>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >May 7th Day for Mumia at the Theater at Madison Square Garden >39 West 14 Street, Suite 206, New York, NY 10011 >(212) 633-6636 fax: (212) 633- 2889 >web: www.mumia2000.org >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >March 6, 2000 > >A DAY FOR MUMIA AT THE THEATER >AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN >SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2000 > >END THE DEATH PENALTY! >A NEW TRIAL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! > >On Sunday afternoon, May 7 at 2:00 PM, the stage of The Theater >at Madison Square Garden will be crowded with people like former >New York City Mayor David Dinkins, Johnnie Cochran, Ossie >Davis, Gloria Steinem, Susan Sarandon, Edward Asner, Reverend >Al Sharpton, Mike Farrell, Congressman John Conyers, Alice >Walker, Angela Davis, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey >Clark and many others from the arts and entertainment world, as >well as the world of politics and social activism. > >Joining the celebrities at “A Day for Mumia at the Theater at >Madison Square Garden” on May 7 will be thousands of people >from New York and across the country. > >The May 7 rally at this world famous address in the center of New >York City will be the largest indoor event to date organized to >oppose the death penalty and to call for a new trial for the most >renown prisoner on death row in the United States, the journalist >and political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal. > >Mr. Jamal, whose case is currently being appealed in Federal >District Court in Pennsylvania, has been on death row in >Pennsylvania for 18 years fighting for a new trial to prove his >innocence after a 1982 trial hastily convicted him of killing >Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. Not only was >Mr. Jamal’s original trial deeply flawed and the result of police and >prosecutorial misconduct, a mountain of new evidence now exists >that demands a new trial. The courts have yet to grant Mr. Jamal a >new trial and he is running out of opportunities to appeal. > >The injustices that could result in the unthinkable execution of Mr. >Jamal are not the exception but the norm in the courts and criminal >justice system. Newspapers like the New York Times and the >Chicago Tribune have done extensive series on systemic pitfalls that >compromise the rights to due process of the more than 3600 >prisoners on death row in the U.S. > >Revelations that the capital punishment system in Illinois almost put >to death 13 people later found to be wrongfully convicted has >compelled Illinois Governor George Ryan to become the first >governor to declare a moratorium on executions. Moratoriums on >the death penalty are being debated amongst lawmakers in several >of the 37 states that execute people including in the Pennsylvania >legislature. > >Still, a clear sign that the fight to end the death penalty faces a long >uphill battle is the fact that all of the major presidential candidates, >Al Gore, Bill Bradley, John McCain, and George Bush, as well as >President Clinton, remain staunch supporters of the death penalty. >Texas Governor Bush’s state leads the nation in putting people to >death. > >To make matters worse, in 1996 President Clinton signed in to law >the “Effective Death Penalty Act” as part of the “Anti-Terrorism >Bill.” This unfortunate legislation severely limits the ability of >condemned prisoners to appeal their cases in the federal courts thus >speeding up the execution machine. > >“A Day for Mumia at the Theater at Madison Square Garden” is >part of a national effort to give expression to the growing movement >to end the injustices that send people like Mumia Abu-Jamal to >death row without a fair trial, and to abolish the death penalty. As >we enter the 21st century we cannot allow justice to continue to slip >into the dark ages. > >Tickets for “A Day for Mumia at the Theater at Madison Square >Garden” range from $15 to $500. Special group rates are available. > >For information contact “The May 7th Day for Mumia Mobilization” >the sponsor of this event, at (212) 633-6646. > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
