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Mumia’s attorney, Professor Judith Ritter of Widener University in Delaware, argued brilliantly on Mumia’s behalf on November 9th, in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. For a full report, see journalist Dave Lindorff’s recent essay at CounterPunch. Bookmark … Continue reading →

Hi Everyone. Please check out the trailer for the new documentary film, at its WEB SITE HERE,  entitled JUSTICE ON TRIAL – The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. We are very excited about the quality production, intellectual rigor and potential for … Continue reading →

After the upcoming new film on Mumia’s case (premiering in Philly on Sept. 21), please mark in your calendars OCTOBER 9th for being in Philadelphia. That is the best way to observe the WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY. As … Continue reading →

Actually there are two new movies, a slick, propagandistic hatchet job supported by the FOP, called “The Barrel of a Gun,” and a new one that is a fresh powerful statement about Mumia’s struggle for justice, the cogency of his … Continue reading →

Reports have leaked of a secret memo in which some US anti-death penalty activists showed reluctance to advocate on behalf of Pennsylvania’s death row journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal. The memo was entitled, “Involvement of Mumia Abu-Jamal Endangers the US Coalition for … Continue reading →

-New York City. April 4, 2010. Over 500 people packed out the Event Oval at the Diana Center at Barnard College campus at Columbia University on Saturday night, April 3. Headliner speaders featured Cornel West of Princeton University’s Religion Department, … Continue reading →

* VIJAY PRASHAD * CORNEL WEST *                                * JAMAL JOSEPH * Main speakers for the upcoming conference at Columbia University on the theme, “LIVE FROM DEATH ROW – MUMIA AT THE CROSSROADS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA.” ADMISSION IS FREE, BUT … Continue reading →

Over 200 people packed out the Labyrinth Bookstore in downtown Princeton on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, to hear Mumia phone in for a brief dialogue with Princeton University Professors Cornel West and Patricia Fernandez-Kelley from the Sociology Department. The event … Continue reading →

Dave Lindorff’s essay considers some of the various processes that may be awaiting Mumia. Lindorff writes: “The Supreme Court order sending Abu-Jamal’s case back down to the Third Circuit, right or wrong, hardly means Abu-Jamal’s battle is over, much less … Continue reading →

Temple University journalism professor, also writer for the Philadelphia Tribune, Linn Washington, Jr., has just finished an essay on the politics and legal ramifications of Mumia’s case. Washington writes: “Why, people wonder worldwide, does Mumia Abu-Jamal remain imprisoned when mounds of evidence … Continue reading →