ONA MOVE, All!  As I'm sure you all are aware, May 13th is close at hand, and of course we never let it go by without reminding folks of the bombing and murder of our MOVE family that day in 1985.  We plan to rally and distribute info/ updates on the four corners of Broad and Chestnut Sts. in Philly on Saturday May 14th from 12:00pm til 3:00pm.  It's always good to get out there with the people to talk to them and pass out info. Also, I would really like to do a screening of the August 8th film on Friday evening May 13th so if any of our Philly supporters have ideas on a good place to do that please let me know ASAP.  For our supporters outside of Philly, particularly those outside the country, I urge you to do something in your area.  One of the things that we encourage you to do is a screening of the August 8th film.  We have them available for $10.00 plus postage if you need to order it.  Take care and hope to see you all in May---Ramona

Films from the early 1990's.  Mumia has since been moved to a different prison in Pennsylvania, SCI Greene. The Governer of PA is now Ed Rendell who was the Philadelphia DA during the 70's. No longer are pictures or video allowed to be taken of prisoners in PA.  Interviews are not allowed in CA prisons. All photos of Mumia are now at least a decade old.  Learn alot watching these.

http://www.youtube.com/my_favorites

ONA MOVE!  The MOVE Organization wants to take this opportunity to point out yet another example of the blatant prejudice of government officials when it comes to MOVE. Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell just commuted the life sentences of three men convicted of murder in the 1970s. The reason he gave is that these men were not the ones that actually pulled the trigger in the murder, they were “accessories”.  In the case of the MOVE 9, however, Rendell was the district attorney who charged and prosecuted 9 of our MOVE sisters and brothers for the murder of one cop who was shot with one bullet from one gun. MOVE women never had weapons charges on them and nobody including any police officials could say that *any* MOVE person shot and killed Policeman James Ramp.

Click on above front page or Download HERE!! 
http://abu-jamal-news.com/docs/proof.pdf

Check out Abu-Jamal News website at:
http://abu-jamal-news.com/

Here's what happened at the hearing on our murder complaints, no surprise.  This explains why MOVE takes the position we do against this rotten system, and why anybody that stills has faith in it is foolish---Ramona

LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA’S REVOLUTION

ONA MOVE!  I’M SENDING THIS EMAIL OUT TO INFORM YOU OF A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION HAPPENING WITH OUR BROTHER, CHUCK AFRICA. THIS FALLS ON THE HEELS OF US EXPOSING PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER COLUMNIST, MONICA YANT KINNEY AND ALL OF THE INFORMATION WE WERE ABLE TO PUT OUT DURING MEDIA INTERVIEWS MARKING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SINCE THE BOMBING.

ONA MOVE, Everybody!  Attached is a flyer about our May 12, 2010 activities to mark 25 years since the governmental bombing and murder of our MOVE family.  We're also urging you if you are a family member or friend of a victim of police terrorism/murder to join us.  If you know the family or friends of victims of police terrorism/murder, urge them to come out on the 12th.  If we truly want to stop police terrorism/murder than we have to work to do it.  Talking, complaining about it is not gonna do it.  ONA MOVE----Ramona

Partisan Defense Committee Statement                        24 January 2010

Mumia Is Innocent—Free Him Now!

Supreme Court of Death Rules Against Mumia Abu-Jamal

Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!

On January 19, the U.S. Supreme Court took a clear step toward the legal lynching of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Court vacated a 2001 decision by federal district court judge William Yohn overturning Mumia’s death sentence. Yohn’s decision had been previously upheld by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The new ruling by the Supreme Court underscores our insistence that fighters for Mumia’s freedom must place no faith in the courts, which, at every level, have colluded with the police and prosecutors to see through the execution of this innocent man.

http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps+pows/MOVE/debbi-sims-africa-st.html

[Editor's note: Since this statement was written, Merle Austin Africa joined the ancestors. She died in prison, March 13, 1998.]

Excerpts from John Africa's Teaching (in italics):

Come see this film at PARC's new location!

"In Prison My Whole Life"  is a well done documentary inspired by a man who was born on the day that Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested.  Mumia has been a political prisoner, on death row, for over 27 years, now.

The filmmaker does a great job talking with people about (researching) racial injustice and the Prison Industrial Complex and giving a thorough run down of the frame-up that has had Mumia on death row since 1981.

 
Mumia is facing execution and we can't let it happen!!

Download this booklet with the biographical writings from the MOVE 9. 

The bio's were taken word for word from the website: 
John Africa's MOVE Organization
http://www.onamove.com/

In the HOME page, if you click on the photos of each MOVE member, the MOVE 9, who are on the left side of the page, you can also read each of their bios.

Go to the MUMIA page to read about Mumia Abu-Jamal- political prisoner who has been locked up since 1981, and is on DEATH ROW.  

Chairwoman Catherine C. McVey
Board of Probation and Parole
Attn: Inmate Inquiry
1101 South Front Street, Suite 5300
Harrisburg, PA 17104

Re: Support for 2009 Parole of Eight Prisoners:

Debbie Sims Africa #006307, Janet Holloway Africa #006308, Janine Phillips Africa #006309, Michael Davis Africa #AM-4973, Charles Sims Africa #AM-4975, William Phillips Africa #AM-4984, Delbert Orr Africa #AM-4985, and Edward Goodman Africa #AM-4974

Top US Court Sends Mumia Abu-Jamal Closer to Execution
 Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man on death row.  In two recent decisions, the US Supreme Court has ignored both evidence of his innocence and it's own precedents to deny Mumia's appeal and bring him closer to execution.  In this statement, the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal lays bare the truth behind these actions, and proposes a course of workers' and mass action to free Mumia.

Cops, Courts and Politicians To Mumia:

Pam Africa on the Supreme Court ruling against Mumia

On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal and granted the Philadelphia DA's petition for a writ of certiorari. Basically, the Supreme Court went against the lower federal circuit court's 2001 and 2008 rulings, which granted a new sentencing phase jury trial if the death penalty was to be reinstated in Jamal's case. Now the case goes back down to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, who will decide whether they will re-impose the death penalty without the jury trial. 

Wherever you are!  Please mobilize rallies, media, strikes, shut downs, walk outs, etc to save Mumia Abu Jamal. Get the media to notice. If you've never spread the word before, spread it NOW!!  Pass this email on to all of your lists.  AT LEAST SIGN THE PETITIONS!!  Listen to Mumia's radio commentaries from Death Row, and fight for his life!!  There are many links at the bottom of this message.

Hans Bennett wrote:

Yesterday there was a huge development in Mumia's case.

According to a posting yesterday on the US Supreme Court's website, the Court has scheduled a conference for this Friday, January 15, to discuss Mumia's case. Specifically, they are looking at the Philadelphia DA's request to have Mumia executed without a new sentencing hearing.

People in the Humboldt area and wherever you are!  Please mobilize rallies, media, strikes, shut downs, walk outs, etc to save Mumia Abu Jamal.  If you've never spread the word before, spread it NOW!!  Pass this email on to all of your lists.  AT LEAST SIGN THE PETITIONS!!  Listen to Mumia's radio commentaries from Death Row, and fight for his life!!  There are many links at the bottom of this message.

And put MUMIA messages on your MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, etc!!

Beginning at 6:30pm tonight on the Gazebo in Old Town Eureka, Redwood Curtain Friends of MOVE will be showing the film, "In Prison My Whole Life," which centers around the story of Mumia Abu-Jamal's arrest and imprisonment on death row- and impending exectution. We will also be video taping statements in support of Mumia. Come learn about Mumia Abu-Jamal, an amazing journalist and political prisoner and show your support for his release.

We want, along with people and organizations around the world, the immediate RELEASE of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and NO EXECUTION!