2010.54.7302

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Stop The Execution
Stop The Execution
2000
17.00 in HIGH x 11.00 in WIDE
(43.18 cm HIGH x 27.94 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.7302

Bottom edge text reads, "This ad sponsored by: National Writers Union, Bay Area - Media Alliance - PEN Oakland - Pacific News Service - Independent Press Association - PEN American Center West - International Black WRiters and Artists, #5." Right edge text reads, "design by 8point2 & jam/ photo (c) 1993 Jennifer Beach/Prison Radio Project."





Poster has a black background with white text. In the upper left is a photograph of Mumia Abu-Jamal wearing a white shirt and dark pants. Poster reads at the top, "Why 300 Bay Area Writers Demand a New Trial for Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal." To the left are four columns of names. In the bottom half, the poster reads, "Stop The Execution." The story behind the protest is described in the paragraphs below this main title, and begins with, "Mumia Abu-Jamal is a writer and journalist who has spent the last 18 years of his life on Pennsylvania's death row. In the 1982 trial that convicted him of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, Abu-Jamal was denied the right to defend himself..." To the right are directions on how to support Mumia Abu-Jamal along with a contribution form.
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