Mumia Abu-Jamal is Philadelphia's Innocent Native Son

Protest for justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal. By Joe Piette

Bring Mumia Home

Mumia Abu-Jamal is Philadelphia’s Native Son.
Free the evidence. Free Mumia.

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Who is Mumia?

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been writing since age 15, first as Minister of Information for the Philadelphia Black Panthers (1969-1971), then for numerous Philadelphia radio and print venues, including National Public Radio. Mumia is an internationally-recognized award-winning journalist known as, “the voice of the voiceless” for his many years spent writing about issues relating to racism in Philadelphia, the murder of local MOVE organization people, people in prison, and more.

Writing

Mumia has written eight books and countless articles and commentaries from a prison cell on death row in Pennsylvania.

Support

The movement for Mumia Abu-Jamal is an international network that has taken to the streets for over thirty years to stop two state-sponsored executions, organized to overturn his death sentence, recently sponsored a landmark court case which forced the PA Department of Corrections to administer treatment for his Hepatitis C.

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Mumia Wins: F.O.P.’S Kings Bench Petition Dismissed

Mumia Legal Case for Freedom Now Proceeds Today, the PA Supreme Court issued an Order dismissing Maureen Faulkner’s King’s Bench Petition. Here is an excerpt from the Order: “AND NOW, this 16th day of December 2020,…

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Wadiya Jamal and Pam Africa Speak on December 9, 2020.

Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal demand his freedom on the 39th anniversary of his arrest

December 9, 2020, By Mensah M. Dean, Reprinted from The Philadephia Inquirer. Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, used the 39th anniversary of his arrest to call…

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Philadelphia: Mumia’s Book Release Event!

Weds., December 9, 2020, 11am – 2pm EST, 52nd and Larchwood St. (across from Malcolm X Park), Philadelphia, PA, 11am: Press Conference, Book Release of Murder Inc. Book 3: Perfecting Tyranny by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Steven…

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Help Free Deathly Ill Political Prisoner Maroon Shoatz!

CALL GOVERNOR WOLF: (717) 787-2500. Demand the immediate and unconditional release of Russell Maroon Shoatz, who is suffering from Stage 4 cancer and has now been diagnosed with Covid-19. Russell Maroon Shoatz’s old age does not…

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2020-11-16 Press Conference for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Colin Kaepernick, Angela Davis headline new call for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom

Colin Kaepernick called on the current movement against racist policing to join in the work to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal home: “If the Black Lives Matter movement is to mean anything, then Mumia’s life and legacy must…

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Colin Kaepernick calls on law enforcement authorities to ‘Free Mumia’

Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2020, By Julie Shaw.   Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers player who famously took a knee during the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice, called Monday for the…

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Our Exonerated

We love Philadelphia and agonize how many of our Native Sons (Black men) are framed up by ambitious District Attorneys, racist police, and compromised judges. The newest Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) and its detailed review of suspicious cases has, so far, exonerated 14 innocent men. All Black. All framed for murder. Read their stories.