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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the April 20, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------Up on the roof—of the embassy
Seven members of the Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the youth group Blitz seized the roof of the United States Embassy in Oslo, Norway, on April 5.
After climbing over the embassy's main entrance, the young activists occupied the roof for two hours before surrendering to police. They could be fined.
"The focus shouldn't be on us up here, but on Mumia Abu-Jamal," one demonstrator said.
Eight others were arrested on the ground, then released, according to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.
In February 1999, Norwegian Social Minister Magnhild Melveit Kleppa and 47 members of parliament signed the committee's petition calling on President Bill Clinton and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to grant the African American journalist a new trial.
Meanwhile, Italian activists announced a National Assembly in Support of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The assembly will take place April 15 in Florence.
--G.B.
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