>From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUESTED: EMERGENCY ACTION TO SUPPORT PHILLY DEMONSTRATORS >Forward from mart. > >IMPORTANT! >PLEASE >DISTRIBUTE >FAR AND WIDE!! >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: August 6, 2000 8:40 AM >Subject: [pttp] FW: !*IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUESTED: >EMERGENCY ACTION TO SUPPORT PHILLY DEMONSTRATORS > > >>Please forward >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Marpessa Kupendua [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 11:09 PM >>> To: Mark Clement >>> Subject: !*IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUESTED: EMERGENCY ACTION TO SUPPORT >>> PHILLY DEMONSTRATORS >>> Importance: High >>> >>> PLEASE SUPPORT! >>> ============== >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: mumia cd committee <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 8:41 PM >>> >>> SUN. PHILA. DEMO FOR ARRESTEES; OTHER WAYS TO HELP >>> >>> EMERGENCY ACTION: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUESTED; PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY >>> >>> (Even if your can't come to Philly on such short notice, please make >CALLS >>> and distribute this email broadly.) >>> This week, over 430 were arrested doing nonviolent civil disobedience >>> during the GOP Convention in Philadelphia demanding: Free Mumia and other >>> Political Prisoners, Abolish the Death Penalty and the Prison-Industrial >>> Complex, and End Police Brutality. >>> >>> 300+ are still in jail, most with bails of $15,000 or more. Two activists >>> with long non-violent histories have $1 million bails. Arrestees have >been >>> verbally abused, sexually assaulted, punched, kicked,thrown against >walls, >>> bloodied, dragged naked across floors. 150 are on hunger strike. >>> >>> We must support these courageous activists. >>> >>> *****IF YOU CAN GO TO PHILLY TOMORROW (SUNDAY) at 9 am for a 1 pm support >>> demo, or can donate bail money, call John or Bob at 212-989-8222. >>> ********* >>> >>> And call Mayor Street to demand: 1) Release all protesters; 2) Drop all >>> charges; 3) End the human rights abuses. Street's no. is 215-686-2181. >>> >>> For updates, click on www.freemumia.com/support, and listen to WBAI, 99.5 >>> FM. >>> = = = = == = == >>> >>> MORE DETAILED VERSION: >>> Friends: Our heroes in Phila. -- both inside and outside jail -- are >under >>> tremendous attack and urgently need our presence and support to make a >>> showing showing of the community's outrage about the continued detention >>> and mistreatment of 300+ arrestees, with some held on bails of as a high >>> as $1 million! These folks are arrested during protests against the >>> Criminal Injustice System and on other issues. >>> >>> *******Please spread the word about the demo in Phila. tomorrow, which >the >>> Phila. folks -- particularly those from SLAM (Student Liberation Action >>> Movement-CUNY) and ACT UP/Phila. -- have asked us to turn out for. >>> >>> FOR NYC FOLKS: From NYC, we will assemble at Penn Station under the big >>> overhead schedule at 9:00 a.m.. We'll take NJ Transit train No. 7829, >>> which leaves at 9:32 a.m., and arrives (after a transfer in Trenton) at >>> 30th St. Station, Phila. at 11:54 a.m. The round-trip fare is $24. >>> >>> Also, the Phila. folks have made the following urgent requests for help: >>> >>> 1) Anyone who can come down and spend some time in the next few days >>> (besides at tomorrow's demo) to help with outreach, media, and various >>> forms of support and communication for the arrestees >>> >>> 2) Donations of money for bail (which will of course eventually be >>> returned) and for overall outreach expenses (blast-faxing to media, >>> photocopying flyers, etc.) >>> >>> 3) Activate all your local and national networks to make the phone calls >>> to city officials. Time after time when similar repression has happened, >>> these calls have made a major difference in forcing the powers-that-be to >>> pull back. >>> >>> Anyone with offers of help or questions should call the Philadelphia >>> Direct Action Group at (215) 574-7883. >>> >>> Meanwhile, the NY Aug. 1st Direct Action Coalition is coordinating >>> NY-based outreach and education. We are working on several ideas >including >>> a possible press conference, community teach-in, leafleting at activist >>> events, and perhaps phone banking. If you can help with any of this, >>> please call the Coalition hotline at (212) 629-1775. >>> >>> NYC FOLKS: To move forward our NYC support/educational work for the >>> arrestees: PLEASE ATTEND THE NEXT MEETING OF THE AUG. 1st DIRECT ACTION >>> COALITION. That's this Wed., Aug. 9, at 7:00 p.m. at Hunter College, 68th >>> & Lexington (NW corner), Student Resource Center in Room 202 of Thomas >>> Hunter Hall. >>> >>> And don't forget to check www.phillyimc.org for updates, or listen to >WBAI >>> radio, 99.5 FM, especially weekdays from 6-10 a.m., 6-7pm and 11-midnite. >>> >>> Below is the text of the flyer we just made up for tomorrow. A PDF file >>> version of this is downloadable from >>> http://www.columbia.edu/~eo48/prisoners.pdf. Hopefully we'll produce an >>> almost identical version later for use in an ongoing way to stimulate >>> calls to city officials (that is, just deleting the demo details). >>> Meanwhile, you can distribute this for educational purposes. >>> >>> I'll be in Phila. all day Sun. and not checking my email, but will be >able >>> to check it again starting Mon. morning. In the meanwhile, call the >>> numbers listed above. >>> >>> Let's all go the extra mile to stand up for the strong fighters who are >>> standing up for all of us. >>> >>> Best, Bob Lederer >>> >>> ************************************ >>> >>> Legal Demonstration: FREE THE DEMONSTRATORS AT THE GOP CONVENTION >>> Sunday, August 6, 1:00 pm the Roundhouse Jail, 7th and Race, Philadelphia >>> >>> This week, more than 430 people were arrested in dynamic, nonviolent acts >>> of civil disobedience that disrupted business-as-usual in Philadelphia >>> during the Republican National Convention. The largest was an Aug. 1 >>> direct action by a multiracial alliance, drawn from the movements against >>> global capital, environmental abuse and racist injustice, demanding >>> freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners, the abolition >>> of the death penalty and the prison-industrial complex and an end to >>> police brutality. Videographers have documented widespread violence >>> against the protesters by the police during the arrests. >>> >>> Two organizers with long histories of nonviolent protest -- one from the >>> Ruckus Society, a civil-disobedience training group; the other from ACT >>> UP/Philadelphia, an AIDS activist group -- have had bail set at $1 >>> million. Neither was even participating in CD when they were arrested. >>> Bail for most other activists ranges from $15,000 to >>> $500,000--unprecedented for this type of demonstration. The government is >>> illegally imposing high bails as a form of preventive detention. And the >>> police commissioner is urging the FBI to launch a federal investigation >of >>> the activist networks behind the direct actions. Guards and police >>> continue to attack protesters in jail, seeking to demoralize and divide. >>> >>> One released activist reports that men have been dragged face down >through >>> a "trash trough" of refuse, spittle, and urine. Arrestees have been >>> verbally abused, sexually assaulted, punched, kicked, thrown against >>> walls, bloodied, dragged naked across floors. In protest, 150 arrestees >>> are on hunger strike. The situation is, according to one observer, a >>> "civil rights catastrophe." But the courageous 300+ activists still in >>> jail remain strong, with many practicing jail solidarity--refusing to >give >>> names or otherwise cooperate until all are released and all charges are >>> dropped. And community activists have repeatedly rallied outside the >>> jails. >>> >>> Join us in Philadelphia! CALL Mayor John Street and other officals every >>> day. Demand: IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL ARRESTEES! Stop the >>> physical and psychological abuse! Medical treatment now for all who need >>> it! >>> >>> Mayor John Street, 215-686-2181 >>> Chief Maxwell - Head of Detectives and Criminal Investigation, >>> 215-686-3362 >>> Deputy Commissioner Mitchell - Head of Demonstrations, 215-686-3364 >>> Captain Fisher - Head of Civil Affairs, 215-685-3684 >>> >>> Information: >>> >>> August 1st Direct Action Coalition, (212) 629-1775 (including >>> transportation to Phila.) >>> >>> Philadelphia Direct Action Group, (215) 574-7883 >>> >>> Frequent updates: www.phillyimc.org >>> >>> Background on the action: www.freemumia.com >>> >>> *************************************************************** >>> >>> What the mainstream media didn't want you hear about the August 1st >direct >>> action in Philadelphia: >>> >>> A Call for Non-Violent Direct Action AGAINST THE CRIMINALINJUSTICE SYSTEM >>> at the Republican National Convention Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Tues., >>> August 1, 2000 >>> >>> A new movement is being born. In Seattle we shut down the WTO. In New >York >>> we rose up against police terror in communities of color. In Washington, >>> DC we stood up to the IMF and World Bank. In California we fought the >mass >>> incarceration of our youth under Proposition 21. This summer we will >again >>> use our bodies and voices to confront the system. While U.S.-dominated >>> institutions like the WTO, the IMF, and World Bank wage war on the global >>> poor, a parallel war is waged daily on the poor and people of color in >the >>> U.S. by a criminal jus-tice system that enforces racial and economic >>> injustice. It is time for the differ-ent currents in this movement to >>> stand together against this system of criminal injustice and for real >>> democracy. Democrats and Republicans alike have demon-strated their >>> commitment to this state violence and repression. This August we are >>> calling for direct action at the Republican National Convention to >>> confront the U.S. criminal justice system, and we are supporting similar >>> actions at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. >>> >>> The Republican and Democratic parties are both in the pockets of the >>> corporate elite. The major corporations that profit from the policies of >>> the WTO, IMF, and World Bank are the same corporations that oppress and >>> exploit poor and working class people of all colors in the U.S. They are >>> the same corporations that dominate the political process in the U.S. The >>> Democratic and Republican national conventions try to hide this reality >of >>> corporate control behind a mask of democratic participation. Behind this >>> mask the reality is brutal. As giant corporations move production abroad, >>> the poorest laborers in this country have become expendable. Just as the >>> policies of the IMF are backed up by U.S. military power, the attack on >>> poor people and people of color in the United States depends on state >>> repression in the form of police terror and of the prison warehousing of >a >>> huge percentage of poor people, particularly youth of color. This easily >>> exploited source of labor is transforming American's prisons into its >>> worst sweatshops. Mandatory minimum sentences established under the guise >>> of the "war on drugs" have turned prison construction into a growth >>> industry while funding for schools is slashed year after year. >>> >>> The criminal justice system is a daily insult to democracy. Prisons >>> silence thousands of voices from the most oppressed communi-ties in the >>> country. Dozens of political prisoners-like Native American leader >Leonard >>> Peltier and the Puerto Rican independentistas still behind bars-are >locked >>> up for the crime of standing up to injustice. One political prisoner, >>> Mumia Abu-Jamal, is a former Black Panther and an award-winning >journalist >>> who exposed the racism and brutality of the Philadelphia Police >>> department. Brutalized by the police and denied a fair trial, Mumia has >>> spent 18 years on Pennsylvania's death row. His case is in its most >>> critical phase and demands our presence in the streets of Philadelphia. >>> Now. Like the thousands of other prisoners on death row who face >execution >>> under the racist death penalty, Mumia's case illustrates the barbarity of >>> this system. >>> >>> Bill Clinton's signing of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty >>> Act and George W. Bush's presid-ing over a record number of executions >>> indicate the responsibility of both the Democrats and Republicans for >>> these policies. This summer we have a historic opportunity to bring the >>> energy that has been building for the past year to a collective fight, >>> long overdue in this country, for democracy and human rights. We must >>> build a powerful and sustainable alliance of all people devoted to global >>> and domestic economic, racial, and environmental justice. Come to the >>> Republican National Conventions to take a stand and say: >>> >>> � Free Mumia Abu Jamal and All Political Prisoners � Abolish the Prison >>> Industrial Complex � Abolish the Death Penalty � Stop Police Violence � >>> Power to Our Communities, End the Corporate War on the Poor >>> >>> August 1 Direct Action Coalition >>> >>> Endorsements:Active Transformation, Activistas Por La Triple "A" >(Proyecto >>> de Reajuste Andino-Andean, Audre Lorde Project, Bard College Student >>> Action Collective, Brecht Forum, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, >>> Canadian Federation of Students, Center for Campus Organizating,Coalition >>> for the Human Rights of Immigrants, Committee Against Anti-Asian >Violence, >>> Columbia Student Solidarity Network, Committee In Solidarity with the >>> Peoples of El Salvador (CISPES),Committees of Correspondence, Direct >>> Action Group Philly, Direct Action Network Boston, Direct Action Network >>> NYC, East Timor Alert Group, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, Freedom Road >>> Socialist Organization, Graduate Student Employees Union/ CWA Local >>> 1188,Green Student Action Network, Haitian Coalition for Justice, >>> International Socialist Organisation. International Tranquility, Johnson >>> State College Activist Coalition, Mass Action, 180 Movement for Democracy >>> and Education, ONWARD Anarchist Newspaper, Pennsylvania Abolitionists, >>> Prison Moratorium Project, Green Student Action Network, Queers for >Racial >>> and Economic Justice, Queer People of Color Action, Radical Women, Refuse >>> & Resist!, Resistance In Brooklyn The Rochester Mumia Defense Committee, >>> Student Liberation Action Movement, Student Environmental Action >>> Coalition, Trotskyist League/US, US Tibet Committee, United Students >>> Against Sweatshops, War Resisters League, Western Mass Resistance >>> Coalition, Workers to Free Mumia - NY,Youth Peace, Z Magazine > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- >Click for more information on how eGroups members save with beMANY! >http://click.egroups.com/1/8025/0/_/30563/_/965567107/ >--------------------------------------------------------------------|e>- > >Cuba SI - Imperialism NO! >Information and discussion about Cuba. >Socialism or death! 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