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Free Mumia Now!

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Mumia’s freedom is at stake in a court hearing on August 30th. With your help, we just might free him!

Rally To Free Mumia
Tuesday August 28th 4 pm
at 14th & Broadway, Oakland CA

A Philadelphia court now has before it the evidence which could lead to Mumia’s freedom.

The evidence shows that Ronald Castille, of the District Attorney’s office in 1982, intervened in the prosecution of Mumia for a crime he did not commit. Years later, Castille was a judge on the PA Supreme Court, where he sat in judgement over Mumia’s case, and ruled against Mumia in every appeal!

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New Legal Action is a Path to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Freedom, But a Re-ignited International Mobilization is Critical for Victory

by RACHEL WOLKENSTEIN

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For over three decades thousands of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe have mobilized to save Mumia Abu-Jamal from execution, to overturn his conviction, to demand his freedom. Without these international mobilizations, crucially including the organized labor movement, we would not have saved Mumia from two warrants of execution and compelled the state to concede defeat in trying to execute him. Mumia is now off death row and out of solitary confinement in prison general population.

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Planning Meeting for March 24-25 Days of Offensive to Free Mumia!

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Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Join us for a
planning meeting
to decide on
Action(s) for March 24-25
Days of Offensive to Free Mumia!

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The Planning Meeting for March actions in Oakland Is:
Monday, 26 February 2018 at 4 PM
At the Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave. Oakland.
We hope to see you there!

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Black Panther Film Fuels Calls for Release of Jailed Political Activists

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/16/black-panther-party-marvel-film-jail

Sam Levin February 16, 2018 The Guardian

Film serves as ‘opportunity to remind people of the real
heroes of the Black Panthers’, says former party leader

When he was released from prison in 2014, Sekou Odinga felt like he was
falling from the sky into a foreign land. After 33 years behind bars, the
former Black Panther party leader was released into a United States he didn’t
recognize – with strange technology and grandchildren he had never hugged.

Though he celebrated with family and supporters, Odinga, 73, also remained
mindful of the many other civil rights activists who weren’t so lucky: “You
always feel like you don’t want to leave nobody behind.”

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