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EXAMPLES OF INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FROM LABOR GROUPS CLICK HERE to view (pdf) a narticle and summary written by a French Labor Group. CLICK HERE to view a Brazilian letter of support.
International Trade Union and Labor Support (partial list) AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA Tiyani Lybon Mabasa – President of the Socialist Party of Azania TOGO Tetevi Gbikpi-Bernissan SENEGAL Alio Sow LATIN AMERICA BRAZIL United Workers Central (CUT), the 12 million-member organization, the largest union federation on the continent, endorsed the letter to Eric Holder on November 11.
MEXICO Ramón Jiménez López, diputado federal (PRD) EUROPE FRANCE Daniel GLUCKSTEIN, Coordinator, International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (ILC), member of two international delegations to the State Department of Justice in 2000, 2001, on behalf of Int'l committee « Save the life of Mumia Abu Jamal » Blas Ortega, secretario general de la sección sindical de FSP-UGT de la Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad Valenciana (Salud) GUADELOUPE Letter and Endorsers from LKP Coalition Against Exploitation, Guadeloupe LKP Strike Collective November 12, 2009 Free Mumia! Dear comrades, Dear friends: Despite all your efforts, including your efforts on April 6, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected your call for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal – the renowned Black journalist unjustly imprisoned for more than 27 years for allegedly killing a police officer. We are aware of the fact that you have called upon civil and democratic rights’ organizations and activists to join you in pressing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder – who was appointed by Barack Obama – to open a civil rights investigation into this matter, on the basis of the collusion orchestrated over these many years by all the authorities to deny Mumia his constitutional rights. This is the sense of your petition to Mr. Eric Holder and of your international delegation in Washington, D.C. to the Justice Department on November 12, which we support fully. As a Black people, we have followed your struggle to free Mumia with great interest. We know that through this attack against one Black militant, it’s the entire Black community that is targeted; it’s their entire struggle for self-determination and their very right to live that is targeted. In Guadeloupe, we are confronted with this same system, which denies our right to sovereignty and continues to perpetuate the plantation economy. It’s against this system that our people have been mobilized over the past 10 months behind the Liannaj Kont Pwofitasyon, or LKP Coalition Against Exploitation. We want to inform you, or perhaps remind you, that: – A Mumia support committee was formed in Guadeloupe in 1998. This committee has worked hard, together with Mumia Committees the world over, to free our Brother Mumia Abu-Jamal. – A delegation from Guadeloupe participated in the International Tribunal on Katrina in New Orleans at the end of August 2007, where, among other points, it was able to exchange experiences with sisters and brothers in other countries involved in the fight to win freedom for Mumia. – The delegation from the LKP that traveled to the East Coast and Midwest of the United States in July 2009 also was able to participate in meetings and rallies in support of the struggle to free Mumia. For all these reasons, the LKP Coalition extends to you our solidarity and support for your November 12 mobilization to demand a civil rights investigation into the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. In solidarity, signed, HAITI Louis Fignole Saint-Cyr, Secrétaire-General, Centrale Autonome des Travailleurs Haitiens (CATH) UNITED STATES National Writers Union – United Auto Workers (UAW)
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