Increase international solidarity! Here is more news from
the frontlines of the struggle to save Mumia. - ATS
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(the mainstream press article)
Stones Against U.S. Travel Agency;
Protest Against U.S. Capitalism
On Friday night, unknown persons damaged a branch of the
American Express Travel Agency in Bahnhofstrasse. Stones were
hurled through the windows, then the vandals threw paints bombs
against the exterior and tossed stinking butyric acid into the
interior. The office personnel were only able to get to their
work the next day after a long delay. TA was told by Ursula
Scholler, head of security for American Express in Zurich, that
an investigation was underway.
According to canton police, damage from the attack was
estimated at 15,000 Swiss francs. Police are looking for a taxi
driver who was driving along Bahnhofstrasse towards Burkliplatz
at about 4:00 AM and who saw the four or five people responsible
fleeing on bicycles.
The vandals left behind a leaflet at the travel agency. The
action was called a protest against the praxis of the American
authorities and a symbolic action against U.S. capitalism. The
point was to save Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is awaiting execution in
the U.S. state Pennsylvania. In the leaflet, Abu-Jamal, who was
convicted of murdering a policeman, is called a political victim
of an execution campaign.
(TA, 1.7.95)
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(the communique)
In the night of June 29/30, 1995, we smashed the windows of
the firms IBM and Amexco (American Express Company) in Zurich, we
also made the places stink, which fits with their praxis, and we
decorated the premises with paint.
This is an act of solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, an act
against state murder and repression, an act against capitalist
exploitation, an act in support of a revolutionary perspective in
metropolitan countries like the USA and Switzerland.
Amexco and IBM are symbolic parts of international U.S.
capitalism. This capitalism has made the USA a metropolitan
country with crude contradictions between the arrogance of wealth
and the sorrow of poverty, an imperialist country with a profound
economic crisis, a settler nation with the worst forms of racial
discrimination, a land of prisons and cop attacks. In short, a
country with an endless lack of perspective.
Because there's not much of an oriented left-wing movement
there anymore, the place is ideal for reactionary elements like
the Ku-Klux-Klan, civilian militias, and cults, a wasteland of
women-hating abortion opponents, private and state hate campaigns
calling for law and order, and state murder called the death
penalty.
On August 17, 1995, Mumia Abu-Jamal is scheduled to end up
on the electric chair in Pennsylvania because he was framed for
killing a cop in 1982. This will be the first execution of a
political prisoner in the USA since Sacco and Vanzetti in the
late 1920s.
What in reality did he do to "deserve" the death penalty? He
was a spokesperson against reactionary developments, a journalist
who served those people being discriminated against, and he
remains an unbroken man, continuing to struggle against
exploitation and oppression even while on death row, an
orientation point for revolutionary identity.
In order to destroy all of this, the state doesn't care if
it uses legal execution or illegal "suicides". When Peru's
dictator Fujimori made the accidental confession that the
historic leader of Sendero, Abimael Guzman, sentenced to life in
prison, "would die in his cell within three years" (NZZ), this is
the same thing that happened to Ulrike Meinhof (May 9, 1976) and
other comrades from the RAF (October 18, 1977 - Andreas Baader,
Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan Carl Raspe) in Stammheim and to Ingrid
Schubert (November 11, 1977) in Stadelheim: murder.
We are carrying out an act in solidarity with Mumia Abu-
Jamal, an act against capitalist exploitation, an act in support
of a revolutionary perspective in metropolitan countries like the
USA and Switzerland.
Solidarity with political prisoners against their destruction!
For a revolutionary perspective!
