Saturday, September 17, 2011

Cisco Torres & San Francisco 8: Thurs 9/22 NYC

Celebrate Cisco's victory!
Free 'em all!
Stop the Torture!

Hear from Cisco Torres, member of the San
Francisco 8 whose charges were recently
dropped in a case marked by police torture in 1975

Hear from Larry White of the Riverside Prison
Ministry, the Fortune Society, the Prison Action Network; ex-prisoner

Hear from Ramona Africa of the MOVE Organization; ex-prisoner

Hear from Anne Pruden, longtime activist for the Angola 3

Hear from Raqibah Fatimah Basir, recently
released from prison, after 27 years of incarceration

FILM:

In the Land of the Free

a documentary feature that examines the story of
Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King.
Known as the Angola 3, they have spent almost a
century between them in solitary confinement in
Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Herman
and Albert are still held in solitary. Directed
by Vadim Jean and narrated by Samuel L Jackson.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2011, 5:30 PM
(light refreshments from 5:30 to 6:15 pm, film will be shown at 6:30 sharp)
ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 521 WEST 126 St.
[btw Old Broadway & Amsterdam Av.:
#1 train to 125 St. (at Broadway); A, B, C, D to 125 St. (at St. Nicholas) -t.]

ENDORSERS: MOVE, International Concerned Family &
Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Riverside Church
Prison Ministry; Campaign to End Jim Crow;
Campaign to End the Death Penalty; NYC Leonard
Peltier Defense Offense Committee; Resistance in
Brooklyn; NYC Jericho; Esperanza Martell, Puerto
Rican Human Rights Activist; Vincente Alba
Perez-Panama, Professor Johanna Fernandez, Film Producer

Presented by the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
(NYC), P.O. Box 16, College Station, New York, NY
10030, Hotline 212-330-8029, Website: www.freemumia.com

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