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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Occupy the Justice Department! DEMAND the release of Mumia Abu Jamal & ALL Next stop -Mumia's FREEDOM! Short term goal: release Mumia.
Now that the celebrated, radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, is off death row, many dare to imagine the next step--his release from prison. On December 9, 2011 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, where over 1,100 people gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of Mumia's incarceration, Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked our nation to "rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights,
Now that the celebrated, radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, is off death row, many dare to imagine the next step--his release from prison. On December 9, 2011 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, where over 1,100 people gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of Mumia's incarceration, Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked our nation to "rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights,
You can save a black man from being killed by the state. Use your voice. Organize or attend an action in your city. For more information go to www.bringmumiahome.com
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Political Group Demands The Release Of Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The latest Tweets from Bring Mumia Home (). International Campaign Demanding Release of Journalist & Political Prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal Wrongfully Imprisoned 32yrs For Murder of Philly Officer. Philly,NYC,D.C.
: TODAY Twitter Town Hall at 1pm (EST) please RT and participate. We all we got! http://t.co/kfHNXthqJ7
“TODAY Twitter Town Hall at 1pm (EST) please RT and participate. We all we got!”
Mumia Update: Keep The Pressure Going
Because we all have been calling SCI Mahanoy shut down some of their phone lines.
Please call these numbers to demand that Mumia's family see him at Schuylkill Medical Center immediately.
Call these numbers now to demand the hospital give visitation rights for Mumia's family:
Richard Ellers
Director, PA Department of Corrections Health Care Services
[email protected]
(717) 728-5311
John Wetzel
Secretary, PA Department of Corrections
(717) 728-4109
Schuylkill Medical Center
420 S Jackson St, Pottsville, PA
(570) 621-5000
SCI Mahanoy
Superindendent John Kerestes
(570) 773-2158
contestant who sang a James Brown song was released from the show because he dedicated his battle round win in a tweet to Mumia Abu Jamal. We need your help in supporting Anthony Riley's freedom of speech!! here is link to the tweet https://twitter.com/iamanthonyriley/status/575460471316197376 p
“I dedicate my Battle Round Victory to Mumia Abu Jamal and political prisoners everywhere. Mumia: http://t.co/3Gyt6oAFQj via ”
Victory. Mumia beats a visiting Ban on Francis Goldin, his literary agent.
When Nudity is Contraband
Flying higher than
Eagles ever would dare try --
Black Panther with wings.
--Mumia Abu Jamal
M1, Rebel Diaz, Intikana Kekoeia, Squala Orphan LC the Poet, Raging Grannies, Red Microphone Revolutionary Jazz
Thursday, April 24 6:30PM Mumia's 60th! Join us!
Kymone FelonytoSpare Freeman of We Act Radio interview on how the Fraternal Order of the Police blocked Obama's nominee, Debo Adegbile, from heading the civil rights division of the DOJ by linking Adegbile to Mumia Abu Jamal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX8NZgW2sLA
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Short piece on a prison visit with Mumia. Echoes of slavery...Very powerful. On feminist wire. please pass along to your lists.
http://thefeministwire.com/2014/01/mumia-vulnerability-and-hope/
By Jessica Millward . I began writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal in December 2011 while he was in the liminal space between Death Row at SCI Greene and his released into the general population at Mahanoy Prison. During the seven weeks that he was in “the hole,” we communicated in a series of ha...
Check out the week-long forum on Mumia & Mass Incarceration starting today at The Feminist Wire - to kick off MLK week. Here is where you convene with the radical King. Mumia's piece on King, women and the movement is phenomenal.
http://thefeministwire.com/2014/01/fire-in-the-skies-introduction-to-the-mumia-and-mass-incarceration-forum/
On December 9, 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and later charged and convicted for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The prosecution’s evidence was weak and pointed to the framing of an innocent man. In the weeks and days before Mumia’s scheduled date…
After my interview with FOX, this is what I have to say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johanna-fernandez/what-fox-news-and-hannity_b_4579196.html
In classic Fox form, the interview with me would not be about the case nor about the appointment of Adegbile. Hannity gave ample time to Katie Pavlich who was representing the views of the prosecution, and who was clearly committed to simply echoing its conclusions.
Important News Advisory in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
WE CALL FOR THE
RELEASE OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL NOW!
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 11:30AM supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal will gather outside the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 530 Walnut Street (17th Floor), Philadelphia, to call for the release of the world renowned imprisoned journalist.
At 1:15PM that day, the Court will hear oral arguments on an appeal filed by Abu-Jamal challenging his resentencing from death to life in prison without parole. At issue is a motion filed by the President of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Judge Pamela Dembe, that failed to notify the defendant or his attorneys of his resentencing. In so doing, Judge Dembe violated Abu-Jamal’s rights to notice of sentencing, to be present and make a statement, and to be apprised of his right to appeal the sentence. These rights are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and by the laws of the state of Pennsylvania. Had Abu-Jamal not discovered and filed a timely appeal to Judge Dembe’s motion, his right to file future appeals would have been irreparably compromised.
The unconstitutionality of Judge Dembe’s undisclosed filing echoes the history of due process violations in the Abu-Jamal case, which spans more than three decades. In the original trial the judge, prosecutor, and police conspired to suppress evidence of innocence and to obtain a conviction. The prosecution's case was built on the specious premise that only three people were present at the time of the shooting, but a fourth person – the probable perpetrator – was seen fleeing the scene after Officer Daniel Faulkner was fatally shot. The police, prosecutor Joe McGill, and presiding judge Albert Sabo suppressed this from both the defense and jury. In addition, the bullet that killed Officer Faulkner was never matched to Abu-Jamal’s gun, and police failed to perform routine tests on Abu-Jamal’s hands, which would have determined that he had not shot a gun that night.
Judicial bias, impropriety and contempt for the defendant also figure prominently in this history. At the original trial, Judge Sabo twice refused to recuse himself: when his impartiality as a former Under Sheriff of Philadelphia County was questioned; and again, when he came out of retirement to hear Mumia’s 1995 Post Conviction Relief Act Hearing—the most important appeals hearing in the case--on the judicial and prosecutorial violations of the very case over which he presided 15 years earlier.
Similarly, in 1998, Judge Ron Castille of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court was asked to recuse himself from the case; in his previous role as Philadelphia DA he presided over numerous challenges to Abu-Jamal’s appeals, including the claim of racial discrimination in jury selection. Castille’s unethical conduct was later exposed because his name and the seal of his office were stamped on the so-called McMahon tapes, discovered in 1997. The tapes were instructional lectures to new prosecutors on how to eliminate jurors unlikely to convict. In violation of Batson v. Kentucky, some instructions suggested elimination on the basis of race, one of Abu-Jamal’s strongest claims for a new trial. Abu-Jamal’s attorneys called for Judge Castille’s recusal in hearing Abu-Jamal’s appeal and petition for a new trial because the judge had received financial contributions and support from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). In a written defense refusing to do so, he explained that four other judges out of the seven-judge panel received FOP funding.
In 2008, acknowledging the unequal application of the law in the case of Abu-Jamal, Judge Thomas Ambro of the Third Circuit Court wrote that the decision to deny Abu-Jamal the so-called Batson claim of discrimination in jury selection “goes against the grain of our prior actions.” In previous cases with exactly the same claims, the court had granted new trial relief to the defendants, but this time it ruled against Mumia in a two to one decision that overturned the court’s own precedents.
In 2011, Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was confirmed unconstitutional when a Supreme Court motion allowed to stand the past rulings of four federal judges who had as early as 2001 set aside the death penalty in this case. In late 2011, Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for Abu-Jamal’s release -- "Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life….Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released….District Attorney Seth Williams [should] rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released."
Because for more than 28 years Abu-Jamal was wrongly subjected to inhumane conditions on death row, because he is innocent, because he has been consistently denied his Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial, and because of the uninterrupted history of judicial and prosecutorial corruption and police conspiracy in this case, his supporters call for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s immediate release.
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For Interviews Contact:
Pam Africa, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal: 267-760-7344
Dr. Johanna Fernandez, Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal: 917-930-0804
Dr. Suzanne Ross, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC): 212-927- 2924
Washington Post -- Mumia Long Distance Revolutionary
REVIEW| A new documentary takes a look at the life of the famed prisoner, who some believe is a political prisoner and others still believe is a convicted cop-killer.
Timeline photos
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Gaza: A Struggle of David and Goliath
Attack Dogs of War
http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/attack-dogs-war-long-version
Check it out! In the Boogie Down, view, from the Bruckner Express way, of Rebel Diaz Arts Collective Rooftop. Certainly inspired by Occupy the Justice Dept April 24 event.
Very interesting project; I know this is definitely an issue we need to stay abreast on. Peace and love!
Mother’s Day is a time to cherish the special connections in our families. Yet for the over 2 million people in our prison system, those connections are only maintained through a phone.
The work is far from over...Stand Our Ground Rally in Philadelphia PA May 29,2012 Let's work to Free Em' All!!!
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This is a complete sign of hypocrisy. Duval county procescutors drop charges for this repeat offender because he is a judge's son but extends the full arm of the law on to Marissa Alexander for protecting herself from her abusive husband. Ask Angela Corey where is the justice in that!!!! Angela Corey - 904-630-7154
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We must say Remarley Graham's name as well. Support and learn about this reality. We must say our children's names so we don't forget.
Weekly vigils for Ramarley Graham, which will be held until July 19, 2012, will continue this week. This week's vigil will be dedicated to mothers who have lost children by police brutality and will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Thursday, May 10, 2012. It will begin in front of 749 East 229th Street, Bronx, New York 10466 (between White Plains Road & Barnes Avenue) and will be followed by a march to the 47th precinct located at 4111 Laconia Avenue (Laconia Ave & 229th St). Refreshment will be served.
The struggle continues, the stuggle is now!!!
Occupy DC, Occupy the Hood, Chuck D, M1 from Dead Prez, Rebel Diaz, Ramona Africa and a bunch a rowdy Justice seekers rally at the Department of Justice and March on The White House for Mumia Abu-Jamal\'s birthday. 20 some arrests are made.Warning: Some may find language offensive] Published on Apr ...
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In 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was charged with killing a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mumia was convicted of first degree...
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For the first time ever, actor and activist Danny Glover speaks to prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Glover has supported Abu-Jamal for more than two decades. "I just want to tell you that — and I’m really emotional because I didn’t expect to hear your voice this morning — that we continue to struggle and w...
"The real deal is “OccupyEverything!” Where the People are, there should you be. Where power and wealthare hurting the People, there should you be organizing, resisting, fightingback, winning a better world."
—Mumia Abu-Jamal from Message to the Movement
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUMIA!!
Listen to the humanity of a man, Mumia Abu Jamal
I was filming for my latest film 99% Occupied at the Left Forum (NYC) and captured Mumia Abu Jamal speaking by phone with Cornel West live from prison - a ma...
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