Martin Luther King Jr. and Mumia Abu-Jamal honored
On April 4, the anniversary of the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrations were held in several
cities calling for freedom for imprisoned Black journalist
Mumia Abu-Jamal.
In New York, 200 people picketed the Federal Courthouse in
Foley Square and then marched through lower Manhattan past
City Hall to One Police Plaza. Speakers at the rally included
Michael Tarif Warren, well-known civil rights attorney and
activist. Representatives from the Free Mumia Coalition,
International Action Center, MOVE, Refuse and Resist!, and
others participated.
In Los Angeles, activists lined the street in front of the
downtown Federal Building with banners and signs demanding
"Free Mumia" as they distributed leaflets to the lunchtime
crowd.
A crowd of about 50 people marched through downtown
Providence, R.I., with signs demanding an end to police
brutality and freedom for Abu-Jamal and Native leader Leonard
Peltier. They stopped at Central High School, the Providence
police station and City Hall, where high school youths read
portions of Dr. King's anti-bigotry speeches. They ended up
at Brown University, where they joined with the Student/Labor
Alliance in an action demanding a living wage and health care
for all university employees.
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