Mumia MemeNode

The case of Mumia Abu Jamal is a pivotal area of meme activity for this campaign.


When Democracy Isn't Democracy
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Partial repost:

Now, i don't know how many of you have followed the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, or even if y'all know who the man is. I have no idea if you know about MOVE, or what to think about John Africa, or what indeed to tell you about the events of Dec 9, 1981. I remember reading very unsatisfying reports when the major events went down, and thinking "hmmmm. WTF?"
After re-researching this week, i have no clearer grasp. It's virtually impossible to get a clear picture on events so obviously mired in bias by all concerned. Mumia's politics, however, are informed by the same monopoly capital model of political economic historiography that i hold oh so dear, thus making us compatriots. Easy for me to say; this white man is safely ensconced in a condo, far from prison walls.
So why do i believe Mumia's story instead of the Philidelphia prosecution's?
Occam's razor.
Look, the confluence of events on Dec 9, 1981 led to a cop pulling Mumia's brother over and forcibly arresting him at a time and place where Mumia was driving (or waiting) in his cab. Niether side attempts to claim this as coincidence; the prosecution maintains that this was a "Black-Panther style ambush" whilst the defence claims it was a police frame-up. The chances of it being coincidence given Philly's size are pretty astronomical, thus it most probably was indeed planned. Why would Mumia and kin face certain imprisonment at the least for the execution of a cop-killing in plain sight? No idea. Why would the cops orchestrate a capital frame-up of a political agitant? Many possible reasons spring to mind, even more if we add in the alleged testimony of a hit-man who has come forward to take the blame for shooting Officer Faulkner because of the later's refusal to take part in a corrupt gambit being run by the cops.
I encourage one and all to seek your own answers. Reading some of the more conservative takes on the whole wormcan helped settle me on the issue; although i was pretty well settled in 1985. Dropping a firebomb on a house isn't policework.
It's murder.
Free Mumia Abu Jamal.


Assata Shakur
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The above two videos are the creations of Suryu, aka ThierSpace user Ismael.

Here's a list of my ThierSpace entries that have Mumia Abu Jamal video.

Mumia Sundai ***
Mumia Mondai ***
Majority Rules ***
Midnight ***
3 Empiricisms ***
Background Noise ***
War Words ***
Philidelphia Story ***
An Announcement

Here's a beathappening from my freind and neighbor, Jah Breeze.


DEMOCRACY

Babylon haffa free up
Mumia Abdul Jamaal.
The system dem a downpress
our prophets and voices of liberation
While we stand aside and abide
Free up, Jah Cure, unno please
listen to the voice of the poor.

Babylon have to free up
H. Rap Brown from the downpression...
How ironic, Mumia and H. Rap
falling in the same trap.
How ironic they are both charged
with the same crime....tragic
They are both journalists and public speakers
able to persaude massive audiences
to the one universal truth which
submerges from a market place of ideas

That's why we call it ideas,
It from I&I days, working for little pay
Only this time I will have my say

Democracy means equal rights and
justice, without hypocracy.
I know Jah will solve this irony,
which have been disturbing world harmony.

AMERICA, the land of the free
God, shines its grace on Thee,
But, can Jah still save a wretch like HE

What about Democracy?
Equal rights and justice without hypocracy,
Please Jah Jah help me
Solve this Tragedy

©1997 Jah Breeze


Anti-American or Anti-Imperialist
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I suggest all look into the life and words of Mumia Abu Jamal, the Mandela of Amerikkka.