19 February 2010

Mail-Art for Mumia - USA


"But an intense and supported mobilization of hundred and hundred of artists in the whole world freed me after only two years and three months! "

---Clemente Padin, political prisoner

please translate – please forward – Please respond electronically to Mailart4mumia@gmail.com

Flood the White House – Mail Art 4 Mumia
http://www.mailart4mumia.org/

Mumia Abu-Jamal – The world’s most well-known
political prisoner may be re-sentenced to death.

Demand a new fair trial! Mail your solidarity!

Send your own Mail 4 Mumia to the White House anytime during the week of April 24th 2010
Although if you miss the deadline – the white house never closes
aka never too late to send art to the white house for Justice

Barak Obama –
The Whitehouse
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington,
D.C. –20500
usa

Create Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Collages, Sculpture, Extremely, Beautiful Letters, Anything Mailable. Anything Non Liquid, Non Perishable, Non Hazardous.

Please send a photo, copy or some sort of documentation for Local Art Show. Mumia lives in Solitary Confinement one hour from Pittsburgh. All contributions will be responded to.

Mailart 4 Mumia – 3807 Melwood Ave –Pittsburgh, PA 15213 usa– mailart4mumia@gmail.com

Why send art to the White House?

Art is a form of expression that needs no translation. By sending your own creative petition to the White House it demonstrates worldwide support and draws attention to Mumia’s unjust imprisonment. Tell the U.S. government that we stand with Mumia and will not allow him to be EXECUTED!

Please send a photo, copy or some sort of documentation for Local Art Show. Mumia lives in Solitary Confinement one hour from Pittsburgh. All contributions will be responded to. We will
also be putting images on the website.

Mailart 4 Mumia – 3807 Melwood Ave –Pittsburgh, PA 15213 usa– mailart4mumia@gmail.com

Here's a short list of websites with history on Mumia's case, legal background, audio interviews, movies, youtube clips, and Mumia's radio essays.

Also--more on Clemente Padin below too. Clemente is the
inspiration for this project!

Follow these for updates and background on the case:

Journalists for Abu-Jamal (great site, lots of links to others, audio and video on the right hand column: http://abu-jamal-news.com/
Free Mumia Coalition, NYC: http://www.freemumia.com/
Free Mumia, San Francisco: http://www.freemumia.org/
Educators for Mumia: http://www.emajonline.com/
The MOVE Organization: http://onamove.com/

Mumia's Radio Commentaries, updated weekly: http://prisonradio.org/mumia.htm


Movies Online


Framing an Execution: Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Media (narrated by Danny Glover): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2537462601888502694#
A Case of Reasonable Doubt, HBO Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3ubcPE1aU


Video Interviews with Mumia:
From Death Row: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRGFZ1eLJO4
Mumia on Political Parties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_hLAmMM_aE
Mumia on the Economy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjmHQU0VE4
Mumia on Prisons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37u3sPHjrro
Mumia Fighting for his life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD130EKCOsE

Interview with Clemente Padin by Ruud Janssen:

http://jas.faximum.com/library/tam/tam_14.htm

RJ: The mail-art I have seen from you mostly has a political meaning as well. Did mail art have an effect on the political situation?

Reply on : 21-01-1995

CP: I am not sure but in my personal case the answer is: YES! You know, I was imprisoned for the Uruguayan dictatorship the 25th August, 1977 for my opposition to the military government. An edition of rubber-stamps and false mail-stamps denouncing the suppression of human rights and the death, torture and disappearance of many people opposite to the regimen led my incarceration and the sentence by four years for "transgression that hurt the moral and reputation of the army".

Also, for organizing the Counter-Biennal in front of the latinoamarican section of the X Biennal of Paris, France, curated by the Director of the Fine Arts Museum of Uruguay, in the fall on 1977. But an intense and supported mobilization of hundred and hundred of artists in the whole world freed me after only two years and three months!

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