Tag: Mumia Abu-Jamal

NOVANEWS By Liberation Staff April 24 is the 63rd birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal, perhaps the most well known of the political prisoners currently being held in the United States. Mumia is also in court, as his supporters will take to the streets in Philadelphia. His lifetime of struggle, beginning with his membership in the Black Panther Party, has been an inspiration for generations of activists, and his case has been taken up by those seeking social justice across the world. Ramona Africa, minister of communication for the MOVE organization, activist and scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro and Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio went on Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear with Brian Becker to discuss his revolutionary example and the fight for his freedom. Click here to listen to the interview ...

NOVANEWS Mumia Abu Jamal | Photo: Campaign to Bring Mumia Home teleSUR  U.S. revolutionary activist Mumia Abu Jamal will begin receiving treatment for hepatitis C next week, Philly Voice reports, citing recently-released court papers. Jamal, who is serving a life sentence at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institution in Philadelphia, has been demanding treatment since 2015, when he suffered from a renal failure. Now, he will receive antiviral medication that consists of one pill per day for 12 to 24 weeks, Philly Voice adds. The medication has an estimated 90-percent cure rate. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, DOC, was ordered on Monday to begin providing medication after it lost its appeal to withhold treatment in the state’s Third Circuit court. “For the last 53 days, t...

NOVANEWS teleSUR  Many members of the Black Panthers and New Afrika party remain behind bars, some under dubious circumstances. In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning and Oscar Lopez Rivera, teleSUR takes a look at some of the more prominent political prisoners who remain behind bars for their activism and fight for justice. Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and charged with killing white police Officer Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia in December 1981. One year later, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. In 2011, the United States Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional in his case, and he was re-sentenced to life in prison without parole. He and many activists have maintained that he is innocent. L...