The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the political right-wing, now openly joined by PA Secretary of Corrections (Prisons) have denounced Goddard and are trying to intimidate Goddard College to cancel this invitation.
Call the Goddard College Office of the President, Robert Kenny, to express your support for Goddard’s standing by the invitation that the students have issued. You may phone Goddard University’s Office of the President at 802 322-1600, or email that office at presidents.office@goddard.edu.
Dear President, please do not let deter from the FOP to invite Mr Mumia Abu-Jamal to your university!
Karl Fischbacher, Speaker of the Committee Free Mumia / Vienna
Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Oktober 2014 19:11
An: ‚presidents.office@goddard.edu‚
Betreff: Solidarity with Goddard students who invited Mumia Abu-Jamal as their graduation commencement speaker this Sunday, October 5th
Dear President,
I am an Austrian citizen and member of the Austrian Committee Free Mumia-Abu Jamal. I learned that Goddard students invited Mumia as their graduation commencement speaker this Sunday, October 5th. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has denounced Goddard and is trying to intimidate Goddard College to cancel this invitation.
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal is the extraordinary political persecution of an innocent man, a former Black Panther Party spokesman, defender of the MOVE organization and radical journalist, known as the “voice of the voiceless,” who was sentenced to death because of his political beliefs and affiliations. It is about racist legal lynching in the United States, the legacy of slavery. It is also an exposé of the every day workings of an inherently class-biased, racist and politically driven criminal injustice system.
Every element of the constitutional right to a “fair trial,” to due process, was violated in convicting and sentencing Mumia Abu-Jamal to death.
But the most fundamental violation of due process is being framed for a crime you did not commit.
From moments after the shootings, the Philadelphia police and prosecution, with the complicity of the U.S. Attorney General’s office, manufactured Abu-Jamal’s guilt and actively suppressed his innocence—evidence that someone else shot and killed officer Faulkner. Every part of the police and prosecution’s case—witness testimony, Abu-Jamal’s supposed confession and ballistics—is a lie.
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s only “crime” on December 9th, 1981 was that he survived being shot and then brutally beaten by police officers.
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s on-going “crime” is his continuing opposition to injustice at home and abroad: political repression, racial oppression and class exploitation, imperialist war and slaughter in the name of “democracy.” For this, he is known as a “long distance revolutionary.”
From solitary confinement on death row to the “slow death row” of life imprisonment without parole, Mumia Abu-Jamal, using his voice and pen, inspires and educates millions around the globe who identify with his fight against “the system” and for justice for all of humanity
I salute the Goddard students who invited Mumia as their graduation commencement speaker, and express my support for Goddard’s standing by the invitation that the students have issued.
Free Mumia!
Solidarity without borders – Solidarität ohne Grenzen
Dr. Heinz Leitner
Vienna, Austria
Goddard grad speaker selection draws outrage
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2014/10/01/goddard-college-abu-jamal-outrage/16540831/
Cop killer chosen as commencement speaker by students of Goddard College in Vermont
Von: Heinz Leitner
Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Oktober 2014 18:06
Betreff: The FOP Campaign to Defeat the Adegbile Nomination The FOP Campaign to Defeat the Adegbile Nomination
Via Rachel Wolkenstein rachelwolkenstein@gmail.com
Support Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Goddard students who invited Mumia as their graduation commencement speaker this Sunday, October 5. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the political right-wing, now openly joined by PA Secretary of Corrections (Prisons) have denounced Goddard and are trying to intimidate Goddard College to cancel this invitation.
Call the Goddard College Office of the President, Robert Kenny, to express your support for Goddard’s standing by the invitation that the students have issued. You may phone Goddard University’s Office of the President at 802 322-1600, or email that office at presidents.office@goddard.edu.
The FOP Campaign to Defeat the Adegbile Nomination
The FOP Campaign to Defeat the Adegbile Nomination
The Issue Is Mumia Abu-Jamal:
Innocent and Framed!