Dear Friend,
“Revolutionary solidarity knows no borders. Our influences across generations through time and history are move varied, deeper, and more intertwined than we even know. And right now with the rise of right wing forces around the world they are more important than ever.“
— Jennifer Black, co-editor with Mumia of Beneath the Mountain: An Anti Prison Reader (City Lights 2024).
This is solidarity made real. In Berlin, Jennifer Black participated at two events.
Sunday, January 12, 2025, at 6pm, the Mumia Berlin Collective is hosting, The fight to free Mumia and Build an Anti-prison Movement, featuring a discussion on Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader, at Mieterladen, Kreutzigerstr. 23, 10247 Berlin.
Sunday Jan. 5th we were hosted in Brixton, (GB) by the Free Mumia Coalition with Cecil Gutzmore (pictured here) and Sarah Mudd of the Free Mumia London Committee. The next day we had a warm and fascinating visit with Selma James & the Crossroads Women’s Center Crews in Hackney. Selma is 94 and going strong, and will visit Mumia in April. Also at this event was Grace Kress of Shelby Studio’s. Looking forward to cross pollination of ideas and events.
These events highlight the resilience and creativity of imprisoned voices, sparking and creating vital conversations within the abolitionist movement.
When We Love, We Win
When We Survive, We Win
When We Fight, We Win
Noelle Hanrahan, Esq. P.I.P.S.
P.S. I first met John Black, Jennifer’s father, in 1992. He was producing a radio show at State College “A View from the Left”, and he faithfully played Mumia’s radio essays.
It was his home-coming to Berlin in 1991 that inspired him to find out who Mumia was. He was asked by leftists about Mumia, to which he responded “Who? He made a point to find out and visit Mumia just 33 miles down the road from where John was a union organizer for SEIU 1199.
John Black was born in Germany in 1921. He was arrested, tortured, and thrown out of school for organizing against the Nazi’s. He fled in 1938, many of his comrades were arrested and killed. His trip to Berlin in 1991, sparked mid-state organizing in State College PA. Our trip to Berlin is part of the continuing cross pollination of solidarity because we do outnumber the fascists.
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