BLACK HISTORY MONTH TEACH-IN
IS LABOR’S CAUSE
In solidarity with the February 16 Bay Area
dock workers port shutdown for Mumia’s freedom
An injury to one is an injury to all –
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!”
With special messages from Mumia Abu-Jamal; from the Bay Area docks, on the port shutdown for Mumia’s freedom; from Chris Silvera (Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 808*); and from Cleo Silvers (formerly of UAW, hospital workers union 1199, and the Black Panther and Young Lords parties). Presentations by Charles Jenkins (TWU Local 100,* President, NY chapter, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists) • Virgilio Aran (Laundry Workers Center and National Domestic Workers Alliance*) • CUNY historians Johanna Fernandez (writer and producer, Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal) and Sándor John (Class Struggle Education Workers). Moderator: Hunter College student leader Kaitlan Russell (CUNY Internationalist Clubs) * affiliation listed for identification purposes
On February 16, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 will shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco to demand freedom for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. Mumia, a world-renowned journalist, unionist and defender of labor rights, is a former Black Panther who has been behind bars in Pennsylvania prisons, on frame-up charges, for more than four decades – 30 years of this on death row. In Africa, the continent’s largest union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, is going to protest at the U.S. embassy demanding “Free Mumia!” In Portland, Oregon, Painters Union (IUPAT) Local 10, and here in New York, Teamsters Local 808 have passed resolutions highlighting the need to bring out labor’s power in action, in the fight for Mumia’s freedom. At a December 16 hearing on Mumia’s case, the judge gave his lawyers 60 days to go through 200 boxes of materials held by the DA’s office – some of them only recently “discovered,” containing evidence of prosecutorial misconduct (including buying false testimony) and racist exclusion of jurors. Today, the life-and-death urgency of the struggle against racist repression has been highlighted yet again by the police murder of Tyre Nichols. It never stops. As we observe Black History Month, a swathe of states are censoring the teaching of this crucial subject in public schools. Black History means to not only study and teach about history – as Mumia does so powerfully – but to help make it today. Come join us at the teach-in on labor and the historic struggle to free our brother Mumia Abu-Jamal!
When: Thursday, February 16, 6:00 p.m.
Where: Actors Temple Theatre,
339 West 47th Street
(Between 8th & 9th Avenues, Manhattan. Nearest subway station: 50 St on C/E trains.)
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