Running Down The Walls 2021
“Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It’s my job to do the work for them because they have no one.”—Mumia Abu-Jamal This year, 40 years ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal was… Read More
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Truth is the First Step
Dear Friend, On Sunday an Oscar was awarded to Daniel Kaluuya for his role in “Judas & The Black Messiah” which told the story of 21 year old Black Panther icon Fred Hampton and the… Read More
Urgent: Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery
“We could not save Malcolm X, but we can save Mumia. We can save him, and we must save him, because we love our Brother, and we need our Brother to help us fight for… Read More
Breaking News Mumia’s Open Heart Surgery
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
Professorial With a Touch of Pirate
Dear Friend, It is hard to write while crying. But let me try. Mumia Abu-Jamal is awkward and funny. He walks slowly, slew foot. Deliberately. Lumbering. He has a big broad and warm and… Read More
Emergency Press Update Conference Now 4 pm 4-15-2021
Dear Friend, Youtube live stream link for today’s press conference, starting in 15 minutes. Free Mumia!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqmN3o8lZ6U Prison Radio will record and archive this broadcast at www.prisonradio.org Attachments areaPreview YouTube video Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery: Emergency… Read More
Confidence In Your Conviction: What Krasner Needs to Do!
Dear Friend, What Larry Krasner the District Attorney of Philadelphia Needs To Do! We ask that you examine whether you have “confidence” in this conviction. Is the record that you are defending in court something… Read More
The State Wants Mumia To Die
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
Mumia has Congestive Heart Failure & is Covid 19 positive
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
From Our Desk
Dear Friend, As you know, prisons are foreboding and inaccessible. Every day at Prison Radio we learn new handholds, brace ourselves, and continue to find ways to bring voices across the walls and into our… Read More
Urgent: Mumia’s Symptoms of COVID
Dear Friend, Yesterday Mumia Abu-Jamal called from his cell block at SCI Mahanoy, reaching Pam Africa, and letting all of us know that he is seriously ill. He has had difficulty breathing and chest pain, symptoms… Read More
Urgent Mumia Legal Update
Mumia Abu-Jamal Urgent Legal UpdateFOP Loses for Now: Ominous Split Decision by PA Supreme Court Dear Friend, The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Five & Maureen Faulkner have lost this fight. But the rematch is… Read More
Perfecting Tyranny: Mumia’s New Book Hot Off The Press!
Dear Friend, Perfecting Tyranny by Mumia Abu-Jamal & Stephen Vittoria is a window into the soul of a nation from one of its most respected and feared captives. Getting this book to print took enormous resolve. We now… Read More
BREAKING: Colin Kaepernick Throws Down For Mumia
Breaking News! Colin Kaepernick demanded Mumia Abu Jamal’s release and laments the 38 years of Mumia’s life that he has been held behind bars. Today’s press conference, hosted by Dr. Johanna Fernandez and sponsored by… Read More
The Fight is Far from Over
Dear Friend, In his investigative journalist fashion, Mumia Abu-Jamal has been covering the 2020 Presidential Election from The Imprisoned Nation. Now more than ever, we need to hear the perspectives of political prisoners who endure… Read More
Political Leadership From Behind the Bars
Dear Friend, We amplify political prisoners and politicized prisoners voices. We work with people who are in prison because of their political beliefs, associations, and actions and also people inside who have become conscious of class, race, and… Read More
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Dear Friend, Thank you Omar Askia Ali, Dennis Solo McKeithan, and Mumia Abu-Jamal for exposing the corruption and cruelties of a justice system that is designed to churn out wrongful convictions in order to put away as… Read More
Locked Down and Locked Out
Dear Friend, Solitary confinement is a tool designed to disempower our people, to cut them off, to silence them. According to Solitary Watch, a current estimate of 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement on… Read More
Interview with Philadelphia Hip Hop Artist and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s daughter, Goldii
This interview with Philadelphia hip hop artist and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s daughter, Goldii, was done by Rogelio Velázquez and excerpted in his article “101 Countries Retain the Death Penalty” published in the Mexican magazine Contralínea on August 21,… Read More
FREEMUMIA.COM
Please check out the newly redesigned and updated website at freemumia.com. This site serves as the official homepage of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ) and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC) The International Concerned… Read More
