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...even wrote a poem about it. Here goes: Roses are red/violets are blue/poverty sucks/free Mumia...
...your support for justice at Harvard." Was it a party or a protest? Even after stopping to listen to part of the rally, one thirty something woman turned to me and asked, "What is this about?" I half expected someone to step up to the mike and cry, "Free Mumia...
Although the article concerns the case of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania, the real argument here is about the death penalty. The phrase "Mumia should fry" illustrates unadulterated, bloodthirsty vengeance, based on the Old Testament...
...Mumia Abu Jamal's case specifically, the police never tested his gun to see if it was fired. The prosecution witnesses have since come forward to testify that they were threatened and coerced by the police. Like the vast majority of other death row inmates, Jamal's state-appointed defense counsel was so incompetent that he has admitted that he failed Jamal and has testified to his many mistakes, including not interviewing witnesses until the day the trial began...
...money for and awareness about human-rights issues in Tibet. Last week Beastie Boys, along with the hip-hop-charged hard-rock band Rage Against the Machine and the progressive rap duo Black Star, staged a controversial concert in New Jersey to raise money for the legal fees of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black inmate on death row for killing a police officer. Says Beastie Boy Adam Yauch: "There's a tremendous amount of evidence that he didn't do it and he was a scapegoat...