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Public Forum: Government Repression, the National Prisoners Strike and the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

•   7 pm, Thursday, October 25th 2018   •

ANSWER Coalition Meeting Room
2969 Mission St. San Francisco
near 26th St., 2 blocks from 24th St. BART.

Also:
Tune In To Hard Knock Radio, KPFA, 94.1 FM
4 – 5 PM Wednesday 24th October!
Hear Jack Heyman and Clarence Thomas, both ILWU Activists (Retired)

 

Speakers:

Gloria La Riva, ANSWER Coalition

Yvette Felarca, BAMN

Gerald Smith, Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, former Black Panther

Clarence Thomas, former Black Panther, ILWU Local 10 Sec.-Treas. retired

Bilal Mafundi Ali, Leader of Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee; Poor Magazine.

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Court: Evidence To Free Mumia, To Be Continued…

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Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, reports on the August 30th hearing, 2018

District Attorney Larry Krasner Opposes Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Petition for New Rights of Appeal – Despite Clear Evidence of Ronald Castille’s Bias and Conflict of Interest When He Participated As a PA Supreme Court Justice Denying Abu-Jamal’s Post-Conviction Appeals from 1998-2012

Next Court Date: October 29, 2018

September 1—Additional demands for discovery made by Mumia’s lawyers at the August 30 court proceeding led to Judge Tucker granting a 60-day continuance. The new date for oral argument that Mumia’s appeal denial should be vacated and new appeal rights granted is now scheduled for October 29, 2018.

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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

Click here for the original Counterpunch article

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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