GERMANY
5,500 march for Mumia, Ocalan
Some 5,500 people from all parts of Germany demonstrated
Feb. 20 in Hamburg against the threatened execution of former
Black Panther and renowned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Working-class political parties like the German Communist
Party and the Party for Democratic Socialism and various youth
organizations marched side by side with supporters of the Red
Army Faction prisoners and representatives of various
national-liberation movements, women's and lesbian groups, and
anti-war groups.
About half the marchers were from Kurdish and Turkish
groups. They connected Abu-Jamal's case with that of Kurdish
liberation leader Abdullah Ocalan. Ocalan was kidnapped and
imprisoned in mid-February by the Turkish regime with U.S.
assistance.
Many speakers described the kidnapping and imprisonment of
Ocalan as just as barbaric an act of imperialism as the
imprisonment and threatened execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
PDS parliamentary representative Winfried Wolf told those
gathered: "Those who want to execute Abu-Jamal want this to
validate their philosophy of rule by power. Those who bombed
Baghdad yesterday, those who will bomb Belgrade tomorrow, want
to take unto themselves the power over the life and death of
all those who carry out resistance to their rule." (From Junge
Welt, Feb. 22)
--J.C.
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