[Ppnews] Mumia Support Letters to Eric Holder

[Political Prisoner News]

REMINDER

YOU HAVE LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT TO GET  LETTERS SIGNED FOR 
MUMIA.  YOU CAN USE THE ATTACHED LETTER AND XEROX IT FOR MORE 
COPIES.  PLEASE GET THEM SENT TO ARRIVE AT OUR PO BOX BY TUESDAY, NOV 
10, OR DELIVER THEM AT  ST. MARY'S CHURCH (DATES, TIMES, & ADDRESS 
LISTED BELOW)

FOR MAILING THEM TO US: FMAJC, PO BOX 16, COLLEGE STATION, NEW YORK, NY 10030

We will be delivering letters to Eric Holder at the Department of 
Justice on Thursday, November 12.  In order for us to have them 
properly prepared for our early, early morning departure from NYC on 
that day, we must have them at our PO box by Tuesday, November the 
10th.  You can also deliver them to us either this coming Friday 
night, October 30th from 6 PM to 9 PM at St. Mary's Church, 521 West 
126th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue (opposite a police 
station), or the following week, Friday night, November 6th, again 
from 6PM to 9PM, at St. Mary's.

SAMPLE LETTER

US Department of Justice
Washington, DC
April 2009

To Eric Holder, US Attorney General:

We write to you with a sense of grave concern and outrage about the 
US Supreme Court's denial of a hearing to Mumia Abu-Jamal on the 
issue of racial bias in jury selection, that is, the "Batson issue". 
Inasmuch as there is no other court to which Abu-Jamal can appeal for 
justice, we turn to you for remedy of a 27- year history of gross 
violations of US constitutional law and international standards of 
justice as documented by Amnesty International and many other legal 
groups around the world.

We call on you and the Justice Department to immediately commence a 
civil rights investigation to examine the many examples of egregious 
and racist prosecutorial and judicial misconduct dating back to the 
original trial in 1982 and continuing through to the current inaction 
of the US Supreme Court. The statute of limitations should not be a 
factor in this case as there is very strong evidence of an ongoing 
conspiracy to deny Abu-Jamal his constitutional rights.

We are aware of the many differences that exist between the case of 
former Senator Ted Stevens and Mumia Abu-Jamal.  Still, we note with 
great interest the actions you have taken with regard to Senator 
Stevens' conviction to assure that he not be denied his 
constitutional rights.  You were specifically outraged by the fact 
that the prosecution withheld information critical to the defense's 
argument for acquittal, a violation clearly committed by the 
prosecution in Abu-Jamal's case.  Mumia Abu-Jamal, though not a US 
senator of great wealth and power, is a Black man revered around the 
world for his courage, clarity, and commitment and deserves no less 
than Senator Stevens.

Cordially,

NAME                                                ADDRESS 
                                        E-MAIL


________________________________________________________________________


PLEASE RETURN TO:  FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, PO BOX 16, COLLEGE 
STATION,  NEW YORK, NY, 10030,  (212) 
330-8029     www.freemumia.com 







Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

www.Freedomarchives.org  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/ppnews_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20091030/035ec0db/attachment.html>