---------- From: Mark Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:41:51 -0500 Subject: [pttp] FW: These Voices will be Heard! > > > The Curtain of Silence > by C. Clark Kissinger > 12-26-00 > > It is illustrative how much the campaign to execute Muma Abu-Jamal is > carried forward on the wings of official censorship. The most recent > example is the attempt of the US Bureau of Prisons to prevent radio > journalist Noelle H from conducting a recorded interview with me. Ms. > Hanrahan, who is seeking to interview me for KPFA-FM in Berkeley, > California, has been told that she can do the interview, but Warden > Dennis Hasty is exercising his discretion to bar her from bringing > recording equipment into the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, > where I am currently a guest. > > Presumably Ms. Hanrahan is also free to photograph me, as long as she > doesn' t bring a camera along. > > This incident is yet another example of growing moves by prison > authorities cross the country to stifle the voices of the 2 million who > are behind bars. Noelle Hanrahan, and the Prison Radio Project, have > been at the forefront of the battle to allow these voices to be heard. > > More particularly, this is a reprise of the government's attempt to > censor the voice of Mumia. It was Noelle Hanrahan who first went into > Pennsylvania prisons to record Mumia's voice and make his audio > journalism available to millions. When Pennsylvania authorities cut off > Mumia's access to audio and video journalists, as punishment for > publishing his first book, Live from Death Row, Mumia took them into > federal court and won. The federal courts ruled that PA could not > single out Mumia for this kind of censorship. The Pennsylvania prison > system responded by changing its rules to prevent all Pennsylvania > prisoners from being recorded. > > People everywhere must speak out against the wall of silence that > official are seeking to build around America's two million prisoners. > CCK > > Note: Clark is still not receiving the volume of mail that we know has > been sent to him, nor getting access to money sent him which he can use > to make phone calls. Please let his office know what response you get > from contacting the following: > > Continue the phone calls for Clark's release, and for his access to mail > and > phone calls: > Warden Hasty: 718.840.4200; FAX 718-840-5005 > Unit Manager Lee Tatum ext. 5212 Unit: Cadre 2 South > US Marshal's office, Daniel Byrne: 718.254.6700 > US Attorney for the Eastern District, Loretta Lynch: 718.254.7000 > Judge Arnold C. Rapoport: 610.776.0369; fax, 610.776.0379 > Judge Bruce Kaufman: fax, 215.580.2281 > > Please keep writing to Clark: > Charles Clark Kissinger #53094-066 > Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center > 100 29th Street > Brooklyn NY 11232 > Phone CCK office 212-57-10962 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ============================================ > > Prison Radio challenges mass incarceration and racism by airing the voices > of men and women in prison. Our educational materials serve > as a catalyst for public activism. > > To subscribe to the Prison Radio Zap-email list, > send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, send a blank email > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In order to be on the mailing list, > send us a contribution of $25 or more. > > Prison Radio > P.O. Box 411074 > San Francisco, CA 94141 > www.prisonradio.org -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/0/_/22961/_/978042705/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Knowledge is Power! Elimination of the exploitation of man by man http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change Delivery Options: http://www.egroups.com/mygroups
