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Political Prisoner Mumia radio commentary predicts Zimmerman’s acquittal
Posted on July 14, 2013 by denverabc
Mumia on Russell Maroon Shoats
Posted on March 5, 2012 by denverabc
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Mumia Update from the MOVE Organization and ICFFMAJ
Posted on January 22, 2012 by denverabc
As most of you already know, Mumia was transferred to SCI-Mahanoy in upstate PA. more than a month ago, directly after Phila. prosecutor Seth Williams announced that he wasn’t pursuing the death penalty in Mumia’s case. This meant that Mumia’s sentence went from death to life in prison without parole.
Since arriving at SCI-Mahanoy, Mumia has been in the hole, on AC (administrative custody) status, solitary confinement, even though there is no valid reason for him to be in the hole. The conditions are torturous
and much worse than the conditions on death row. These conditions have been condemned by the United Nations as torturous.
Since arriving at Mahanoy, Superintendent John Kerestes and his staff have gone from one thing to the next to vent their fury and racism on Mumia. First they claimed to be waiting on paperwork that Mumia’s sentence is a life sentence and not death, but Mahanoy has no death chamber, so Mumia would
never be sent there if he still had a death sentence.
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Prison officials blame Mumia’s dreadlocks for his solitary confinement
Posted on January 15, 2012 by denverabc
In a statement issued late Thursday, January 12, an attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal reported that he has been given a new reason for his continued solitary confinement – his long dreadlocks.
Prison authorities at SCI Mahanoy claim Abu-Jamal will be held in the Restricted Housing Unit on disciplinary custody until he cuts his hair. This is an old tactic that was used against Mumia when he was a death row prisoner. He spent 8 years on disciplinary status in death row until he was removed from that status–without getting a haircut–in the early 1990s.
It has taken prison officials five weeks to invent this new pretext for continuing the 30-year-long solitary confinement torture of Abu-Jamal. Mumia and his supporters are calling for his immediate release to general population and the shut down of all of the solitary units in PA.
Sign a petition to transfer Mumia out of the hole.
Read and forward this press release from the National Lawyers Guild: “After death row transfer, NLG VP Mumia Abu-Jamal languishes in solitary“
Contact Department of Corrections officials and let them know you are not fooled and will not tolerate efforts to silence and torture Mumia:
1) Write, Phone, and email the Secretary of Corrections: Demand that Mumia be transferred to General Population! And demand the shutdown of RHU (Restricted Housing Unit) Torture Blocks!
John Wetzl, Secretary Department of Corrections
2520 Lisburn Road, P.O. Box 598, Camp Hill, PA 17001-0598
(717) 975-4928 Email: ra-contactdoc@pa.gov
2) Write, Phone, and email the Superintendent:
John Kerestes, Superintendent
SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932
(570) 773-2158 Fax: (570) 783-2008
3) Write, Phone, and email the Philadelphia DA. Demand that they petition the court to free Mumia, based on suppression of evidence. They have buried evidence and the truth for 30 years. The police corruption and the frame up of Mumia must be exposed.
Seth Williams, DA Philadelphia
Three South Penn Square
Philadelphia, PA 19107-3499
(215) 686-8000 Email: DA_Central@phila.gov
and finally, send Mumia a note or a card:
Mumia Abu-Jamal
AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932
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Mumia Abu Jamal Transferred
Posted on December 15, 2011 by denverabc
Mumia is now being held at this address:
Mumia Abu Jamal AM-8335 SCI-Mahanoy 301 Morea Rd. Frackville, PA. 17932
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Political Prisoner Updates
Posted on October 12, 2011 by denverabc
FreeMumia.com: Today the United States Supreme Court rejected a request from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the most recent federal appeals court decision declaring Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence unconstitutional.
Greg Curry
Greg Curry of the Lucasville Uprising has now been added to the Denver ABC Political Prisoner Database.
Sundiata Acoli:
Many of you know, after serving over 38 years in prison, former Black Panther member Sundiata Acoli was denied parole for the third time on March 4, 2010. But he was also given a ten year hit by the New Jersey State Parole Board. Last December, an administrative appeal was denied by the NJ Parole Board and a letter affirming the denial of Sundiata’s parole was received. Read the rest of the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign Update here.
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PHILADELPHIA IS FRANZ FANON’S “BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS” IN REAL TIME
Posted on May 19, 2011 by denverabc
The white ruling class strategy since the end of the ruthless reign of Frank Rizzo, as former chief of police and then mayor of Philadelphia, is to replace white faces with black faces and to support and prop up such black faces to carry out the bidding of that
power elite without regard to the continued oppression of the black working class of the city of Philadelphia. This phenomenon in Africa politics is called `Neo- Colonialism,’ that is replacing white faces with black faces to keep the masses of blacks in their place and to maximize profits for the multi national business community.
In Phildelphia, enter its first black Mayor, first black Police Chief and now the first black District Attorney.
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Court grants new sentencing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Posted on April 26, 2011 by denverabc
from ABC News:
PHILADELPHIA – April 26, 2011 (WPVI) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told prosecutors to conduct the new sentencing hearing for the former Black Panther within six months or agree to a life sentence. Abu-Jamal’s first-degree murder conviction still stands in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner, who was white.
District Attorney Seth Williams pledged to mount another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, at the urging of Faulkner’s widow, Maureen.
“Yes, the criminal justice system in Philadelphia, the criminal justice system in America, have had a history of problems and racism,” said Williams, the city’s first black district attorney. “(But) this is not a whodunit.”
Abu-Jamal’s worldwide followers “don’t know the facts,” Williams said.
Defense lawyers said the ruling addresses “an unfortunate chapter in Pennsylvania history.”
“Pennsylvania long ago abandoned the confusing and misleading instructions and verdict slip that were relied on in Mr. Abu-Jamal’s trial in order to prevent unfair and unjust death sentences,” said Widener University law professor Judith Ritter, who argued the most recent appeal in November. “Mr. Abu-Jamal is entitled to no less constitutional protection.”
Tuesday’s ruling is the latest in Abu-Jamal’s long-running legal saga. (more…)
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Mumia: When “nut” ain’t enough
Posted on January 15, 2011 by denverabc
Mumia Abu Jamal’s latest prison commentary on Jared Lee Loughner and the shooting in Tucson.
Drop Mumia some words of support at:
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
#AM-8335
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090
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Mumia Abu Jamal: On Thanksgiving…
Posted on November 23, 2010 by denverabc
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