Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Mumia to student protesters: ‘Shake the earth’ for people of Gaza

April 30, 2024 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The following solidarity message was given over the phone by former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to the participants in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the City College of New York on April […]
Political Prisoners

Albert Woodfox: Angola Three Warrior Passes

August 24, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Who has not heard of the Angola Three, three young Black prisoners who were falsely accused of killing a prison guard in 1972, in the infamous Louisiana maximum-security prison sited at a former slave plantation, […]
In the U.S.

Half the nations, half citizens

July 16, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Half the nation, half citizens.” The recent Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a half century of legal precedent has sent shockwaves throughs millions of American women. A week ago, they lived […]
Political Prisoners

Freedom and med care for Leonard Peltier

February 9, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped […]
Around the world

Tears of empire

September 4, 2021 Mumia Abu-Jamal
It happened with a suddenness that was stunning. The Taliban taking town by town, village by village, province by province until Kabul itself toppled all without virtually firing a shot. The sudden full of the […]
Fight racism

Consuewella Africa, presente!

July 2, 2021 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For many, the name Consuewella Africa is like many of the Africas: about interchangeable, for unless you spent time with them, how could you know them? Consuewella, called Swella by her MOVE brothers and sisters, […]
Political Prisoners

Mumia Abu-Jamal remembers Black Panther Chip Fitzgerald

June 5, 2021 Mumia Abu-Jamal
May 28 — The name Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald is perhaps not widely known except for his supporters. In his wild youth decades ago, he was a teenage member of the LA chapter of the Black […]
Political Prisoners

Julian Assange, political prisoner by Mumia Abu-Jamal

September 11, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
First things first: Who is Julian Assange? And second, why is his struggle of import to any of us? Assange, born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, in 1971, is the founder of the global online media […]
Covid-19

Rogue nation by Mumia Abu-Jamal

July 18, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
July 8 — Several days ago, the European Union announced that Americans were not welcome to visit any of the 28 member countries of the EU. Why? Because of the explosive expansion of the coronavirus […]
Covid-19

Mumia Abu-Jamal: After 100,000

May 28, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
What happens when the counter strikes 100,000? Nothing.  One hundred thousand American dead; that means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. For does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on like […]