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Friday, June 06, 2008
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MUMIA ABU-JAMAL IS AN AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST WHO CHRONICLES THE HUMAN CONDITION. HE HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA'S DEATH ROW FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. WRITING FROM HIS SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELL HIS ESSAYS HAVE REACHED A WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE. HIS BOOKS "LIVE FROM DEATH ROW", "DEATH BLOSSOMS", "ALL THINGS CENSORED", "FAITH OF OUR FATHERS" AND THE RECENTLY RELEASED "WE WANT FREEDOM" HAVE SOLD OVER 150,000 COPIES AND BEEN TRANSLATED INTO NINE LANGUAGES. HIS 1982-MURDER TRIAL AND SUBSEQUENT CONVICTION HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECT OF GREAT DEBATE AS HE DIDN'T RECIEVE A FAIR TRIAL...link to Mumia support tools: Millions4Mumia.org
Article by Hans Bennett, Abu-Jamal-News.com Outraged by the March 27 denial of a new guilt-phase trial for Mumia, 500-1,000 people gathered at the Federal Courthouse, circled the Liberty Bell, and marched to City Hall, where speakers included Cynthia McKinney, Julia Wright, and Harold Wilson. VIEW the PHOTOS and VIDEO, featuring an exclusive interview with Veronica Jones about her new book (also watch video of March 31 press conference). The Journalists for Mumia newspaper (see PDF) was released on April 19, and over 2,600 copies were passed out. Donations are needed. Police Coercion of Veronica Jones --Covering up the presence of another person at the Dec. 9, 1981 crime scene Veronica Jones' 1996 PCRA testimony exposed police coercion of witnesses and further discredited the 1982 testimony of the DA's star witness: prostitute Cynthia White (the only one to actually testify to seeing Abu-Jamal pull the trigger). The story begins on Dec.15, 1981 when Jones (a prostitute who was working nearby on Dec.9) first told police that she had seen two men “jogging” away from the crime scene before police arrived. Testifying in 1982, Jones recanted and denied ever making the statement. However, when asked if she had talked to the police since her first statement, Jones testified that police had visited her in jail the next month: “They were getting on me telling me I was in the area and I seen Mumia, you know, do it...They were trying to get me to say something that the other girl [Cynthia White] said. I couldn't do that.” Jones reported that police offered to let her and White “work the area if we tell them.” Read more "More FACTS, I, MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, declare..." Author's book confirms framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal Author Patrick J. O’Connor appeared at the Brecht Forum in New York City June 24 to promote his newly published book, “The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal.” Abu-Jamal, the world’s most prominent death row political prisoner, was falsely convicted of killing a white police officer in December 1981 in Philadelphia. Abu-Jamal has faced two death warrants and has been on Pennsylvania’s death row since July 1982. His lawyers are attempting to win him a new trial, through the appeals process, to allow suppressed evidence to come out to prove his innocence. O’Connor’s book brings to light a racist conspiracy by the Philadelphia police and the judicial system to silence Abu-Jamal’s voice because he has spoken out against police brutality and all forms of injustice. Appearing at the book signing with O’Connor were MOVE leader Ramona Africa and Pam Africa, national coordinator of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal.Arnold Beverly confessing to the murder of officer Daniel FaulknerDECLARATION OF ARNOLD BEVERLY powered by ODEO I, ARNOLD R. BEVERLY, state that the following facts are true and correct:
I was present when police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981 near the corner of Locust and 13th Streets. I have personal knowledge that Mumia Abu-Jamal did not shoot police officer Faulkner.
I was hired, along with another guy, and paid to shoot and kill Faulkner. I had heard that Faulkner was a problem for the mob and corrupt policemen because he interfered with the graft and payoffs made to allow illegal activity including prostitution, gambling, drugs without prosecution in the center city area.
Faulkner was shot in the back and then in the thee before Jamal came on the scene. Jamal had nothing to do with the shooting.
Before the shooting, I was shown a picture of Faulkner and told that Faulkner was supposed to check something at Johnny Os (at 13th and Locust) sometime in the early morning hours of December 9.
Two of us were hired for the shooting so that either of us could take the opportunity to make the hit, get the job done, and leave. The other guy gave me a .38 caliber policeman's special and I was also carrying my own .22 caliber revolver.
I waited at the speedline entrance at the north east of corner of Locust and 13th at the parking lot, I was wearing a green (camouflage) army jacket. The other guy waited on the south side of Locust street east of 13th Street towards Camac Street.
While I was waiting at the speedline entrance for Faulkner to arrive at the location, I saw police officers in the area. Two undercover policemen were standing on the west side of 13th north of Locust. Also a uniformed police officer was sitting in a car in the corner of the parking lot, They were there while the shooting of Faulkner took place. I was not worried about the police, being there since I believed that since I was hired by the mob to shoot and kill Faulkner, any police Officers on the scene would be there to help me.
After a while I saw Faulkner get out of a small police car parked behind a VW parked on Locust Street, east of 13th. Faulkner was alone. He got out of the police car end went up to the VW, I heard a shot ring out coming from east on Locust Street, Faulkner fell on his knee on the sidewalk next to the VW, I heard another shot and it must have grazed my left shoulder. I felt something hard on my left shoulder. I grabbed at my shoulder and got blood on my hand.
I ran across Locust Street and stood over Faulkner, who had fallen backwards on the sidewalk, I shot Faulkner in the face at close range. Jamal was shot shortly after that by a uniformed police officer who arrived on the scene.
Cop Cars came from all directions. Foot patrol also arrived. I saw a white shirt getting out of a car in the middle of the 13th & Locust intersection just as I was going down to the speedline Steps.
I left the area underground through the speedline system and by pro-arrangement met a police officer who assisted me, exited the speedline underground about three blocks away. A car was waiting for me and I left the center city area.
The foregoing is stated subject to the penalties of 15 Pa.C.S. Section 4904 relating to unsworn falsification to authorities.
ARNOLD E. BEVERLY
A19 Mumia Demo in Philadelphia
VIDEO: A19 Philly Mumia Demo, featuring Veronica Jones
Outraged by the March 27 denial of a new guilt-phase trial for Mumia, 500-1,000 people gathered at the Federal Courthouse, circled the Liberty Bell, and marched to City Hall, where speakers included Cynthia McKinney, Julia Wright, and Harold Wilson. VIEW the PHOTOS
"More FACTS, I, MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, declare..." Go to RBG Tube for More.. 
From Robert R. Bryan:
This Legal Update is made on behalf of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is on Pennsylvania’s death row.
United States_**_ Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, _**_Philadelphia_*
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, has granted my motion for a 14-day extension of time to file the Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing /En Banc/. It will be submitted on June 10.
The following is a related news story Posted on Wed., May.28, 2008* Abu-Jamal lawyers granted two-week extension
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit yesterday granted a two-week extension for lawyers for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to file a petition for a rehearing on his effort to get a new trial.
Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner and was sentenced to death. In late March, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit affirmed Abu-Jamal's conviction but vacated the death sentence. The court said Abu-Jamal should be sentenced to life in prison or get a chance to persuade a new Philadelphia jury that he deserves a life sentence rather than death.
Defense lawyer Robert R. Bryan of San Francisco intends to seek a rehearing before the court on his contention that Abu-Jamal deserves a new trial, or at least a hearing on his argument that some blacks were intentionally excluded from his jury. The court said the new filing deadline is June 10.
*- Emilie Lounsberry*
On March 27 the U.S. Court of Appeals court ordered a new jury trial on whether Mumia should be sentenced to life or death because of the trial judge’s unconstitutional jury instructions. Mumia remains on death row since the ruling has not taken effect and the prosecution has vowed to appeal and continue its quest to see him executed. It is always good when there is a determination that the death penalty was wrongfully imposed, especially where, as here, it could help other inmates sentenced to death. Yet, we are not pleased with the ruling because the court refused to reverse the conviction and order a new trial on the question of innocence. The indisputable facts are that the prosecutor engaged in racism to select the jury, made a misleading argument to the jury which turned the concept of reasonable doubt on its head, and the trial judge was biased.
The bright side of the federal decision is that Justice Thomas L. Ambro wrote a lengthy dissenting opinion on the issue of racism in jury selection. His first sentence set the tone: “Excluding even a single person from a jury because of race violates the Equal Protection Clause of our Constitution.” He concluded that the “core guarantee of equal protection, ensuring citizens that their State will not discriminate on account of race, would be meaningless were we to approve the exclusion of jurors on the basis of . . . race. . . . I respectfully dissent.” The words of Justice Ambro are a light in the darkness, a roadmap as to our effort to seek a rehearing before the full court.
*_United States_**_ Supreme Court_*
On separate issues arising directly from the state courts, recently I filed pleadings on behalf of Mumia in the U.S. Supreme Court. *Justice David H. Souter has granted my motion setting the filing date for the /certiorari /petition as **July 18, 2008**. This concerns issues *we litigated for three years in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that the prosecution falsely manipulated eyewitness testimony and used fabricated evidence. This has no bearing on the proceedings pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
*_Conclusion _*
My goal remains a new jury trial in which Mumia will be found "not guilty" so that he can return home to his family. The ongoing concern by so many people for human rights is appreciated. Mumia and I thank you.Yours very truly, Robert R. Bryan
Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, California 94123-4117
Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal RobertR
Bryan@aol.com ..
Text by Monica Moorehead
Published Jul 3, 2008 9:09 PM
From left to right: Patrick J. O'Connor,
Pam Africa and Ramona Africa. Photo: Fatima Mohamed
Posted on Wed, Jul. 23, 2008
Abu-Jamal loses latest appeal for new trial
By Emilie Lounsberry,
Inquirer Staff Writer
A federal appeals court yesterday refused to reconsider the decision denying a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal in the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
In a two-page decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Abu-Jamal's request for a rehearing of his appeal in the controversial case, which has helped fuel an international debate about the death penalty.
Abu-Jamal's lawyer, Robert R. Bryan of San Francisco, said he planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case.
In March, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit left intact Abu-Jamal's conviction but said a new jury should decide whether he deserved death or should be sentenced to life behind bars.
Deputy District Attorney Ronald E. Eisenberg said no decision had been made on whether his office would ask the high court to reinstate the death sentence.
Abu-Jamal and his lawyers contend that the panel should have ordered a hearing on their contention that prosecutors intentionally excluded blacks from his jury in violation of a later 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
They noted that one of the panel members, Judge Thomas Ambro, wanted a hearing held on that issue, though he was in the minority on that issue.
All three members of the panel, which also included Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica and Judge Robert E. Cowen, affirmed the December 2001 decision by U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr., who threw out the death sentence.
Yohn concluded that the jury might have been confused by the trial judge's instructions and wording on the verdict form filled out when the jury decided on death.
He found that the jury might have mistakenly believed it had to agree unanimously on any mitigating circumstances - factors that might have persuaded the jury to decide on a life sentence, rather than death.
Abu-Jamal, 54, has been on death row since his 1982 conviction in the killing of Faulkner, who was shot to death near 13th and Locust Streets early on Dec. 9, 1981.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence in 1989, and also rejected three other appeals.
Unless the nation's high court agrees to hear the case, Abu-Jamal most likely would face a new Philadelphia jury to decide only whether the penalty should be life or death. The high court hears only a tiny percentage of all petitions filed each year.
In a two-page decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Abu-Jamal's request for a rehearing of his appeal in the controversial case, which has helped fuel an international debate about the death penalty.
Abu-Jamal's lawyer, Robert R. Bryan of San Francisco, said he planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case.
In March, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit left intact Abu-Jamal's conviction but said a new jury should decide whether he deserved death or should be sentenced to life behind bars.
Deputy District Attorney Ronald E. Eisenberg said no decision had been made on whether his office would ask the high court to reinstate the death sentence.
Abu-Jamal and his lawyers contend that the panel should have ordered a hearing on their contention that prosecutors intentionally excluded blacks from his jury in violation of a later 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
They noted that one of the panel members, Judge Thomas Ambro, wanted a hearing held on that issue, though he was in the minority on that issue.
All three members of the panel, which also included Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica and Judge Robert E. Cowen, affirmed the December 2001 decision by U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr., who threw out the death sentence.
Yohn concluded that the jury might have been confused by the trial judge's instructions and wording on the verdict form filled out when the jury decided on death.
He found that the jury might have mistakenly believed it had to agree unanimously on any mitigating circumstances - factors that might have persuaded the jury to decide on a life sentence, rather than death.
Abu-Jamal, 54, has been on death row since his 1982 conviction in the killing of Faulkner, who was shot to death near 13th and Locust Streets early on Dec. 9, 1981.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence in 1989, and also rejected three other appeals.
Unless the nation's high court agrees to hear the case, Abu-Jamal most likely would face a new Philadelphia jury to decide only whether the penalty should be life or death. The high court hears only a tiny percentage of all petitions filed each year.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
"RBG: SDL (Self Directed Learning) Black Studies Outline for Advanced Learners"
RBG Street Scholar's Advanced Learners SDL (Self Directed Learning) Black Studies Outline: Including Online Overviews and Reading List. You will quickly notice that these authors, "RBGz Professors", and / or their works are presently the composition of the Audio-Visual content of our various curricula and lessons (see below). However, in pursuits of genuine Afrikan scholarship reading their texts is the most definitive teacher of the subject / topic. Also, this outline is an excellent organizing tool for those who are already familiar with and have navigated our communiversity's current advanced study and research link roll table.
Companion to this asset: Dr. Amiri Baraka On Dr. Du Bois's Double Consciousness Precept and moreSome Online Historical Overviews |
Please use this Afrikan Consciousness IQ Questionnaire as a pre-test, post text instrument for the above online reading component.
BlackConsciousness.com - (1) Questions - (IQ Test)
From Nubian Network's Worldwide Black Consciousness Online.
The answers can be found in the BN-W Resource Directory at BlackConsciousness.com Answers (IQ Test). The following books are suggested reading. At least two in each phase should be read and those in bold are considered classic reading material.
AFRICAN HISTORY
The first phase should be devoted to reading about the history of Africa. It should begin with the evolution of mankind and civilization, and extend through the colonial period.
| DeGraft Johnson | African Glory |
| W. E. B. DuBois | The World and Africa The Negro |
| John G. Jackson | Introduction to African Civilization |
| Chancellor Williams | The Destruction of Black Civilization |
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
The second phase consists of African American history. Preferable this phase should begin with West Africa and extend through the civil rights movement of the sixties.
| Lerone Bennett, Jr. | Before the Mayflower |
| John Hope Franklin | From Slavery to Freedom |
| Vincent Harding | There is a River |
| J. A. Rogers | Africa's Gift to America |
AFRICANS of the DIASPORA
The Americas
This area should cover the African descendants of the Caribbean, Latin and South America.
| Jacob Carruthers | The Irrated Genie |
| C. L. R. James | The Black Jacobins |
| Ivan Van Sertima | They Came Before Columbus |
Asia, Australia, Europe, etc.
This area should cover the Blacks throughout the world outside of Africa and The Americas. Although there several books in this area, the works of J. A. Rogers are among the most read and they provide a fairly good expose to the subject.
| J. A. Rogers | Nature Knows No Colorline From Superman to Man Sex and Race Volumes I, II, & III The Worlds Great Men of Color Volumes I & II |
| Ivan Van Sertima | The Golden Age of the Moors |
The above outline should give one a fairly good overview and understanding of Black history. From this vantage point one is able to read particular areas of interest. There are also material refered in the text and indexes of the material suggested that could provide direction for further study.
SPECIALTY AREAS
Ancient Egypt
There is a wealth of material in this area. For beginners the material listed below is suggested. There may be other references, depending on interest, that one may find in the material. The reader is encouraged to follow their interest at this point.
History
| J. A. Rogers | Nature Knows No Colorline From Superman to Man Sex and Race Volumes I, II, & III The Worlds Great Men of Color Volumes I & II |
| Ivan Van Sertima | The Golden Age of the Moors |
| Yosef Ben Jochanna | Black Man of the Nile |
| Martin Bernal | Black Athena Volume I & II |
| Cheik Anta Diop | African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality |
| George G. M. James | Stolen Legacy |
Philosophy & Spirituality
| E. A Wallis Budge | The Book of the Dead Osiris and the Egyptian Ressurection Volume I & II |
| Ra Un Nefer Amen | Metu Neter Volume I & II |
| Jacob H. Carruthers | Mdw Ntr |
| Isha Schwaller De Lubicz | Her-Bak Volume I & II |
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