Click here for a flyer about the Freedom Tour

From April 21-25, 2025, the Mumia Freedom Tour will be visiting the Bay Area to educate people about the path to Mumia’s freedom.

Julian Assange and Leonard Peltier have been freed. Mumia can be freed too!

Speakers for the tour include:

–         Mumia’s son, Jamal Ibn Mumia, who was imprisoned for 16 years in federal prison in retaliation for his advocacy on behalf of his father, and

–         Mumia’s former lawyer, Rachel Wolkenstein, who was co-counsel for Mumia during his post-conviction proceedings from 1995-1998

            Many events will be taking place in different cities. We encourage you to attend one of the events below. The Labor Action Committee will be attending the Oakland and San Francisco events, so please find us and say hello if you attend!

 Mon April 21, 7-9:30 pm:                 San Jose Peace & Justice Center
                                                         48 S. 7^th Street

Flyer for the San Jose Event (Flyer 1)
Flyer for the San Jose Event (Flyer 2)

Tues April 22, 6-8 pm:                       EastSide Arts Alliance
                                                         2277 International Blvd, East Oakland

Wed April 23, 5-7 pm:                      Elmhurst Branch, Oakland Public Library
                                                          1427 88^th Ave.
      Pre-registration required: http://bit.ly/3R4a4bg            

Thurs April 24, 6-8 pm:                    Mumia Birthday Freedom Fundraiser
                   African American Art & Culture Complex
                 762 Fulton St., San Francisco
                                                          Purchase tickets: https://bit.ly/447sgID

Flyer for the Fundraiser

Funds raised at this event will benefit the Freedom From Mumia Foundation, a nonprofit created by Jamal Ibn Mumia.

Mumia is Innocent and Framed! Free Mumia!

The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

http://www.laboraction4mumia.org

March 26, 2025: PA SUPREME COURT DENIES MUMIA ABU-JAMAL PERMISION TO APPEAL

–Rachel Wolkenstein, attorney, April 1, 2025

Click here for a PDF version of this update

     In September 2024 the Pa. Superior Court denied Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 6^th Pennsylvania petition to reverse his 1982 conviction. A request to the PA Supreme Court for permission to appeal was denied on March 26, 2025.  [In PA, an appeal to the PA Supreme Court is not a right; a specific request for “allowance” (permission) is required.]  This denial by the PA Supreme Court ends Mumia’s Pennsylvania court challenge to overturn his conviction.

      Judge Lucretia Clemons presided over Mumia’s case since December 2021 and, without a hearing, issued a denial on March 31, 2023. This 6^th petition was based on corroborative new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, Brady violations, for undisclosed inducements given to witnesses Cynthia While and Robert Chobert; and new evidence of racial bias in jury selection, a Batson violation.

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