One More Revolution Around the Sun – Mumia’s Birthday Week

One More Revolution Around the Sun❤️

Another revolution around the sun for our beloved “Long Distance Revolutionary.”

Mumia Abu-Jamal went to prison at age 27, and on April 24th he turns 72 years old.

It is impossible to put in words how much he means to us, and how much he has sacrificed every day for the past 44 years. Entire political regimes and eras have risen, hardened, and faded. Yet he remains consistent, dogged, and unbroken. Refusing silence, insisting on witness, and carrying forward a voice the walls were meant to contain – but failed.

People will be celebrating the work to bring him home in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Mexico City. And in various cities throughout the United States.

Check out some of the activities happening in Philadelphia and beyond.

Monday, April 20th: INNOCENCE & ABOLITION Art & Crafts Night

5pm – 8pm

Girarden Wellness Garden, 4157 West Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Here, we’ll support a community garden’s fight for sovereignty as memory workers Lunise Cerin & Wynn Eakins guide us through a presentation on innocence and revolution in history & nature, re-imagining the concepts through art as we gather under the stars, creating banners, signs and new masterpieces to take with us into the March of Innocence.

Thursday, April 23rd: We! Want! Freedom! Trivia Night Teach-In (throwing some fun into the mix!)

6:30pm – 9pm Tattooed Mom, 530 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19147

Join The Philly Palestine Coalition @phillypalestinecoalition, Black Alliance for Peace Philadelphia @bapphiladelphia, and local luminaries alike for an evening of game show foibles, bar food, and friendly competition as we learn from our Political Prisoners, win some prizes, and dissect the systems of separation and extraction stacked against us.

Friday, April 24th Celebrate Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 72nd birthday – RALLY outside District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office

4:30pm Three South Penn Square (Corner of Juniper and South Penn Square, across from City Hall) Philadelphia, PA 19107

Noel Hanrahan Esq. Cooperating Attorney with Abolitionist Law Center, who represent Mumia speaking.

We’ll demand that Krasner release the remaining Mumia boxes of evidence! and stop making Mumia an exception to his “progressive” record, all while uplifting the important campaigns needed to keep our movement alive. From there we’ll march to The Friends Center at 1515 Cherry St, for a dinner reception at 6:30pm where we’ll celebrate Mumia with a few surprise speakers, watch clips from Mumia documentaries, eat cake, and write cards for the man of the hour. Dinner reception is a collaboration of Prison Radio, Abolition School, Black Alliance for Peace, and so many more.

Friday, April 24th United Kingdom Event in London, Noelle Hanrahan Esq. Cooperating Attorney with Abolitionist Law Center, who represents Mumia, will be speaking.

Frankfurt, Germany will be holding a celebration. Email for more information: info@mumia-hoerbuch.de

Saturday, April 25th: THE MARCH OF INNOCENCE

2pm @ Malcom X Park 51st Street and Pine, Philadelphia, PA

the Grand Finale

Full Philadelphia schedule here

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