordering the execution
> by lethal injection to take place at 10 p.m. on August 17. The
> appeal for post-conviction relief (PCRA) filed on June 5 calls
> for a new trial. Together with that, Jamal's attorneys filed
> motions for a stay of execution and the recusal of notorious
> "hanging judge" Albert Sabo from this case. The defense papers
> give proof of Jamal's innocence and starkly expose the mockery of
> justice which characterized Jamal's arrest, trial and sentencing
> in 1982. Hearings on the appeal began on July 12 in front of Sabo
> in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
> This court session was the first time Mumia had been able to
> appear in front of his supporters in Philadelphia since his
> banishment to death row 13 years before. The courtroom was
> divided, with scores of cops--virtually all white--on one side
> and Mumia's family and supporters on the other. As Mumia entered,
> his supporters stood in silent solidarity, until his grandson
> cried out, "Hi, grandpa!" At that point, cheers for Mumia rang
> out inside the court, and in the hall outside as well, where
> scores of people waited who could not get in. Throughout the
> morning, and at every court appearance since, hundreds of
> demonstrators rallied and marched outside the court building,
> where their cries of "Sabo must go!" and "Free Mumia!" could be
> heard.
> Jamal's attorneys, led by noted civil rights advocate
> Leonard Weinglass, first argued that Sabo, as a retired judge,
> had no valid jurisdiction in this case. In ruling against the
> defense, Sabo exhibited what would become a pattern of abuse of
> Jamal's attorneys and blatant bias in favor of the district
> attorney's prosecutorial team. Known as the "King of Death Row"
> for sentencing more people to death (at least 31, 28 of whom are
> minorities) than any sitting judge in the U.S., Sabo served 16
> years as a Philadelphia undersheriff and is a "former" member of
> the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which is actively
> campaigning for Jamal's death. Despite overwhelming evidence of
> bias, Sabo refused to remove himself from the case. He then
> refused to rule on the stay of execution, saying the date was
> "not close enough." And, in a move that death penalty experts
> called unprecedented, Sabo asked the defense to provide witnesses
> to testify as to why the stay should be granted.
> When court resumed two days later, Sabo again refused to
> rule on the stay, saying that he would take it "under
> advisement," i.e. delay the ruling as long as he wished. He also
> denied a defense motion for discovery, which would have required
> prosecutors to turn over evidence that had been withheld. The
> following week, Sabo demanded that the defense call witnesses to
> begin an evidentiary hearing on the merits of the appeal on only
> two days' notice. Fighting against this outrageous maneuver, on
> July 18 Jamal's attorneys obtained a one-week continuance from
> the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court. The hearing on the PCRA is
> scheduled to resume on July 26, in Sabo's court.
> Sabo's intentions are crystal-clear: to keep Jamal's appeal
> in his court as long as possible in order to thwart attempts to
> appeal to a higher court, while racing ahead into hearings,
> giving Jamal's attorneys virtually no time to prepare witnesses.
> Meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking. After watching the
> proceedings on July 12, radical black academic Cornel West
> remarked, "I've never seen a Jim Crow court until today. The
> whole atmosphere of this court is Mississippi 1955" (Philadelphia
> Daily News, 13 July).
> As we wrote in our last issue:
> "Mumia is being set up to be the first political prisoner
> executed in the U.S. since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were
> killed in the electric chair in 1953, victims of McCarthyite
> Cold War anti-Communism. "We must not let that happen! It is
> necessary to build on the momentum of the wave of recent
> protests with a strategy aimed at mass mobilizations of
> blacks, Hispanics and all the intended victims of capitalist
> repression, centrally seeking to unlock the social power of
> the integrated labor movement.... this is not only a
> struggle for Mumia's life--it's a fight against the
> institution of the death penalty itself, a barbaric means of
> repression which in the U.S. is necessarily racist. Free
> Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the racist death penalty!"
> Courtroom Battle of Class Forces
> Sabo's kangaroo-court proceedings show that Mumia Abu-Jamal
> faces the same racist, politically motivated frame-up that sent
> him to death row in the first place. Hanging over the court is
> the spectre of the state's murderous vendetta against MOVE. When
> Weinglass argued on July 18 for time to gather witness files to
> prepare his case, Sabo claimed that Jamal has had the files for
> the past 13 years. Weinglass replied, "His files were destroyed
> in the MOVE bombing."
> On July 18, it was revealed that the prosecution had
> subpoenaed the defense witnesses. When one did not show up in
> court, the D.A. demanded that Sabo immediately issue a warrant
> for his arrest! Rachel Wolkenstein, Partisan Defense Committee
> staff counsel and one of Jamal's lawyers, blasted this as "part
> of a whole history and pattern of harassment, of persecution, of
> coercion against anybody who will speak the truth about this
> case."
> The D.A.'s reply to the defense motion for a stay of
> execution baldly revealed that the death penalty is at the center
> of the state machinery of repression: "The death penalty...is the
> highest exercise of the state's authority; and it should not
> lightly be disturbed." Revealing the state's utter racist
> contempt for the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, it grotesquely states
> that "The carrying out of a valid death sentence cannot
> constitute irreparable injury for purposes of requesting a stay"!
> With the eyes of the world on Sabo's court, the daily
> display of racist bias and the blatant railroad job being carried
> out have evoked a storm of criticism even from within the
> Philadelphia bourgeois establishment. Republican U.S. Senator
> Arlen Specter, a former Philly D.A., complained to the Republican
> National Committee about the "rush to judgment," criticizing
> Sabo's order for an immediate evidentiary hearing, which would
> occur "without sufficient interval for review of documents and
> preparation." Specter continued: "You cannot maintain a penalty
> as severe as the death penalty without being meticulous in how it
> is applied." A staunch advocate of the death penalty, and
> contender for the Republican presidential nomination, Specter
> represents a wing of the bourgeoisie which doesn't want to see
> the U.S. murder machine gummed up by Sabo's antics.
> Along with Specter's complaint came editorials in the
> "mainline" bourgeois Philadelphia Inquirer (16 July) and the more
> right-wing Philadelphia Daily News (21 July). The Inquirer wrote:
> "The behavior of the judge in the case was disturbing the
> first time around--and in hearings last week he did not give
> the impression to those in the courtroom of fair-mindedness.
> "Instead, he gave the impression, damaging in the extreme,
> of undue haste and hostility toward the defense's case."
> The Daily News editorial, "A Live Convict, Not a Dead Martyr,"
> echoed this line:
> "The orchestrated worldwide campaign on Abu-Jamal's behalf--
> misdirected as it may be--has generated enough doubt to
> justify serious consideration of a retrial.... A jurist with
> an astonishing record of murder convictions, [Sabo] has
> become part of the defense's argument."
> The line of the capitalist media is to maintain the lie that
> Mumia is guilty, but should be entombed for life instead of being
> executed and becoming a martyr. Life imprisonment would itself be
> a grotesque travesty of justice. Mumia is innocent! He was marked
> and is persecuted because of his beliefs and his courageous
> exposures of oppression in capitalist America. True justice
> demands: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
> FOP Campaign of Filth
> The Philadelphia cops are acting like a lynch mob, packing
> the court each morning, wearing T-shirts reading, "The Jury Said
> Death...Do It." They parade in with the widow of policeman Daniel
> Faulkner, whom Jamal was falsely convicted of killing. Her
> slanders of Jamal allegedly gloating over her dead husband's
> "bloody shirt" in the 1982 "trial," retailed in the capitalist
> media during the FOP's campaign against Mumia's book, Live from
> Death Row, were designed to "soften up" public opinion in advance
> of the signing of the death warrant.
> Last week, the FOP massed 300 armed cops outside the
> headquarters of hospital workers union Local 1199C, with signs
> reading, "Lethal injection for convicted cop killers now,"
> because that union had dared to come out in support of Jamal (see
> page 16). Led by FOP f hrer Richard Costello, the cops have also
> been ominously smearing Jamal's legal team, and the hundreds of
> supporters who gather in his defense each day of the court
> proceedings, as "outside agitators" and "terrorists." These
> smears are meant, above all, to tar Jamal and speed his
> execution.
> On July 21, Rachel Wolkenstein demanded a retraction from
> WTFX-TV, Channel 29, after the station aired a statement by
> Costello that railed, "Let these out-of-town lawyers, these out-
> of-town terrorists, get the hell out of here and leave
> Philadelphia to us. This is our city." Wolkenstein wrote, "Your
> broadcast labeling attorneys and supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal as
> `terrorists' is utterly false, without any factual basis and is
> defamatory.... These types of accusations against `outsiders'
> come right out of the `old South' and the Scottsboro Boys case."
> Earlier that week, Channel 29 broadcast a spot linking
> alleged "bomb threats" at City Hall to Jamal's supporters.
> Wolkenstein demanded these statements also be retracted. Jamal
> himself issued a statement on July 14 lashing out at these news
> reports, saying they were "rumor--damning rumor designed to
> demonize, not just myself, but anyone daring to call themselves
> supporters." Referring to the 1985 bombing of MOVE, Jamal went
> on: "And where did the report come from--of a `bomb threat'
> allegedly `connected' to `the Mumia Abu-Jamal case'--but from the
> Police Department--the very experts of bombings--experts of mass
> murder! The source of this alleged `news' is the source of this
> threat itself--the Philadelphia Police Department--the F.O.P.--
> Babykillers."
> Protests Across Europe
> The cause of Mumia Abu-Jamal has been taken up by thousands
> throughout Europe, including key sections of the workers
> movement. In Italy, the Jamal campaign has directly intersected
> the struggle against capitalist attacks on workers' livelihoods.
> On June 24, a labor protest in Rome of more than 70,000 workers
> against government austerity measures joined the campaign to save
> Jamal. A 700-strong contingent demanding Jamal's freedom marched
> in the demonstration, and a representative of the Italian
> National Committee Against the Death Penalty and for Freedom for
> Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke from the podium. The rally chairman put
> forward a motion demanding "freedom for Jamal" that was approved
> by universal cheering.
> Leonard Weinglass has reported receiving a call from the
> consul general of Italy, who said, "the Italian government in
> Rome wants an explanation as to what's happening to Mumia Abu-
> Jamal." Meanwhile, WV has learned that on July 10 the Florence
> city council voted to demand a stay of execution, a new trial and
> a new judge for Jamal. This has a particular symbolic importance,
> as Florence abolished the death penalty in the 1700s. On July 12,
> the leadership of the CGIL, Italy's main union federation of over
> five million members, passed a similar motion. All this week
> there will be demonstrations outside American consulate offices
> in cities throughout Italy.
> In Berlin on July 22, some 5,000 people, mainly youth,
> marched to the American consulate in a national demonstration for
> Jamal called by anti-racist Autonomen youth. Flags from the
> Social Democratic Party and its youth organization could be seen,
> as well as trade-union flags of IG Medien, IG Metall and the
> commercial/bank workers union. A contingent of over 100 people
> marched under the banners of the Spartakist Workers Party and
> Committee for Social Defense (KfsV). Along with the enormous
> outpouring of support for Jamal in Germany, the case has now been
> taken up by former German president Richard von Weizs cker, who,
> according to Neues Deutschland (22 July), intends "to communicate
> his support to Abu-Jamal's lawyer and appeal to the Governor of
> Pennsylvania."
> In London on July 22, a united-front demonstration initiated
> by the Partisan Defence Committee brought out over 300 people who
> marched past the U.S. embassy to a rally at Belgrave Square. The
> National Union of Journalists, Southern and Eastern regions of
> the Trades Union Congress, the Fire Brigades Union, and local
> branches of railway and public service workers backed the march,
> along with several socialist and minority groups and the Green
> Party. The protest was also supported by Labour Members of
> Parliament Bernie Grant, Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn.
> In Paris on July 8, 300 people came out to a rally called by
> the Comit de D fense Sociale (CDDS--associated with the Ligue
> Trotskyste de France), the Socialist Party, the Paris region of
> the CGT labor federation and others. Supported by the
> International Organization of Journalists, the rally heard
> speakers including African writer Madjeu Matcheu and Nobel Prize
> winner Th odore Monod. A statement by Julia Wright, the daughter
> of Richard Wright, author of the classic American novel of black
> oppression, Native Son, was read. It noted, "I am convinced that
> my father, Richard Wright, would have taken on the challenge of
> Mumia Abu-Jamal's pending execution on August 17th."
> On July 12, the CDDS joined a demonstration of some 500
> people called by the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship
> Among Peoples (MRAP) in front of the American consulate in Paris,
> with placards reading, "Save Mumia! Stop the Legal Lynching!"
> Speakers included a representative from the International
> Parliament of Writers whose president is Salman Rushdie. In
> addition, Paris' "newspaper of record," Le Monde, has repeatedly
> published quarter-page appeals signed by prominent individuals
> demanding, "Save Mumia Abu-Jamal," submitted by MRAP and the
> Committee for Defense of Liberty and the Rights of Man,
> associated with the French Communist Party. The latter is also
> circulating 1.5 million leaflets in defense of Jamal.
> The fact that Jamal has been persecuted for his written and
> spoken commentaries has generated important support from world-
> renowned writers. On July 17, the International Parliament of
> Writers (IPW) issued an appeal to save Jamal and sent a protest
> letter to Governor Ridge signed by over 500 writers, including
> Jorge Amado (Brazil), Breytan Breytenbach (South Africa), Mohamed
> Harbi (Algeria) and Harold Pinter (Britain). Also signing the
> letter was Salman Rushdie, living in Britain under a death threat
> issued by the reactionary Islamic regime in Iran. The PEN
> American Center and the Committee to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal are
> holding an emergency press conference in New York City on August
> 1 to coincide with a Paris press conference organized by the IPW.
> The fight to save Jamal has also been taken up in Brazil.
> The Brasilia Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal, which includes the
> Unified Black Movement and the Union of Professional Journalists,
> has called a demonstration on August 2 at the U.S. embassy and
> has gathered 1,500 signatures on petitions for Jamal. Vicente
> Paulo da Silva, president of the powerful CUT labor federation,
> has signed a statement in Mumia's defense. On August 9, a
> demonstration initiated by Luta MetalLrgica (Metalworkers
> Struggle) will be held in Volta Redonda.
> Significant new support in the U.S. is also coming in. Jesse
> Jackson issued a 13 July letter to Governor Ridge stating, "The
> National Rainbow Coalition supports Mumia Abu-Jamal in his fight
> for life and in the battle to uphold his constitutional right to
> have an impartial court of law hear the facts of his case."
> Author E.L. Doctorow, in an "op-ed" column in the New York Times
> (14 July) titled "From Here to Death Row," demanded a new trial
> and denounced the harassment directed at Jamal for his book,
> decrying that: "what the Fraternal Order of Police hopes are the
> last 40 days of his life may pass as wretchedly as possible."
> Mobilize the Power of Labor and Blacks! Stop the Execution!
> Just as the mobilization of the world working class in the
> 1930s prevented the legal lynching of the Scottsboro Boys, today
> the forces of organized labor must be brought to bear in the
> fight to free Jamal. This is the significance of rallies,
> initiated by the PDC, to "Mobilize Labor/Minority Power" to stop
> Jamal's execution and abolish the racist death penalty which have
> been called for New York and Oakland on August 3 and for Chicago
> on August 10.
> Mobilizing the labor movement against racist repression is
> crucial, not only in fighting against Jamal's threatened
> execution, but for the very survival of the unions. Working
> people have been reeling under the bosses' union-busting, wage-
> gouging attacks, while the unions have been decimated, hamstrung
> by a leadership that falsely identifies workers' interests with
> their exploiters'. If the labor movement is to be revitalized, it
> must take up the struggle against racist terror--of the
> extralegal KKK/skinheads as well as of the cops and courts--and
> the defense of immigrants and others victimized by the capitalist
> rulers.
> Any unionist who doesn't already understand the connection
> between the fight for Mumia and the struggle for labor rights
> need only look at the ominous cop mobilization against Local
> 1199C in Philadelphia last week. The ruling class owns the means
> of production, education, the media, and protects its profits
> through a whole apparatus of governmental repression. The
> multiracial working class has the numbers, organization and the
> power which is derived from the fact that it produces all the
> wealth in this society. To realize this power is a matter of
> consciousness and leadership.
> Labor can and will only become a force against capitalist
> exploitation when it actively takes up the fight for black
> freedom. What is desperately needed to unchain labor/black power
> against racist American capitalism is the leadership of a class-
> struggle workers party which champions the rights of all the
> oppressed.
> The August 3 New York rally has won important support from
> the 1199 National Health & Human Service Employees Union, along
> with several SEIU public service unions, the chairman of the
> Philadelphia chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists,
> Refuse & Resist and other groups. Connecting Mumia's struggle
> with the fight against racist cop terror, the rally has been
> endorsed by Margarita Rosario, mother of Anthony Rosario and aunt
> of Hilton Vega, two Bronx youth gunned down in a wave of racist
> cop killings. The demonstration in Oakland has been endorsed by a
> mainstay of Bay Area labor, ILWU longshore Local 10, as well as a
> number of SEIU locals, including the largely Latino Local 1877
> ("Justice for Janitors"). Among those backing the emergency rally
> in Chicago are Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241 and Operation
> PUSH.
> Speaking to a crowd of Jamal's supporters outside Sabo's
> court on July 18, Rachel Wolkenstein underscored the importance
> of mass social protest:
> "Speaking for myself now, on behalf of the organization that
> I work with, the Partisan Defense Committee, I want to make
> it clear that as far as I am concerned, Mumia Abu-Jamal
> cannot get a fair trial in this city. If there was ever a
> question before we walked into that courtroom, then it is
> abundantly clear now. Hopefully there will be a decision in
> the courts, but it's not going to happen without your
> support and without more--ten, twenty, a thousand times the
> support--organizations, trade unions, politicians, artists,
> unemployed, out there demanding: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
> Abolish the racist death penalty!"
> The farce being enacted in Sabo's courtroom makes it amply
> clear that Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot expect the least justice from
> this criminally unjust system of terror and repression. Mumia
> should not have spent a day in jail in the first place, and he
> should not be on death row now. Black freedom and the liberation
> of all humanity requires workers revolution to sweep away the
> capitalist state, its prisons, courts and cops, and to once and
> for all abolish the barbaric death penalty.
>
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 10:47:30 -0400
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Subject: Ronnie
I found your comments very provacative and would like to respond: (:o}
I am sure that there are times when culture is not the right defense for
acting in a non-ecological, way but we cannot trivialize its importance in
environmental issues. Our Cultures, in fact, more than our natures, are what
cause ecological breakdown in the first place. Just like you can not heal
the body without healing the mind, so they say, you can not solve our
environmental problems in a positive and long term manner without addressing
the cultural side(s) of the issue.
Population is a wonderful example. It would be ecologically ideal if we could
just persuasively explain to everyone that population is causing pollution
and resource depletion and then they all on their own accord decide to limit
their family sizes. This will not happen, at least not in time. If we look
at the population issue from only a "crisis" standpoint, our next option,
like in China, is to force individuals via disincentives, to limit their
family size. THis not only doesn't work, (increases in female infanticide in
CHina surely proves this), but is a breach of human rights. So..... Despite
our conception that we only have so much time, we HAVE to address culture and
its meaning. It is the only way we can find a long-term solution. Surely
the numbers have done all they can, exponential charts and habitat maps are
informative and essential but not, ultimately, persuasive enough on their
own.
Secondly, Overconsumption, as it would seem you agree, is american culture
(although it has its charming decadant side). You are right that in the US,
more children equals more comsuption, especially for families that live in
privilaged situations. We have to educate ourselves about living more
sustainably. Outside the united states, i wouldn't dare prescribe action.
That is for those people, in those cultures, who are concerned about the
issue to do. And they are there. We can collaborate, share information, even
campaign eachother, but it is not our right to decide on world-wide
population policy, it is a presumptive and ultimately doomed idea.
The Erhlichs would disagree with me. Nicholas Hilyard and V. Shiva, at the
ECOLOGIST in England, are publishing an issue concentrating on this very
topic right now. It will be called, "Too many for whom?" I think that is a
great title. It will discuss the idea of seeing people as numbers and how
this has tainted our ideas about population and caused many people to view
third world women in racist and patriarchical ways.
Kim
