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John Brown Type Beats<p>"...what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression." - Mumia Abu-Jamal</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Antisap' 🖤 🏴 🎶<p><a href="https://risingupwithsonali.com/mumia-abu-jamal-a-mad-dash-to-the-right/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">risingupwithsonali.com/mumia-a</span><span class="invisible">bu-jamal-a-mad-dash-to-the-right/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> the mad dash to the right </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>byteseu</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardPeltier</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/StevenDonziger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StevenDonziger</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/KevinCooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KevinCooper</span></a> are not on the pardon list. Typical Biden</p>
MFennVT<p>Pardoning <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> would also be nice.</p>
abolitionmedia<p><strong>43 Years Later, Mumia is Still a Political Prisoner</strong></p><p></p><p>Dec. 9, 2024, marks the 43rd anniversary of the arrest and political imprisonment of world renowned journalist, prolific author of over 12 books, as well as veteran of the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, Mumia Abu Jamal. He is one of the longest held political prisoners in the United States and was a victim of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program (CoinTelPro), which was a program operated by the U.S. government, particularly the FBI, to thwart dissent against US policies domestically and internationally. The US government claimed it was stopped, but overwhelming evidence shows that assassinations, political imprisonment, entrapment and mass surveillance continues, which means that the program still exists under a lesser known name.</p><p>Linn Washington Jr. is an award-winning investigative reporter who is a journalism professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. Washington first met Abu Jamal in 1973, when they both worked at the Philadelphia radio station WRTI-FM. At WRTI, Abu Jamal hosted a community affairs program and Washington was a jazz music dj. Linn Washington has been working to free Mumia Abu Jamal since Dec. 9, 1981.</p><p>It is important for people to acknowledge the imprisonment and prolific work of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, just like others in his position, like Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Kamau Sadiki, Leonard Peltier, Aaron Patterson, and political exiles Assata Shakur and Pete O’Neal, because it reinforces that it is a war going on domestically in the U.S., where the poor and disenfranchised classes bear the brunt of the corporate exploitation in the workforce within the nation. Mumia Abu Jamal, as well as the others named, are our soldiers in the fight, whom it is the people’s responsibility to free.</p><p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: Who is Mumia Abu Jamal? And why is his case an important case in American history?</p> <p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: Mumia Abu-Jamal is a legendary revolutionary journalist falsely incarcerated for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman. Abu-Jamal has evolved into one of the most perceptive commentators and scholars in AmeriKKKa, whose analysis of the inequities and hypocrisies garners renown worldwide. The importance of the Abu-Jamal case is its glaring example of the double standards of justice historically pervasive across AmeriKKKa.</p><p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: Can you detail examples of the glaring legal inconsistencies, contradictions and forms of outright corruption that exist in this case? Can you make sure that you talk about the boxes in the DA’s basement as one example?</p><p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: Abu-Jamal is a victim of the “Mumia Exception” – a term I devised decades ago to encapsulate the dynamic in his case of judges failing to grant him the relief for numerous violations of his rights that those same judges have granted to other persons wrongfully convicted. Simply put: The law means the law EXCEPT in the Abu-Jamal case.</p><p>One glaring example of the “Mumia Exception” involves Philadelphia’s progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner. Krasner has successfully gained release of over 40 persons wrongfully convicted due to misconduct by police and prosecutors. However, Krasner has vigorously opposed release for Abu-Jamal despite Krasner himself finding six boxes containing evidence of Abu-Jamal’s innocence illegally withheld by Philadelphia prosecutors for 36 years. That is the definition of prosecutorial misconduct.</p><p>Pennsylvania law requires prosecutors to make “timely” disclosures to a defendant of evidence of innocence. Philly prosecutors illegally withholding this evidence that Krasner personally discovered secreted away in the DA’s Office clearly violates that “timely” disclosure rule. On the Abu-Jamal case, Krasner is clearly a fraud – falling in line with the systemic efforts that have denied Abu-Jamal the justice he is legally entitled to receive since his arrest on Dec. 9, 1981.</p><p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: Where does Mumia Abu Jamal’s case stand now after 43 years as a political prisoner?</p><p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: Abu-Jamal’s case is currently on appeal – again – to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This appeal seeks to overturn lower courts’ denials of relief and release based on the massive evidence of legal rights violations centered on the evidence of innocence and official misconduct discovered by Philly DA Krasner. If the Pennsyl Supreme Court was truly fair and just, it would rule against that gross misconduct by Philadelphia prosecutors and police. Given the pro-police/anti-Abu-Jamal bias of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania – as documented in the February 2000 report from Amnesty International – it is doubtful that court will rule favorably for Abu-Jamal – thus continuing the torture of his life-without-parole sentence.</p> <p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: What is the Mumia Exception?</p><p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: “Mumia Exception” – Judicial decision-making in America is supposed to be based on precedent: This means that a principle or rule established in a legal case serves as a guide in deciding similar cases. There is a wretched record in rulings against Abu-Jamal where judges from trial courts to appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, will change the law to deny relief or rights for Abu-Jamal and then change the law back to previous ruling(s) to give others relief on the same legal grounds denied Abu-Jamal.</p><p>That 2000 Amnesty International report noted a “contradictory series” of court rulings that ignored precedent in denying Abu-Jamal appeals. These perverted rulings, the AI report stated, “leave the disturbing impression that [courts invent new standards] of procedure to apply to one case only: that of Mumia Abu-Jamal.”</p><p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: Who are some of the people in Pennsylvania that have had their careers progress because of their participation in the prosecution of Mumia?</p><p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: There are clearly two persons whose careers have advanced significantly based on their blocking legal rights relief for Abu-Jamal. Both of those persons were former district attorneys in Philadelphia: Edward Rendell and Ronald Castille. Rendell was the DA during Abu-Jamal’s 1982 trial that was sabotaged by misconduct by police, prosecutors and the bigoted trial judge. Rendell went on to serve as the mayor of Philadelphia, the governor of Pennsylvania and the head of the Democratic National Committee.</p><p>Castille as DA also fought against relief Abu-Jamal was legally entitled to receive. Castille’s campaign to join the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania used a “tough on crime” theme emphasizing “tough on cop killers” with finger pointed at Mumia. Castille became Chief Justice of that court. On that court he repeatedly voted to deny Mumia’s appeals. Both Rendell and Castille – once out of various elected offices – have publicly castigated any claim of Mumia’s innocence.</p><p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: What was Mumia like when you worked with him? What kinds of stories did he cover? Where did y’all work? What years?</p><p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: Mumia and I worked together as journalists from 1975 till his arrest in December 1981. He was a radio reporter, and I was a newspaper reporter. We both covered the Black community, reporting on inequities and racism from abusive policing to decrepit housing to problems in public schools to entertainment like reggae music concerts. There were occasions when we both covered the same news event. One unusual “story” that I covered was a protest by Mumia against a loud-mouthed host at a radio station where he worked. Yeah, Mumia was a one-man demonstration on the lawn of that radio station. He and that host eventually made peace.</p><p><strong>JR Valrey</strong>: While Mumia has been held captive for the last 43 years, what is the biggest lesson that you have gained from his life and work?</p><p><strong>Linn Washington</strong>: Watching Mumia’s growth as a journalist while incarcerated coupled with his evolution as a scholar has been impressive. Remember much of that growth and evolution occurred during his lock-down on Death Row where his voluminous writings were done longhand, without a typewriter, word processor or computer.</p><p>He’s learned French and German while incarcerated. He’s obtained a college degree, a master’s degree and is nearing completion of a PhD. His life struggle post-arrest, offsetting deprivations that have driven men raving mad, has inspired others inside “the walls” and around the world. A testament to his incredible stature is found in the fact that an Ivy League school – Brown University – featured a year-long exhibition of Mumia’s life and works!</p><p><em>Learn more from The People’s Minister of Information JR at Black New World Media, </em><a href="http://www.blacknewworldmedia.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>www.blacknewworldmedia.com</em></a><em>.</em></p><p>source: <a href="https://sfbayview.com/2024/12/43-years-later-mumia-is-still-a-political-prisoner/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SF Bayview</a></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13408" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=</span><span class="invisible">13408</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-panther-party/" target="_blank">#blackPantherParty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mumia-abu-jamal/" target="_blank">#MumiaAbuJamal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/political-prisoner/" target="_blank">#politicalPrisoner</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/repression/" target="_blank">#repression</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/us/" target="_blank">#us</a></p>
Abolition Media<p>43 Years Later, Mumia is Still a Political Prisoner</p><p>Dec. 9, 2024, marks the 43rd anniversary of the arrest and political imprisonment of world renowned journalist, prolific author of over 12 books, as well as veteran of the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, Mumia Abu Jamal.</p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/13408/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/134</span><span class="invisible">08/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackPantherParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPantherParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalPrisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPrisoner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hannu_ikonen</span></a></span> </p><p>Is ...this...fucking...real? </p><p>Bloody hell! </p><p>I remember this story from Democracy Now or somewhere, and ...WOW! </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ButcherBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ButcherBiden</span></a> refuses to release <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardPeltier</span></a> or <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/StevenDonziger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StevenDonziger</span></a>. </p><p>But he releases THIS fucking yutz? A child...trafficker! Really?</p>
Aktion Freiheit statt Angst<p>Freiheit für Mumia<br>Free Mumia - Free Them All! <br> Mehr dazu bei <a href="https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/events/3762-20241209.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/</span><span class="invisible">events/3762-20241209.html</span></a><br>und wie vor 8 Jahren <a href="https://aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/5521-20160424-gedenkkundgebung-vor-der-us-botschaft.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/</span><span class="invisible">de/articles/5521-20160424-gedenkkundgebung-vor-der-us-botschaft.html</span></a><br>a-fsa.de/d/3Eh<br>Link zu dieser Seite: <a href="https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/8991-20241208-freiheit-fuer-mumia.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/</span><span class="invisible">de/articles/8991-20241208-freiheit-fuer-mumia.html</span></a><br>Link im Tor-Netzwerk: <a href="http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/8991-20241208-freiheit-fuer-mumia.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvn</span><span class="invisible">k4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/8991-20241208-freiheit-fuer-mumia.html</span></a><br>Tags: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grundrechte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grundrechte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Menschenrechte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Menschenrechte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Todesstrafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Todesstrafe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hinrichtungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hinrichtungen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gefaengnisindustrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gefaengnisindustrie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Versammlungsrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Versammlungsrecht</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inhaftierung43Jahre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inhaftierung43Jahre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kundgebung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kundgebung</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aktivitaet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aktivitaet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FsaMitteilung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsaMitteilung</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aufruestung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aufruestung</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Waffenexporte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Waffenexporte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Drohnen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drohnen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frieden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frieden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Krieg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Krieg</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p></p> <p><em>The Bandung of the North Conference brought delegates from twenty-nine African and Asian nations, to work collectively toward decolonization. Julia Wright and Jenipher R. Jones delivered these remarks on white supremacist violence and state repression of dissent.</em></p><p>The year 1955 when the Bandung Conference took place was a pivotal year binding the Global South and the birth of non-alignment to the history of US political prisoners. In August of 1955 two Black youths would be victims of the false accusations of attempting to rape or sexually molest a white woman – false accusations known as “southern justice.” The first child was lynched, and justice has not been served till this day. His name is Emmett Till. Date of lynching: August 28, 1955.</p><p>The second victim of such a classic white supremacist frame-up was none other than the young man who would become the longest-held political prisoner in the US: Ruchell Magee. Ruchell Magee was arrested and charged with the same crime as Emmett Till that same Summer of 1955, charges later endorsed by an all-white jury that took only a fraction of a second to send him to twelve years of forced labor in the Louisiana Penitentiary of Angola. Although paroled in 1962, he remained branded by his eloquent linking of the system of mass incarceration to slavery and was soon captured again under false pretenses. Before being released “compassionately” a few months prior to his death, Ruchell Magee spent sixty-seven years in prison.</p><p>So, 1955 was that paradoxical year of unredeemed lynchings and Brown vs Board of Education inside the United States – and outside, the year Richard Wright was just back in Paris from covering the Bandung Conference where he had met and interviewed Prime Ministers Nehru and Chou En Lai – as well as Indira Ghandhi.</p><p>Back in his Paris exile, on receiving the news of the lynching of Emmett Till, Wright wrote from the unique perspective he had gained at Bandung: ” Emmett Till was the color of Nehru, and how on earth could any sensible person feel that Nehru could love a nation in which human life is so cheap. A man like Nehru feels that such could happen to him if he lived in the United States! In short, the western world pays highly when an Emmett Till is slain, and it would be wise to remember that when the people of Asia and Africa think of Emmett Till being slain, they could not think that white Americans did it, but that the white men of the western world have killed another man of colored skin. It hurts the whole cause of the West.”</p><p>Wright had not received the news about Ruchell Magee but as his daughter and in the spirit of Bandung, his words were prescient… and that they apply to the frame-ups of political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier today. Today, the false narrative underpinning the frame-ups is no longer rape but allegedly law enforcement killing – but the goal is the same: nipping Black and Indigenous leadership in the bud.</p><p>The chilling of dissent as a threat to the domination of the state is an age-old colonial tact that still reverberates today in cases of all political prisoners and pretrial detainees in the United States. For it is clear, the state does not want the truth to be known of how Leonard Peltier sought to liberate his people, in the spirit of Crazy Horse, by laughing, playing, teaching, and protecting children and women in his homelands. Just as they no longer wanted Malik el-Shabazz, Malcolm X to engender the strident walk, upheld head, and smile wide of a united Black people.</p><p>The state cannot erase the fond childhood memories of Leonard held by so many nor what he taught them, so they choose the weak exercise of containing him with a cage that is in fact perishing. The state can never dim the bright Blackness of Malik el-Shabazz. Leonard and Mumia, like Malik el Shabazz, endures. Unconquered still.</p><p>With heads unbowed we reflect on the words of Leonard Peltier, who remains incarcerated now fifty years later, as a Prisoner of War (POW), declaring in his sentencing statement in 1977, ringing true now as ever before: <em>“I do feel pity for your people that they must live under such an ugly system. <strong>Under your system you are taught greed, racism, and corruption, and the most serious of all, the destruction of our mother earth. </strong>Under the Native American system, we are taught all people are brothers and sisters, to share the wealth with the poor and needy; but the most important of all is to respect and preserve the earth, to me considered to be our mother.” </em></p><p>To quote Leonard Peltier, “I send my love and blood as a prisoner of war within the belly of the beast to those who continue the struggle.”</p><p>Thank you for elevating the names of Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal and their death by incarceration as they stand proud, innocent, elderly and ailing behind bars.</p><p><em><strong>Julia Wright is the elder of Richard Wright and executrix of his estate. She worked as a journalist in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana until the coup d’etat in 1966. She was a member of SNCC and accompanied the BPP to the First Panafrican Festival in Algiers. She has been in the campaign to free Mumia since the mid-eighties.</strong></em></p><p>source: <a href="https://blackagendareport.com/statement-julia-wright-liaising-mumia-abu-jamal-international-collectives-leonard-peltier-official" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Agenda Report</a></p> <p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/03/statement-by-julia-wright-liaising-for-the-mumia-abu-jamal-international-collectives-the-leonard-peltier-official-ad-hoc-committee-bandung-of-the-north-conference-2024/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/03/statement-by-julia-wright-liaising-for-the-mumia-abu-jamal-international-collectives-the-leonard-peltier-official-ad-hoc-committee-bandung-of-the-north-conference-2024/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/bandung/" target="_blank">#bandung</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/leonard-peltier/" target="_blank">#leonardPeltier</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/mumia-abu-jamal/" target="_blank">#MumiaAbuJamal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/white-supremacy/" target="_blank">#whiteSupremacy</a></p>
Avispa Mídia<p>After more than two years in prison, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tzeltal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tzeltal</span></a> political prisoners accused of murdering a municipal policeman in 2022 still have no evidence to justify their incarceration👉 <a href="https://avispa.org/?p=117878" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">avispa.org/?p=117878</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> 🐝</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chiapas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPrisoners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopTheTorture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheTorture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politicalprisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalprisoners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chiapas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ezln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ezln</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zapatista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zapatista</span></a></p>
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Aktion Freiheit statt Angst<p>Der Kampf geht weiter<br>Geburtstag von Assange<br> Mehr dazu bei <a href="https://freeassange.eu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">freeassange.eu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Artikel zu Assange <a href="https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/cgi-bin/searchart.pl?suche=Assange&sel=meta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/</span><span class="invisible">cgi-bin/searchart.pl?suche=Assange&sel=meta</span></a><br>a-fsa.de/d/3Bw<br><a href="https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/8831-20240706-der-kampf-geht-weiter.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/</span><span class="invisible">de/articles/8831-20240706-der-kampf-geht-weiter.html</span></a><br>Link im Tor-Netzwerk: <a href="http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/8831-20240706-der-kampf-geht-weiter.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvn</span><span class="invisible">k4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/8831-20240706-der-kampf-geht-weiter.html</span></a><br>Tags: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Klassenjustiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klassenjustiz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mahnwache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mahnwache</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whistleblowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whistleblowing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reich</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kapitalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kapitalismus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EdwardSnowden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwardSnowden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChelseaManning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChelseaManning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JulianAssange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JulianAssange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NilsMelzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NilsMelzer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zensur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zensur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meinungsmonopol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meinungsmonopol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meinungsfreiheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meinungsfreiheit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pressefreiheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pressefreiheit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Redefreiheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Redefreiheit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grundrechte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grundrechte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikiLeaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikiLeaks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalismus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JacobHoldt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JacobHoldt</span></a></p>
Job Destroyer<p>cool trick on freeing <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/JulianAsange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JulianAsange</span></a> mr <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> now do <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardPeltier</span></a> and all other US held political prisoners while you're at it</p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History May 13, 1985: The city of Philadelphia bombed the house of the radical black activist group MOVE. The police dropped a bomb made with C-4 explosives from a helicopter over the African American residential neighborhood. When survivors tried to flee, the cops shot at them. As a result, eleven MOVE members died, including five children. Furthermore, the bomb and fires destroyed sixty-two others homes in the neighborhood. Consequently, 250 Philadelphians became homeless. Adding insult to injury, the bones of some of the victims were transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where professors used them to teach courses on forensic evidence.</p><p>MOVE was a black liberation environmental movement. Many surviving MOVE members were still in prison as late as 2020. Mumia Abu Jamal, who was an associate of MOVE, is still in prison on trumped up charges of killing a cop. He is currently severely ill with diabetes and heart disease. The government has bombed civilians from the air several other times in history. The first was during the Tulsa anti-black pogrom of 1921. They also aerially bombed striking Appalachian miners that same year.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/move" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>move</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mumiaabujamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mumiaabujamal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bombing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bombing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philadelphia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homeless</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/massacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massacre</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p>Happy birthday, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History April 24, 1999: The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union shut down all West Coast shipping in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal (Black Panther, journalist), who was wrongfully imprisoned and held on death row for the murder of a cop—a crime he did not commit. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ilwu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ilwu</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackpanthers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackpanthers</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History April 24, 1954: Mumia Abu Jamal, death row activist, journalist and former Black Panther, was born on this date. Mumia is currently in prison on trumped-up charges of killing a cop. He is also extremely ill with congestive heart failure, diabetes, and a number of other maladies. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackPanthers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPanthers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mikealewitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mikealewitz</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://piped.video/watch?v=3iWKlrC1Poo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piped.video/watch?v=3iWKlrC1Po</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BreakthroughNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BreakthroughNews</span></a> 5 March 2024</p><p>⚠️ ALERT</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/USPoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPoliticalPrisoners</span></a> : They're STILL Trying to Kill <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a> </p><p>Over 42 years, and innocent <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalist</span></a> has been imprisoned. </p><p> He is now in poor health, and IMO, the state of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Pennsylvannia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvannia</span></a> is actively trying to kill him by not providing <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a></p>
abolitionmedia<p></p><p><strong><strong>Excerpts from </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUTtQiopPo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Guerrilla Intellectual University’s interview</strong></a><strong> with Pam Africa, Noel Hanrahan and Ricardo Alvarez on Feb. 12, 2024, by Kalonji Jama Changa and Joy James</strong></strong></p><p><strong>Kalonji Changa</strong>: [We have on Guerrilla Intellectual University] the founder of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pam Africa; Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, physician to Mumia; and the founder of Prison Radio, attorney Noel Hanrahan. Good to have you all [share important information about Mumia Abu-Jamal].</p><p><strong>Noel Hanrahan</strong>: Mumia Abu Jamal has been in prison now for 42 years. He survived three execution attempts: one on the streets of Philadelphia in 1981 and two literal execution warrants<strong>. </strong>[It] has been a real struggle for Mumia to communicate with us and to maintain his health. In the last eight years, Mumia has had many health struggles. We as a community have rallied to make sure that Mumia Abu Jamal has survived, just like we rallied when he was under an execution warrant.</p><p>He had [severe] hepatitis C, which there was a cure for, [but] the prison was preventing him from getting [the medicine] … [M]obilization literally made sure that Mumia was given that life-saving cure in 2017. Then he had double bypass heart surgery in 2021. He is suffering from a number of medical conditions.</p><p><strong>Pam Africa</strong>: Mumia has a tendency to not talk about himself when he’s damn near dying. He wanted to talk about other things, but there was no conversation to be had there except his [deteriorating] health. You know what he wants to talk about? He’s doing a new book, “<a href="https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/beneath-the-mountain-an-anti-prison-re/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader</a>.”<em> </em></p><p><strong>Ricardo Alvarez</strong>: I frame any discussion of a medical consultation with Mumia in the context of “What is torture”? A medical consultation with a brilliant public intellectual, a political prisoner … in prison by virtue of what he says, and not what he did … in this context, to do a medical consultation with Mumia in captivity means that there are nuances to words that he says that cue me into concern. One of the words he said, as it relates to the extent of his skin condition, is that it was [is] “unstable.”</p><p>[When] Mumia was transferred out of the facility to see an outside cardiologist … he [was] shackled. He asked the prison guards, “Why am I shackled?” They said, “We don’t know. We just know we’re taking you to this place.” He later said to me, “That’s probably their protocol.” He sees this cardiologist, and the cardiologist says to him: “Why are you here?” [and suggests the shackles have increased his distress and health issues].</p><p>Medical systems are so broken and stressful for all of the participants in that system. For patients, it’s a hostile system; we literally describe doing community health work as being on the <em>front lines</em>. … The sense of being on the front line [reflects] the <em>mindset of warfare</em>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Noel Hanrahan</strong>: They delayed Mumia’s [medical] treatment for two years when they had the cure. And that delay increased his risk of having liver cancer, … exacerbated his underlying conditions, including the skin condition, and extra hepatitis. Your skin is an organ. We went to court and got a third circuit injunction for Mumia to get the fast-acting cure for hepatitis C. That was allowed. That was used by other prisoners across the country. It was the first one. Mumia is one person, but we’re advocating for everyone.</p><p>Mumia had double bypass surgery in 2021. They [the state and prison] have never provided him outpatient care – care for his diet and exercise, which are the two key ingredients for recovering from cardiac surgery. He has been denied that now for over two years. That means he will [likely] have another cardiac event because they are denying him adequate care.</p><p></p><p><strong>Kalonji Changa</strong>: Do you all feel that this is an assassination attempt of Mumia Abu-Jamal? There’s medical neglect … [but] I don’t buy it that Mumia is just the average prisoner.</p><p><strong>Pam Africa</strong>: No, he is not the average prisoner. And yes, they are definitely, and in front of our faces, attempting to kill Mumia, and all for the blood lust wishes of Maureen Faulkner, Officer Faulkner’s [widow], and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). The prison is in cahoots with it. Noel, remind them of the day in court that attorney Bob Boyle came across these papers; and, how we winded up in court dealing with the medical issues. The prison did not do right by Mumia … he filed grievances, and they turned them down.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ricardo Alvarez</strong>: I’ve had challenging medical consultations all my life, but I will say that one of the blessings of being in relationship to such an expansive, spiritual being, is that [Mumia] draws in community: brilliant philosophers, brilliant historians, brilliant lawyers … brilliant humans and activists. Our capacity [is impressive]. I spoke to him about multidisciplinary struggle. Mumia said something to me that I will never forget. . . .: we need to have a memory that this [state violence has] happened before . . . [in order] to connect with the ancestors. We have to recall that there were examples where disciplines work together. We have to remember that the construction, the literal manifestation from its roots, hands, the construction of mass incarceration required multiple disciplines coming together. Architects, planners, medical systems, legal systems, corporate systems – [it] was multidisciplinary [violence] to put it together. We need to have <em>multidisciplinary</em> [efforts to] deconstruct, de-engineer [the prison]. …</p><p>[W]e’re doing the work done by Laura Whitehorn [and] RAPP [Release Aging People from Prison] and others. The released elders have been a huge and powerful voice. There is a clear call: “Liberate our elders; this is institutional elder abuse.”</p><p></p><p><strong>Noel Hanrahan</strong>: There is a sea change now in our multidisciplinary, professional society to report elder abuse, if we can come together in a coordinated way, multidisciplinary unity, for mass incarceration abolition. If we can get a Mumia coalition together, and go to our professional societies and hold them accountable, then we can address the identified social determinants of health, specifically, the FOP [Fraternal Order of Police], in Mumia’s case, and address the harms of unqualified immunity, right, or qualified immunity, that gives them permission. We can address those harms of the code of silence. We can identify corporations, an individual, Citizens United, and begin that process of doing a diagnostic analysis of their pathology and bring that out into the public in concrete ways. Then we begin to create a coalition where we correctly put the culprit, the FOP, on trial. That’s what I believe to be the next stage of [struggle].</p><p>Our strategies are to keep Mumia alive, in transition to freedom immediately. If we can do that effectively, including the emerging ethical community, biomedical ethical community, [with] … consensus around abolitionist public health, working communication with the American Public Health Association, the AMA [American Medical Association]. All of these institutions are filled with contradictions. No one is perfect here. Abolition is a humbling journey. But if we can begin that conversation in defense of our communities, I believe we will turn the tide, in effect, and honor the call to liberate our elders. And when we bring them back into our community, in a loving way, then they give us counsel on how to reverse engineer. …</p><p><strong>Joy James</strong>: Thank you all for your courage and your consistency. … [What you describe] reminds me of COINTELPRO. There are different ways to eliminate people. …</p><p></p><p>[H]ow do you see the strategy of resistance … “war resistance” and “assassination resistance” when so much violence is obviously secreted. Prison is a fortress of pain, intimidation and death. You have to be able to get inside to get the narrative [and] … bring it out. What would you like us to do in terms of mobilization and organizing on an international level? People across the globe support Mumia. … What roles should we play in the effort to stop medical assassinations and harm within prison and [beyond those walls]? [Pluto Press launches <a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/journal-issue?id=bf18813f-d2f3-43c7-bf36-79709744b1e8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">State Crime Journal</a> with articles on Mumia Abu-Jamal and Palestine in London in March].</p><p><strong>Ricardo Alvarez</strong>: One of [Mumia’s] lessons that helps [to] expand an understanding of “Love Not Phear” is compassion. There is no monolithic medical prison community, we have to appreciate. … When Mumia was hospitalized and we mobilized around the four-point shackling when he shared that trauma. Imagine being in four-point shackles, and unable to scratch yourself. This beautiful, brilliant, peaceful man [has helped us to] create a language and an understanding of where you can have the trauma … it was difficult for him to communicate … [this] can be happening in settings with compassionate medical personnel who are competent. I asked him: [Who] do you trust? What is your energetic? How do you feel?” [Despite the violent trauma,] Mumia describes people who can be loving and caring.</p><p></p><p>There is care within prison settings and outside; … [there are] competent, caring people who can operate in oppressive systems and do a good job. But there is a deep failure for the professional community. The medical community [has to] acknowledge the underlying oppressive violence that our community, our brothers, our sisters, our loved ones are suffering. The social determinants of health [include] … poverty, homelessness … violence. It is specifically state violence that is so important.</p><p>When we look at medical assassination, there is medical complicity at the highest levels within these oppressive systems. Was that high blood sugar just missed? Quite possibly. Does that happen in outpatient settings? Absolutely. We’re not saying that someone necessarily deliberately [failed to diagnose]. But … where there is objective evidence of an effort to assassinate, it is important that we all voice that. … [S]tate violence is so gross, so deliberate, that we need to be able to stand from a place of defense of our community.</p><p><em>Advocate and author Joy James’s recent books include: “In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love,” “New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner,” “Contextualizing Angela Davis.” With articles and interviews developed with Kalonji Changa, James edited the forthcoming “Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling Corporate-Funded Armies,” from which the excerpt is taken. Joy can be reached at </em>jjames@williams.edu<em>. </em></p><p><em>Kalonji Changa is founder of the FTP-Movement and of RSTV and Black Power Media. He is the author of “How to Build a People’s Army” and co-producer of the documentary “Organizing Is the New Cool.” Celebrating their 20th anniversary, the FTP Movement has launched with Common Notions Press their 2024 political education series: “The Culture of Resistance.” Kalonji can be reached at </em>defendingthepoor@gmail.com<em>. </em><em> </em></p><p><em>Source: <a href="https://sfbayview.com/2024/02/assassination-attempts-against-mumia-abu-jamal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SF Bayview</a></em></p><p><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/27/assassination-attempts-against-mumia-abu-jamal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/27/assassination-attempts-against-mumia-abu-jamal/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/mumia-abu-jamal/" target="_blank">#MumiaAbuJamal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/political-prisoners/" target="_blank">#PoliticalPrisoners</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/prison-abolition/" target="_blank">#PrisonAbolition</a></p>
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