[Ppnews] Mumia's Support of Hasan Shakur

Tue Apr 11 13:29:21 EDT 2006

X-Originating-Email: [walidahi at hotmail.com]

Subject: Mumia's Support of Hasan Shakur
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:37:44 -0700

peace yall,
this brotha hasan shakur, who i work with with the prisoner family 
organization the human rights coalition, is an organizer and activist 
from the mouth of hell, as is mumia. please take time to sign his 
petition, and support all our freedom fighters to they stay alive and 
come home to us.

lovethrustruggle
walidah

Stop Hasan Shakur's Execution!
www.hasanshakur.com
www.petitiononline.com/frazier/petition.html

No Place to be Reborn: The Awakening
(Col. writ. 3/30/06 @ '06 Mumia Abu Jamal

The name Hasan Shakur is not a familiar one.
It doesn't yet ring any bells beyond the small circle of people to 
whom he has pledged his loyalty, nor even to those who plan to take 
his very life within a month.
He was born Derrick Frazier, and his life, like that of millions of 
others, was one of loss, of alienation, of every day being pretty 
much like the day that came before.
His life was one of poverty, bordered by ignorance, bracketed by want.
While still a child, his mother, at the ripe old age of 40, succumed 
to the ravages of a crack cocaine addiction, and left him to ferret 
out life's changing puzzles in the mean streets.
His life led him to Texas, and Texas led him to the ultimate Black 
ghetto--Death Row.
Unless his new -found supporters can ring the bell, the State of 
Texas plans to lynch him on April 27, 2006!
Hasan Shakur, like so many others in Texas and across the land, came 
to Death Row with ease.
A false confession here; a false promise there; an incompetent 
'defense' lawyer--and voila!--Death Row becomes 'home.'
What is keeping Hasan's soul alive in his new-born faith--not in a 
religion--but in his people.
Hasan has joined the newly-formed New Afrikan Black Panther 
Party-Prison Chapter, based in Amerika's prisons, and in honor of his 
commitment in the face of death, the NABPP has named him its Minister 
of Human Rights.
Hasan, through his politicalization, has devoted his life to what the 
NABPP calls "Pantherism," or a fidelity to the Revolution as taught 
and practiced by the original Black Panther Party.
Unlike other recent formations, the NABPP studies the writings of 
Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, George Jackson, and other founding and 
leading members. The works of Malcolm X are important tools for 
understanding and addressing the challenges of today.
This is refreshing news indeed.
For Hasan, however, prison, and worse, Death Row, was the place, not 
just of his nightmarish repression, and possible death, but of his 
rebirth, his becoming a Revolutionary, who looks at the collective 
interests of his people, and all oppressed Peoples of the Earth.
When a Norwegian supporter wrote a letter stained with tears after 
learning of his date with death, Shakur replied, "Don't you know that 
I will never die?"
Being part of something greater than himself; being part of a 
revolutionary movement; being part of an historic struggle that has 
lasted since (at least) 1492, Hasan Shakur sees that as this Freedom 
Struggle survives, so does he.
Arrested with another man for the killing of a Texas rancher's wife 
and son, Shakur believed what he was told by the cops, who assured 
him that if he "confessed" he wouldn't be given the death penalty. 
Hasan was later saddled with a lawyer of such incompetence that he 
was later disbarred.
With no physical evidence tying him to the crimes (except his 
unreliable confession), Shakur's supporters and comrades are trying 
to get a stay of execution until truly cometent lawyers can mount a defense.
In a recent message from prison entitled, "A Liberated Soul," Shakur writes:
"As for myself, if it be the plan of the Creator - I will not be 
around much longer. My legal appeals have taken turns for the worse, 
and yet, the path of liberation continues to be my vocation, carving 
out a path for future revolutionaries to follow and carry the torch. 
I despise the class oppression that is the basis of the capitalist 
system and the racist national oppression that goes with it. [from 
Hasan Shakur, "A Liberated Soul," Right On! #2: Newsletter of the New 
Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter (Winter '05-'06), p. 8.

Hasan's supporters are sending letters to to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 
P.O. Box 12428, Austin, TX 78711, Ph. (512) 463-2000; or Fax: (512) 
463-1849. There is also an online petition at www.hasanshakur.com.
Neither Hasan Shakur, (nor Derrick Frazier) had a fair trial, or a 
fair chance to defend life. Support his struggle for life and dignity.
[Mumia Abu Jamal, a former Minister of Information in the Black 
Panther Party (BPP), is himself an innocent man on Death Row in 
Pennsylvania. His book WE WANT FREEDOM: A Life in the Black Panther 
Party, (Cambridge, MA, South End Press, 2004) tells the untold story 
of the lives of rank-and-file members of the BPP.] --- On Thu 03/30, 
Walidah Imarisha < walidahi at hotmail.com > wrote:
From: Walidah Imarisha [mailto: walidahi at hotmail.com]To: 
clarissa at riseup.net, tomw at iwon.com, hamdiya44 at hotmail.com, 
TimABCF at aol.com, tiye at riseup.netDate: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:07:40 
-0800Subject: RE: hasan petitioni think hamdiya is checking the email 
so you should call her clarissa...wWalidah 
Imarishawww.poetryoffthepage.comwww.livejournal.com/users/badsisFrom: 
"clarissa" To: "'Walidah Imarisha'" , ,, , Subject: hasan 
petitionDate: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:18:16 -0500I posted the internet 
petition for hasan. I used the hrc email address, sothat it could get 
administered from that address. I didn't realize thatmeans that to 
get the petition online someone has to get the email and clickon a 
link in it. if anyone has access to that email, please click the 
link.If we can't do it today, then I'll do a new petition tonight and 
use anemail I can get into. Sorry I wasn't more efficient about 
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