[Pnews] It is now freedom or death for Mumia!

[Prisoner News]

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/mar/11/it-now-freedom-or-death-mumia/ It
is now freedom or death for Mumia!
*BRO. ZAYID MUHAMMAD* - March 11, 2021
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*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.

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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