Mumia Abu-Jamal is Philadelphia's Innocent Native Son
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 …
Demonstrate and March, Mon., February 15, 2021, 11 am, DA Larry Krasner’s Office, 3 Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA. Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s so-called progressive District Attorney, has filed another legal brief denying Mumia Abu-Jamal the right to present all the new evidence that could prove his innocence.
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 for his release from prison on Wednesday, saying he was innocent. They also condemned the 1985 bombing of the …
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal demand his freedom on the 39th anniversary of his arrestRead More
October 25, 2020, An interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal by Maresi Starzmann,Reprinted from Truthout. “We must move for what we want, not for what we think the system can produce, because the system is the problem.” Mumia Abu-Jamal The somber baritone of Mumia Abu-Jamal is unmistakable. Before we can exchange greetings, one of several automated announcements …
You Cannot Decarcerate by Using the Tools of Incarceration, Says Mumia Abu-JamalRead More
December 3, 2019: By Betsey Piette, Reprinted from Workers World. Political prisoner and world-renowned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal and his supporters are closer than ever to winning his release, 38 years after he was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. The Fraternal Order of Police, former district attorneys and other political higher-ups who participated …
January 21, 2014, By Johanna Fernandez. Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. Mumia has been wrongfully imprisoned for 41 years. He spent the first 28.5 years of his imprisonment on Pennsylvania’s death row. In 2011, his death sentence was confirmed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and he is now serving a sentence of “life in prison” …
