Radicals, Celebs Turn Out for Mumia Abu-Jamal.The professional compassion lobby was out in force in Philadelphia on August 17th. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Noun 1. Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) Jesse Louis Jackson, Jackson , actor Ossie Davis, former comedian Dick Gregory, radical poet Sonia Sanchez, and the Lesbian Avengers joined about 1,000 demonstrators at the Criminal Justice Center for a courtroom hearing and daylong rally. They had come in support of convicted cop killer Wesley Cook, better known to the world as Mumia Abu-Jamal. They had come to Common Pleas Trial-level courts of general jurisdiction. One of the royal common-law courts in England existing since the beginning of the thirteenth century and developing from the Curia Regis, or the King's Court. Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe's courtroom for a hearing on Abu-Jamal's new state court appeal to reopen his murder case. In 1981, Cook (aka Abu-Jamal) murdered Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in cold blood, shooting him first in the back and then in the face, at point-blank range. In addition to overwhelmingly conclusive forensic evidence, Cook was identified as the killer by multiple eyewitnesses, and he later bragged of perpetrating the infamous deed to additional, multiple witnesses. The former Black Panther was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982. Nevertheless, Abu-Jamal has dragged out the appeals process for two decades and his Communist supporters have made him an international "prisoner of conscience Prisoner of conscience (POC) is a term coined by the human rights pressure group Amnesty International in the early 1960s. It can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their race, religion, color, language, sexual orientation, or belief, so long as they have not used or advocated " and a poster boy for the anti-death penalty movement. The People's Weekly World The People's Weekly World (PWW) is the newspaper associated with the Communist Party USA. The People’s Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo (Spanish title: Our World) is a national, grassroots weekly newspaper and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker , newspaper of the Communist Party USA Known officially as the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Communist party was formed in the United States in 1919, two years after the Russian Revolution had overthrown the monarchy and established the Soviet Union. , has served as one of Mumia's chief megaphones. The August 25th issue of the World featured a front-page photo of the Philadelphia "Free Mumia" demonstration under the headline "Let Mumia Live" and an inside story entitled "Free MumiaAbuJamal." Communist Party cadres from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Philadelphia played a prominent role in the rally, as did the radical Marx1st/Maoist group Refuse & Resist, which is headquartered in New York City's historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Episcopal church lavishly funded by the Rockefeller family. |
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