[free-sklyarov] mumia

[Carrie Kirby]

finally, a free mumia person who reads the business section:

--Ms. Kirby,

I believe you used bad judgement in writing "Forget Freeing Mumia. 'Free 
Dmitry' is the hip, new rallying cry among Bay Area activists" in the lead 
for your piece, Martyr or criminal? With those three words, you managed to 
trivialize Mumia's fight for freedom from Death Row to a B-list celebrity 
flavor of the month. Many believe that there were holes in the government's 
case against Mumia.    The campaign to free Mumia is not because it is the 
fashionably hip thing to do.  The campaign to free Mumia is growing because 
progressive people know it is the RIGHT  thing to do.   Before you reference

Mumia Abu Jamal  again for an article, I suggest you educate yourself and 
read Mumia's autobiography, Live From Death Row.

Sincerely,

(name deleted)

-----Original Message-----
From: alfee cube [mailto:sisgeek at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:31 PM
To: Paul Callahan; free-sklyarov at zork.net
Subject: RE: [free-sklyarov] mumia


yes - balanced:)

but, i always just took my medicine based on mom's
assurances it would help - to this day i don't eat 
much raw sugar:)

--- Paul Callahan <callahanpb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I think it was an effective hook and probably 
> did get the attention of people who haven't been
> reading everything they can get their hands on about
> Sklyarov.  If they didn't write back, well, probably
> anyone who cared enough to write back is already
> aware of the story.
> 
> That has to be a first, though: mentioning Mumia to
> make something palatable to a mainstream audience.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> --- Carrie Kirby <ckirby at sfchronicle.com> wrote:
> > i'm sure the free mumia people would hate it too,
> if
> > any of them read the
> > business section. but my goal is to introduce the
> > situation to our
> > (mainstream) readers while making it palatable
> > enough that they'll look at
> > it. take my poor attempt at a joke as a spoonful
> of
> > sugar to make the
> > medicine go down. although i can't say for sure
> that
> > it worked -- i haven't
> > received any email today from "average readers"
> who
> > just heard about dmitry
> > from my article. only from people who are already
> > involved in the issue.
> > 
> > carrie
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Callahan [mailto:callahanpb at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:30 PM
> > To: free-sklyarov at zork.net
> > Subject: RE: [free-sklyarov] Dima's bail hearing
> > 
> > 
> > People also post signs saying "Free kittens."
> > So you'll have to do a little better than that.
> > 
> > Please don't take this as criticism of the
> article,
> > which seemed very balanced and reasonable to me. 
> > It's
> > just a criticism of your glib retort. :)
> > 
> > I can also understand why some people here might
> > view
> > it as counterproductive to throw Mumia into the
> mix.
> > 
> > --Paul
> > 
> > --- Carrie Kirby <ckirby at sfchronicle.com> wrote:
> > > uh, people are always going around telling
> people
> > to
> > > free mumia?
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: alfee cube [mailto:sisgeek at yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:00 PM
> > > To: Carrie Kirby; free-sklyarov at zork.net
> > > Subject: RE: [free-sklyarov] Dima's bail hearing
> > > 
> > > 
> > > hey carrie,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > what does mumia have to do with dmitry?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- Carrie Kirby <ckirby at sfchronicle.com> wrote:
> > > > does anyone know if Dmitry is staying with the
> > guy
> > > > in whose custody he was
> > > > released to? how about that guy's contact
> info?
> > > i'd
> > > > like to call him if just
> > > > to confirm the spelling of his name.
> > > > 
> > > > carrie
> > > > 
> > > >
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