Mumia Abu-Jamal is Philadelphia's Innocent Native Son
The state Superior Court ruled Thursday that it lacked jurisdiction to hear Abu-Jamal’s latest challenge of his conviction and life sentence for the 1981 traffic stop death of Officer Daniel Faulkner. Easy-To-Understand Article. May 20, 2021, By Johanna Fernández, PhD. This is the latest development in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Superior Court of …
State Supreme Court to hear latest Mumia Abu-Jamal case filings.Read More
May 27, 2021, By Betsey Piette, Workers World. For decades, the endorsement of the powerful Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police was sought by almost every candidate running for office in the city and throughout Pennsylvania. Through the power of its purse strings, the FOP has been able to fill the courts with judges who favor …
Black Lives Matter movement sparks electoral defeat for FOPRead More
Krasner’s resounding victory over Carlos Vega was an emphatic marker of the rapid decline of the FOP’s political brand. May 20, 2021, By Sean Collins Walsh, Chris Brennan, and Julia Terruso, Reprinted from The Philadelphia Inquirer (original link). After voting for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Jesse Vincent walked out of his Mount Airy polling place and said …
May 1, 2021, By Janine Jackson, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Reprinted from https://FAIR.org/. Philadelphia public broadcaster WHYY (4/24/2021) was one of the few outlets to report on an April 24 rally seeking the release from prison of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The story included important information on Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life sentence for …
April 26, 2021, By Marie Kelly, Reprinted from Workers World. An international coalition of groups supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal held events April 23-25, 2021, to commemorate his 67th birthday (April 24) and call for his freedom. Mumia has been unjustly incarcerated for nearly 40 years. His health has deteriorated due to the harsh conditions he has …
Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History and a leading member of the movement to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners home, reports on Mumia’s COVID-19 diagnosis.
The Only Treatment is Freedom: Mumia Abu-Jamal and COVIDRead More
This is a fantastic hate5six short film about the generational and ancestral obligation to do what’s right. It’s produced in memory of Phil, Merle and Delbert Africa of the MOVE 9, all of whom were murdered by medical neglect within the prison system. Using a combination of archival footage and coverage from the March 12, …
Reprinted from The Jericho Movement Blog. Safiya Bukhari, a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who spent close to nine years in prison was the first chair of the New York City Free Mumia Coalition and an international organizer of the Jericho Movement. Watch this tribute by Mumia Abu-Jamal (thank you, Sister Anne …
Long Live the Spirit of Our Warrior Sister Safiya Bukhari!Read More
Reprinted from The Jamal Journal. By Noelle Hanrahan, P.I. J.D. Prison Radio. Weds., March 17, 2021. We ask that you examine whether you have “confidence” in this conviction. Is the record that you are defending in court something your office can stand behind given that you know prosecution and police practices were deeply flawed in …
What Larry Krasner the District Attorney of Philadelphia Needs to Do!Read More
Bro. Zayid Muhammad, March 11, 2021, New York Amsterdam News. I’m going help them fry the nigger…” Judge Albert Sabo There comes a time when silence is betrayal… Martin Luther King, Jr. Imagine all National Newspaper Publishers Association Black newspapers, for example, carrying regularly featured articles as a matter of priority on all of the …
