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Petition for Pres. Obama to Save Mumia & End the Death PenaltyEvents of SignificanceJanuary 9, 2010 Rosa Luxemburg Conference, Berlin, Germany - Mumia's lead attorney, Robert R. Bryan, spoke to the large standing-room audience about the struggle to save & free his client. He also announced the launching of the online petition, Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Global Abolition of the Death Penalty. February 23, 2010 International Film Festival & Forum on Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland - Following the showing of the movie "Manners of Dying", Mr. Bryan talked about Mumia & the importance of films in the worldwide fight for human rights & against the death penalty. February 24-26, 2010 World Congress Against the Death Penalty, Geneva, Switzerland - During a panel discussion Mr. Bryan discussed racism in capital cases around the globe including that of Mumia. On the final night of the Congress, Mumia made a surprise call to the capacity audience & spoke as a representative of the over 20,000 men, women & children on death rows around the world. He talked about the horror of awaiting execution. March 2, 2010 European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium - Parliament members Søren Søndergaard (Denmark) & Sabine Lösing (Germany) announced the beginning of a campaign to save Mumia & end executions. They were joined by Sabine Kebir, the noted German author & PEN member, Nicole Bryan, & Mr. Bryan who discussed the online petition (Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Global Abolition of the Death Penalty) & the case update. June 10, 2010 Karibu Education Centre, London - The keynote speaker, Mr. Bryan, discussed new developments in the current litigation in the U.S. Court of Appeals on the issue of the death penalty, racism, & the campaign to end executions (Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Global Abolition of the Death Penalty). Donate to Mumia's Legal DefenseThe complex litigation and investigation that is being pursued on behalf of Mumia is enormously expensive. We are in both the federal and state courts on the issue of the death penalty, prosecutorial wrongdoing, etc. Mumia's life is on the line. For information on how to help Mumia's legal defense, please feel free to write: Robert R. Bryan Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal E-mail: MumiaLegalDefense@gmail.com Your may make contributions directly as follows: United States Checks should be payable to the National Lawyers Guild Foundation, which is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (write "Mumia" on the lower left of the check). The donations are thus tax deductible and go exclusively to Mumia's legal defense. Donations to any other group in the U.S. do not go to his defense. The checks should be mailed to: Committee To Save Mumia Abu-Jamal France MRAP solidarité Mumia Germany Spendenkonto für BR Deutschland und umliegendes europäisches Ausland: Archiv 92/Sonderkonto Jamal Konto-Nr. 100 8738 701 (BLZ 290 101 11) |
