Deep Dish TV and Paper Tiger TV are uniting to rerelease three of our programs from our broadcast titled Emergency Programming Mumia Abu Jamal from Summer 1995.
Starting in May, 1995, Deep Dish TV began a series of programs to draw attention to his case and to the rapidly rising list of Death Row executions in the United States. Mumia Abu Jamal, Philadelphia radio journalist and former Black Panther, at the time of the broadcast Mumia Abu Jamal was scheduled to be executed on August 12. Then District Judge William Yohn overturned Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence on December 18, 2001 citing irregularities in the original sentencing process. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in Abu-Jamal's appeal on May 17, 2007, at the United States Courthouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abu-Jamal's attorneys are attempting to obtain a new trial, while the Government is seeking the reversal of United States District Judge William Yohn's overturning of Abu-Jamal's death sentence
The three programs to be rereleased on the DVD are:
Mumia Abu Jamal: Giving a Face to the Death Penalty
Convicted of killing a Philadelphia policeman in a trial that most observers say was a gross miscarriage of justice, filled with blatant racism and misconduct by the judge and prosecution, Mumia Abu-Jamal had been on Death Row for over twelve years in 1995. This tape has interviews with Ramona Africa, Rachel Wolkenstein and others who have come to Mumia's defense.(28:00)
Produced by Paper Tiger (NY, NY)
Death Row Notebook
This program is a look at the background of Mumia and the case against him. It describes his youth as an organizer with the Black Panther Party and the events surrounding the Move tragedy, intercut with an interview with Mumia from prison. (28:00)
Produced by Chris Bratton and Lamar Williams (Chicago, IL/Harrisburg PA)
The Killing State
This program puts Mumia's case in perspective, beginning with a montage of all the African American leaders who have been silenced, exiled or murdered. It also discusses the rising prison industry in the United States. It includes a section from Mumia's censored NPR programs and a statement about that censorship by William Kunstler. (28:00)
Produced by Cathy Scott, Paper Tiger TV and the Peoples Video Network (NY NY)
To obtain your copy, contact us at deepdish@igc.org
And be sure to check out the brand new Paper Tiger TV vlog at http://papertigertv.blogspot.com/
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