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Derry Anti War Coalition (link to website)

The Irish premier of award-winning film on the black civil rights struggle in the US will be held in the Nerve Centre, Derry, Thursday, 8.30

Monday 9th April 2007

The film, "In Prison All My Life," tells the story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black Panther Party, currently on death row in Pennsylvania for the killing of a white police officer 20 years ago. Mumia has consistently denied the charge and claims that his trial was deeply flawed by racism.

After the film, there will be a talk by Fred Hampton Jr., son of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton who was killed in a hailstorm of bullets from the Chicago police in his apartment in 1969. Also speaking will be local journalist and campaigner Eamonn McCann, who was expelled from the US in 1969 after a speech at a Black Panther function in Harlem in New York where he drew parallels between the civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the US.

Others who attending the film premier will include Pam Africa, a life long civil rights activist and a great-grandmother; Carlos Africa, who served 14 years as a political prisoner; investigative journalist Noelle Hanrahan, who since 1992 has recorded Mumia Abu Jamal's weekly commentaries for broadcast on the 100 radio stations which take her programme; and J. R. Valrey, a writer with the Bay View newspaper in San Francisco and leader of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee.

The group is touring a number of European centres to raise awarenesss of the case of Mumia Abu Jamal and of the continuing struggle against racism in the US generally

The film and meeting, sponsored by the Derry Anti War Coaltion, will begin at 8.30 pm sharp.

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