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<b><u>ONA MOVE AND LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA!!!<br>
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The International Concerned Family And Friends Of Mumia Abu Jamal finds
it necessary to issue this statement in the interest of justice and
fairness. We cannot look to the news media to tell people the truth
and we cannot look to racist hateful white politicians or weak-minded
intimidated black politicians to stand up for fairness, for justice,
uncompromisingly. We, the people, must do it for ourselves so
that’s what The ICFFMAJ has <u>been</u> doing and will <u>continue</u> to
do. Recently, the news media has made a big issue of the government
of Saint-Denis, in France, honoring Mumia Abu Jamal by naming a street
after him. The news media did not simply report on the event, they
fueled an anti-Mumia furor by deliberately replaying the lies and slanted
version of those hate-mongers known as the Fraternal Order Of Police
(FOP). Pam Africa, the coordinator of The ICFFMAJ, The Free Mumia
Coalition Of New York and the Ossining NY. N.A.A.C.P. called a press
conference on May 18<sup>th</sup> to present the position of those who
support Mumia and to present the statement of the mayor of Saint-Denis, a
statement that explains why they support Mumia, and why they named a
street after him. None of the news media, the very people who
<u>made</u> this situation a news issue, attended the press conference,
not one member of the media. That <u>one</u> example tells people
clearly who the news media is working for and completely dispels that
myth of objective journalism and fair reporting. If the media is
interested in getting information, getting the <u>facts</u>, why wouldn’t
they want to get the explanation from the mayor of Saint-Denis himself,
why wouldn’t they want to hear from people who were actually at the
street-naming ceremony, such as Pam Africa and others in attendance at
the presence conference. The fact is that the media is not
interested in the <u>truth</u> or getting information, the media only
says what the government wants it to say. That was made perfectly clear
and underscored when the FOP along with Representatives Allison Schwartz
and Michael Fitzpatrick called a press conference on May 22<sup>nd</sup>
and all the media came out and reported everything these idiots had to
say. Michael Fitzpatrick announced that he had
introduced legislation #407 demanding that the government of Saint-Denis
change the name of the street they named after Mumia, and if they should
refuse, then the national government of France should step in and change
the name. With all of the <u>serious</u> issues facing the people of this
country today (the war, gas prices, fuel oil prices, missing children,
etc), people should be outraged that these fools are focusing their
attention on telling people in <u>France</u> what they can and cannot
name their streets, who they can and cannot honor, as if U.S. officials
have any right to do such things, especially when they should be
concentrating on the problems people have right here in the U.S. It
was also reported that there was a call for a boycott of French products
(such as French wines, etc.) at this press conference. Nobody is
gonna pay attention to this weak, impotent nonsense. People didn’t
go along with it when officials called for the same thing when France
wouldn’t endorse America’s war against Iraq. This is just another
example of the arrogance and superiority of these American fools because
if American officials decided to do something that some foreign
government didn’t like, American officials would tell the foreign
government to mind their own business and they would proceed to do what
they want to do, but now they want to dictate to French officials what
they can and cannot do. When the U.S. wanted to go to war against
Iraq, the French government would not go along them and the U.S. ignored
France (and <u>other</u> countries) and went to war anyway. The
U.S. didn’t listen to France so how can U.S. officials justify getting
irate when France won’t listen to <u>them</u>. U.S. officials try
to create the impression that these are confused foreigners that don’t
know the facts, but that’s a lie. These people have investigated
and studied the facts of Mumia’s case: They know Mumia’s case,
thoroughly. The FOP also tried to stir up an anti-Mumia sentiment
by saying that the naming of the street after Mumia (a “convicted
cop-killer”) was done at the same time that they were mourning the death
of another cop, Gary Skerski, and that it was a slap in the face.
This is a deliberate lie because the government of Saint-Denis made the
decision to honor Mumia with this street-naming <u>long</u> before the
recent death of Skerski and the street-naming ceremony was on April
29<sup>th</sup>, which is also before the death of this cop. In
fact, this decision was made while France was being considered for the
upcoming Olympic games, it was done with full knowledge that it could
cost them the Olympics, but they refused to play politics with Mumia’s
life and decided to honor Mumia anyway, to call attention to Mumia’s
case. Furthermore, we want to point out that there was no mention
of any “slap in the face” when there was a proposal by Janie Blackwell to
name May 13<sup>th (</sup>the day the cops bombed and burned innocent
people alive) as “kiss a cop” day. That’s a definite slap in the
face of poor people, especially black people. The point being made
here is that Mumia is innocent and there are too many unresolved
questions not to give any fair-minded person pause and doubts about Mumia
being guilty. The ICFFMAJ, The MOVE Organization, Mumia support
groups and people around the world will not stand by in silent
frustration and allow this government to murder yet another innocent
man.<br>
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The International Concerned Family And Friends Of Mumia Abu Jamal<br>
P.O. Box 19709 Phila., PA. 19143 215 476-8812
<a href="mailto:icffmaj@aol.com">icffmaj@aol.com</a>
<a href="http://www.mumia.org/" eudora="autourl">www.mumia.org</a>
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