May 2000

'Voice of voiceless'

The voice of journalist and Pennsylvania Death Row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, known as the "Voice of the Voiceless" for his coverage of police brutality and other issues, will reach out from behind prison walls to be heard on two college campuses this spring

The graduating class of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio has asked Mumia to deliver an address as the school's commencement ceremony on April 29. In addition, two campus groups at Kent State University, also in Ohio, have extended an invitation to Mumia. The groups are organizing a ceremony to be held on May 4 which will mark the 30th anniversary of the shooting deaths of four students at an anti-war protest in 1970.

Both talks will be delivered by means of audio tape.

Another upcoming event in the effort to save Mumia's life is the mass rally scheduled to take place in Chicago on May 13.