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Niki Adams of Legal Action for Women and I went to see Mumia some years ago.   At that time when you came to visit with him, his hands were shackled. It took a visit by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who then complained to the prison (very polite is our Archbishop – more asked a question about the shackles than complain) before the prison authorities allowed Mumia, even when people visited him, to see visitors without his hands being shackled.

Shouts of: Shame

Letters  The Guardian, Friday 19 November 2010

The UN forces came to police the 92% of Haitian voters who had elected President Aristide and protested about his overthrow by a US coup. They were never "heroes" – except to the elite "cocooned in luxury and indifference" who backed the coup (Heroes to zeros, 17 November 2010).

Tuesday 9 Nov, 5-7pm
US Embassy
Grosvenor Square, London

Women and men in this country are joining worldwide demonstrations to save the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, award-winning journalist and former Black Panther.

Mumia, as he is known to millions, was wrongly convicted in 1982 of killing a policeman in a trial steeped in racism. He has spent the last 29 years on Pennsylvania’s death row.

Families with children will bear the brunt of privatisation and cuts – leaving carers with more unwaged work than ever

Selma James
The Guardian
22 October 2010

Campaigners win battle over Dalston CLR James Library name
Widespread outrage causes Town Hall bosses to think again

_{Eloise Horsfield
Friday 22 October 2010}

_{Cyril Lionel Robert James, Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and social theorist}