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Mumia Abu Jamal Update
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Submitted by Leah on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 7:31pm.
On Friday, December 19, 2008 Mumia filed his appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking it to consider his case for a new GUILT PHASE trial. That would mean a new trial that could lead to Mumia's release, rather than simply a SENTENCE trial that could only lead to life in prison or execution.
Last month, the Philadelphia District Attorney filed its appeal to have Mumia executed without even a new sentencing phase trial where he might be sentenced to life in prison.
The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
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Solidarity Actions
Venezuela: http://phillyimc.org/en/braulio-alvarez-statement-mumia-member-venezuela...
Austria: http://phillyimc.org/en/report-viennese-events-solidarity-mumia-abu-jama...
Hamburg, Germany: http://phillyimc.org/en/over-500-march-hamburg-germany-mumia-and-everyon...
England: http://phillyimc.org/en/british-parliamentary-showing-prison-my-whole-li...
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Update on the Greek Uprising
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Submitted by Leah on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 7:30pm.
Update on the Greek Uprising
An interview...
December 24, 2008 By Nikos Raptis
and Chris Spannos
Simmering social and material tensions in Greece were detonated by the police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Gregoropoulos earlier this month on December 6th. The past three weeks have seen daily and nightly tumultuous clashes between those rising up and the Greek state. Demonstrations, protests, barricades, and riots have rocked the streets. TV stations, universities, high schools, workplaces, and city halls---overall hundreds of institutions---have been occupied.
Last Saturday was an international day of solidarity with the Greek uprising. Labor and student demonstrations are scheduled to continue early in the new-year.
Nikos Raptis is a resident of Athens and also a long-time contributor to Z, which happens to be named for the Costa-Gavras film, also titled Z, that is about resistance and repression in post-war Greece. Raptis's article, "Greek Teenagers," provides background to the uprising. Z collective member Chris Spannos interviewed Nikos for an update on the current status of the revolt. The interview took place between December 17-23.
The Greek Populace
Chris: First, moving into the third week of rebellion, can you give an overview of events this week and into the foreseeable future? What is the mood of those protesting and of broader society more generally?
Nikos: Chris, allow me, before we go ahead with the interview, to make a few comments on the mood that I [or any other person] find myself in these days. For example, in the morning of December 18 I read in the news:
First: In the New York Times of December 17 we read: "Jose and his brother Romel [two Ecuadorian immigrants] appear to have been misidentified as gay as they walked home, arms around each other, on a predawn morning in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Romel managed to escape the three men who emerged from a passing car wielding a baseball bat and shouting anti-gay and anti-Latino epithets.
Jose was struck on the head with a bottle, then kicked and beaten into unconsciousness... and expired last Friday night, one day before his mother, who was traveling from Ecuador, could reach him".
Second: In today's Greek press we read: Alexis Gregoropoulos, the 15-year-old Greek, was murdered by a Greek policeman on December 6. Yesterday, 12 days after the murder of Alexis, around 11 am, a group of about 10 high school kids, members of the Coordinating Committee of their school, were assembled at an open public space at Peristeri [a rather downgraded part of Athens] discussing the program for the demonstrations of the next day. A shot was fired from some distance and a 17-year-old kid was hit on the palm of his right hand. The kid was operated upon this morning and a 38-caliber revolver bullet was extracted. According to the other kids a second shot was fired 10 minutes later from a closer distance.
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20039
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Submitted by Leah on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 7:31pm.
On Friday, December 19, 2008 Mumia filed his appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking it to consider his case for a new GUILT PHASE trial. That would mean a new trial that could lead to Mumia's release, rather than simply a SENTENCE trial that could only lead to life in prison or execution.
Last month, the Philadelphia District Attorney filed its appeal to have Mumia executed without even a new sentencing phase trial where he might be sentenced to life in prison.
The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
--------------------------------
Solidarity Actions
Venezuela: http://phillyimc.org/en/braulio-alvarez-statement-mumia-member-venezuela...
Austria: http://phillyimc.org/en/report-viennese-events-solidarity-mumia-abu-jama...
Hamburg, Germany: http://phillyimc.org/en/over-500-march-hamburg-germany-mumia-and-everyon...
England: http://phillyimc.org/en/british-parliamentary-showing-prison-my-whole-li...
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Update on the Greek Uprising
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Submitted by Leah on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 7:30pm.
Update on the Greek Uprising
An interview...
December 24, 2008 By Nikos Raptis
and Chris Spannos
Simmering social and material tensions in Greece were detonated by the police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Gregoropoulos earlier this month on December 6th. The past three weeks have seen daily and nightly tumultuous clashes between those rising up and the Greek state. Demonstrations, protests, barricades, and riots have rocked the streets. TV stations, universities, high schools, workplaces, and city halls---overall hundreds of institutions---have been occupied.
Last Saturday was an international day of solidarity with the Greek uprising. Labor and student demonstrations are scheduled to continue early in the new-year.
Nikos Raptis is a resident of Athens and also a long-time contributor to Z, which happens to be named for the Costa-Gavras film, also titled Z, that is about resistance and repression in post-war Greece. Raptis's article, "Greek Teenagers," provides background to the uprising. Z collective member Chris Spannos interviewed Nikos for an update on the current status of the revolt. The interview took place between December 17-23.
The Greek Populace
Chris: First, moving into the third week of rebellion, can you give an overview of events this week and into the foreseeable future? What is the mood of those protesting and of broader society more generally?
Nikos: Chris, allow me, before we go ahead with the interview, to make a few comments on the mood that I [or any other person] find myself in these days. For example, in the morning of December 18 I read in the news:
First: In the New York Times of December 17 we read: "Jose and his brother Romel [two Ecuadorian immigrants] appear to have been misidentified as gay as they walked home, arms around each other, on a predawn morning in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Romel managed to escape the three men who emerged from a passing car wielding a baseball bat and shouting anti-gay and anti-Latino epithets.
Jose was struck on the head with a bottle, then kicked and beaten into unconsciousness... and expired last Friday night, one day before his mother, who was traveling from Ecuador, could reach him".
Second: In today's Greek press we read: Alexis Gregoropoulos, the 15-year-old Greek, was murdered by a Greek policeman on December 6. Yesterday, 12 days after the murder of Alexis, around 11 am, a group of about 10 high school kids, members of the Coordinating Committee of their school, were assembled at an open public space at Peristeri [a rather downgraded part of Athens] discussing the program for the demonstrations of the next day. A shot was fired from some distance and a 17-year-old kid was hit on the palm of his right hand. The kid was operated upon this morning and a 38-caliber revolver bullet was extracted. According to the other kids a second shot was fired 10 minutes later from a closer distance.
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20039
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