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...store also rents videos and has a television and VCR which they use for movie showings. They recently showed "A Case of Reasonable Doubt," and HBO documentary about the controversial imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a radio reporter jailed in Pennsylvania for the murder of a police officer...
Month in, month out, the Harvard Film Archive reminds us of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case through a screening of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?, directed by John Edington. This has been promised to continue until the trial is brought true justice. This month is no different, the description discreetly tucked into the corner of the monthly schedule, though lacking the usual explanation for the regularity of its screening. When we've been particularly lucky, we've been blessed with an accompanying booksale, right by the theater doors. This weekend, you can see the movie for yourself...
Morello is quick to point out that his band backs up its revolutionary rhetoric with action, such as staging benefit concerts for imprisoned American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier and death-row inmate/activist Mumia Abu-Jamal. During an appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live in April, the band attempted to hang inverted American flags to protest the influence of big money on American politics (former presidential candidate/millionaire Steve Forbes was the host that night), and Morello says SNL cut the band's second song from the program in retaliation. A spokesman for SNL, however, says the group's second...
Convicted Philadelphia cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist active in radical black politics, obtained an indefinite stay of execution so he can pursue an appeal. Abu-Jamal, whose claims of innocence have become an international cause celebre, maintains he was railroaded by the criminal-justice system because of his politics...
...MUMIA ABU-JAMAL Convicted murderer/liberal cause celebre wins stay of execution...