Repost from Janice Graham
OUR COMMON GROUND STANDS IN SOLIDARITY with GRAY-HAIRED WITNESSES
Mumia Abu-Jamal Endorsement
Supports Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice
Solidarity, a democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization, emphatically endorses the fast at the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. undertaken by the Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice in support of freedom for the Scott Sisters of Mississippi, Jamie and Gladys Scott. We support the immediate inspection of the prison where Jamie is being held despite suffering from end-stage renal disease and call for her immediate hospitalization. This outrageous case of injustice—double-life sentences for these sisters over a theft of less than $11—is a racist and class-based extreme injustice of the worst sort. The Scott Sisters must be released at once! Solidarity joins this growing movement for justice for the Gladys and Jamie Scott and for all women suffering behind bars in inhuman conditions.
P r e s s R e l e a s e
Contacts:
B.J. Janice Peak-Graham / Marpessa Kupendua
1- 866-968-1188, Ext. 2
ghwitnesses@gmail.com
http://www.grayhairedwitnesses.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON, June 15/Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice News – Today, Mumia Abu-Jamal forwarded from his prison cell a letter to Gray-Haired Witnesses endorsing it mobilization of people of goodwill to once again call on America's moral conscience by demanding an authentic Justice for all citizens. In his endorsement, he wrote,
IN SOLIDARITY:
Dear Gray-Haired Witnesses:
It's wonderful that y'all are supporting the Scott Sisters of Mississippi.
I salute you all for your efforts to obtain justice and liberation for them.
From the dawn of human time, the 'gray-haired ones' -- the elders, were the communal repository for knowledge of things seen and unseen.
This arises from the great respect accorded the aged in African traditional society.
That sistas such as y'all are doing this, in this society of coldness, repression and what I call the 'Prisonhouse of Nations', is a good and necessary thing.
As Michelle Alexander has written, the prison industrial complex is the 'New Jim Crow'.
So, the battle continues.
So, kudos. i salute you all.
Ona Move! LLJA!
Alla best,
Mumia (Abu-Jamal)Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been a resident of Pennsylvania’s death row for twenty-nine years. Writing from his solitary confinement cell his essays have reached a worldwide audience. His books "Live From Death Row", "Death Blossoms", "All Things Censored", “Faith of Our Fathers”, “We Want Freedom”, and the recently released “Jailhouse Lawyers” have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and been translated into nine languages. His 1982-murder trial and subsequent conviction have been the subject of great debate.
STAND IN SOLIDARITY with
GRAY-HAIRED WITNESSES for Justice
We Stand in wisdom and with courage as the moral consciousness of a Nation
Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice
National Day of Fast
June 21, 2010 ~ Washington D. C.
More INFORMATION: http://www.grayhairedwitnesses.blogspot.com/
Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice speak out of the spirit of Ida B. Wells and all the women who struggled on our behalf teaching us not to be afraid. Hear our appeal and call.
Gray-Haired Witnesses: A Stand for Justice
We declare that we will act, do what we must, what is required to protect our community, our families and our children from systemic harm which results in their destruction. We will not be pressed down. We will witness from our rich history, in wisdom and with courage.
We come from a long line of women who refused to bend under the lash of chattel slavery from the time we were first dragged upon these shores until the 21st century slavery of today's prison industrial complex! We are the elder women, the daughters of the American slave system, Jim Crow oppression and the American Freedom Movement. We who are three strikes removed from the center of the power structure of this country. Our lives have prepared us to come to this place, at this time.
We will not be silent. We will ACT. We will not be pressed down."
Immediate and Urgent Plan of Action
Sadly, there is truly a sense of urgency as in January, 2010, both of Jamie Scott's kidneys shut down and during her nightmarish roller-coaster ride of attempting to get competent and effective medical care has suffered so much maltreatment that she has quickly declined to stage 5 (end stage) kidney disease. Jamie Scott has now effectively been sentenced to death.
We must address this specific issue with urgency. It is now a matter of life or death for Jamie Scott. We cannot allow her to further endure inadequate and incompetent medical care which assures her death.
GRAY-HAIRED WITNESSES Call for Fast
JUNE 21, 2010 Washington, DC
WE ARE calling a National Fast at THE DEPT. OF JUSTICE IN WASHINGTON, DC DURING JUNETEENTH TO DEMAND FREEDOM FOR JAMIE AND GLADYS SCOTT!We are demanding an Inspection and Observation Team be allowed into the Pearl, MS prison where Jamie Scott is being held. More information to come.
More information: http://www.grayhairedwitnesses.blogspot.com/
Your solidarity support would be appreciated.
Contact US today
Please contact us at: grayhairedwitnesses@gmail.com
Please visit: http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/ for a complete Case Summary and information on the horrific case of the Mississippi Scott Sisters and Jamie Scott's fight for life.
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