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50 years since Attica Rebellion: We salute ‘prisoners’ Paris Commune’

September 9, 2021 Sharon Black
Including a special interview with Tom Soto, Prisoners Solidarity Committee observer.  On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners in Cell Block D seized the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, after submitting a 27-point […]
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Long Live Revolutionary George Jackson!

August 14, 2021 Gloria Verdieu
“If I leave here alive, I’ll leave nothing behind. They’ll never count me among the broken men, but I can’t say that I’m normal either. I’ve been hungry too long, I’ve gone angry too often, […]
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Julian Assange and the U.S. war on truth-tellers

June 12, 2021 Stephen Millies
Pentagon generals and killer cops can’t tolerate truth-tellers. That’s the reason Ramsey Orta was locked up for four years.  Orta filmed his friend Eric Garner being choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten […]
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Turkey: Revolutionary prisoner undergoes surgery after months of protests

June 9, 2021 Anti-Imperialist Front
On May 26, the seriously ill political prisoner Ali Osman Köse was taken to the Thracian University Hospital in Edirne, near the border with Bulgaria and Greece. This came after months of protest actions in […]
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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 […]
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A celebration of Mumia in South Central LA

May 8, 2021 John Parker
On April 24, in celebration of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s birthday and in solidarity with the national call to save his life from the murderous attempt to kill him through medical neglect, the Los Angeles Branch of […]
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San Diego solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal

May 5, 2021 Gloria Verdieu
San Diego joined the national call to action from the International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal on April 24 — the imprisoned freedom fighter’s 67th birthday. Supporters gathered in front of the Malcolm […]
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Coverage of Navalny vs. Mumia Abu-Jamal highlights corporate media hypocrisy

April 22, 2021 Greg Butterfield
In recent weeks, U.S. corporate media has been flooded with coverage of imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s hunger strike and stories of his failing health. After three weeks on hunger strike, Navalny’s personal doctors […]
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Pam Africa: As Mumia awaits heart surgery, I am issuing a challenge to CNN’s Michael Smerconish and DA Larry Krasner

April 19, 2021 Pam Africa, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Ona Move! On Saturday April 17, Mumia called his wife Wadiya and told her that he is scheduled to have heart surgery on Monday April 19. Your support with calling and emailing prison authorities today and […]
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Urgent call to action: Mumia Abu-Jamal to have heart surgery

April 15, 2021 International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
April 14, 2021, 6:01 p.m. — We have learned that Mumia Abu-Jamal, the world renowned veteran Black Panther, political prisoner and radio journalist, had heart pain over the weekend. He was rushed to the hospital, […]