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- Subject: [BRC-MUMIA] Educators for Mumia Ad
- From: "C. Clark Kissinger" <cck1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:43:15 -0500
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URGENT MEMO !
"EDUCATORS FOR MUMIA" NYTIMES AD NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!
>From Mark Taylor, Coordinator of the "Educators for Mumia" Ad Campaign.
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With Mumia Abu-Jamal facing the very important Federal decision
expected this Spring, citizens from all public sectors need to step
forward, through every media outlet possible, with the clarion call: "Stop
the Execution, Grant Mumia a new trial."
Your giving to the "Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal" full-page ad,
which is planned for The New York Times, has been steady and shows much
commitment. Thanks to all of you who have sent in your names and
donations, often in remembrance of students and friends who are imprisoned
or have been victims of police brutality. I am pleased to say all levels
of education - elementary, secondary, community, college, university and
professional schools - are represented.
We still have a long way to go! We do not yet have even half of
what is required for this full page ad. We need to get the ad out soon,
before Mumia goes into his Federal District court hearing in Philadelphia.
Before that time, as authorities now assess just how much the people care
about Mumia, we need to show that we are uncompromisingly outspoken and
acting on his behalf.
As the National Coordinating Committee for Mumia discussed it last
year, the educators' ad is a very important part of our struggle. Read
the text of the ad to see how the movement for Mumia focuses so many
issues crucial to work as educators. Educators teach, learn from, and
work with, the young people who ARE the next generation. Yoked to that
generation as we are, educators need to send a message that we will not
accept a future that hustles Mumia off to the death chamber as another of
the nearly 2 persons per week - predominantly Black, Brown and poor - that
State officials are now averaging as they implement the death penalty.
Send a message that says publicly, through The New York Times and in every
metropolis, that we do not accept a future without Mumia Abu-Jamal's life
and the courageous voice he has raised for so many of the rest of us.
Ponder "the Appeal" to sign issued by some of the greatest
educator/writers of our time: TONI MORRISON, NOAM CHOMSKY, ANGELA Y.
DAVIS, JONATHAN KOZOL, RUDOLFO ANAYA, LESLIE MARMON SILKO, CORNEL WEST,
FRANCES FOX PIVEN, MANNING MARABLE, SONIA SANCHEZ, JAMES H. CONE. You can
find their Appeal and the Text of the ad on the web site at
http://www.freemumia.org/EducatorsForMumia.html . All the information
is also there for you to make your contribution.
If you can print out this "Urgent Memo," along with the Appeal and
Text of the ad, do so and send it to your friends. Email them now, as you
can. If you supervise a web site, please post this Memo and the Appeal
and Text for readier access to all. If you are doing mailings to
organizations, please include this Urgent Memo as one insert. The minimum
contribution for printing your name in the ad is only $35.00, but if you
or people you know can make larger contributions, we do need their help.
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