The Road of Bones

I leave you now, with some closing comments. It is bed time, yes. But I think it should be quite fitting to end Free Mumia Day with a few thoughts from Rage Against the Machine. Lyrics below ...

Voice of the Voiceless

Through steel walls
Your voice blastin' on
True rebel my brother Mumia
I reflect upon
You be tha spark
That set all tha prairie fires on
Make tha masses a mastodon path
To trample tha fascists on
At fifteen exposed Philly's finest killing machine
With boots and mad guns
They tried to pacify you young
Cause and effect
Smell tha smoke and tha breeze
My panther my brother
We are at war until you're free

You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

You see tha powerful got nervous
Cause he refused to be their servant
'Cause he spit truth
That shook heads
And burned like black churches
Prose and verses
A million poor in hearses
Watch tha decision of Dred Scott
As it reserves
So long as tha rope
Is tight around Mumia's neck
Let there be no rich white life
We bound to respect
Cause and effect
Can't ya smell tha smoke in tha breeze
My panther my brother we are at war until you're free

You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through
But this little brother's watching you too ... watching you too

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From The Herald-Tribune, on Mumia's 1982 conviction ...

As for the judge, the late Albert Sabo presided at both the two-week trial and a lengthy post-conviction hearing in 1995. Abu-Jamal contends Sabo was a pro-police racist.

Sabo reportedly used a racial epithet to refer to Abu-Jamal, according to lawyer Robert R. Bryan, who represents Abu-Jamal on appeal.

"Judge Sabo stated ... that he was 'going to help 'em fry the n-----,'" Bryan wrote, quoting from a court stenographer's 2001 deposition.

And from yesterday's Phillidelphia Inquirer ...

Though a decision in the Abu-Jamal case is not expected for months, the two-hour proceeding this week promises to refocus national and international attention on one of the city's most notorious cases. Bryan said that lawyers and lawmakers from France and Germany are planning to attend the proceeding at the U.S. Courthouse at Sixth and Market Streets.

Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter then driving a cab, was convicted in 1982 of the shooting death of Faulkner, who had just pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother near 13th and Locust Streets in the early-morning hours of Dec. 9, 1981. Abu-Jamal ran from a parking lot across the street. Faulkner was shot and killed, and Abu-Jamal was wounded in an exchange of gunfire.

Prosecutors contended that Abu-Jamal fired the shots that killed Faulkner; Abu-Jamal contended that another man killed Faulkner and then fled the scene. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence in 1989 and also rejected subsequent appeals.

Freedom.

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The Daily Terror ...


Free Mumia!

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Mumia Abu-Jamal is a Peabody award winning journalist who smashed a ring of corrupt police.

Just a few months later, he was arrested, tried and convicted (by an all-white jury). The charge: killing a cop.

Mumia's case is highly suspect. Much of the evidence he was convicted on is circumstantial. It is true that one such as myself cannot really know what happened that night in Philadelphia. But a man such as this, with such a forceful intellect, to me embodies everything good about the American Free Press.

Listen:


His final chance at freedom is approaching. If he is not granted pardon, he will either be executed, as he is on death row, or he will spend the rest of his life in a cage.

What are you going to do?



Free Mumia.

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