In Prison My Whole Life
Artists for Amnesty and Music for Human Rights are proud to join the esteemed list of death penalty activists and human rights organizations supporting the internet release of "In Prison My Whole Life". This moving expose of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s trial and imprisonment explores issues central to the death penalty debate; discrimination and the lack of due process.
The filmmaker's responsible for this powerful documentary, Marc Evans, Nick Goodwin Self and Livia Firth, are teaming up with organizations across the globe on an innovative distribution plan. Participating organizations are signing on to become distributors, promoting the film to their members and supporters, and receiving a percentage of sales to benefit their life saving work.
Amnesty supporters can participate by logging on to http://www.inprisonmywholelife.com/dvd and entering Amnesty’s distributor code: LN598.
We hope our supporters in the arts and entertainment industries will find this progressive project as exciting as we do.
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a father, a son, an
a father, a son, an inspiration and a pariah - who faces his twenty-fifth year on Death Row. Extraordinary though Mumia?s story is, he is only one of 3,350 people currently on death row in the United States.
Goodman and many others take
Goodman and many others take us through a decades-old struggle for equality, fairness and respect that so many Americans strive for to this day. Mumia's cause has created a political storm but after the politicians have said their piece,
Despite his situation, and
Despite his situation, and against all odds, Mumia has managed to penetrate the consciousness of people like Francome. Through his writings and his web and radio broadcasts from Death Row
All human rights are as
All human rights are as important for musicians as they are for everyone else. However, two of these rights are of special relevance for musicians: the freedom of expression and the right to participate in cultural life.
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