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Eddie Africa: Free!

July 3, 2019 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Eddie Africa (front row right) at MOVE news conference after his release. SLL photos: Berta Joubert-Ceci June 23 — The news came through like a beam in the night: “Eddie Africa has been released today.” […]
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MOVE 9 members Janine and Janet released at last

June 4, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
After 41 years, all the MOVE 9 women are liberated, no longer incarcerated, finally released! Janet Holloway Africa and Janine Phillips Africa, the longest-held women political prisoners in the U.S., were freed on May 25, […]
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Community, activists demand ‘Free Mumia!’

April 29, 2019 Stephen Millies
Two hundred people took to the streets of Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood on April 27 to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners. Every year, supporters march to honor his birthday on April 24. […]
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Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox welcomed in Brooklyn

April 1, 2019 Anne Pruden
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Nearly 200 people packed the auditorium of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza on March 27 to hear Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three speak about his new book, “Solitary: Unbroken […]
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Do workers have a right to know the truth? Free Chelsea Manning now!

March 15, 2019 Prisoners Solidarity Committee
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria, Va., expressed the government’s contempt for every woman, every trans person and every worker when he sent heroic military whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail on International Women’s […]
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Kevin Cooper, an appeal for freedom and prison abolition

March 2, 2019 M. Odom
To very little fanfare, in December 2018, new DNA testing was ordered for California death row inmate Kevin Cooper, a Black man accused of killing four white people.   For over 30 years, Cooper has […]
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Vaughn prisoners sue over Delaware abuse

February 10, 2019 Lev Koufax, Prisoners Solidarity Committee
Inmates at the Vaughn Correctional Facility, the largest prison in Delaware, have filed a lawsuit against state corrections officials for “physically, mentally and emotionally” abusing prisoners. The lawsuit was filed in January. “The higher ranking […]
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Prisoner writes on inspiration from Mumia

February 1, 2019 James F. Young III
Comrades, My political voyage inside these prison walls is inspired by many revolutionaries, one of whom is Mumia Abu-Jamal. All of the trials Mumia has been through, from the time he was on the street […]
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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s fight for freedom

January 14, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
Rooted in Black liberation struggle “Philadelphia is the city that imprisons the majority of Black and Brown youth. It is the city that has also imprisoned and attempted to silence the most important political prisoner […]
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Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks to New York meeting

January 14, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — More than a hundred people came to the People’s Forum in Midtown Manhattan on Jan. 12 to hear the latest developments in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. On the meeting’s stage were boxes […]