T<%2>he accompanying article by Mumia Abu-Jamal was written 
<%0>for Lies of Our Times. We thank them for allowing us to print it 
before they went to print. The following is some background to the events 
preceding the letter. Also check out the next World War 3 for further 
coverage.
@DATELINE = OCTOBER 2, 1992  GOVERNOR ROBERT CASEY 
OF Pennsylvania attempts to give a forum with Nat Hentoff of the 
Village Voice, entitled Can a Liberal Be Pro-Life? Both Casey and 
Hentoff are males of European descent and are vocal anti-choice 
advocates. Casey is trying to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal as well as many 
other African prisoners on death row. The audience was told to submit 
questions in writing. The pre-planned die-in was scrapped after Casey 
claimed he didn't know anything of Abu-Jamal's case. He was then booed 
off the stage and handed thousands of signatures on petitions. [See Love 
& Rage, Vol. 3 No. 7.]
@DATELINE = OCTOBER 20  Nat Hentoff writes a column entitled 
The Perennial Face of Fascism, accusing leftists of being fascists and 
opposed to free speech. Hentoff quotes Abu-Jamal as being surprised, 
displeased, shocked, and saddened" by the selfish mindlessness of his 
anti-free speech supporters.
@DATELINE = NOVEMBER 3  Nat Hentoff again slanders activists in 
a column Who Owns Free Speech? He uses the International Workers of 
the W.orld <D%11>(IWW) as a model for free speech advocates and 
insinuates that leftists are the antithesi<%5>s.<%10><%0>
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