> WW News Service Digest #118 > > 1) Fw: Long live Shaka Sankofa/Gary Graham! > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This digest is sent to you because you are subscribed to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To switch to the non-digest, standard mode, E-mail to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Message-ID: <013d01bfdd35$74a8adc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [WW] Fw: Long live Shaka Sankofa/Gary Graham! >Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:07:04 -0400 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >TURN THE EXECUTION OF SHAKA SANKOFA (GARY GRAHAM) >INTO A SUMMER OF RESISTANCE > >What the execution of Shaka Sankofa (aka Gary Graham) shows is >what many have known all along: that this system is inherently racist, it >is incurably barbaric. This shows once again that capitalism has no >answer for working people or for young people. > >Rule by the rich ... and the death penalty for the poor. > >This so-called "democratic" system is ruled by the rich, the bankers and >the CEOs. It's democracy for the rich -- and the death penalty for the >poor. All this system has to offer is police, prisons and more racist >repression, politically and economically, for poor and working people >while rich white men determine the fate of poor people like Shaka >Sankofa. > >How many millionaires or billionaires do you know of that languish on >death row? Not a one. Prisons are concentration camps for the poor. > >Blacks and whites are murder victims of an equal rate but 82 percent of >all executions involve the murder of white people. Only six white >people have been executed for killing Blacks since 1977, the year the >death penalty was reinstated according to Amnesty International. The >U.S. executes more juveniles than any other industrialized country. > >The real criminals are hidden on Wall Street. > >They're riding around in chauffeured limousines and trading billions in >stocks while people are homeless outside their penthouse apartments. >They are the ones investing billions of dollars into building the >repressive prison industrial complex to help satisfy their greed for more >profits. These are the class interests that George Bush and Al Gore >truly represent. > >Working people need jobs, health care, child care and education. And >we're not going to get it from either of the big business candidates. >There's an election coming up so that we can "choose" who will >oppress us for the next four years. History has shown that >independent mass movements win social justice, not capitalist >elections. > >Build the movement against capitalism. > >What young people and working people really need is to build a >movement against this system -- against capitalism -- because it is >beyond reform. We need to build a different type of society based on >meeting the real needs of people instead of profit for a few millionaires >and billionaires. The execution of Shaka was an attempt to kill the >growing anti-death penalty movement but this atrocity will have the >opposite impact on the movement. The U.S. can no longer hide the >fact that it is the number one human rights violator in the world. > >Bush with the ruling class behind him can execute Shaka Sankofa, but >they can't kill his voice or his spirit. His heroic defiance and his >revolutionary example will continue to be an inspiration to our >movement. > >Long live Shaka Sankofa! > >Turn the execution of Shaka Sankofa into a summer and a lifetime of >united resistance. > >Death Row must go! > >Converge on the Republican and Democratic Conventions this summer >to say: >Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! >Fight back against police terror! >Shut down the prison-industrial complex! >End the racist death penalty! >Shut down capitalism! > >International Action Center >39 West 14th Street, Room 206 >New York, NY 10011 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: www.iacenter.org >CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org >phone: 212 633-6646 >fax: 212 633-2889 > > > __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
