Toronto - Emergency Rally to Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Date: November 9
Time: 6-7:30pm EST
Location: US consulate (360 University Ave., Toronto ON)
Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
On November 9, the U.S. Third Circuit Court in Philadelphia will hear oral arguments concerning whether Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black journalist and political prisoner who has been on death row for 28 years, should be executed or given a new sentencing trial. If the court rules against Mumia he could soon be executed. According to lead attorney, Robert R. Bryan, Mumia is now “in the greatest danger since his 1981 arrest.”
In 2001, U.S. District Court Judge William Yohn ruled that before Mumia could be executed there must first be a new sentencing-phase jury trial where new evidence could be presented. This 2001 ruling was affirmed by the U.S. Third Circuit in 2008, but in January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated that ruling and sent the case back to the Third Circuit for reconsideration.
Mountains of evidence, including witness recantations, a confession from the actual killer and photographic evidence of the crime scene, proves Mumia’s innocence. Yet state and federal courts have slammed the door on this outspoken opponent of war, racism, police brutality and corruption. We have to stop them! Mumia must be freed!
Tuesday, November 9th, 6 pm
U.S. Consulate—- 360 University Avenue (between Dundas and Queen)
Free Mumia! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!
Endorsed by: Anarchist Black Cross, Angola 3 Support Committee,
BASICS Community News Service, Black Action Defense Committee, Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (Toronto Local), CHRY 105.5 FM York University, Common Cause, Community Justice Coalition, Community Solidarity Network, CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group, Educators for Peace & Justice, Esplanade Community Group, Fightback, Ginger Project, Independent Jewish Voices (Toronto), International Bolshevik Tendency, NDP Socialist Caucus, OCAP, OPIRG (UofT), OPIRG (York), Revolutionary Women’s Collective, Sense of Security (Guelph), Socialist Action, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Project, The Spot Collective (K-W), Third World First, Toronto Forum on Cuba, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Upping the Anti
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The G8/G20 meetings took place in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people organized a peoples convergence with 40,000 people taking to the streets, standing up for justice in collaboration and solidarity!
Activists, community members, inspired and outraged individuals came together as a movement to demand justice for people and the planet. Over a week of mobilizations, events, workshops and direct actions took place in the face of state and police repression, violence and infringements on rights and freedoms.
We must continue to mobilize and build greater solidarity among our communities- an important part of this is supporting all those arrested during the G20 summit, including our allies still in detention, and those released on bail.