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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 11 - June 1999

< Dedication
 
< Is This an Offence?
 
< A Woman's Story
 
< In Memoriam to Patty Contreras
 
< Testimony at Joint Committee on Prison Construction, Sacramento, CA
 
< Editorial: The War Against Communities, Families, and Women
 
< Impact of the Drug War
 
< Sisters and Sisterhood: Tearing Down Walls Behind Walls
 
< International Women's Day
 
< My sister, Tina Balagno
 
< The Changing Times
 
< Yvonne Bunny Knuckles, 1937-1999, We love you and will miss you very much!
 
< Women in Black: Vigil for Women's Health Care
 
< Snitch
 
< Prison psychiatrist arrested
 
< Justice Battered: Theresa Cruz Denied Parole!
 
< Millions for Mumia
 
< Amnesty International writes!
 
       

Millions for Mumia

On Saturday April 24, Mumia Abu-Jamal's birthday, tens of thousands marched in San Francisco, Philadelphia and in many cities around the world to stop Mumia's execution and demand a new trial. All along the West Coast shipping ports were shut down by dockworkers who refused to work that day in a strong show of support for Mumia. CCWP marched in San Francisco in a contingent which included many high school students and other youth who gave passionate and insightful spoken word performances before the march began. As Mumia said in a letter he wrote for the day "This is far more than one man's birthday celebration. It is a celebration of life and a clarion call for something that is missing from the courtrooms and cages of America. The call for justice, for people's justice, where a man or woman is not damned because of their poverty or their politics, where death row is not a black reserve situated out in the boondocks, where judges are not mere politicians in black robes."

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