Celebrating the life of our beloved brother Mumia Abu Jamal in London in Parliament Sq.
In Berlin, Germany
ON Oct 14, we were notified the court date was postponed from Oct 19 to Oct 26.
Bradford Gamble, one of just 33 incarcerated people suffering from a terminal illness to be given a medical release from prison since 2013 in Pennsylvania, is fighting to get PA SB835 passed. This new compassionate release bill would extend parole eligibility to ill and/or aging incarcerated people in Pa. state prisons. (https://famm.org/.../PA-SB-835-Medical-Parole-Bill...) Proceeds from the dinner will benefit groups organizing to get SB835 passed.
Berlin, Sa. 23. April - Zillon Gora:
Reading, eating, videos, info, live music and Dj*s at Mumia Abu-Jamals 68 Birthday
https://www.das-mumia-hoerbuch.de/mumiadeutsch.htm...
#Mumia Abu-Jamal #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #USA
#FreeMumia - #FreeThemAll !
All campus teach-in via @copsoffearth on April 24 at 3pm ET on @MumiaAbuJamal 's birthday in conjunction with
@lovenotphearphl & @RobesonHousePHL RSVP HERE TO GET ACCESS TO THE WEBINAR LINK. WILL ALSO BE STREAMING ON YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/cocclovenotphear
From Mexico:
CULTURAL ACT WITH TALKER ABOUT MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Greetings mates. We invite you to this event in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal on Wednesday, October 19 at 6 pm at Casa Okupa Chiapaz, Toledo 22, Col. Juarez, two blocks from the Sevilla metro.
On this day our brother Mumia has an important appeal. His supporters in Philadelphia will support him on court and on the street. From Mexico we join solidarity activities in the world with art, music, dance and information. Organized by Amig@s de Mumia in Mexico https://amigosdemumiamx.wordpress.com/
Back of flier for Oct. 19 court hearing for Mumia.
If you want PDF copies (full page or half page), send email to: mobilization4mumia@gmail.com.
The Liberons Mumia Collective letter that will be sent by thousands of French supporters to the Pennsylvania's Gov. Tom Wolf and Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner on Apr/ 24, Mumia's 68th B'day. Hundreds of postcards from all over the France will be sent to say #FreeMumia.
In Chiapas, Mexico April 24
Online panels feature Journalist & Temple University Professor Linn Washington, Pam Africa, Mumia's nephew Jamal Hart, Black Panther Party veteran Jalil Muntaqim and others, to reflect on the 40 year struggle to free #MumiaAbuJamal. Register: https://bit.ly/3rsz7Jl
Events for Mumia in France on Dec 8, 10 and 11th:
MUMIA : mobilisation internationale pour le 40ème anniversaire de son arrestation
https://mumiabujamal.com/.../mumia-mobilisation.../
Translation from French: MUMIA: international mobilization for the 40th anniversary of his arrest
Vienna, Austria solidarity action on the anniversary of 40 years unjust imprisonment of Mumia, on Dec 9.
by the Freedom Committee for Ali Osman Köse
and Solidarity Committee for Political Prisoners, Vienna
SATURDAY AT 3 PM EDT – 8 PM EDT
CurbFest For Political Prisoners! - Philly
Free · Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The CurbFest for Political Prisoners connects organizers with community members to raise awareness of political prisoners and share ways to get involved in the movement. It features local DJs, Performers and Artists. In Philly the first CurbFest will take place in Germantown on September 18, 2021 with 6 curb locations near Germantown and Chelten Avenues. Boston is already planning their CurbFest! Where will you host your Curbfest?
What is a political prisoner?
Political Prisoners are people jailed on charges related to their resistance to oppression and repression, and targeted by the state for their political beliefs and/or actions. The contribution their resistance makes to revolution is the basis of their capture regardless of the charges brought under the invalid, racist laws of the government.
Get involved
We are asking two things of you. 1) Consider hosting a Curbfest in your community. We are developing a toolkit to make it a lighter lift for you. 2) Please make a donation to $cashapp, paypal, venmo to help us get everything in place for this to happen all over the country.
GoFundMe: Gofundme.com/curbfest
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2021 AT 3 PM EDT
We Say NO to the Prison Profiteers! (Demo/Teach-in)
Event by Food Not Bombs Solidarity, Workers World Party - Philadelphia and Mobilization4Mumia
Aramark Headquarters-24th & Market, Philadelphia
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
Smart Communications, J-Pay, Securus, Keefe Group, Polycom, GTL, Wellpath and Aramark-all aspects of an incarcerated persons existence are now privatized by the PA-DOC.
Come out and learn more about who these leeches are and voice your opposition!
In memory of George Jackson and other comrades in the revolutionary prison movement in the 1970s, this year in the month of Black August we honor all those who have fallen in the struggle and demand immediate freedom for the prisoners of the Black Liberation Movement who are still held behind the walls: Sundiata Acoli, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Ruchell Magee, Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz, Kamau Sadiki, Veronza Bowers, Jo Jo Bowen, Fred Muhammad Burton, David Gilbert, Rev. Joy Powell, Kojo Bomami Sabubu, Ed Poindexter, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.
All during the month we will be sharing information about them, and also about Assata Shakur and the now transitioned Nehanda Abiodún, who, from Cuba, have played a major role in building support for these prisoners.
There are now two events programmed this year in Mexico:
Virtual forum on Black August. Seminario Permanente Afroindoamérica, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe. Date to be confirmed.
Saturday, August 28. Bike Ride and Screening of Black August Hip Hop, with the sounds of Dead Prez, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Black Thought and other groups, at the OkupaChe located at one side of Filosofía y Letras (UNAM). The cyclists will set out at 12 noon from the United States Embassy, arriving at the Che Guevara Auditorium around 2 pm for the screening of the film and conversation about Black August.
During the month there will also be graphic, poetic, informative and independent media presentations.
To read or download the book Agosto Negro. Presas y Presos en Pie de Lucha, written by yours truly, see https://subversiones.org/PDFs/agostonegro.pdf
¡FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
Sunday, September 12, 2021
11 am sharp (Yoga warm-up at 10am)
FDR Park
Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross invites you to our fourth annual Running Down The Walls (RDTW)! Join us for another revolutionary 5K run/walk/roll and day of solidarity amplifying the voices of our comrades behind bars, lifting them up in their struggles, and maintaining material support. If you would like to participate in light yoga and warm-up stretches before, please arrive by 10am and bring a mat if you can. For details, go to: https://phillyabc.org/rdtw/
Join us on June 5th for our Political Prisoner Porch fest event, an annual music festival, featuring musicians and DJs playing free shows on porches throughout the neighborhood,
This year's festival in West Philadelphia, will be to focus on our our fight to free all of our political prisoners and prisoners of war in the U.S., who are aging, elderly and ill and deserve compassionate releases so the can be freed from the cages, used to disempower our communities and movements for self-empowerment and liberation.
This festival will bring together our communities together to demand FREE EM ALL! https://fb.me/e/ScfhMcpf
Free Maroon, Free Mumia, Free Mutulu, Free Sundiata, Free All Political Prisoners, Free Them All!
May 26 - Emergency Emergency Emergency
Baba Maroon is not receiving his scheduled medical treatment for his life threatening stage 4 cancer.
please read the jpegs with the script and make the calls from now until Friday to ensure he gets immediate response and medical treatment before memorial day.
he was scheduled last week and it has been postponed and he is upset and has been expressing his concerns. it's now time for us who support and love him to show up and call, text, fax directly to express your concerns. let the DOC know that he is not alone.
we need every on Wednesday May 26th from 8am ET to 12p ET and from 1pm ET to 4pm ET to flood their lines and continue again on Thursday and Friday until he is treated.
Emergency virtual maroon stream for Maroon tomorrow May 25th 2pm ET for further information. https://bit.ly/maroonstream
Here's the livestream link Sunny Singh will be using for tomorrow's MOVE remembrance of lives lost in the 1985 bombing that killed 6 adults and 5 children: https://youtu.be/Yr-at2qOSco
Libertad a Mumia-Abu-Jamal, Mexico City, Mexico invites you to two virtual events:
- On Sunday May 9 at 8 pm on the Friends of Mumia México FB page , we will be shooting the documentary MOVE
- On Thursday, May 13 at 8 pm on the FB page of Amigos de Mumia México , we will be shooting the documentary Ramona Africa. Inside the Activist Studio
More details at : https://amigosdemumiamx.blog/2021/05/06/invitacion-a-eventos-solidarios-con-la-familia-move/
Washington DC Mumia supporters
Come up to Philly on April 24 for a mass rally and march!
But if you can't make it here, go to a rally in DC on April 24, and on April 25
Paris, France protest on April 25 for Mumia and all political prisoners
Paris France protest for Mumia April 24
London, England protest for Mumia on April 24.
Oazaca, Mexico protest for Mumia on April 24
Protest in Amsterdam, Netherlands on April 23 for Mumia!
Mexico City protest for Mumia on April 24:
Protest for Mumia’s freedom in Berlin, Germany on April 24.
Protest police Terror: & Tribute to Delbert Africa
Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 12 PM – 3 PM Philadelphia Museum of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130
Stop Police Terror and Unjust Imprisonment!
In the wee hours of the morning on August 8th 1978, hundreds of heavily armed philadelphia police and firemen came out to MOVE’s home. Removing cars from the street and people sleeping in their beds, police invaded the Powelton Village community and took position in combat formation with MOVE Headquarters as their target. Police commissioner Joseph O’Neill ordered MOVE members to surrender over a loudspeaker. “Attention MOVE this is America.”
When MOVE refused to surrender, a violent siege began. A bulldozer was used to knock down MOVE’s fence, a hydraulic cherry picker knocked out the homes windows. Firemen accompanied by police entered the residence and found all MOVE members in the basement. Firefighters cut a hole in the floor to gain optimal positioning from their water cannons that were used to blast MOVE members that were trapped in the cellar. Tear gas, smoke bombs and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from police rained down on MOVE members as they shielded their babies and each other.
The suffocating affects of the tear gas and smoke forced MOVE to abandon the home. Police awaiting their exit violently snatched babies from the women’s arms and dangled them like rag dolls. With a battered body and bullet wombs, Chuck got out of the building and into the arms of awaiting police who further beat him. The beatings were not reserved for Chuck, the other members sustained severe beatings as well.
In the midst of the gun fire Officer James Ramp was shot and killed.
Separated from the other MOVE members, Delbert was ordered at gunpoint by police to exit the building from a secluded side window. Although shot, and exiting the basement bare chested with his hands up, that did not stop police from smashing Delbert over the head with a steal helmet or breaking his jaw with a rifle butt. On the caught on tape beating of Delbert Africa, the officers can be seen kicking Delbert so hard he was lifted up off the ground. The tape could not capture that he was beat unconscious and beat back conscious. The beating continued four hours in the paddy wagon around the city, in the hospital where doctors were horrified by police behavior and forced them to stop the beating so they could begin to treat his injury’s.
When the smoke cleared and the confrontation was over, MOVE members were facing charges for the dead officer. 9 Move members were arrested, framed, charged, tried and sentenced 30-100 years each. Although police admitted to shooting at MOVE, even testifying to shooting in corners where they heard babies crying, MOVE was blamed for the entire confrontation and faced a beyond maximum sentence.
When asked by Mumia Abu-Jamal on a local talk show, the trial judge admitted that he had absolutely no idea who killed the officer. After 40+ years of unjust imprisonment the surviving MOVE 9 members where released from prison due to immense pressure from supporters around the world, a powerful legal team and the strategies taken from of John Africa.
Merle and Phil Africa never made it beyond the prison walls. Merle passed away in 1998 and Phil passed in 2015.
As a result of the attack on MOVE, community members protested to no avail. Like the protests of today, civilian demonstrations were met police beatings, rubber bullets and horseback clobbering. Using the same hateful tactics on peaceful protesters and bystanders that they still use today!
Watch this event at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SgwJoDcVO8
NYC: Get on the Bus April 24 @ 10:00 am - 10:30 pm Buses, vans, and other transportation are available from New York City to Philadelphia on April 24th Due to COVID restrictions, advanced reservations are required. Call Free Mumia hotline: 212.330.8029 or email bus@freemumia.com. Since this will be more expensive than usual, we are asking people who can afford it to pay $50 for the roundtrip. However, anyone who wants to go with us will be able to, so we are also asking for donations at:
http://www.freemumia.com/donate/
so we can provide scholarship rides for everyone who needs one in order to participate. Any donation will help!!
ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!!
Friday, 11am - 1pm, March 12 at Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, 3 S. Penn Sq, Philadelphia
Rally at Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's office to demand the release of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and other ill and elderly incarcerated people in Pennsylvania prisons.
Mumia, who had been hospitalized to remove excessive fluid from his lungs on March 3, was found to have COVID-19 and was also diagnosed with congestive heart disease (CHD). He had already been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver five years ago. Dr Ricardo Alvarez, who serves as Mumia's medical consultant, says of people diagnosed with congestive heart disease, 50% don't live past 5 years.
CHD patients who live past five years require proper meds, physical therapy and other life-altering changes. The PA DOC's anti-humane policies make it hard on anyone to change their diet, to exercise more, to get fresh air, to reduce stress or to receive the right medicines.
That is why Mumia and other incarcerated people who suffer from similar life-threatening ailments must be released.
Mumia is also innocent and is in the middle of legal challenges that could finally prove his innocence and win his freedom but Krasner and the F.O.P have purposely contested and delayed the process. Justice delayed is justice denied!
DA Krasner, Gov. Tom Wolf and PA DOC Secretary John Wolf are responsible for the healthcare for Mumia and all those incarcerated. Their refusal to release Mumia and to deny him and other ill and elderly incarcerated people proper healthcare amounts to nothing less a death sentence.
In celebration of Mumia's 66th birthday on April 24, please participate in these exciting virtual events from April 23-26.
To view the April 23 press conference register at:
In celebration of Mumia's 66th birthday on April 24, please participate in these exciting virtual events from April 23-26.
To register to view the teach-in:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teach-in-us-empire-v-political-prisoners-tickets-102522325034
Registration information for events on April 25 and 26 to follow.
10.1.19
Gathering at 4pm at the Rizzo Statue on Fri., Sep 4
Philadelphia, PA- In recent months local activists have demanded the firing of PPD cops whose racist social media posts were discovered. After protests and other expressions of anger from Philadelphia communities, the officers were fired -- only to get their jobs back after intervention from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). This demonstrates a perennial disregard for Black, Brown, and poor communities who are victims of systemic violence at the hands of Philadelphia police.
At a time when a mass movement is trying to reform the criminal justice system, the FOP and its supporters are mobilizing resistance to everyone who wants an end to police misconduct. The FOP shows contempt for the friends and relatives of thousands of Philadelphia families whose loved ones are unfairly imprisoned. On Sep 4 it is staging a false show of concern for Maureen Faulkner and other “victims of crime,” while supporting cops who routinely commit acts of violence in our communities. The FOP not only refuses to admit police crimes, they want to impose law and order on our communities no matter how many constitutional rights are violated.
Among the thousands of unfair convictions over decades in Philadelphia is that of Mumia Abu Jamal. Recent court decisions have confirmed what his supporters have been arguing since 1981 - that his arrest, trial and appeals were rife with police, prosecutorial and judicial violations of the constitution. The FOP’s “One Family, One Fight” event blatantly ignores the pain and suffering of Abu-Jamal’s family members who have had to endure over 30 years of his unjust imprisonment.
Police terror and overzealous prosecution has resulted in the conviction of countless people and mass incarceration. Intimidation and manipulation of witnesses, hiding, evidence, discrimination in jury selection, ineffective counsel, judicial bias--these and other unfair systemic failings in Abu-Jamal’s and other cases cause unjust imprisonment of our community members and at the same time excuse police violence.
For decades, cops convicted of serious crimes from theft to murder have been routinely returned to policing on city streets because the FOP doesn’t respect the human or constitutional rights of this city’s residents, particularly if they’re Black or Brown, migrant workers, LGBTQ+ or poor.
Local activists will demonstrate at the Rizzo statue and then march to 13th and Locust, the site of Mumia Abu Jamal’s arrest, to demand the end of police terrorism at the hands of the PPD and the FOP and the release of our wrongly convicted community members.
Community groups organizing this important event include: International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mobilization4Mumia, Philly for REAL Justice, Food Not Bombs Solidarity, International Action Center, Free Mumia Coalition (NYC), Workers Solidarity Network, Occupy PHA, Workers World Party, Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement, Philly Tenants Union, MOVE, The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home and more.
9.26.19
A lot has happened in the last few months.
A massive petition, phone-in and email campaign helped pressure the PA Department of Corrections to allow Mumia to have critical cataract surgery that has restored his vision in one eye. A second surgery should happen soon, again thanks to our collective efforts.
On September 3 Mumia’s attorneys Judith Ritter and Sam Spital filed 4 important briefs with the state Superior Court to advance the legal process so that Mumia can have new Post Conviction Relief Act hearings. Issues concern racism in jury selection, prosecution withholding evidence from the defense and insufficient counsel for the defense. The attorneys also filed a brief requesting the case to be remanded (sent back) to the Common Pleas Court on the basis of new evidence uncovered in January 2019 when they had access to previously hidden District Attorney file boxes.
DA Larry Krasner has said he will not contest the request for a remand to the local court.
Because of all this and more there will be an important, in person meeting for Mumia Abu-Jamal that will include a more detailed legal update, on Sat. September 28.
Please make every effort to attend and come prepared to get involved in our combined efforts to bring Mumia home!
5.13.19
In Germantown section of Philadelphia:
Mobilization4Mumia presents an afternoon video showing and discussion exposing the corruption of the Philadelphia Police in perpetrating the injustice against Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Saturday, May 18, 1pm
Joseph E Coleman Northwest Regional Library, 68 W. Chelten Ave, Philadelphia
4.23.19
The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Defense Campaign has called for a rally to celebrate Mumia and all Anti-Imperialist Political prisoners on April 26th at 7pm at 336 Brixton Rd SW9. Come and join us! Freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal! Freedom for all political prisoners!
Sa. 27. April 2019 - Berlin, US Botschaft - 16 - 17 Uhr
Mahnwache: FREE MUMIA - Free Them ALL!
US-Botschaft, Pariser Platz 2/Brandenburger Tor, 10117 Berlin-Mitte U+S-Brandenburger Tor
#FREE #MUMIA - Free Them #ALL!
Sa. April 27., 2019-Berlin, US Embassy-16-17 pm
Mahnwache: FREE MUMIA - Free Them ALL!
US-Botschaft, Pariser Platz 2/Brandenburger Tor, 10117 Berlin-Mitte U+S-Brandenburger Tor
#FREE #MUMIA - Free Them #ALL!
https://de.indymedia.org/node/31500
4.17.19
APRIL 20: Detroit
In Germany
This forum will focus on the cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political prisoner, and the Juveniles Lifers Without Parole in Michigan who are in prison, in violation of several U.S. Supreme Court rulings stating that such sentences are unconstitutional.
Guest speakers include:
• Pam Africa, representing the International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Rev. Ed Pinkney, former political prisoner in Michigan
• Marilyn Jordan, Community and civil rights activist, President, Detroit People’s Taskforce
• Kimberly Annette Simmons-Woodson, former juvenile lifer without parole, served 30 years, founder of Redeeming Kimberly, a service that assists newly returning citizens navigate coming home.
• Jose Burgos, Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network (ICAN)
• Siwatu-Salama Ra, an environmental and racial justice activist, was wrongfully convicted
for defending her family from assault by waving an unloaded gun at the assailant,
despite having a CCP (Concealed Carry Permit).
Saturday at 12 PM – 3 PM , Cass Corridor Commons, 4605 Cass Ave, Detroit, Michigan 48201
https://www.facebook.com/events/2158721160891186/
3.22.19
Calling on Schools, Colleges, Universities, Community Centers- ALL institutions of learning
For Mumia's birthday this year, on April 24th, we are calling for educators everywhere, across the nation, and even internationally, to facilitate a teach-in at your school, college, university, or other institution of learning in order to bring increased attention and mobilize support for the case of Mumia Abu Jamal as we step up the fight to BRING MUMIA HOME!! The teach-in that educators facilitate can occur at any time throughout the day or night, on Mumia's birthday- April 24th but the walkout is set for 1:00 p.m. Eastern time (or 10:00 a.m. PST) if at all possible for students to walkout at the same time and stream their walkout LIVE via social media for the world to see support from students all over the country (and even internationally).
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 10 AM – 10 PM
If you are planning to participate in the teach-in and walkout at a school/college/university near you please make note of the school where you will be below in the comments section so we can get a sense of the level of participation and we will know where to send media to capture images of the walkout.
Links to curriculum ideas for possible programs for the teach-in will also be listed below; if you have curriculum ideas to add, please post and I will add them to the list.
PLEASE help to spread the word about this event, inviting all educators and students you know so we can work together to FREE MUMIA!!!
3.12.19
Berkeley Event for Mumia April 6:
Community activists on the West Coast can help the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal by encouraging friends and family to participate in an important event on April 6 in Berkeley, California.
Among the impressive list of speakers are Angela Davis, Pam Africa, and Alice Walker. Judith Ritter, lead attorney for Mumia, and Jess Mackler of Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal will also speak. Mumia himself will be calling in.
The gathering will take place in the Bancroft Hotel Main Ballroom, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.
1/19/19
A flier has been created for use on Martin Luther King Jr weekend in Philadelphia and in other locations around the world. The two-sided flier features a graphic by artist Seth Tobachman and begins with:
“TODAY, the government of the United States, its corporate media and its liberal prison-war complex is pretending to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They peddle a sanitized façade of him, a Black Santa Claus who brought us “a dream” in his sack.
But we are here to honor the real Dr. King, the man who was despised in his time by the powerful, just as Mumia Abu Jamal and other revolutionaries are despised by today’s power structure. Just like Mumia Abu Jamal, Dr. King was demonized, imprisoned, censored, and spied upon…”
Brief summary of the case and evidence
The document includes a brief synopsis of why Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent:
“• On Dec. 9, 1981, Abu-Jamal was driving a taxi when he saw that police had stopped his brother. He got out of the car to make sure police were not violating his brother’s civil rights. The incident resulted in both Mumia and Police Officer Daniel Faulkner being shot. Faulkner died and Abu Jamal was critically wounded
• Eyewitnesses saw the shooter, who did not resemble Abu-Jamal. flee the scene But when police arrived, they arrested Mumia Abu-Jamal…”
The hand out concludes with Dr King’s call to take the streets:
Justice is not a passive phenomenon
“Dr. King said “the arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” But know this is not a passive phenomenon. We know the only reason it bends is because revolutionaries like Dr. King and Abu Jamal and the movements that produced them take to the streets and do what Dr. King prescribed: “disrupt our cities…create a crisis that will force the nation to look at the situation, dramatize it…make it known that until our problem is solved, America may have many, many days, but they will be full of trouble.”
And what action you can take to support Abu-Jamal at this present time:
Please contact DA Krasner and tell him:
Don’t stand in the way of justice!
Do NOT appeal Judge Tucker’s decision.
Email: DA_Central@phila.gov;
Phone: 215-686-8000;
Tweet: @philaDAO
Mobilization4Mumia.com ; BringMumiaHome.com; FreeMumia.com”
You can request a PDF copy of the flier by emailing mobilization4mumia@gmail.com.
1.14.19
Mumia supporters invited to Press Conference January 15:
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14 -- Community activists and leaders from the Philadelphia region will hold a news conference 11:00AM, Tuesday, January 15 at A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Avenue to demand Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner not stand in the way of justice for convicted journalist/activist Mumia AbuJamal, by not appealing the ground-breaking decision by Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker which would give Abu-Jamal the right to reopen his appeal. This news conference comes a week after over 4,000 petitions were delivered to Krasner’s office demanding he not appeal Tucker’s ruling. The Tucker decision is an important ruling that could impact other prisoners whose appeals were similarly denied.
The community also has questions regarding the recent “discovery” of six boxes of files on Abu-Jamal’s case in the DA’s Office. The files were allegedly found on Dec. 28, 2018 after Tucker had already announced his decision, but the discovery wasn’t revealed until January 7. Krasner ran on a platform of reform and transparency. The activists, many whom supported his election, are now asking Krasner to keep his promise and do the right thing by Abu-Jamal.
Speakers from a broad range of backgrounds will raise these and other questions about this latest scandal in the Philadelphia DA’s Office and call on the Krasner to not appeal Tucker’s decision.
Mumia Abu-Jamal won a significant case before Judge Leon Tucker in a decision announced on Dec. 27, granting Abu-Jamal new rights of appeal.
Abu-Jamal’s supporters will rally to demand Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner not challenge this decision. Community activists will gather in front of the DA’s office, 3 S. Penn Sq. across from City Hall, on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 12 noon. Because of expected rain, participants will march to William Way LGBTQ Center, 1315 Spruce St for an indoor event.
Current DA Krasner should cease defending former Philadelphia DA and later PA Supreme Court Judge Ron Castille’s now-discredited claim of impartiality. Furthermore, Krasner should not challenge Judge Tucker’s decision and allow Abu-Jamal to go forward with re-arguing his appeals, which Judge Tucker states “would best serve the appearance of justice.”
Pam Africa of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal said, “The people’s movement is responsible for this victory. A new appeal opens the door to Mumia’s freedom – a new trial or dismissal of the charges.”
Judge Tucker's ground breaking ruling could impact many other prisoners whose appeals were similarly denied.
Tucker ruled former Pa Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille denied Abu-Jamal fair and impartial appeals by not recusing himself from the defendant’s appeals from 1998-2012. The ruling referenced Castille’s public statements of being a “law and order” prosecutor, responsible for 45 men on death row, the support of the Fraternal Order of Police and the new evidence of Castille’s having singled out men convicted as “police killers”. It all created the appearance of bias and impropriety in the appeal process.
Judge Tucker’s ruling means that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeals of his 1982 conviction, that he was framed by police and prosecution manufacturing evidence of guilt and suppressing the proof of his innocence as well as other due process trial rights, are re-stored and must be re-heard in the PA appeals court.
Abu-Jamal has always maintained his innocence in the fatal shooting of police officer Daniel Faulkner. His prosecution was politically-motivated because of his Black Panther Party membership, his support of the MOVE organization and as a radical journalist. His trial was racially biased: trial judge Albert Sabo declared, “I’m gonna help them fry the n----r.” and the prosecution excluded African Americans from the jury.
After 37 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the charges should be dismissed and he should be freed.
Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 12 PM – 2 PM at DA’s office, 3 S. Penn Sq. across from City Hall
Mumia Abu-Jamal won a significant case before Judge Leon Tucker in a decision announced on Dec. 27, granting Abu-Jamal new rights of appeal.
Abu-Jamal’s supporters will rally to demand Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner not challenge this decision. Community activists will gather in front of the DA’s office, 3 S. Penn Sq. across from City Hall, on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 12 noon.
Current DA Krasner should cease defending former Philadelphia DA and later PA Supreme Court Judge Ron Castille’s now-discredited claim of impartiality. Furthermore, Krasner should not challenge Judge Tucker’s decision and allow Abu-Jamal to go forward with re-arguing his appeals, which Judge Tucker states “would best serve the appearance of justice.”
Pam Africa of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal said, “The people’s movement is responsible for this victory. A new appeal opens the door to Mumia’s freedom – a new trial or dismissal of the charges.”
Judge Tucker's ground breaking ruling could impact many other prisoners whose appeals were similarly denied.
Tucker ruled former Pa Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille denied Abu-Jamal fair and impartial appeals by not recusing himself from the defendant’s appeals from 1998-2012. The ruling referenced Castille’s public statements of being a “law and order” prosecutor, responsible for 45 men on death row, the support of the Fraternal Order of Police and the new evidence of Castille’s having singled out men convicted as “police killers”. It all created the appearance of bias and impropriety in the appeal process.
Judge Tucker’s ruling means that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeals of his 1982 conviction, that he was framed by police and prosecution manufacturing evidence of guilt and suppressing the proof of his innocence as well as other due process trial rights, are re-stored and must be re-heard in the PA appeals court.
Abu-Jamal has always maintained his innocence in the fatal shooting of police officer Daniel Faulkner. His prosecution was politically-motivated because of his Black Panther Party membership, his support of the MOVE organization and as a radical journalist. His trial was racially biased: trial judge Albert Sabo declared, “I’m gonna help them fry the n----r.” and the prosecution excluded African Americans from the jury.
After 37 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the charges should be dismissed and he should be freed.
Everyone who believes Mumia was unjustly tried and imprisoned in 1981, or believes his appeals were unfair because of PA Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille's involvement, or believes as a political prisoner former Black Panther Party leader Mumia should be freed -- the time to show your support is on APRIL 30.
The DA's Office will GIVE A STATUS REPORT on how they will handle the Williams precedent in Mumia's case. Come to the courthouse to let them know that we demand they comply with the precedent: Mumia should never have had one of his appeals heard by a judge who was formerly the DA fighting his prior appeals - and NO ONE SHOULD! Mumia should win the right to have his appeal heard fairly!
It's important to pack the court on both March 27 and April 30, when this series of court proceedings is expected to end with a final decision on Mumia's bid to re-open his appeals.
February 12, 2018 Movement
February 12, 2018
Dear Comrades, Friends, and Mumia Supporters:
As of today we are happy to announce that the organizations below have agreed to initiate the March 27th Offensive to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal expecting, of course, the many other organizations that signed onto the International Call to join us. Though the court hearing will be until April 30, we are asking all Mumia supporters to hold rallies March 24-27 to help raise awareness about Mumia's case as well as the cases of many other political prisoners and of mass incarceration.
We have set up an event page for the Offensive to Free Mumia which people around the world can now access, at freemumia.com. We also have a form, below, on which you can submit your activities/ events/ demonstrations so that we can post them.
To date, the French Collective has announced a very important contribution to this campaign initiated by The French syndicate of Journalists of the CGT (the largest and most widely recognized French labor union). The International Federation of Journalists, which has 600,000 members in 140 different countries, is publicly announcing its support for Mumia. Attached is the union’s letter to Governor Wolf..
And, of course, the court hearing will take place on Monday, April 30 so that all eyes will be on Philadelphia that day. Bus arrangements from New York City are being planned, and people from other cities and countries have begun to let us know that they are planning to come to Philadelphia on that day as well. We have received several commitments regarding people coming from France. Also, we got word that there is some planning for an activity afoot in Senegal.
Please let us know as soon as you can about any plans you may have for events or for coming to Philadelphia on April 30.
A luta continua, and onto a successful international offensive leading up to and on Monday, April 30!
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ)
The MOVE Organization
Educators for Mumia
International Action Center
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
Mobilization to Free Mumia (California)
Oakland Teachers for Mumia
Committee to Save Mumia
Prison Radio
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Oakland, CA
Free Mumia Network, GERMANY (Free Mumia Berlin, Free Mumia Frankfurt, Free Mumia Heidelberg, and Free Mumia Nurnberg)
French Collective Libérons Mumia, FRANCE
Saint-Denis Mumia Committee, FRANCE
Amig@s de Mumia de México, MEXICO
Frantz Fanon Foundation
International Workers Committee Against War and Exploitation
United Steelworkers, Local 8751, School Bus Drivers Union
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Judge Leon Tucker has called for the Philadelphia DA's office to come to court with a progress update on their understanding of the precedent set by the decision in the Williams case, which could win Mumia a chance to present his original appeals in with judges not shown to have boas against his case - from the PA Supreme Court onward.
PACK THE COURTHOUSE FOR MUMIA!
Judge Tucker has ordered an evidentiary hearing for Wed, January 17, 2018 his order is for the DA’s office to show cause why it should not locate and produce Gayle McLaughlin Bartholdi, Esq. to present testimony regarding the content of the documents of the DA’s office says it cannot locate in reference to her memorandum to Ronald D. Castille on March 27, 1990.
Ronald Castille is a former Philadelphia District Attorney who became a PA Supreme Court judge. He refused to recuse himself when Mumia's case went to the PA Supreme Court despite having been the DA during Mumia's prior appeal.
The Supreme Court has since ruled that behavior unconstitutional in a different case where Castille did the same thing.
BOOK RELEASE PARTY! with speakers including: Dr. Gerald Horne, Ash Williams, Pam Africa, Lorenzo 'Cat' Johnson, Tag, and Jeffrey Deskovic. Music by: DJ Christy Love
$5.00 suggested donation
more info: bringmumiahome@gmail.com
A series of speakers will discuss the challenges of ending mass incarceraation featuring: Marc Lamont-Hill, Michael Coard, Pam Africa, Hakeem Browder (brother of Khalif Browder), Bret Grote (lawyer for Mumia Abu-Jamal).
Gather at the Rizzo statue at 1401 JFK Blvd in Philadelphia to march for Mumia!
Teach-in and book release party for Mumia's new book "Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?"
