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Reverend Jackson: ‘We Must Not Just Settle for Zimmerman’ (VIDEO)

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:44:46 +0000

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s first interview since being removed from Death row.

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:46:23 +0000

RT has become the first TV channel in the world to speak to former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was removed from death row in January.

Jasiri X’s Powerful stance on the Trayvon Martin case

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:52:22 +0000

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No Tar Sands / No Keystone XL Pipeline / No Tresspassing on Lakota Nation treaty lands

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:15:18 +0000

“XL Pipeline trucks are being held at the border of the Pine Ridge Reservation by our Lakota Oyate, OST Police and State Troopers in an effort to keep them from entering our territory. Even the state troopers told the trucks they have to turn around and cannot bring thier… pipeline or other materials on to our reservation. The XL Pipeline trucks are refusing to turn around claiming they have corperate rights that supercedes any other laws. Olowan Sara Martinez, Debra White Plume, Grandma Marie Randall and others are there holding their ground.”

via Honor the Earth

New Visual Presentations by Okera Damani and Sadiki Bakari and DVD RELEASE PARTY TONIGHT @6pm in LA

admin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:10:40 +0000

New Visual Presentations by Okera Damani and Sadiki Bakari and DVD RELEASE PARTY TONIGHT @6pm in LA. Discussing the past, present and future of technology, Afrikan spirituality, alchemy, cyberspace and the cybernaut, the military and singularity, immortality, the soul and much more @The Renowned KRST Unity Center of Afrakan Spiritual Science. Bring your folks, be on time and it will be standing room only!

Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not Poverty Porn via Colorlines

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:40:52 +0000

Last month ABC’s 20/20 aired a special they called “Children of the Plains,” that portrayed the Lakota Indian reservation as a place that only dealt with crime, unemployment, alcoholism, overcrowded trailers and crumbling schools.

On Monday, young Native American students from Rosebud, South Dakota released a short video that challenged the claims made by “Children of the plains.”

via Colorlines

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:06:18 +0000

In a video statement released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s incarceration, the former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu urges Abu-Jamal’s immediate freedom. Mumia “has faced years of prosecutorial and police misconduct and judicial bias,” Tutu says. “Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia should be released.”

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks about His Removal from Death Row

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:02:12 +0000

Hundreds of supporters of the imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered on Friday in Philadelphia to mark the 30th anniversary of his arrest for the killing of a white police officer. The event occurred just two days after Philadelphia prosecutors announced they will no longer seek the death penalty for Abu-Jamal. On Friday, Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther, called into the event to make his first public remarks since the prosecutor’s decision was announced.

Mumia Abu-Jamal: “For the first time in almost 30 years, I’m not on death row physically. I’m in a new block called an AC block. The cells are somewhat identical to death row, but no one on this block is on death row, including myself. It takes some getting used to, you see. I’m still acclimating myself.”

Abu-Jamal was also asked about his reaction to having his death sentence converted to life without parole.

Mumia Abu-Jamal: “Well, I must admit to some surprise, because I was expecting a hearing. And by that, I mean a sentencing hearing. Even though many friends and supporters and even lawyers said there probably wouldn’t be one, I believed there would be one, and I continued to feel that way until I heard the news. I will be talking to my lawyers in a matter of days, and we’ll be, you know, going over precisely those kinds of questions. Because there will not be a hearing, there is some disappointment, because we thought we could make some things happen in that hearing and really give a good fight. But we’ll have to fight in other ways. I want to thank everybody who really supported us for so many years.”

Via DemocracyNow

DA Dropping Death Penalty Against Mumia Abu-Jamal

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:08:05 +0000

PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors have called off their 30-year battle to execute former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal for murdering a white police officer, putting to an end the racially charged case that became a major battleground in the fight over the death penalty.

Flanked by the police Officer Daniel Faulkner’s widow, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced his decision Wednesday, just two days short of the 30th anniversary of the killing. He said continuing to seek death penalty would open the case to “an unknowable number of years” of appeals.

NAACP: Troy Davis’ sister, Martina Davis-Correia has died

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:57:20 +0000

Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of late cause celebre death row inmate Troy Davis, has died, NAACP senior communications associate Derek Turner confirmed.

usatoday.com