[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Potluck and Film Showing - Justice on Trial

[christie]

Monday November 1st 7:00 at the Flying Brick Library (506 S. Pine St.)

The Flying Brick Library will be showing the new film "Justice on Trial"
about the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Bring some food to share. There will be a
discussion after including possible plans for Richmonders to go up to
Philadelphia for the November 9th hearing. As always this is a sober event.

About the film:
Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most recognized death row inmate in the world today.
In 1982, he was was tried and convicted for the murder of Police Officer
Daniel Fau...lkner. Since then, the Abu-Jamal trial proceedings have come
under scrutiny and today his case is one of the most contested legal cases
in modern American history. A former Black Panther and now renowned author,
his books and writings in venues as diverse as the Yale Law Review, Forbes,
Nation and street-papers for the homeless, have led many to hail him “the
voice of the voiceless.”

Justice on Trial navigates the tempest of the Abu-Jamal trial by reviewing
the known facts of the case. It demonstrates that the major violations in
the Abu-Jamal case -- judicial bias, prosecutorial misconduct, racial
discrimination in jury selection, police corruption and tampering with
evidence to obtain a conviction-- are not special to this case. Instead,
they are commonly practiced within the criminal justice system and account
for the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans and Latinos in
the United States. The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal is a microcosm of greater
problems in the criminal justice system in the United States today. The
attention that its many violations have received make the Abu-Jamal case one
of the most important civil rights cases of our time.
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