Political Prisoners

A tribute to Johanna Fernandez

August 8, 2026 Julia Wright

Johanna Fernandez left a powerful and revolutionary legacy through her scholarship and activism. Solidarity is emotional. – Johanna Fernandez (1970-2026) As the tributes pour in, we are slowly, soberly and somberly putting together the Johanna […]

24-hour vigil declares July 3 Mumia Liberation Day

July 3, 2026 Andrew Matatag

A coalition of community organizations, advocates, scholars, authors, health care professionals, and residents, all united to struggle for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom, called for an emergency 24-hour vigil in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall. In a […]

On his 72nd birthday, Philadelphia marches to free Mumia

April 28, 2026 Stephen Millies

April 25 — Cold rain didn’t stop people today from marching in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. The day before was the revolutionary writer’s 72nd birthday, which, like his previous 44 birthdays, was spent in […]

March to free Mumia Abu-Jamal April 25. Fight for his medical care.

April 6, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Internationally renowned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal — Black Panther Minister of Information in the 1960s, who has been called the “voice of the voiceless” — has been imprisoned since 1982. At that time, he was framed […]

Marching for Mumia: a 12-day journey for justice

November 3, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein

Activists will launch a 12-day March to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal on Nov. 28, walking from Philadelphia to SCI Mahanoy prison in Frackville, Pennsylvania. Their purpose is urgent: to demand medical care, dignity, and freedom for […]

Dialogue with a political prisoner of today, part 1

August 17, 2025 Jay Burton, Adé T.W. Jackson, Esq., and Scott Scheffer

“We don’t get how we are all tied to the prison industrial complex. Nobody’s out.” – Mariame Kaba, interviewed by Mahogany L. Browne, 2019 Having a conversation with a political prisoner would be rare under […]

What to the Political Prisoner is the Fourth of July?

July 10, 2025 Jay Burton

Jay Burton is a political prisoner. At just 16 years old, he was ensnared by the predatory neo-Nazi Lynwood Vikings deputy gang within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department — a white supremacist gang that […]

After 43 years in jail, Mumia Abu-Jamal is still innocent

July 7, 2025 Stephen Millies

Philadelphia, July 5 — Over a hundred people demonstrated for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom here today. Forty-three years ago, on July 3, 1983, the Black revolutionary was convicted after being framed for killing a Philadelphia cop. […]

Always remember Shaka Sankofa

June 22, 2025 Stephen Millies

Shaka Sankofa was executed 25 years ago on June 22, 2000. Texas governor and future president, George W. Bush, ordered the legal lynching in Huntsville. Sankofa spent half his life on death row. He was […]

Mumia embraces the LGBTQ+ movement

June 3, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader of people working for peace and justice. He is a father, a grandfather, and a […]