Under 48 hours to go! Mobilise now: all out on 19 April!

Build the united-front demonstration initiated by the Partisan Defence Committee
(See the attached leaflet and PDC press release)

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

On Thursday, March 27, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding Mumia Abu-Jamal’s frame-up conviction. In turning down Mumia’s appeal for a new trial, the Court ordered a new sentencing hearing to decide whether he is again to be sentenced to die or condemned to the living death of life in prison.

The Court’s decision is another slap in the face to all opponents of racist injustice. Recalling the infamous Dred Scott decision, the Court has again declared that a fighter for black freedom like Mumia has no rights that the courts are bound to respect. A former Black Panther Party spokesman, MOVE supporter and renowned journalist, Mumia is an innocent man, framed up for his political beliefs. He should never have spent a day in prison. There must be mass protests, centered on the power of the working class, to demand his freedom now.

All out on 19 April!

Contact the PDC for more information: Tel: 020 7281 5504 E-mail:  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk Visit www.partisandefense.org regularly for updates on international protests and for regular updates, further endorsers and for information about the urgent international campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Partial list of endorsers at 15 April 2008 (visit:  http://www.partisandefense.org/events/index.html#endorsers for a full list)
Aberdeen Trades Union Council
African Liberation Support Campaign
(ALISC), London
Afrikan Liberation Day Organising
Committee, London
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241,
Chicago
A World to Win, London
Black Action Defense Committee Inc,
Toronto
Patricia Campbell, President, Independent
Workers Union (Ireland)*, Belfast
Dr Paul Mason, Cardiff Nexus Innocence
Project/No More Prisons, Cardiff, Wales
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, New
York City Chapter
Paul Moffat, Communication Workers
Union Eastern Region
Communication Workers Union Essex
Amal Branch
Congress of South African Trade
Unions — Western Cape, Cape Town,
South Africa
Day-Mer Turkish & Kurdish Community
Centre, London
Jim Deery, Chairperson, Greater New Lodge
Community Forum — North Belfast*
Gerry Downing, Committee Member,
TGWU/UNITE 1/296*
Professor Dr Heinrich Fink, Chairman,
VVN-BdA (Association of the Victims of
the Nazi Regime — Coalition of Antifascists)*,
Berlin
Dean O’Hanlon, Finsbury Park Branch,
National Union of Rail, Maritime and
Transport Workers
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
George Jackson Socialist League, London
Goldii, daughter of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Philadelphia
Jack Heyman, Executive Board member,
ILWU Local 10*, member, Labor Action
Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
San Francisco, California
Terry Hoad, President, Oxford UCU*
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal, Oakland, California
Marcus Garvey Organising Committee,
London
Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum,
London
Partisan Defence Committee
Fred Hampton Jr, Chairman, Prisoners of
Conscience Committee, Chicago
Matthew Ryder, Matrix Chambers*, London
Scottish Trades Union Congress
Smita Shah, Barrister, Garden Court
Chambers*, London
Spartacist League/Britain
Spartacus Youth Group
Toronto Forum on Cuba, Toronto, Canada
Margaret Valente, Community Development
Worker, Star Neighbourhood Centre*,
Belfast
Glenroy Watson, Chair, RMT Finsbury Park
Branch*
* Organisation listed for identification
purposes only

We want to make it very clear that endorsers and speakers at this protest initiated by the PDC under the slogans “Free Mumia now! Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent! Abolish the racist death penalty!” do not necessarily agree in any particular with the call for the protest printed on the reverse of the attached leaflet or any other publicity issued by the PDC for the protest.

The Partisan Defence Committee is a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defence organisation which champions cases and causes in the interest of the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance with the political views of the Spartacist League.