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Posted: <span class="posted" title="2012-08-23T00:00:00-04:00">Thursday,
August 23, 2012 12:00 am</span> | <span class="updated"
title="2012-08-23T09:17:41-04:00"> Updated: 1:17 pm, Thu Aug 23, 2012<br>
</span><span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">By ADONIS BELIN<br>
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<p>Mumia Abu-Jamal is probably the world’s most famous political
prisoner. Known for his writings and being involved with
pro-African-American movements, this former Black Panther who had been
on death row for almost 30 years is now dealing with the controversy of
a life sentence as supporters still demand that he is granted freedom.</p>
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<p>However, on Aug. 13, apparently without his knowledge, Abu-Jamal was
formally resentenced by Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela
Dembe to life imprisonment without parole.</p>
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<p>Speaking from prison on Jan. 28, Abu-Jamal told his wife, Wadiya
Jamal, to tell the people, “My dear friends, brothers and sisters, I
want to thank you for your real hard work and support. I am no longer
on death row, no longer in the hole, I’m in population. This is only
part one and I thank you for the work you’ve done, but the struggle is
for freedom!”</p>
<p>Already scheduled is an End Mass Incarceration Rally at Harlem’s
Riverside Church. Activists are calling to “shut down Attica, end
solitary confinement and free Mumia and all our political prisoners.”
Participants and speakers will include Michelle Alexander, Angela
Davis, Jazz Hayden, Marc Lamont Hill, Cornel West, Pam Africa and
Soffiyah Elijah. Suzanne Ross will act as the panel moderator.</p>
<p>Currently, Abu-Jamal is incarcerated in SCI Mahanoy prison in
Frackville, Pa. when he was recently taken off of death row after years
of legal wrangling, his supporters began demanding a new case, if not
his immediate freedom.</p>
<p>The case of Abu-Jamal, writer and journalist, born as Wesley Cook,
continues to catch a lot of attention. Convicted of the murder of
Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, Abu-Jamal was facing
execution. The argument was that Abu-Jamal, a known Black Panther
activist, was driving down a street in 1981 when he saw his brother
pulled over by a cop. Ultimately, Abu-Jamal was charged and convicted
of shooting down Faulkner. This despite numerous witnesses recanting
what they now say was forced testimony, and one Arnold Beverley saying
that it was he who shot the police officer, not Abu-Jamal.</p>
<p>Abu-Jamal has many supporters, varying from leaders of state in
France and all over Africa to other important figures such as Nelson
Mandela, Toni Morrison and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Abu-Jamal also has
parliaments from Europe and Japan on his side, along with city
governments in San Francisco, Detroit and Paris, and many more who
stand by him.</p>
<p>For more information about the Sept. 14 event, visit <a
href="http://www.freemumia.com">www.freemumia.com</a> or call
212-870-6784.</p>
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