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on D c� r 9, �981, the police tried to
�ecute � on the.str t. �is trial is a
result of their f ilure to do so."
Cit';":
oui• Davis
MiU Farrell
__ UJl).i& Abu-Ja1n&l,
stat .. ent to the JUrY sefore seing sentenced
AdVUO":
Adjoa A. Aiy.tolO
EdW.,d Asn.r
HarrY B lafont•
Daniel s-rriglJ/t, s.:
Julian Bond
HayWood Burns
.). L. Ch.stnut, Jr.
Ashanti Ch,murenga
Leigh Dingerson
e. L. Doctorow
curt Goe"ng
Whoopi Goldberg
Barbara Kopple
conrad Lynn
Raymond Martinez, Jr.'
David P. Richardson, Jr.
Sonia Sanchez
,,-,CY sutton
Pamela S. Tucker
Paul M. Washington
Haskell Wex/e'
Frank Wi/krn on
Howard Ijfln
Rev. PtlllrP Iwerllng
� African-�.rie n .�ard-�ioning journalist baS b en on
death ro� for o�er 11 y ars in peonSyl�ania and �ay soon be put
to death becaU e of hiS politiCal beliefS.
Let US tell yOU so� thing about the life of Mu&ia �u-J� 1.
AS a teenager li�ing in th gh ttO of North Philadelphia. �esley
cook took th s�ahili n� of Mu&ia fro� a high school .e�chan9
te eh r frO$ �enya. and h adopted �u_Ja=Al (father of Ja=Al1
�hen hiS son J.-al �aS oom a f � year later. At age 13 J.-al
as beat n and arr ted for protesting a pr sid ntial rallY for
Alaba=A go� mor G org �allac in the �hit racist b�stion of
. south Philly--hO$ of Mayor Frank �isso. He �ent on to b co�e a
founding �er and �inister of information of th Philadelphia
chapt r of the slack panther party·
�ising to beco�e a pro�inent radiO jOurnalist in the 1970S•
J�al bec�e kn0� as the ��oiee of the �oicelesS· because of hiS
deeply felt belief that po .... erlesS people deserved the right t?
ha�e their �ie""s e�pressed in the �edia. yor hiS outstanding
.... ork. Ja=Al received nu&erous honors and a .... ardS.·ae .... as voted
president of th ASSociation of 91 ck JOurnalistS in Philadelphia
in 1981• and � � honored hi� as one of itS
_people to .... atch• during that year.
Littl did Ja=Al realize .... hat that statement .... ould �ean to
the Phil delphia police Department. �t .... as Ja=Al'S hard-hitting
critiCis� of the Philad lphi polic and the �isZO administra­
tion that �ad hi� a man -to .... atch.· TYPical of hiS r fusal to
back off frO$ th facts .... a hiS r jection of �isso's � rsion of
th 1978 siege of the MOVE organisation' po .... lton village ho�e
bY �ore than 600 heavilY a�ed cops· sreaking .... ith hiS �edia col-
leagues. he had the_audacity to inter�ie .... MOve ��ers in their
jail c 11S. That effort led �o being fired fro� hiS broadcast �ob
and CQ�elled hi� to .... or.. he night shift as a cabdriver in or er
to support hiS f�i�Y'
Late on cold .... inter night in 1981 the Philadelphia po{ic6
found their targ t. JaJ4al .... as shot. beaten nd charged .... ith t.h"
�urd r of a polic offic r. He baS l .... ays � intained hiS iono-
.\
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cou"s·J: .
Leonard I. W.ingl•sS
Adtrtl,w·UafO,:
Fred Horstmann
Death r
Jamal' ,ow political
Panth�� fighting for hi�r:�onFer Mumta A II
Voicel • w 11_ nown e ormer Biar
senteness• MOVE sJournalist. "Voice 01 E
utter d��d to di for �r;oprtelitr - frarned co an
ance o. the 0 leal beliefs � ...
22-hour -d racist capitalist or p'
_ unci ay loe -'
to b er constant h raown• no 'con act" · '
light lro�,,::,n and be Sj�s'r Jnt lor rus re M
which ar eIllnd bars wrth hamal con Inues
country pubh hed in n IS b 1119 col"r-
out a In nd hi p flU:"''' pepers across•t
98 st racist InJUstiC:OIC t8peS rna (I!'1!
MUMIA .
MU ABU-JAMAL
ST NOT DIE'