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Friday, Oct 18th Special Film Screening! MUMIA: LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY

Posted by copwatch | Tue, 10/15/2013 - 8:07pm event

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Attica: 41 Years Later

Posted by copwatch | Mon, 08/27/2012 - 11:47pm story

A new commentary from Mumia Abu-Jamal: recorded 8/26/12

Listen to  Attica: 41 Years Later

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    2005 Publication: THE CASE OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL [click on booklet to download]

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 12/02/2010 - 12:32am story

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    New Poem for Mumia by Alice Walker

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:27pm story

    Occupying Mumia’s Cell   Courtesy of prisonradio 

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    Toy Soldiers, by Mumia Abu-Jamal 12/17/11

    Posted by copwatch | Wed, 01/04/2012 - 10:57pm story

    According to recent news accounts, shattered and shredded body parts and remains of U.S. servicemen were found in a landfill.

     

    Despite political spins, this sobering image is a telling, true-life metaphor for what those in power really think of soldiers, many of whom are but boys and girls freshly loosed from High School.

     

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    THE PRISON, by Mumia Abu-Jamal 12-17-11 [audio and update included]

    Posted by copwatch | Sun, 01/01/2012 - 11:19pm story
     The Prison
    [col. writ. 12/17/11] (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     
    Every prison is the same; and every prison is different.
    Every prison has its own mythos, (think Alcatraz, Sing Sing, Attica), its own rhythm. hard, cool, tight, relaxed, severe or super max. And every prison is run by class -as in how courts or administrators have classified a crime according to whose interests are threatened.
     
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    Mumia Transfer (Dec 14, 2011)

    Posted by copwatch | Wed, 12/14/2011 - 12:00am story

    ONA MOVE, Everybody!  We've received news that Mumia has now been transferred to SCI-Mahanoy, another prison in Pennsylvania.  He is in "Administrative Segregation", he is not in general population yet. We need to let those administrators know, immediately, that we know Mumia is there and that the WORLD is watching.  People need to flood the prison with calls and flood Mumia with postcards (Mumia needs to know that we have his back). ----Ramona

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    Documented Police Brutality Anniversaries: Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9

    Posted by copwatch | Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:11pm story

    Police State Continues to Expand.
    If we don't confront it now, then WHEN?

    August 7, 2010: Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputies Murder Robert Garth in Blue Lake

    http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/08/18655719.php?show_comments=1#18655924

    http://www.youtube.com/user/RedwoodCopWatch#p/u

    August 8, 1978: Philadelphia Police Try to Kill MOVE Men, Women, and Children at MOVE Home; Police Kill One of Their Own and Lock Up Nine MOVE Members "for Murder"; The MOVE 9, U.S. political prisoners, have been in prison since 1978

    http://move9parole.blogspot.com/

    http://www.archive.org/details/AH-MOVE

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    THURS & FRI Calls for Prison Hunger Strikers and Leonard Peltier!

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:17am event

    Call every Thursday and Friday until the demands are met!

    Call for the CA Prison Hunger Strikers!

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    FBI and LA County Sheriff raid veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes

    Posted by copwatch | Mon, 05/30/2011 - 11:04am story
    Published on Thu, 2011-05-19 14:49
    Committee to Stop FBI Repression

    Take action!

    • Sign the national petition to Drop the Charges Against Carlos Montes, Stop the FBI Attack on the Chicano and Immigrant Rights Movement, and Stop FBI Repression of Anti-War Activists NOW!
    • Please send us statements from your organization condemning the raid on Carlos Montes' home. E-mail us at info@stopfbi.net
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    Protests Grow in Solidarity With California Prisoners As Hunger Strikes Enter Third Week, Democracy Now! July 15, 2011

    Posted by copwatch | Fri, 07/15/2011 - 1:40pm story

    INTERVIEWS BELOW

    Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across California’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks. Many are protesting in solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s first super-maximum security prison, over what prisoners say are cruel and unusual conditions in "Secure Housing Units." We play an audio statement from one of the Pelican Bay prisoners and speak to three guests: Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of "All of Us or None" and executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and one of the mediators between the prisoners on hunger strike and the California Department of Corrections; Molly Porzig, a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and a spokesperson for Critical Resistance; and Desiree Lozoya, the niece of an inmate participating in the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, who visited him last weekend.

    Molly Porzig, a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and a spokesperson for Critical Resistance.
    Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of "All of Us or None." He is also the executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Nunn was incarcerated from 1971 to 1982 in San Quentin Prison in California. He is one of the mediators between the prisoners on hunger strike and the California Department of Corrections.
    Desiree Lozoya, is the niece of an inmate participating in the Pelican Bay hunger strike.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to California, where thousands of inmates in at least 11 prisons across the state’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks. Many are protesting in solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s first super-maximum security prison.

    The hunger strike began on July 1st in the Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, when inmates began refusing meals to protest what they say is cruel and unusual conditions. Prisoners in the units are kept in total isolation for 22-and-a-half hours a day, a punishment some mental health experts say can lead to insanity and is tantamount to torture.

    Democracy Now! obtained a recording of an audio statement that one of the Pelican Bay inmates, Ted Ashker sic, made to his legal team in the secure prison’s Secure Housing Unit, which is referred to as the SHU. You will need to listen closely as he explains his reasons for joining the hunger strike.

    TODD ASHKER: The basis for this protest has come about after over 25 years—some of us, 30, some up to 40 years—of being subjected to these conditions the last 21 years in Pelican Bay SHU, where every single day you have staff and administrators who feel it’s their job to punish the worst of the worst, as they’ve put out propaganda for the last 21 years that we are the worst of the worst. And most of us have never been found guilty of ever committing an illegal gang-related act. But we’re in SHU because of a label. And all of our 602 appeals, numerous court challenges, have gotten nowhere. Therefore, our backs are up against the wall.

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    Global BRADLEY MANNING Action Days, March 19-20

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 03/17/2011 - 3:26pm event

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    Individuals and activists plan events around the world to show support for the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower on March 19-20.

    [March 19 event in Eureka CA: http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/771 ]

    On March 19-20, 2011, activist organizations and individuals will take to the streets to protest the U.S. government's treatment of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Private First Class Bradley Manning. Manning, 23, has been held in isolation for nearly 300 days, charged with releasing classified documents, including a video that shows American troops shooting and killing 11 people, including two Reuters employees, in 2007.

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    Great News About Former Polticial Prisoner Ojore Lutalo - Arrested After Last Year's LA Bookfair

    Posted by copwatch | Sun, 03/13/2011 - 12:50am story

    La Junta to settle lawsuit with man who was wrongfully jailed

    By Felisa Cardona The Denver Post 02/15/2011
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    Buried Alive, But Fighting On

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 11/11/2010 - 10:48pm story

    A Letter to Friends from Lynne Stewart

    In the best-selling Steig Larsson trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the heroine, Lisbeth Salander, a hardwired, brilliant young computer genius is shot and presumed to be dead, but is actually buried alive by the antagonist. He is a prototype of the cruel, greedy, misogynistic, exploiter. She claws herself out of her premature grave and, indomitable and focused, defeats him. Finally by the end of volume three she has triumphed—using her own brains and, relying on her friends and comrades—over the entire corrupt corporate, governmental, military power structure that had been trying to oppress and suppress her, her whole life.

     

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    December 9, 2010: 29 Years of Mumia's Frame Up

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 12/09/2010 - 1:08pm event

    DECEMBER 9, 2010 IS THE 29TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY THE PHILADELPHIA COPS
    ATTEMPTED TO KILL MUMIA ABU JAMAL. THEY TERRORIZED, BEAT, SHOT, KIDNAPPED,
    JAILED, FRAMED, AND SENTENCED HIM TO DEATH ROW. MUMIA IS A POLITICAL
    PRISONER IN PENNSYLVANIA.

    http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/645

    http://freemumianow.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-9-in-nyc-international.html

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    MUMIA'S LIFE IN DANGER! New Info: Protests, Rallies, Events

    MUMIA'S LIFE IS IN DANGER!

    Come out on November 9th 2010 to say:

    MUMIA IS INNOCENT !  FREE MUMIA! 
    END THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY!


    MUMIA ABU-JAMAL faces his likely last court hearing on November 9th, 2010, at the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia.  This hearing is about sentencing only. 

    Why is this happening?

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    WHY THE NOVEMBER 9, 2010 HEARING ON MUMIA IS SO CRITICAL

    Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
    www.freemumia.com
    info@freemumia.com (212)330-8029

    The only legal options to be considered at the Third Circuit's November 9 hearing are whether Mumia Abu-Jamal is to be executed or get life in prison without parole. Clearly neither of those two options is acceptable.

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    FREE LEONARD PELTIER! the Longest Held Political Prisoner

    Posted by copwatch | Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:33am story

    A Green Party Announcement: Free Leonard Peltier Caucus


    A new caucus has been formed. The Free Leonard Peltier Caucus is working to circulate a petition for signatures to be presented to Pres. Obama at the end of his tenure asking for a presidential pardon for the longest held political prisoner, Leonard Peltier.

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    NOV. 9, 2010: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Will Hear Oral Argument in Review of Mumia's Death Sentence

    Posted by copwatch | Mon, 10/11/2010 - 1:06pm event

    from Workers World

    Nov. 9 in Philadelphia: ‘Free Mumia Abu-Jamal’

    By Betsey Piette     Philadelphia     Published Oct 1, 2010

    The nearly 29-year struggle to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal faces a critical juncture with the announcement that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will review Abu-Jamal’s death sentence on Nov. 9. It is imperative that all who stand for justice and against racism and state repression pack the courtroom in Philadelphia.... 
    Read more here:
    http://www.workers.org/2010/us/mumia_1007/

     

    *Read Updated Message of Events Worldwide beginning November 5th!  Click HERE


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    ABU-JAMAL NEWS: Published by Journalists for Mumia... DOWNLOAD!!


    Click on above front page or Download HERE!! 
    http://abu-jamal-news.com/docs/proof.pdf

    Check out Abu-Jamal News website at:
    http://abu-jamal-news.com/

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    'Justice On Trial' Promotes Constitutional Debate about Mumia's Death Sentence

    http://bignoisefilms.org/films/tactical-media/114-justice-on-trial

    JUSTICE ON TRIAL - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal from bignoisetactical on Vimeo.

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    Photographer Criminalized for Taping Political Statement in Illinois

    Posted by copwatch | Sun, 09/26/2010 - 1:45pm story

    Fri. Sept 17 2010     DROPTHECHARGES.NET

    On September 8, Gregory Koger was sentenced to 300 days in jail for videotaping a brief political statement at a public event in Skokie, IL.  When Gregory was asked to stop, he put down his video camera.   Trespass charges were brought because he started filming with his iPhone.  But videotaping is not a crime!

     

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    Mumia 101: An Urgent Appeal

    An Urgent Appeal from a long-time friend of
    Mumia Abu-Jamal

    A message from the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
    03 September 2010

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    U.S. Soldier Imprisoned for Releasing Video Of U.S. Military Slaying of Iraqi Civilians: VIDEO & PETITION included

    Posted by copwatch | Thu, 07/15/2010 - 1:20am story

    Bradley Manning is the U.S. soldier now in a US military prison in Kuwait who has been arrested and charged with two violations for releasing classified information (the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video) and facing 54 years in prison. He is being held in isolation from the outside world - with no contact with his civilian attorneys working to defend him.

    If the allegations are true, Bradley Manning is a hero for bringing to light the realities of the crimes being committed in the U.S. occupation.

    We call for his immediate release and that his attorneys be allowed to talk to him.

      Sign-On In Support of Bradley Manning & His Right to Counsel

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    MOVE message: CALL to Protect political prisoner Chuck Africa!

    ONA MOVE!  I’M SENDING THIS EMAIL OUT TO INFORM YOU OF A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION HAPPENING WITH OUR BROTHER, CHUCK AFRICA. THIS FALLS ON THE HEELS OF US EXPOSING PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER COLUMNIST, MONICA YANT KINNEY AND ALL OF THE INFORMATION WE WERE ABLE TO PUT OUT DURING MEDIA INTERVIEWS MARKING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SINCE THE BOMBING.

     

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