New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia cop. Officer Daniel Faulkner was shot to death after pulling over Abu-Jamal's brother in a...
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected 2,000 pending appeals. Included in that stack was Mumia Abu-Jamal's request for a new trial — he was convicted of killing a Philadelphia cop 27 years ago after a much-disputed series of events. His arrest and conviction, which supporters say was the result of racism, inspired a movement. A [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The never-ending legal farce that is the Mumia Abu-Jamal case surfaced yet again yesterday, when the US Supreme Court declined to hear arguments that the cop-killing ex-Black Panther deserves a new trial. Not surprisingly, Team Mumia immediately...
CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected more than 2,000 pending appeals Monday, including a request to grant a new trial for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer 27 years ago.
Free Speech Blazing (Free subscription) | yesterday
[col. writ. 10/1/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal By the time you read this the $700 billion bailout will have been old news, one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. But it will not heal that which ails the nation as it trips and stumbles like a drunken sailor on shore leave. The reasons are simple. For the problems are systemic, built into the rapacious nature of the machinery humming all around...
Free Speech Blazing (Free subscription) | yesterday
[col. writ. 9/23/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal If Congress has shown us anything, it is that when they are scared, they'll do anything. Seven years ago, in the twilight after 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax attacks, Congress passed sweeping authorizations to the White House for war on a whim, and signed the so-called Patriot Act in record time. Some members admitted that they didn't even read the...
Free Speech Blazing (Free subscription) | yesterday
[col. writ. 10/1/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal It's been over a year since two members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 10, were harassed, beaten and busted while trying to call their union rep on a cell phone. The men, Aaron Harrison and Jason Ruffin, were beaten by maritime security and West Sacramento cops, for the fake offense of parking -- while Black. They are days...
Right Wing Nation (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Not election related, but a huge bag of M&Ms, thanks to Hot Air: The Supreme Court rejected the latest appeal from Mumia Abu-Jamal today, declining to reverse his conviction. His death sentence was overturned in March, forcing Pennsylvania to either retry his sentencing in front of a new jury or accept a life sentence instead. Fry, [...]
PirateBallerina (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
What's next for a dishonored, disgraced, discredited, and disemployed demagogue? Why, let's schedule him to ejumacate him some DU law students this coming Tuesday, whaddaya say? click pic to aggrandize How can one fail to be impressed with a guild that counts convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal among its governing members? We submit that one cannot.
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
This report appeared on the front page of the May 23, 1985, issue. Death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, a MOVE supporter, praised WW’s coverage of this heinous act.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
United Press International (UPI) has reported that the new British documentary about death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has just been acquired by Sundance.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Oct.3-8: Events in the Bay Area around the struggle to free Penn.Death Row dissident journalist MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. Includes NEW BOOK: "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal" by J.Patrick O'Connor, with review of new evidence & court tanscripts.
Free Speech Blazing (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
[col. writ. 9/20/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal What we are seeing in the midst of America's financial crisis, is a crisis not so much of confidence as it is of ideology, for the crisis has its origins in an economic outlook that has been ascendant for generations. I speak of the idea of deregulation, championed by former President Ronald Reagan, who became symbolic of the shrink-government movement....
Free Speech Blazing (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
[col. writ. 9/24/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal In a matter of months, a new man will take the oath of office for the presidency. Whether he is the oldest in history, or the first Black one, of one thing we may be certain. He will be hobbled by a sea of red ink, and therefore bereft of most of the resources to bring his campaign promises to reality. For as the fires continue to rage throughout the financial...
Mosquito Blog (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Journalist Hans Bennett has given me permission to post his OpEdNews Diary post here. You can see the original at: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9719 VIDEO interview with J. Patrick O'Connor at Philly City Hall, who released his book, The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal , earlier this year. WATCH: PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 On May 1, 2008, the day of the book's release, AJN interviewed O'Connor...
