Earlier this week, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Davis both made video statements to the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement (UN EMLER). Mumia spoke on “the Mumia exception” and Angela Davis spoke in support of her former co-defendant Ruchell Magee. Click the links below to view hi-res versions of each video.
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Protest of Denial of Mumia’s Appeal for New Trial 4/4/2023 (video)
There is No Justice in the Capitalist Courts!
Lucretia And The Law Of Lawlessness: Clemons Cops Out
(Originally published on This Can’t Be Happening!, April 4, 2023)
When Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons released an inmate from prison in May 2021, she clearly saw how prosecutors illegally withholding evidence of innocence caused that Philadelphia man to languish in prison for nearly 30-years on a wrongful murder conviction.
As Clemons released Eric Riddick from prison on May 28, 2021, she declared that misconduct by Philadelphia prosecutors against Riddick constituted a “constitutional violation.”
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