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Wanneer: 21/04/2023 - 15:39

NEW FAIR PROCESS FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL DENIED !
HIS 69th BIRTHDAY 2023 THE 24 OF APRIL.
WHY NOT WRITE HIM A CARD OF SOLIDARITY.

IF WE FIGHT, WE WIN !

FREEDOM FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL & ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an African-American reporter and political activist, who spent 42 years innocent in the prison of Pennsylvania, from which he spent 30 years in isolation on deathrow.
They called him ,'the voice of the voiceless' as he reported about racism & policebrutality in the U.S.A., and in jail he wrote several books about this problems.
In 1982 Mumia got in a fighting, which ended with 1 dead,white policeman, (Daniel Faulkner). Mumia, severely shot and beaten up by the police, survived.
In the trial, where his legal rights were clearly violated.......that means....
all black jurymembers got dismissed and changed for white ones; the witnesses
were manipulated and put under pressure, and the white judge, just wanted to see
this black man dead. WE CALL THIS LEGAL RACISM !
So he was sentenced to death, for a murder he didn't commit.
Worldwide protests then started, supported by Amnesty International, the late
Mandela & Desmond Tutu, Rage against the machine and many others.
After so much protests, the deathpenalty got changed into lifesentence without
parole. This was 2011. ONLY THE PRESSURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
MOVEMENT KEPT MUMIA ALIVE & WE HAVE TO KEEP THAT PRESSURE !
Some years ago 6 boxes with new evidence showed up, all this time hidden by the state. The judge then decided that all this files have to be opened in a new trial.
Now we have a new judge, judge Clemons; She will decide in this months if Mumia get a new hearing, which means a new trial, which means FREEDOM.
IN MARCH 2023 SHE DENIED MUMIA A NEW TRIAL !
The widow of Faulkner, member of the FOP, an ultra rightwing police-union, succesfully delaying the proces, wishing that Mumia, with vulnerable health,will die in prison, before the proces takes place......we cannot let this happen !

THE FIGHT FOR MUMIA'S FREEDOM IS A PART OF THE
STRUGGLE AGAINST BLACK OPPRESSION, POLITIcAL
REPRESSION, CLASS STRUGGLE.....
AS WELL AS THIS COUNTRY'S RACIST-DEATH-PENALTY,
MASS-INCARCERATION AND THE PRISON- INDUSTRIAL -COMPLEX.

For more info you can look on youtube or:
https://bringmumiahome.com
https://lovenotphear.com/sign-the-letter-to-judge-clemons/

To show your support to Mumia , you can write him a
card/letter. (be sure there is some sender on it, else they don't accept it).

Smart Communications/PADOC
Mumia Abu-Jamal,#AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy, P.O.Box 33028
St.Petersburg, FL 33733, U.S.A.

Prison Radio visited Mumia in the jail; beneath they write about it:

I saw Mumia yesterday and he was deeply affected by the blow, the gravity, the gut wrenching disappointment: that freedom will be delayed, again.

I brought him Judge Clemons’ 38 page “opinion.” He read the words carefully, first retrieving his reading glasses from his shirt pocket. Hunched over, he read through each and every line. Words that were written to bury him. Words meant to extinguish hope. Pages that would bind him. An opinion that will keep in place the full body cavity strip search before and after every visit. An order that would deny him the food and exercise that could heal his broken heart and his cardiac condition. Pages that separate him from his great-grandchildren, his brothers, his sons, his daughter. Words that prevent him from receiving the healing embrace of his people as he weeps and aches for Wadiya, his wife of 41 years who passed away in December.

Its promise of finality is really a transparent attempt to cover up what everyone knows to be true: police, prosecutors, and yes, now judges, have stolen decades from the lives of Black Philadelphians. It is a promise that would have the injustice system stay the same, unchallenged, with Mumia remaining locked in a cage until his last breath.

And yet, yesterday, Sunday April 2nd, I met with a man full of life.

Mumia, deeply engaged in his doctoral dissertation, using Fanon to measure this new world. Sketching out the future. The day the wretched of the earth shall be vindicated. Willing into being the real narrative, a counter narrative, that both calls forth, and imagines freedom. I met a man who was engaged in the world and yes, full of hope, for all of us, and for himself.

Mumia’s hearty belly laugh is impossible not to join in. He is very, very funny. I have to ask him to “come on, please just stop, don’t make me laugh at these god awful absurdities.”

Mumia’s love is courageous, it is honest, eyes wide open and fearless, and transformative for all of us.
On December 9th 1981, at 3 am in the morning at 13th and Locust in downtown Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal had just stopped his cab and was letting off a patron. He leapt out of his cab, ran across the street after seeing his brother's VW pulled over and Bill being beaten with a nightstick by Philadelphia cop Daniel Faulkner. There is no debate about what happened next. Daniel Faulkner shot Mumia in the chest. Mumia goes down with a bullet through his lung. Someone else then fatally shoots Faulkner and runs away.

At that moment our world and Mumia’s world were torn apart.

Each time I go to the prison I pull the books I am working with off my shelf, today was Police Misconduct by Paul Messing, and A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. I bring them in, put them on the table, share them, corners turned down, paragraphs underlined, and go to the vending machines. I return with a bowl of delicious cherry tomatoes, olives, and onions that adorn a fresh beautiful Greek Salad, a full green sliced apple with Nutella, and a bowl of gorgeous cantaloupe, mellon, and pineapple. If they can put organic salad in the vending machine they can give him salad and fresh fruit, a cardiac healthy diet, in his regular meals. Last month they said he must wait seven months for a blood panel, he pushed back, and he is receiving the tests he needs. All PA prisoners need a heart healthy diet. Fresh food and vegetables.

Both the witness, the solidarity, the food, and the books are necessary to remain centered and alive and in resistance. When we survive, we win. When we love, we win.

Cuando luchamos ganamos,
When We Fight, We Win

Mumia Abu-Jamal,#AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy, P.O.Box 33028
St.Petersburg, FL 33733, U.S.A.