Update on Mumia Abu-Jamal
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"We know that Mumia will be free. We just want to delay Mumia's
release as long as possible." Maureen Faulkner, at a Fraternal Order
of Police (FOP) Lodge.
This is a startling admission. They know it and we know it: Mumia
will be free. Freedom is coming and it is going to be a fast,
harrowing last lap.
As I drive Route 309 past Allentown to see Mumia Abu-Jamal at SCI
Mahanoy in Frackville, PA, I know I am scaling formidable
walls. Just yesterday, I heard Maureen Faulkner tell Ashley
Strohmier on Fox and Friends that she was going after Brown
University for illuminating Mumia's archival materials. This is a
powerful development. See "Brown University Acquires the Papers of
Mumia Abu-Jamal" New York Times story 8-24-22.
Mumia, the intellectual, the man, and the scholar, has a critical
role in the discourse of abolition. And every accolade must
acknowledge the demand for his immediate and unconditional freedom..
Bringing Mumia's voice out beyond the walls to the airwaves is Prison
Radio's job. Freedom is our mission.
The brutality and banality of oppression in Pennsylvania prisons is
tangible, palpable, naked.
On this visit, at least there are no snarling drug dogs circling my
pockets for dog biscuit crumbs, and no one in the line to get in is
turned away for setting off the notoriously fallible drug scanner.
We were on a legal visit in an open room, with a recording cammera
and microphone just above our heads: a blatant affront to the Sixth
Amendment right to counsel. The back of the room holds a fully
stocked vending machine with cold bottled water on every shelf. But
there is no water for this visit. A sign taped to the machine
reads: "Out of Order. Use the next one". When you try "the next
one," it flashes "Sold Out". There is no water fountain. The only
food on offer is a few overpriced pork hoagies, which no Muslim can
eat and which are deadly for an aging population fighting heart disease.
The cavernous room is practically empty of regular visitors; the
online portal makes it difficult to schedule a visit. Only 9 men have
visits today. Although there is plenty of room, we are all expected
to sit still. Stretching and standing is frowned upon god forbid you
want to get up and walk around.
Guards tell me that photos are no longer allowed on legal
visits. This is both petty and unconstitutional. Obviously, these
pictures below have power.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal with his grandson and paralegal Jamal Jr.
We know Mumia endures a full cavity strip search before and after
every single visit. We know he is in his cell 21 hours a day with
just 7 steps from the front to the back of the cell. His diet of
processed food, with few fresh vegetables or fruit, is a violation of
the 8th Amendment and ADA guidelines. After undergoing double bypass
surgery in March of 2021, Mumia needs adequate exercise and healthy
food. We work with Mumia to pursue administrative remedies, file
Right To Know Requests, and document nutrition required for cardiac
health. So much work for basic needs like healthy foods.
We continue. We plan, we strategize.
For 42 years, Mumia has appealed for a new trial in the 1981 shooting
death of Philadelphia Police officer Daniel Faulkner. The current
delays are a tactic designed to prevent justice and delay accountability.
On October 19th 2022 Common Pleas Court Criminal Division Supervising
Judge Lucretia Clemens will issue her opinion regarding Mumia's new
trial. At issue are the practices of removing African Americans from
his jury and burying evidence. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry
Krasner is fighting to deny Mumia the right to challenge his
conviction. Krasner has decided to defend a system (the cops, the
prosecutors and the courts) that has literally victimized a generation.
Fighting to keep Mumia in prison is all about limiting exposure. It
is about preserving the fiction that decades of mass incarceration
(prosecuted by former Philadelphia police chief and mayor Frank Rizzo
and former DA, Mayor, and Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell) is not
tainted by police and prosecutorial misconduct.
Their goal is to prevent the white hot spotlight on Philadelphia's
long and sordid racist history. Everyone knows that Mumia's judge,
Albert "I am going to help them fry the N-word" Sabo, is a stone-cold
racist. Sitting Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara
McDermott told me, "Sabo is the most racist, sexist, and homophobic
jurist I have ever met." Rendell (The DA at the time of Mumia's
trial) and Mayor Frank Rizzo, hand in hand, violated defendants
constitutional rights at every turn. They knew what the cops were
doing: everyone knew. Everyone still knows.
The immediate question is will the current court order an evidentiary
hearing; in fact, they should simply order a new trial. This moment
must be met with strong and strategic action. The FOP have promised
to try to intervene and delay any new court hearing. They have been
emboldened by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which heard their
frivolous Kings Bench Petition.
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Noelle Hanrahan, Esq, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and investigator Mike Africa Jr.
Part of our job is to keep the shining light of the public on this
case, and its impact on so many others.
We are struggling to have the funds to print our mailings, make
payroll, and keep the phones on. We are poised to help the world
hear this critical information. We rely on you. We just do. To keep
us traveling to the prison and the phones on. You are a critical part
of that small circle of folks that make this work possible.
We need you to help make these freedom dreams a reality. Can you give
the largest amount you have ever given us? If not that, can you give
double what you gave last year? Can you donate a building? Stock? We
are so close. Your gift will help us make our next strategic, crucial, step.
We just got two cars, an Audi and a Subaru donated by Rod and Marcia.
Thank you. But we need gas money and airfare ticket money.
We are in the final home stretch to freedom, and yes abolition.
Please join us.
When We Fight, We Win, Cuando luchamos ganamos
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Noelle Hanrahan, Esq. P.I.
*We would love a copy of the actual 8-24--22 New York Times, could
someone send it to us? either by taking pictures of it or sending us
the original to PO Box 19559 Philadelphia PA 19124.
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