Police & Prisons | Philadelphia Independent Media Center

by report from lead attorney Robert R. Bryan | 07.23.2008

Today our Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc, submitted on behalf of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

by Hans Bennett | 07.13.2008

Claude Marks is the director of The Freedom Archives, a San Francisco-based organization. Through the website and email list-serves, it provides a valuable resource documenting both revolutionary struggle and police state repression. Freedom Archives also creates high quality audio and video documentaries, including the recent video about the San Francisco Eight, titled "Legacy of Torture."

Legacy of Torture can be viewed online, as well as the previous films Voices of Three Political Prisoners (featuring Nuh Washington, Jalil Muntaqim and David Gilbert), Charisse Shumate: Fighting for Our Lives, and Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination (featuring Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis).

by Mumia Abu-Jamal | 07.12.2008

He died on Sunday, June 29, 2008, in the early evening, after a long and valiant struggle against the ravages of Hepatitis C, which had wreaked havoc on his liver. For those who have known him, they are undoubtedly sad at his passing, but as they remember him, perhaps they can't help but snicker, for "Bushead" was a man gifted with a priceless sense of humor.

Video and Photo-essay: At The Liberty Bell for Mumia on July 4

--"Fourth of You Lie" protest exposes hypocrisy of Independence Day

by Hans Bennett

Leonard Peltier needs a diabetes test kit now!

by Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee | 06.28.2008

Yesterday, Leonard called--later than the norm. He's suffering with a severe headache and other symptoms and is in a bad way. When he was finally able to get tested at the prison infirmary, his blood sugar measured 300. The highest blood glucose reading should be less than 180 mg/dL (and that only one to two hours after eating).

Urgent! Leonard needs a diabetes test kit now!

You may recall that Leonard suffers from diabetes. To date,

New Frame on Framing by Police

by Linn Washington, Jr. | 06.27.2008

“From the beginning of this case, it was corrupt. It was a railroad job,” O’Connor said recently during a reading/book signing at a small venue on Baltimore Ave in West Philadelphia sponsored by the organization, Journalists for Abu-Jamal. “I wrote the book to show not only that Mumia did not kill Officer Faulkner but to show how and why they framed Mumia,” said O’Connor who lived in the Philadelphia area at the time of the brutal December 1981 crime at the heart of this controversial case.

NEW FRAME ON FRAMING BY POLICE

By Linn Washington Jr.

M1 interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal

by POCC | 06.24.2008

The Prisoners of Conscience Committee Minister of Culture M1, also known for his work with the legendary rap group dead prez, interviewed prolific journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal about two weeks ago.

The Prisoners of Conscience Committee Minister of Culture M1, also known
for his work with the legendary rap group dead prez, interviewed