[PEN-L:555] NY Times Ad for Mumia, Friday, October 16th

[Paul Zarembka <zarembka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Below is a message I have received that the Mumia support ad
appeared in the New York Times yesterday.

Below that I include the resolution in support of a retrail for Mumia
which passed the UUP Delegate Assembly--the faculty and professional
staff union of SUNY.

In Solidarity, Paul Zarembka   "An injury to one is an injury to all"

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:09:08 EDT
From: Mumia@xxxxxxx
Subject: NY Times Ad is in today Friday, October 16th

The Mumia Abu-Jamal New York Times ad is running today, Friday, October 16th.

Please pick it up - it is running nationwide!

reprints will be available soon - prices etc will be posted on the website and
sent to this list.

Ona MOVE

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RESOLUTION FOR ACTION IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICE FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL

[Passed by the Delegate Assembly of UUP, October 3, 1998.]

WHEREAS: Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award winning radio journalist, former Black
Panther Party member, community activist who campaigned against police
brutality in Philadelphia, and supporter of MOVE, an African American
organization whose members were bombed by the Philadelphia Police
Department, currently sits on death row in the state of Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS: Supporters of Mr. Abu-Jamal have long claimed racial and political
bias in Mr. Abu-Jamal's original trial and sentencing; and

WHEREAS: Apart from Mr. Abu-Jamal's supporters, neutral jurists and human
rights observers have stated that the proceedings were so tainted by police
and judicial misconduct that whether or nor Mr. Abu-Jamal actually committed
the murder is impossible to determine without a new trial; and

WHEREAS: Mr. Abu-Jamal's appeal is presently awaiting a decision by the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which could order a new trial, could free Mr.
Abu-Jamal, or could move quickly toward execution; and

WHEREAS: Article II of the United University Professions (UUP) Constitution
states that its purpose, in part, is to "defend the civil, professional, and
human rights of those it represents"; and

WHEREAS: UUP has taken stands on issues that affect the human rights of
others (e.g., Polish Solidarity and apartheid in South Africa), on the
grounds that we cannot let the human rights of others be trampled without
undermining our own rights; and

WHEREAS: The core mission the university, and the faculty and staff who work
within it, is the advancement of knowledge and the unfettered pursuit of
truth;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT: UUP calls for a retrial of Mr. Abu-Jamal, in
which all available evidence will be considered in an effort to reach a
judgment that is fair and just; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: UUP shall announce to its members and the press
its adoption of this resolution, shall encourage and support the adoption of
this resolution by any local, state, regional, national or international
labor organizations to which it belongs or is affiliated, and shall take any
other action that it deems necessary to secure justice for Mr. Abu-Jamal.

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