A Call for Educational Activities on Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Criminal Justice System

September 5, 1999

Oakland Educators                         New York City Educators

Andrew Bonthius                                            John Breitbart
Larry Felson                                                   Paulette d'Auteuil
Sara Fuchs                                                     Dave Pugh
Bob Mandel                                                   Juliet Ucelli

Supported by Educators Nationally*

Sam Anderson, Mathematics Educator and Writer, NYC
William Ayers, Author, A Kind and Just Parent; Prof. of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bill Bigelow, Editor, Rethinking Schools; High School teacher, Portland, Oregon
Bakari Chavanu, Steering Committee, National Coalition of Education Activists. Sacramento, CA
Linda Christensen, Language Arts Coordinator, Portland, Oregon Public Schools
Marty Hittelman, Senior Vice-President, California Federation of Teachers
Arlene Inouye, Los Angeles Unified School District, Human Relations Educator/Commissioner
Stan Karp, Co-Chair, National Coalition of Education Activists; High School teacher, Paterson, NJ
Michael Klonsky, Director, Small Schools Workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago
Herb Kohl, Educator and Writer; Senior Fellow, Open Society Institute, NYC
Elizabeth Martinez, Author, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored       Century
Deborah Menkart, Teaching for Change/Network of Educators on the Americas, Washington, D.C.
Larry Miller, Editor, Rethinking Schools; High School teacher, Milwaukee, WI
Bob Peterson, Editor, Rethinking Schools; Fifth grade teacher, Milwaukee, WI
Ken Rice, School Board Director, Oakland, CA
Ellen Somekawa, Parent and Activist, Philadelphia, PA

* The organizations above are listed for identification purposes only.


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