[Ppnews] Updated Letter and Calls to Eric Holder for Mumia

Thu Jan 28 11:00:39 EST 2010

Call Attorney General Eric Holder Now!  Demand a Civil Rights Investigation!!!

The January 19, 2010 the Supreme Court Action of Sending  Mumia's 
Case Back to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Brings Mumia Closer to 
Execution Unless We Act Now!

U.S. Department of Justice Main Switchboard  202-514-2000
Public Comment Line 202-353-1555
U.S. Department of Justice E-Mail 
Address  <mailto:webmaster at usdoj.gov>webmaster at usdoj.gov

We are continuing and escalating the Campaign for a Civil Rights 
Investigation to challenge the entire conspiracy to kill yet another 
Black revolutionary leader.  As many of you have learned over the 
years, this conspiracy even precedes 1981 when the incident which led 
to Mumia's incarceration, conviction, and death sentence 
occurred.  The FBI began its surveillance and targeting of Mumia when 
he was only 15 years old.  At that time, Mumia had demonstrated 
against George Wallace, the arch-racist Alabama governor who played a 
strategic role in fighting the Civil Rights Movement in the 
South.  We demand a civil rights investigation into the 28 plus years 
of violations of Mumia's rights in the court system, but also into 
that history of surveillance and targeting of Mumia when he was only 
a teenager.  Mumia was part of the counterintelligence program that 
the infamous FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, initiated to "neutralize" 
potential Black leaders.

We urge people to continue to sign onto the petition on our website 
<http://www.freemumia.com/>www.freemumia.com,  or to download the 
letter which will follow and mail it to the address at the bottom, 
and now contact Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, DC, by 
telephone and let him know that such an investigation is essential 
given that the courts all the way to the US Supreme Court have failed 
to provide any justice for Mumia.

For years we heard that the federal courts would overturn an 
obviously biased Pennsylvania judicial process.  We have now seen the 
issue of racism in the trial and the state appeals process, as 
manifested both in the racial bias of the jury selection and  in the 
judge's statement, "I'm going to help them fry the Nigger" ignored 
and denied by the federal courts all the way to the Supreme 
Court.  And just recently, the Supreme Court even changed the 
standard for granting life in prison rather than execution (the Mills 
issue) in order to bring Mumia closer to execution.   Join the 
movement for justice for Mumia!  Call or e-mail the Justice 
Department immediately!  Sign the petition 
online  <http://www.freemumia.com/>www.freemumia.com or sign the 
letter below and mail it to the address on the bottom.  And now, CALL 
ERIC HOLDER.  LET'S FLOOD THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WITH CALLS DEMANDING 
A CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION.

Free Mumia and All Our Political Prisoners!  Abolish the Death 
Penalty!  Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex!

For more information on what you can do as part of the Campaign for a 
Civil Rights Investigation, leave your number on our hotline, 212 
330-8029, come to our weekly Friday 6:30 PM meetings at St. Mary's 
Church, 521 West 126th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam 
Avenue), ORGANIZE SUPPORT!

US Department of Justice
Washington, DC
January 2010

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

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RETURN TO:  FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL COALITION, PO BOX 16, COLLEGE 
STATION, NEW YORK, NY, 10030. For more 
info:  330-8029     <http://www.freemumia.com>www.freemumia.com

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P.O. Box 16, College Station, NY, NY 10030
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