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Article: South African Unions Join Campaign To Save Jamal
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- The New York Beacon
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- July 12, 1995
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Sr. Stanley, M. Lee
New York Beacon, The
07-12-1995
South African Unions Join Campaign to Save Jamal.
The campaign to save Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther and renowned journalist known as the "voice of the voiceless" now on death row in Pennsylvania, is gaining broad international support. It has touched a deep chord in South Africa, where black unionists and anti-apartheid fighters have vivid experience of the racist prisons and the threat of the gallows which sent hundreds of political prisoners to their deaths. The African National Congress (ANC) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) predominantly black union federations are among the South African ...