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International Delegation to Deliver Message to Clinton: 'Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal!'
SAN FRANCISCO, January 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Member of parliaments and legislative bodies from several countries, joined by union leaders and human rights activists, will assemble in Washington, D.C., on January 12 as part of an international delegation to ask President Clinton to stop the threatened execution of Mumia Abu- Jamal. Abu-Jamal is an African American radio journalist who has been on death row in a Pennsylvania prison for 18 years following his 1982 conviction for killing a police officer.

On hand from the United States will be Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Martin Luther King III, Rev. Walter Fauntroy, a representative from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and others.

Describing the trial that led to Abu-Jamal's conviction as "one of the worst travesties and miscarriages of justice that has ever occurred in this country," Baldemar Velasquez, coordinator of the January 12 delegation, said the group had requested a meeting with President Clinton to ask him "to direct Attorney General Janet Reno to conduct an investigation of the Pennsylvania legal system to ascertain how this terrible situation came about." The delegation also hopes to meet with the Attorney General. Visits to the White House and Justice Department will be preceded by a news conference to be held in Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., N.W., East Room, at 9 a.m., also on Wednesday, January 12.

The delegation will take to Washington petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of people in support of an "Open Letter to Bill Clinton" urging the president to act in the Abu-Jamal case, which is currently before a federal district judge in Pennsylvania. The judge there is considering claims of 29 separate violations of Abu-Jamal's constitutional rights. "We know that President Clinton cannot order a new trial in this case, nor can he commute Abu-Jamal's sentence. But ordering an investigation by the Justice Department would go a long way in getting at the truth and would, we are confident, stop the execution," said Velasquez.

Velasquez, who is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, based in Toledo, Ohio, and a vice president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, said delegation members will be coming from Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Martinique, South Africa, Spain and perhaps other countries. "For so many political leaders and other notables to come here -- in come cases traveling thousands of miles at great personal expense -- to make a statement in this case demonstrates how deeply the feeling is all over the world that a terrible injustice is being committed here and that people of conscience must speak out now to stop it," Velasquez declared.

Attached find the current listing of the January 12 delegation with additional names expected.

Jean-Pierre Aranega, France, union official, Postal Workers Union
Jose Arbex, Brazil, journalist, Herzog Award of Journalists
Robert Bareille, France, union official, National Energy Workers Union
Manuel Camara, Spain, member, Senate
John Conyers, U.S., member, U.S. House of Representatives
Jeremy Corbyn, Great Britain, member, Parliament
Ossie Davis, U.S., actor and political activist
Jean-Luc Ega, Martinique, deputy-mayor, Sainte-Anne
Walter Fauntroy, U.S., director, National Black Leadership Roundtable
Daniel Gluckstein, France, coordinator, International Liaison Committee
Dick Gregory, U.S., human rights activist
Georges Hage, France, vice president of Foreign Affairs Commission, National Assembly
Ronald E. Hampton, U.S., executive director, National Black Police Association
Carlsten Huebner, Germany, member, Parliament
Sam Jordan, U.S., director, Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International USA
Martin Luther King III, U.S., president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Joe Madison, U.S., radio journalist
Lindsay McLaughlin, U.S., legislative representative, International Longshore and Warehouse Union
Patrick Mkezi, South Africa, president, Azania's Workers Union
Martha Osamor, Great Britain, coordinator, People of Color Caucus, Trade Union Congress
Rev. Randall Osborne, U.S., executive vice president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lothar Ott, Germany, union official, GEW (Teachers Union)
Edward Rosario, U.S., executive board and official representative, San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Jean-Claude Roujeau, France, professor of medicine
Eduardo Suplicy, Brazil, senator, State of Sao-Paulo
Baldemar Velasquez, U.S., president, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO
Alisa Wilkins, U.S., national vice president, Lawyers Guild
Steve Wiser, U.S., death row spiritual advisor, Bruderhof

All local supporters are encouraged to join us in welcoming the delegation. We will gather in front of the White House (Lafayette Square side) on the morning of January 12 between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Please encourage your friends and associates to come so that we can welcome them with as large a group as possible.