To Mumia Abu-Jamal -- my brother in this Struggle; and your family, friends, and supporters.
I offer you my warmest greetings. How appropriate, after so many years, that I now send you word from a cage housed in the very same state as yours.
Perhaps it is destiny that we would find ourselves incarcerated so near, under similar circumstance, by similar forces, using similar excuses, for a similar love of our people.
Perhaps it is destiny that we arrived at a similar truth -- that we had to stand in opposition to a similar oppression.
Perhaps it was destiny that we were unable to stand idly by with similar brutality all around us, and similar violence thrust upon us, as the only means to survive.
Given the choice of lying down to die or standing up to live, we chose to live. Standing up and living is our only crime in this, the land of the free and home of the brave. Our dream is still alive, and as hunger striker Bobby Sands once said, you can lock up the dreamer but you cannot place chains around an idea.
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