Category: social revolution

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 Death Sentence is Again Declared Unconstitutional

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, in violation of the United States Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Mills v. Maryland, the jury was improperly led to believe that that it could only consider unanimously agreed upon evidence favoring a life verdict.

Mr. Abu-Jamal he has been on death row in Pennsylvania for 29 years.

via Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC.

homeless blogger downloads The Free

Its only lunchtime here in Catalonia, and 100’s of people are downloading The Free!

Please help let people know it’s available, re-post etc…yippeeeeee..

Happy May Day 2011 Everyone!

Never forget the martyrs who fought against the wage system and capitalist exploitation. Never forget the millions of workers who continue the struggle today. There is nothing greater on earth than fighting for total freedom, and that means freedom from all forms of authority.

Keep the struggle going. Never make peace with your oppressors.

Solidarity and (A).

via Propaganda Lalaland: Happy May Day 2011 Everyone!.

Michael Dickinson: A Poem for the Royal Wedding

(this is the ending)

.….But in the streets of London, during the Royal Wedding Day grand

Thousands of police are on patrol, and protests have been banned.

But the dissenters are there and their voice will be heard.

Enough of this class system and monarchy absurd!

While the wedding guests sit cosy in the Abbey on their butts

The poor people of Britain suffer from vicious Conservative cuts.

While the British Prime Minister bows low to the Queen

The public observe the class system obscene.

Take heed of the rumblings, William and Kate,

The time has come to abdicate!

Abolish the monarchy, and let there not be a sequel!

Instead, from now on let’s all be equal!

Michael Dickinson lives in Istanbul. He can be contacted at his website –

http://yabanji.tripod.com/

read it all here  Michael Dickinson: A Poem for the Royal Wedding.

Christiania: last stand after 39 years

Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen and Alexandra Topping

The closed entrance to Christiania, Copenhagen

An inhabitant of Copenhagen’s free city of Christiania, long a refuge for hippies and artists stands at the entrance to the city. Photograph: Jens Noergaard Larsen/AFP/Getty Images

For four decades, the freetown of Christiania has existed as a testimony to an alternative way of life, where hash was sold openly and squatters’ shacks jostled comfortably with architect-designed eco-sheds.

For some, the commune was a human jungle in the centre of Copenhagen; for others a bastion of irreverence.

But now residents have erected its last line of defence against the Danish government attempts to “normalise” one of Europe’s most famous squats after 40 years of legal wrangling.

Residents have erected fences at entrance points which they patrol, handing out flyers which declare that “Christiania will be temporarily closed until further notice”. Cafes and shops were closed as residents began meetings to debate their future.

Continued…///

via Christiania, one of Europe’s most famous communes, faces last stand | World news | The Guardian.

rave reviews for The Free

Whoosh. That’s how I feel. Incredible, beautiful prose and an original style that creates a niche of it’s own. Clever, and funny but with a thread of darkness woven all the way through. This book belongs on my shelf in print, or at least in my Kindle library.   samtsuji@authonomy samtsuji@gmail.com

Congratulation .Wow. This is exceptional – an absolutely riveting read. It is hilarious and then tragic. The characters bounding off the page. One moment I was laughing, the next almost in tears for Linda and the terrible abuse. It was also so true to life and dramatically exaggerated, but so funny. It is so cleverly written. First person can be difficult but even so you had such well rounded characters, settings and dialogue. Barney was so credible and endearing. I will read on defintely with this.                                                Katy Roberts oakwood-arts.co.uk kathleen@oakwood-arts.c        author of  Stone Relics

BP worst ever disaster

       The spill here in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst environmental disaster in the history of our continent,’ according to Greenpeace, which has been working with independent scientists from universities around the country to find out what has really happened to the oil, and what the long term impacts will be on this critical, fragile ecosystem….

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see Video here

via The BP Deepwater Horizon disaster: one year on – Video – The Ecologist.