“Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never has and it never will” Frederick Douglass. We were all shocked on March 9th that Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen would not acknowledge his office’s racial injustice and pattern… Read More
Save the date! March 9, 9 am in Dept 39 (on the sixth floor) of the Santa Clara County Courthouse at 190 West Hedding St in San Jose. Please join us! Many of you have… Read More
An Update on the Historic Legal Case If you are in the Harrisburg area come support Prison Radio, Human Rights Coalition, Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal and others as we take the first steps towards knocking down… Read More
We are locked in conflict up on the 8th floor of the Common Pleas Courthouse in Philadelphia, arguing over guilt, innocence and 41 years of unjust imprisonment. We know that love is courageous, fearless, and transformative.… Read More
Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons, a member of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s new Commission on Racial Healing, shares how Catholics can redress racial division by seeking the truth, beauty, justice and reconciliation that are… Read More
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Marvin Pete Walker Jr. (aka Shaka Nantambu) was 19 years old in 1980, when he was charged with murder and sentenced to death. Since then, he has lived his whole adult life on death row… Read More
Dear Friends and Family– With heavy hearts, we write to share that our partner, brother, father, grandfather, comrade and friend, Albert Woodfox, passed away this morning at Ochsner Baptist hospital in New Orleans from COVID-19-related complications. He was 75.… Read More
This trial is a milestone- it will stop the Fraternal Order of Police in their tracks. The First Amendment to the US Constitution is only meaningful if we continue to use it and defend it:… Read More
Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny, our non-fiction narrative published and distributed by Prison Radio and Chicago Review Press — and all three books are going into their second or third printing (hardcover/softcover/eBook/Audible). Angela Davis, Chris… Read More
On Tuesday, October 26, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden advocating for the release of Turtle Mountain Chippewa member Leonard Peltier. The group of lawmakers are all members of federally recognized… Read More
In March of this year, after being denied care at the infirmary in SCI Mahanoy, Mumia was transferred to the hospital and diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He had emergency double bypass surgery. When Mumia’s Hepatitis-C,… Read More
Dear Friend, Tuesday April 20 9:34am: Mumia’s medical attorney’s have received word from the Open Heart ICU doctors. Mumia’s surgery was successful. There were no complications. He is receiving minimal oxygen and has one IV. … Read More
This is a life and death situation and we need to mobilize immediately. Congestive heart failure. Unrelenting skin eruptions are causing damaged, ruptured, leathery, dry, exposed wounds. Not one spot on his body is free of dry cracked and bloody open wounds. No longer in an outside hospital, Mumia is back in the prison infirmary in excruciating discomfort and pain. Read More
1 in 3 women has experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. According to a study by the US Department of Justice, the most dangerous time for a battered woman is when she leaves. In Michigan, 75% of the women who are killed by their intimate partners are murdered after the relationship is over or as it ends. Read More
On Saturday Mumia Abu-Jamal was hospitalized. When he put in a sick call slip and was seen by the SCI Mahanoy medical staff he was taken immediately to the hospital suffering chest pain and shortness of breath. Diagnosed with congestive heart failure he was given a battery of tests. It is unclear how long Mumia was hospitalized, but by Wednesday he was in isolation in the prison’s infirmary. Read More
“Her name, Breonna Taylor, has become a call to be chanted and shouted at protests.” So began Mumia Abu-Jamal in his recent commentary “Breonna’s Deathbed.” Mumia compared Taylor’s assassination—shot in her bed by armed police who burst without… Read More
** Prisoners and Advocacy Groups Win Right to a Trial This afternoon, Chief Judge for the federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Christopher Conner, ruled that Plaintiffs in the cases Abu-Jamal v. Kane… Read More