Call Mr. Robeson, A Benefit for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Sep 5, 2008 all day
Location: The Phoenix Theater
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020

The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal wishes to announce a special event: A performance of -- Call Mr. Robeson, a play with songs, written and performed by Tayo Aluko, in San Francisco, on Friday September 5th, 2008, will be A Benefit for Mumia Abu-Jamal! Nigerian actor, Tayo Aluko, is performing his one-man play with songs, "Call Mr. Robeson," in San Francisco. Mr Aluko is accompanied on piano by Richard Thompson. "Call Mr Robeson" explores the life of Paul Robeson, one of America's great cultural icons, who was persecuted and hounded into exile during the McCarthyite repression. It features some of his famous songs and speeches, including a dramatic rendition of "Ol’ Man River." This powerful performance should not be missed. On Friday Sept. 5, Mr. Aluko will do a benefit performance, to support the legal expenses of world-famous political prisoner and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Jamal has now been on death row in Pennsylvania for more than a quarter century. The same forces of racist reaction that persecuted Paul Robeson now keep Mumia Abu-Jamal under a Damocles-sword of death, for a crime he didn't commit. 5 pm, Friday September 5th 2008, at the Phoenix Theater, 414 Mason St, 6th floor, San Francisco, CA This showing only--pay what you can, $5 minimum, to benefit Mumia Abu-Jamal • Ticket information: 1 800 838-3006 • Info on the play: www.callmrrobeson.com The play is a roller coaster journey through Robeson’s remarkable and eventful life, and highlights how his radical activism caused him to be disowned and disremembered, even by the leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement. "They say I'm meddling in the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that's too bad, 'cause I'm going to have to continue to meddle." - from the flyer for "Call Mr Robeson" Paul Robeson was made a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) as an act of solidarity with him against government persecution. This is the same union that shut down all the ports on the West Coast to Free Mumia in 1999, and shut them again on May 1st 2008 to demand: US out of Iraq and Afghanistan! In the same spirit of solidarity, writer/performer Tayo Aluko is donating the September 5th performance of his play to benefit Mumia's legal defense. The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal will provide information and literature on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, including copies of the hard-hitting new book, "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal," by Crime Magazine editor, J Patrick O'Connor. This riveting expose of the vicious police frame-up of the "Voice of the Voiceless," Mumia Abu-Jamal, is available from us at a discount price. For more information, contact: The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal PO Box 16222 • Oakland CA 94610 • 510 763-2347 www.laboractionmumia.org • LACFreeMumia@aol.com

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Call Mr. Robeson, A Benefit for Mumia Abu-Jamal

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