{"id":1000541,"date":"2023-02-21T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=295523"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:25:10","slug":"justice-must-prevail-a-global-call-for-freedom-of-us-political-prisoner-mumia-abu-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/21\/justice-must-prevail-a-global-call-for-freedom-of-us-political-prisoner-mumia-abu-jamal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Justice must prevail\u2019: a global call for freedom of US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch<\/a> on Feb. 17, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The decades-long struggle for the freedom of revolutionary leader, journalist, and US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal received another boost of solidarity this week as a global campaign against his unjust incarceration was launched on Thursday, February 16. From the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in the US, a host of organizations have joined the campaign.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former member of the Black Panther Party, 68-year-old Abu-Jamal has spent over 40 years in prison, the majority of that time on death row, after he was convicted for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in the city of Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global solidarity campaign has been launched at a time when Abu-Jamal\u2019s defenders and supporters are awaiting a crucial court decision.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The political nature of his persecution would become increasingly apparent, not only due to his work as a militant journalist, which he would continue in prison, but because of the fact that Abu-Jamal had been\u00a0violently repressed<\/a>\u00a0and surveilled by state forces since the age of 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 16, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in the US, which has a long history of radical organizing around issues of social and political justice, declared a stop work action and the shutdown of ports in the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rally was also held from the union hall to the Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco, joined by local groups, including the Anti Police Terror Project. It was attended by Abu-Jamal\u2019s grandson, Jamal, and Fred Hampton Junior, the son of slain revolutionary Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and the chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were also joined by the family members of victims of brutal police killings, including\u00a029-year-old\u00a0Tyre Nichols<\/a>, and 30-year-old\u00a0Angelo Quinto<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today we joined ILWU local 10 in San Francisco to shut down the street (and the ports!) in solidarity with the fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and to get Justice for Tyre Nichols! #FreeThemAll<\/a> #Justice4TyreNichols<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pC0c0p8bmu<\/a><\/p>— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) February 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>