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Mumia Abu Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an acclaimed American journalist and author who has been writing from Death Row for more than twenty-five years.
Mumia was sentenced to death after a trial that was so flagrantly racist that Amnesty International dedicated an entire report to describing how the trial "failed to meet minimum international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings." The complete report is posted here on the Amnesty website.
Mumia is author of many books, including Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners vs. The USA, forthcoming from City Lights Books.
The count has been called and Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. has become the 44th President of the United States of America. …
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[Below are three ZNet sustainer commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal on the economic crisis.] Behind the Money Crash By Mumia Abu-Jamal For millions…
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It’s been over a year since two members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 10, were harassed, beaten and…
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