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Release Mumia Abu-Jamal NOW NOW NOW

“Because Mumia has for thirty years been subjected to torture on death row and because he is innocent, justice for Mumia will not be served by life imprisonment, but by his release from prison.”

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced Wednesday this office has called off their 30-year battle to execute former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal for allegedly murdering a white police officer, the Associated Press reports. The decision comes just two days short of the 30th anniversary of the killing.

Supporters and advocates who argue Abu-Jamal is not guilty say Williams’ decision shouldn’t be a surprise.

“Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released,” South African activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a statement sent out by FreeMumia.com.

“I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served,” Tutu continued.

“The news that the DA’s Office of Philadelphia is no longer seeking the death penalty for Mumia is no news to supporters of the nearly 30 year Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner,” Dr. Johanna Fernandez wrote in a statement to the Loop21.com. Fernandez is a U.S. History professor at Baruch College and an advocate who’s been working on Abu-Jamal’s case for several years.

“Because Mumia has for thirty years been subjected to torture on death row and because he is innocent, justice for Mumia will not be served by life imprisonment, but by his release from prison.”

Fernandez, who produced a documentary on Abu-Jamal, explains the conditions today of the Pennsylvania courts that found Abu-Jamal guilty and describes his prison cell. From Loop21.com:

We must remember that the same Pennsylvania courts that are being denounced today for the mass incarceration of juveniles are the same courts that framed Mumia. Pennsylvania has more juveniles serving life than any other state in the nation. The backdrop of constitutional violations in Mumia’s case include: routine corruption, evidence tampering, prosecutorial misconduct, judicial racism, discrimination in jury selection, and the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans and Latinos. The issue of mass incarceration of black and Latino males is one of the gravest civil rights crises of our time.

We’re sobered by the realization that for 30 years an international movement kept Abu-Jamal alive long enough for the appeals process to run its course. But what if the movement hadn’t kept him alive? For 30 years Abu-Jamal has been forced to withstand tortured isolation in a windowless cell the size of a small bathroom. For thirty years the threat of execution has hung over his head, and he’s not been allowed to touch his children or his grandchildren, or his wife and siblings, or his friends.

Supporters of Abu-Jamal, including Princeton professor Cornel West and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have a symposium planned for Friday at the National Constitution Center for the man they call an “innocent revolutionary and celebrated journalist.”

Fuerzas Policiales..Esquiroles Traidores Enemigos..

Ver muchos más AKÍ http://tintanegraanartchistblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/fuerzas-policiales-psicovicio.html

Revista de prensa de la corrupción policial en España en un solo día
Un guardia civil en la Coruña, un ertzaina en Bizkaia y once policías locales en Sevilla. – Viernes.2 de diciembre de 2011 – 411 visitas

Solo mirando por casualidad en noticias publicadas en diarios de España en el día de hoy hemos encontrado estos casos (quizá haya alguna noticia más de este tipo). En nuestra opinión no es muy común que la policía investigue y detenga a sus propios colegas, así que cabe ver estos casos como una pequeña punta de un gran iceberg. En realidad todo lo que tiene que ver con la administración del estado, siempre según nuestra opinión, supura corrupción por todos sus poros. Nota de Tortuga.

Tres años de cárcel para un guardia destinado en Lavacolla por blanquear dinero de la droga

STOP murderous capitalists preparing Iran War

Editor’s note: Over the past week various elements both in Washington DC and Tel Aviv have been promoting a renewed rhetoric of an Iranian threat. Back in July of this year, Professor Chomsky wrote the following commentary on the issue that resonates even louder today. 

Cambridge, Ma – The dire threat of Iran is widely recognised to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that “the Iranian regime is the primary state-level threat to stability” in the US Central Command area of responsibility, the Middle East and Central Asia, the primary region of US global concerns. The term “stability” here has its usual technical meaning: firmly under US control. In June 2010 Congress strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding US offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacks in the Central Command area. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by

read long convincing evidence HERE  http://wobblygoblin.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/the-iranian-threat/

 

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy


The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality

guardian.co.uk, US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.

 The New York Times reported that “New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers” covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that “It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk.”
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.

I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memothat revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors’, city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.

Occupy Seattle, Occupy Everything

Building Occupied in Seattle!

by Estudiante Insurgente

From Tides of Flame

On Saturday, November 19th, a group of about 60 people marched from the occupation at Seattle Central Community College in solidarity with Occupy Oakland and against the police repression and evictions of occupations across the country. At the beginning of the march, it was announced that a building would be taken over at the end of the march.

The group moved through Capitol Hill chanting “Banks and landlords, we don’t need ‘em/ All we want is total freedom!” before plunging down 12th Avenue to the King County Juvenile Detention Center. The group stopped outside the main cell areas and made noise for the children and teenagers imprisoned inside. Marchers chanted “Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons,” and screamed that those on the inside would not be forgotten.

After the noise demo, the group marched into the Central District, one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the country. The term ‘skid row’ was coined here at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Central District was 80% black in 1970. Now it is 15% black, with many new condo developments and apartments having sprung up within the last decade. As the march came closer to the soon-to-be-occupied building, the majority of the drivers passing by yelled and honked their horns in approval.

The group surrounded an abandoned building on 23rd and Alder. A banner reading “OCCUPY EVERYTHING – NO BANKS – NO LANDLORDS (A)” had been draped across the front façade. Someone opened the front door and everyone streamed inside, celebrating the occupation of this new space. People started redecorating with paint and other items while a group outside held an assembly to figure out what to do. At the time of this writing, people are still occupying the building. The current plan is to hold it until Sunday where a public re-furbishing of the building can take place.

 

Dangerous Emma Goldman documental/documentary

Documental] Emma Goldman, una mujer sumamente peligrosa

Documental dirigido por Mel Bucklin. Título original: Emma Goldman: An exceedingly dangerous woman, 2003. Duración: 90 min.

Emma Goldman considerada durante más de treinta años como el enemigo público número uno en Estados Unidos, no por cometer actos violentos, sino por utilizar el arma más peligrosa que está a la mano de todo ser humano: la razón.

Enviado por redaccion ryn el Mar, 15/11/2011 – 23:40.
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Documental de Mel Bucklin que gira en torno a la figura de Emma Goldman considerada durante más de treinta años cómo el enemigo público número uno en Estados Unidos, no por cometer actos violentos, sino por utilizar el arma más peligrosa que está a la mano de todo ser humano: la razón.

Con una vida apasionante, Emma Goldman, junto a Alexander Berkman, se encontrará en el ojo del huracán del movimiento anarquista. Célebre anarquista de origen lituano conocida por sus escritos y sus manifiestos radicales, libertarios y feministas, también fue una de las pioneras en la lucha por la emancipación de la mujer.

Portal Libertario OACA – http://www.portaloaca.com

Egypt: 6 dead, 900 hurt as Army support new Dictator

Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in the middle of Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault Sunday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. At least four protesters were killed.

It was the second day of clashes marking a sharp escalation of tensions on Egypt’s streets a week before the first elections since the ouster of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak in February. The military took over the country, promising a swift transition to civilian rule. But the pro-democracy protesters who led the uprising have grown increasingly angry with the ruling generals, and suspect they are trying to cling to power even after an elected parliament is seated and a new president is voted in.

The military-backed Cabinet said in a statement that elections set to begin on Nov. 28 would take place on time and thanked the police for their “restraint,” language that is likely to enrage the protesters even more.

“We’re not going anywhere,” protester Mohammed Radwan said after security forces tried unsuccessfully to push the crowds out of Tahrir, the epicenter of the uprising. “The mood is good now and people are chanting again,” he added after many of the demonstrators returned.

Two protesters were killed on Saturday, bringing the toll for two days of violence to six. The clashes were some of the worst since the uprising ended on Feb. 11.

The Egyptian Kronstadt

by Libcom.org   November 20. 2011

As violence intensifies in Egypt, the new Egyptian dictator accuses the protesters of being counter revolutionary. Are we going to see the Egyptian workers facing their Kronstadt or are they on the verge of a genuine Arab Spring?

A year ago thousands of working class Egyptians battled the police and army throughout the streets of Cairo. They were seeking to overthrow a brutal, corrupt, and undemocratic regime who made it clear that they would not go willingly.

Following a huge stand-off in Tahir square the regime was swept away. The Egyptian revolution then became the spark that kick started similar actions around the Arab world.

To say I was cynical about the Egyptian revolution is an understatement. To rid themselves of the Mubarak regime was fantastic, however I didn’t have much faith in what was to replace the old regime. It seemed that they were just swapping one set of bastards for another.

Twelve months down the line, what has changed in Egypt? Absolutely fuck all has changed. The lived experience of the Egyptian working class is no better. They do not have a democracy, or anything resembling one and the people are now back in the streets of Cairo fighting with the new regime. The new regime is suppressing the people just as the last one did. Nine hundred protestors have been injured so far.

The new Egyptian dictator Essam Sharaf, has called on the protestors to leave Tahir square as they are “threatening the revolution”. Spoken like a true Leninist!

There is no revolution in Egypt, all that has happened is that one group of bosses have replaced the other, and anyone who dares question the new regime is labelled as counter revolutionary.

I sincerely hope that there is a now a ‘real’ revolution in Egypt, where there is genuine workers control rather than just a new set of bosses who are friendly to the West. The coming weeks will show whether the Egyptian workers are facing their Kronstadt, or a genuine ‘Arab Spring’.