FREE...MUMIA...NOW !!!

Update 06.02.2012

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http://dreadtimes.com/blogs/entry/-URGENT-UPDATE-RE-MUMIA-ABU-JAMAL

Visit with Mumia and Photo-Op in General Population!

(pic: Johanna Fernandez, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Heidi Boghosian)

Heidi Boghosian and I just returned from a very moving visit with Mumia. We visited yesterday, Thursday, February 2. This was Mumia's second contact visit in over 30 years, since his transfer to General Population last Friday, Jan 27. His first contact visit was with his wife, Wadiya, on Monday, January 30.
Unlike our previous visits to Death Row at SCI Greene and to solitary confinement at SCI Mahanoy, our visit yesterday took place in a large visitor's area, amidst numerous circles of families and spouses who were visiting other inmates. Compared to the intense and focused conversations we had had with Mumia in a small, isolated visiting cell on Death Row, behind sterile plexiglass, this exchange was more relaxed and informal and more unpredictably interactive with the people around us...it was more human. There were so many scenes of affection around us, of children jumping on top of and pulling at their fathers, of entire families talking intimately around small tables, of couples sitting and quietly holding each other, and of girlfriends and wives stealing a forbidden kiss from the men they were there to visit (kisses are only allowed at the start and at the end of visits). These scenes were touching and beautiful, and markedly different from the images of prisoners presented to us by those in power. Our collective work could benefit greatly from these humane, intimate images.
When we entered, we immediately saw Mumia standing across the room. We walked toward each other and he hugged both of us simultaneously. We were both stunned that he would embrace us so warmly and share his personal space so generously after so many years in isolation.

Please read more...http://www.freemumia.com/?p=1016

Write a letter to Mumia:

Mumia Abu-Jamal
AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932

Posted on January 31, 2012

The Next Step is Freedom

Message from Wadiya A Jamal, wife of Mumia Abu-Jamal;

I just received a call from my beloved husband who is now out of Administrative Custody and in general population at SCI Mahanoy. He is relieved after being in these solitary torture chambers for over 30 years. He can't wait to face and embrace me, his wife, and his children and grandchildren. The next moment is for him to be released from the belly of the beast. He is surprised at how many men are in these prison cells--black, white, hispanic. He said he's been shown a lot of love, from the others in population. We need to bring Mumia, and all the other men, home!

Mumia said he wanted to see me as soon as possible, to come up tomorrow, Sunday, a visiting day. But the prison won't let me visit until Monday.

Wadiya A Jamal, with BIG pride.

Mumia's Message to Supporters in call from General Population, SCI Mahanoy to his wife, Wadiya Jamal:

My dear friends, brothers and sisters - I want to thank you for your real hard work and support.

I am no longer on death row, no longer in the hole, I am in population.

This is only part one and I thank you all for the work you have done. But the struggle is for freedom.

From Mumia. Ona Move. Long Live John Africa!

http://dreadtimes.com/blogs/entry/-URGENT-UPDATE-RE-MUMIA-ABU-JAMAL

Check the new song for Mumia !

Rebel Diaz - Never A Prisoner (FREE MUMIA)

http://rebeldiaz.bandcamp.com/track/never-a-prisoner-free-mumia


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for your Party and let it be our message at Mumia demonstrations !

Monday, January 30, 2012.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is off death row and out of solitary because you called and wrote and faxed and emailed.

He is out of the "hole".We did it. This was an international effort, including the delivery of over 5000 petitions,

thousands of letters, and the threat of legal action.

Because of your solidarity and actions, tonight Mumia called and recorded -Of Idiots and Sages-,

a new essay on forced sterilization written on a scrap of paper at SCI Mahanoy from lockdown.

Mumia gives all of you a shout out and tells it how it is. Hear both at prisonradio.org.

Mumia has been held in solitary confinement on death row for over 29 years.

Imagine visiting with a thick plexiglass barrier between you and your mother, wife, daughter or son, for three decades.

Politicans from Tom Corbett (Gov. of PA), to Ed Rendell (former Governor), to Seth Williams (the Philly DA),

and prison authorities John Wetzel (Secretary of Corrections) and John Kerestes (superintendent of Mahanoy),

tried to keep Mumia silent and in the hole.

On Dec. 14th he was transferred from SCI Greene to SCI Mahanoy in Frackville PA,

a medium security facility where he was thrown in the hole.

But you delivered the message: You would not let Mumia and others in the RHU remain there and be silenced.

It took six weeks. But the prison got real heat, backed down and transferred him to General Population.

Today, when you read this, Mumia will hug his wife for the first time in nearly three decades.

Today as you read this he can begin writing again, with more paper, a few pens, and access to Prison Radio's lifeline.

You make it possible by standing with Prison Radio to amplify Mumia's voice.

http://www.prisonradio.org

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Posted on.January 18, 2012

Mumia Abu-Jamal death sentence dropped

Alexis Garrett Stodghill 29.01.2012

Mumia Abu-Jamal death sentence dropped: Marc Lamont Hill discusses case

Q: People who do not support Mumia question the fact that he says someone else did it, but never named the person. Plus, his brother was present at the incident, but has never spoken about it. What do you make of this?

A: I can't speculate on his brother at all. What I can say is that if the police were aware that someone else committed the crime, and were simply prosecuting Mumia because he didn't tell, that would also be a miscarriage of justice. The issue here is that the police know that Mumia didn't do it. The investigators know that they didn't have proper evidence. So, irrespective of who actually did it -- we know Mumia didn't. We know he didn't get a fair trial, and we know that he didn't get a fair sentencing. We know all of that to be true. For me that's the critical focus.


Q: Have you spoken to him since this decision came down?

A:I didn't get a chance to speak to him, because of the phone schedule [in prison]. I've spoken to him after every verdict, and he's always excited, he's always happy even though he tries to contain it a little bit. But more importantly he's always sober and focused on the next phase.

Read more...

http://de.indymedia.org/2012/01/323854.shtml

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Posted on.January 29, 2012

Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Crime of SolitaryConfinement

http://prisonradio.wordpress.com/

Thanks to a Vindictive Prison System,Mumia's Still in the Hole-Sadism in the Cell
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/18/sadism-in-the-cell/

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Mumia Abu-Jamal
AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932

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