---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:24:50 +0200 From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> Subject: [Y4M] For Emergency Days of Resistance Gary Graham (Shaka Sankofa) is segregated on Texas Death Row since 19 years and, considering his present age is 36, it is immediately obvious that he has spent on death row the longest part of his life. The prison where Gary is segregated is a maximum security unit where men that have been sentenced to death live like in a concentration camp. After a wait that lasted over a year, the Supreme Court ruled NOT to re-open Gary's case, thus making way to the bloody hand of the Texas Governor, George Bush JR. that has immediately set a new execution date on June 22nd 2000. Gary's case is again a prove of how the Afro-American and the Hispanic Communities are excluded from the productive cycles and they exploited are victimized by welfare cuts (even if there is not much to be cut ). Those communities are completely in the hands of the racist and corporate power of the US Government, that, after reintroducing death penalty as a weapon of death within the politics of social control, has increased the number of executions until the record of 97 executions in 1999. Meanwhile, the American Judicial System offers nothing but an ineffective assistance of counsel to capital prisoners. As italian groups in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, we invite every association, every organization, every people to join the campaign in support of Gary Graham (Shaka Sankofa). Please, contact Million for Mumia/InternationalAction Center: National office: 212.633.6646 39 West 14 Street #206, NY, NY 10011 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send your support. We must protest against the classist and racist death penalty. ====================================== ====================================== FOR EMERGENCY DAYS OF RESISTANCE >From June 8th through June 19th "Juneteenth" TO END THE DEATH PENALTY and STOP THE EXECUTION OF SHAKA SANKOFA (Gary Graham) We call on all anti-death penalty activist and organizations, including all those working for a moratorium on the death penalty, the international movement for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and all progressive people, organizations and movements to organize demonstrations, marches, rallies, and other forms of resistance from June 8th through June 19th "Juneteenth". "Juneteenth" is the anniversary of the date that slaves in Texas learned of the Emancipation Proclamation. It is fitting that we turn the days leading up to this historic anniversary associated with the abolition of slavery into an occasion to demand the abolition of the death penalty. The purpose of these days of protest which will begin with a march in Washington D.C. on June 8th, is to dramatize the growing opposition to the death penalty and to stop the execution of Shaka Sankofa, once known as Gary Graham. Shaka Sankofa is scheduled to be executed in the death chamber at Huntsville Texas on Thursday June 22. Many people believe and with good reason that Shaka Sankofa like Mumia Abu-Jamal and so many other people on death row in the U.S. was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. Shaka, only 17 years old at the time of his arrest, was convicted on the basis of the police coaxed testimony of a single witness during a quick trial in 1981. Shaka's trial was tainted by racism, police and prosecutorial misconduct, suppression of evidence, and an incompetent, unenthusiastic defense by Shaka's court appointed lawyer. Like Mumia, Shaka's fight for a new trial has attracted the interest and support of people all over the world. Shaka's case also focuses attention on the infamous Texas death machine and the Governor would be President George W. Bush Jr., who has presided over 127 executions since taking office in 1995. On Governor Bush's watch, Texas has executed almost 200% more people than Virginia, the state with the second highest rate of executions in the U.S. over the same period of time. Shaka is one of 20 people Texas is set to kill over the next four months. What we do now to stop the execution of Shaka Sankofa will have tremendous bearing on Mumia's case, as well as the fates of the more than 3600 people on death row in the U.S. STOP THE EXECUTION OF SHAKA SANKOFA! STOP THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY! STOP THE INCARCERATION OF A GENERATION! STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! Lets make sure that Bush and all the other politicians, judges, and candidates both Republican and Democratic, from the White House and the Congress on down know that they will not be allowed to realize their political ambitions on a record of executions, repression, racism and injustice. This draft call is issued by - The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement - The Shaka Sankofa Defense Committee - Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal - The New York Coalition To Free Mumia - Millions For Mumia/ The International Action Center 39 West 14th Street, Suite 206 NY NY 10011 To join the emergency mobilization contact us at Million for Mumia/InternationalAction Center: National office: 212.633.6646 39 West 14 Street #206, NY, NY 10011 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] West Coast: San Francisco 415.821.6545 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Los Angeles 213.487.2368 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22,345,678 matches to your search term? Inforocket.com is the fast way to the right answer - guaranteed. http://click.egroups.com/1/4521/3/_/30522/_/959196474/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stop the execution! New trial for Mumia! 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