900 Fallon St
Oakland, CA 94607
USA
Sponsored by: Laney College Ethnic Studies Department and the Free Mumia Coalition
Speakers: Arthur League, Cat Brooks, Jack Heyman, Judy Greenspan, Gerald Smith, and Richard Becker
Alia Sharreif – hip hop artist
Video – Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports to Free Mumia
Ras Ceylon & Carole Seligman, co-chairs Who Is Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a revolutionary journalist. A former member of the Black Panther Party and MOVE supporter, he fought racism and police brutality with outspoken radio reporting in Philadelphia in the 1970s. Known as the “voice of the voiceless,” he was an award-winning journalist. His work continues today–from behind bars–with books he has written, and recorded essays on imperialism, war, racism and more.
Because he acted and spoke out against police brutality and racism, Mumia was considered an enemy of the state. He was targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO disruption program from age 15, framed for a crime he did not commit, and sentenced to death. His death sentence was
overturned, but he now he is serving life without the possibility of parole. He has been falsely imprisoned now for almost 36 years. Cops, courts and politicians conspired to put Mumia away, and they are still at it; but Mumia has never wavered from insisting on his innocence!
Mumia Abu-Jamal should have never spent one day in jail. Mumia’s case exposes the race and class bias of the entire capitalist judicial system. The state demands his slow death in prison as retaliation to his defiant resistance to state repression and racial oppression. But Mumia has not been silenced.
We stand with Mumia. Mumia’s freedom is part of our own struggle for justice and human liberation.
Endorsers: Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Workers World Party, Oscar Grant Committee, ANSWER Coalition, Freedom Socialist Party, Anti Police Terror Project, By Any Means Necessary, Socialist Organizer, DSA Justice Committee, Socialist Viewpoint, Oakland Teachers for Mumia, and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.