It’s Now Freedom or Death for Mumia!
https://socialistaction.org/2021/03/22/its-now-freedom-or-death-for-mumia/
March 22, 2021
By Bro. Zayid Muhammad – March 11, 2021
I’m going help them fry the nigger…” Judge Albert Sabo
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal…” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine all NNPA* Black newspapers, for example, carrying regularly
featured articles as a matter of priority on all of the evidence
suppressed in Mumia’s case. * [An association of 200 African-American
community newspapers. Editor]
Imagine Black clergy rallying at major news sites condemning the
white-out and/or the demonization of Mumia through their media entities.
Imagine Black elected officials from Philadelphia and from all over the
country rallying to denounce the continued ordeal of this man.
Imagine surviving ’60s icons conducting civil disobedience at the
governor’s office and the DA’s office in Philadelphia with an eager
throng of two generations of action-hungry activists looking to bumrush
it, en masse if it didn’t yield results.
Even though Mumia has survived two execution dates, 30 years on death
row and several recent dangerous medical challenges, thankfully with the
force of a multiracial international campaign at his back and our
ancestors, this hasn’t happened yet.
It’s time to ask ‘why?’
As this goes to press, Mumia is in a prison infirmary dangling on a
tightrope of both COVID-19 and congestive heart failure, a most deadly
medical cocktail!
COVID-19 is most dangerous when it attacks the lungs, creates fluid in
the lungs and then triggers fatal blood clots. Congestive heart failure,
similarly speaking, creates fluid in the lungs, weakens the heart muscle
and the kidneys. These two together are extremely deadly.
Not to mention Mumia’s Hep-C weakened liver and skin. Remember that?
Mumia needs to be hospitalized at minimum and truly needs to be released!
If ever there was a time to step forward for Mumia, it is now!
The most tragic dimensions surrounding Mumia’s current ordeal is that
there is now so much ample evidence of his innocence, so much ample
evidence of both prosecutorial and judicial misconduct to free him if he
can just be allowed to get it in on an appeal and that evidence on the
court record. In spite of Mumia clearly being on the verge of
objectively vindicating himself, he can tragically die in prison if not
enough of us turn it up now!
Wait! What about Philly’s highly prized progressive DA Larry Krasner?
Hasn’t he moved to overturn more than a dozen bad convictions rooted in
deep-seated Philly racism and corruption? Yes, but not for Mumia.
Even though his office ‘found’ six boxes of missing evidence in his
case, which includes a letter from a star prosecution witness Robert
Chobert seeking payment for his testimony, reeking of prosecutorial
misconduct and granting Mumia a new trial, Krasner, up for re-election,
went into court last month and said that no new appellate relief for
Mumia ought to be granted because his trial and conviction were sound.
From Judge Sabo vowing to help ‘fry the nigger,’ to suppressed
eyewitness testimony that was not paid for by anyone totally
contradicting Chobert’s, to the illegal exclusion of Black jurors from
the trial, to Sabo having Veronica Jones arrested on the stand for
telling the truth on how she was coerced to testify against Mumia, to
their being clear evidence of another person being the actual killer of
Officer Daniel Faulkner and a whole lot more, Krasner showed his true
‘white’ color and is now seeking to block Mumia’s real chance at justice
and freedom at a time when it can genuinely cost him his life.
The time is now to turn it up and free this incredible human being who
has become a breathing living gracious symbol of human solidarity like
few others in the last several decades.
Let us all press Pennsylvania’s other liberal ‘fox’ Gov. Tom Wolf to
have Mumia and all aging prisoners who pose no risk to society released
to help address this insidious pandemic. Over 100 people have died from
COVID-19 in Pennsylvania prisons. All over 50 and with preexisting
conditions.
Let’s press Mumia’s overseers John Wetzel head of Pennsylvania
Department of Corrections and Bernadette Mason superintendent of Mahanoy
Prison to get Mumia properly hospitalized.
Press DA Krasner to address his now dangerous wrong and go back into
court and encourage a conviction reversal and a new trial for Mumia as
he has done for others.
The time is now!
Seize The Time!
Free Mumia Abu Jamal!
Gov. Tom Wolf 717-787-2500
Sec’y Dept of Corrections John Wetzel 717-728-2573
Supt of Mahanoy Corrections Institution Bernadette Mason 570-773-2158
DA Larry Krasner 267-456-1000
To support Mumia locally 212 -330-8029
In Philadelphia, 215-724-1618
Zayid Muhammad is a jazz poet, stage actor and well-known “cub” of the
N.Y. chapter of the Black Panther Party.
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