For Bob Wells, Presente

01/12/24 

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

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For Bob Wells, a life lived long was a life lived well, for he wore many hats, organizer, anti-racist activist, supporter and worker with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in Chicago, teacher, investigative reporter, magazine editor, seaman, hotel and restaurant cook, and banquet chef. He was a key activist in anti-prison and abolitionist work with the Labor Action Committee in San Francisco. And finally, a self-defense instructor.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Davis: video statements to the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement

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.

Mumia Abu-Jamal video statement

Angela Davis video statement

Lucretia And The Law Of Lawlessness: Clemons Cops Out

(Originally published on This Can’t Be Happening!, April 4, 2023)

BY LINN WASHINGTON

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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