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Mumia was railroaded through the courts and sentenced to death by a white judge who remained deaf to the cries of unfairness, as two witnesses of questionable motivation recited accounts of the incident that contradicted the reports of more reliable witnesses. The parallel to the Hurricane Carter fiasco is striking, almost as if it were the same people who set up and manipulated each situation.
In fact, Mumia had been on the FBI's hit list for years, having been a civil rights activist. It is hard to believe that anyone would not see the government's case against Mumia as anything but a sham. And yet, they shamelessly intend to proceed with the execution, as if it were planned this way all along and the magisterial puppets were merely going through their assigned roles, oblivious to the fact that they had no clothes on although everyone can see it.
If you read the piece by Mumia below, you will understand why the government wants this man dead.
A talented writer and mentor of the oppressed and underprivileged, Abu-Jamal Mumia awaits execution on Death Row, having been unfairly convicted and having had his appeals for a fair trial dismissed out of hand. Mumia was found lying on a street, shot with a bullet from a policeman who had been shot dead. Witnesses saw a third man leaving the scene but he was neither pursued nor caught. No gun was found in Mumia's hand and there was no evidence to show that he had recently fired a gun. A gun was found in his car, but this is common in America. No ballistics tests linked the gun to the crime.
I think that we must pay strict attention to the Seattle experience. On the front lines of the popular rebellion against the WTO, this anti-globalist fervor showed the common interests of students, of anti-imperialists, of human rights activists, and labor. What the movement demonstrated is the power of mass mobilization -- and the ability of the people to derail something that was previously seen and feared as inevitable: the globalist domination of Western capital.
What mass humanist movements teach us all is that nothing is inevitable. That the power of the people can indeed build obstacles to the selfish interests of the rich. And that globalism can and indeed must be opposed by forms of globalist resistance. That nationalities are usually false illusions and that what we have in common, humanity, crosses national borders.
Globalism as a form of imperial economic domination knows no borders. When you look at vast multi-national corporations, like Mobil, or Exxon, or General Motors, these aren't American corporations anymore. They are global entities that may have been formed in the U.S. or created or even born, but may have outgrown the cradle and operate in a plethora of languages, using many various currencies, on most continents.
They fund government repression and environmental degradation and devastation in Nigeria, industrial pollution in Russia, and political corruption in Peru. They are masters of governments, not citizens. Let us learn from them and build global networks of resistance -- global resistance units -- that speak in all tongues, and build on all fronts.
For the future of the globe will belong to the people, or will be a lifeless poisoned sponge for the privileged few. There is no other alternative. Let us learn how to grow, how to expand, and then how to win.
On a move, Long Live John Africa
Your Brother Mumia
These commentaries were recorded on Prison Raido by Noelle Hanrahan. Other Mumia Abu-Jamal commentaries are available at www.prisonradio.org
(5.2MB) "Another Side Of Black History"
(2.1MB) "Hiphop Or Homeland Security"
(267 KB) "Short Question For Mumia: Why Do You Write?"
(3.6 MB) "What The Rest Of The World Thinks" short version
(4.8 MB) "What The Rest Of The World Thinks" long version
(3.1 MB) "The War Behind The War" short version
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