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Subject: Mumia's Support of Hasan Shakur<br>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:37:44 -0700<br><br>
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peace yall,<br>
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.<br><br>
lovethrustruggle<br>
walidah<br><br>
Stop Hasan Shakur's Execution!<br>
<a href="http://www.hasanshakur.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.hasanshakur.com<br>
</a>
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/frazier/petition.html" eudora="autourl">
www.petitiononline.com/frazier/petition.html<br><br>
<br>
</a>No Place to be Reborn: The Awakening<br>
(Col. writ. 3/30/06 @ '06 Mumia Abu Jamal<br><br>
The name Hasan Shakur is not a familiar one.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
His life was one of poverty, bordered by ignorance, bracketed by
want.<br>
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.<br>
His life led him to Texas, and Texas led him to the ultimate Black
ghetto--Death Row.<br>
Unless his new -found supporters can ring the bell, the State of Texas
plans to lynch him on April 27, 2006!<br>
Hasan Shakur, like so many others in Texas and across the land, came to
Death Row with ease.<br>
A false confession here; a false promise there; an incompetent 'defense'
lawyer--and voila!--Death Row becomes 'home.'<br>
What is keeping Hasan's soul alive in his new-born faith--not in a
religion--but in his people.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
This is refreshing news indeed.<br>
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.<br>
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?"<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
In a recent message from prison entitled, "A Liberated Soul,"
Shakur writes:<br>
"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.<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.hasanshakur.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.hasanshakur.com</a>.<br>
Neither Hasan Shakur, (nor Derrick Frazier) had a fair trial, or a fair
chance to defend life. Support his struggle for life and dignity.<br>
[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@hotmail.com > wrote:<br>
From: Walidah Imarisha
[<a href="mailto:%20walidahi@hotmail.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:
walidahi@hotmail.com</a>]To: clarissa@riseup.net, tomw@iwon.com,
hamdiya44@hotmail.com, TimABCF@aol.com, tiye@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 thisclarissa--No virus
found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version:
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