Protest 'Death Debate' Oct. 3
Boston Mumia supporters disrupt Gore
By Steven
Gillis
Boston
On Sept. 12--the same day the Clinton administration's
Justice Department released its own study proving that the
death penalty is racist to the core in its application
throughout the U.S. criminal "injustice" system--activists
from Workers World Party's presidential campaign and the
Boston Coalition for Mumia Abu-Jamal gave the Gore/Lieberman
campaign "No peace" during its tour of this Democratic Party
stronghold.
At an outdoor rally, and later inside a $1,000-per-plate
fundraiser at the posh Park Plaza Hotel, Vice President Al
Gore's speeches were stopped short by activists demanding a
new trial for political prisoner Abu-Jamal and an end to the
racist death penalty.
While Gore attempted to make light of the disruptions, his
support for legal lynching, and that of Republican candidate
George W. Bush, received wide exposure in the New England
media.
The Boston Coalition for Mumia Abu-Jamal is organizing a
mass rally and march at what the group terms the Gore-Bush
"Death Debate" Oct. 3 at the University of
Massachusetts-Boston Harbor.
The Coalition calls on New England-area activists to
converge in Boston for the first presidential debate. It
comes at a crucial time in the struggle to win a new trial
for Mumia Abu-Jamal and stop the growing prison-industrial
complex.
Perhaps with this in mind, Boston Police and Secret
Service made a violent and unconstitutional pre-emptive
strike against peaceful picketers outside the Park Plaza
Hotel. As Gore's motorcade headed across town, police busted
up the picket line, yelling, them all!" as they plowed into
the crowd.
Ironically, among those arrested in the illegal sweep was
a union painter who was there to support Gore. Now this
worker is among the growing ranks of those who see the two
capitalist parties as two faces of the killing machine.
For information on the Oct. 3 Boston actions, visit the
Web sites www.mumia2000.org and www.vote4workers.org.
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