Millionaire, Warmonger, Death penalty supporter, Democrat Barack Obama finally got around to what should have been his first appointment, that of Labor Secretary, and appointed Cal Congressperson Hilda Solis, one of the many Democrats who supported the frame up of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal in her support of House Resolution 1082, passed in the Roll Call Vote 527 of December 6, 2006.

The full text of that infamous resolution where the US Congress chose to interfere with the judiciary in the case of a political prisoner sitting on Pennsylvania’s death row for 27 years now may be found at the site of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal at

http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=138

Roll Call Vote 527 of December 6, 2006 for House Resolution 1082 may be found at:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll527.xml

You should know that it was Democratic District Attorney Ed Rendell, now Governor of Pennsylvania, who framed Mumia Abu-Jamal for murdering a cop, Officer Faulkner, who was a whistleblowing cop exposing the corruption in the Philadelphia Police Department and who was murdered by a hit man. At age 15, Mumia had been a member of the Black Panther Party, a black nationalist organization which was prominent from 1966-1974, and attempted to address the needs and interests of the black workingclass communities in the face of police state terrorism that continues to this day in the workingclass communities, especially in the black and Latino workingclass communities. Mumia became president of the Black Journalists organization while in his 20s and was well-known in Philadelphia as a reporter who exposed police brutality.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are death penalty parties; if you want to abolish the death penalty, you have to vote for parties and candidates who oppose the death penalty, namely the Green Party and all socialist parties. In the last election, on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia, and write-ins on the other ballots were anti-death penalty candidates Cynthia McKinney for the Green Party and Ralph Nader either on a party ticket or on the ballot as an independent.