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From R. Wolkenstein -------------- Saturday, July 28, 7:30 PM Message from Wadiya A Jamal, wife of Mumia Abu-Jamal; I just received a call from my beloved husband who is now out of Administrative Custody and in general population at SCI Mahanoy. He is relieved after being in these solitary torture chambers for over 30 years. He can’t wait to face and embrace me, his wife, and his children and grandchildren. The next moment is for him to be released fro...

SisMarpessa, 476 Days Ago

1/28 UPDATE RE: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!!

As of 1/27/12, Mumia Abu-Jamal has officially been transferred to General Prison Population after being held in Administrative Custody ("The Hole" or Solitary Confinement) at SCI Mahanoy, Frackville, PA for seven weeks. This is the first time Mumia has been in General Population since his arrest in 1981. This comes within hours of the of delivery of over 5,500 signed petitions to Department of Corrections headquarters in Camp Hill, PA and a compliant f...

SisMarpessa, 477 Days Ago

1/28 UPDATE RE: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!!

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/video%3A-philadelphia-mummers-brawl-caught-on-tape-010212 - Imagine if this were Black/brown folks, it would be the lead-in for GMA, Today, and every other national news show that features riotous crowds wilding out!

SisMarpessa, 502 Days Ago

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The Lessons of Temple U.

[col. writ. 4/18/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the governance of its highly-prized African Studies Dept. is not about academic freedom, nor about departmental regulations and proper protocol, although it has been couched in such terms. It’s about something far more fundamental. It’s about power. The power of inst...

Censorship: State and Corporate

[col. writ. 4/15/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal When we speak of ‘freedom of the press’, one of the promises of the Constitution’s 1st Amendment, we usually do so with an air of self-praise and self-applause. Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the greatest observers of America, saw this feature of this nation, and criticized it in his classic 1835 work, Democracy in America. But the Constitution spea...

Palestine Prison

[col. writ. 4/10/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal It is one of the ironies of history that the descendants of the beleaguered Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, subjected to the bitter hatreds and repression of the Nazis, have established an entire sea of the oppressed and impoverished on their periphery: the open-air prison ghettoes of Palestine: Gaza and the West Bank. There, in full view of the world, is...

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40th Anniversary of the Assassination of George Jackson

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Comrade George Jackson August 4, 2011 by Kiilu Nyasha George Lester Jackson, known as Comrade, spent 11 years in California prisons, mostly in solitary confinement. After plea-bargaining a $70 gas station robbery in 1960, he got one to life. “I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they red...

Black August Concept Essay

We Who Like It Hot Call It ‘Black August’ By ‘bro. zayid’ It is the month when our oppressors have nothing to celebrate. It is the month where the nature of our oppression and the boldest expressions of our resistance to that oppression have been made most plain. We who like it hot call it ‘Black August’… As a concept of resistance, Black August has its beginnings in th...

Black/Afrikan People Must Fight Against the Death Penalty!

Black/Afrikan People Must Fight Against the Death Penalty!by Sis. Marpessa Kupendua - 1/2012 “Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. In Virginia, before the end of slavery, there was only one crime for which a white person could be executed. But there were 66 crimes for which a slave coul...