[Anarchafeminists] Black History Month event: Mumia Abu-Jamal book launch at the Owl Bookshop Thurs 27 Oct

[Crossroads Books]

Crossroads Books in association with 
Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike invites you to a

Black History Month event
>From death row in Pennsylvania, launch of a new book in the UK

JAILHOUSE LAWYERS

 

PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS v THE USA

By Mumia Abu-Jamal


with Selma James 
who edited and introduced the UK edition
Thursday 27 October  6-8pm
Owl Bookshop
207-209 Kentish Town Road, NW5 2JU (Kentish Town Tube)
Level access, wheelchair accessible toilet nearby

 




Foreword by Angela Y. Davis, Introduction by Selma James

Published by  <http://www.allwomencount.net/Publications/pamphlets.htm>
Crossroads Books Price: £11.99 

Free to Prisoners. Donations welcome to help cover costs.

 

>From death row, award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal who has just
succeeded in overturning the death penalty against him introduces us to
fellow prisoners who litigate against their jailers, risking punishment or
even death, to win justice for themselves and other prisoners.  “This is the
story,” he writes, “of law learned not in the ivory towers of
multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the hidden, dank dungeons
of America – the Prisonhouse of Nations.” 

Selma James’s Introduction presents the parallel universe of UK jailhouse
lawyers who, like their US counterparts, are leading a justice movement
inside prisons.

UK prisoners, denied the vote, are campaigning for this fundamental right. A
legal challenge brought by a jailhouse lawyer supported by a dedicated legal
team won a European Court ruling in 2004 that a blanket ban on votes for
prisoners violates their human rights. Yet the government, in opposing votes
for prisoners, acts as if those of us who are prisoners are less human, and
deny that prisons and what goes on in them also frame the kind of society we
all inhabit.

The UK publication of Jailhouse Lawyers is an opportunity for prisoners’
campaign for the vote and other efforts for fundamental reforms to be more
widely known and supported.  International support for Mumia, who speaks for
many on death row, is strong among those demanding an end to the death
penalty which killed Troy Davis. 

 

 

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT JAILHOUSE LAWYERS

 

o       Anger with accuracy.outstanding. Ian Macdonald QC

o       Deserves to be read by policymakers. Lord David Ramsbotham, former
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

o       Illuminates what is possible for jailhouse lawyers in Britain. Ben
Gunn, UK jailhouse lawyer 

o       A champion of law in an institution that is lawless. Benjamin
Zephaniah, poet,  ex-prisoner 

o       Gallant prisoners who do battle with the authorities. Clive Stafford
Smith, Reprieve

o       A brilliant analysis of law and lawyers as instruments of injustice.
Lord Anthony Gifford QC, UK barrister and attorney, Jamaica

o       A must read for prisoners and prison reform groups. John Hirst,
former jailhouse lawyer

o       In the grand tradition of prison writing. Frances Crook, Director,
Howard League for Penal Reform

o       An international learning tool – of particular importance to the
Caribbean. Richard Small, attorney, Jamaica

o       The truth about death row and its distinguished inhabitants. Niki
Adams, Legal Action for Women

o       Make way for inside voices. Everybody should read it. Flo Krause,
barrister

o       Mumia Abu-Jamal has once more offered us new ways of thinking about
law, democracy, and power. Angela Y. Davis, from the Foreword

o       They learn the law, the procedures, the jargon, and mount an often
formidable legal defence. In the process they carve out a life for
themselves. Selma James, from the Introduction

 

Read more reviews
<http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/content/praise-jailhouse-lawyers-prisoners
-defending-prisoners-v-usa> here

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ORDER JAILHOUSE LAWYERS

£11.99 (plus 10% for p&p)  Bulk orders: 3 copies £30, 6 copies £55  
Free to prisoners. 
Order on line at  <http://allwomencount.net/Publications/Forsalepage.htm>
http://allwomencount.net/Publications/Forsalepage.htm 
or send your order to:  <mailto:crossroadsbooks at allwomencount.net>
crossroadsbooks at allwomencount.net 
or by post to Crossroads Books, PO Box 287 London NW6 5QU

 

Please send me ______ copies of Jailhouse Lawyers. I attach a cheque or
postal 


order for ___________ made out to Crossroads Books.

 

 

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