Listen to political prisoner Mumia Abu- Jamal’s essay at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciNXXaVbIc
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a Black revolutionary journalist imprisoned in the United States, a former member of the Black Panther Party, and one of the most internationally recognised figures in debates over justice.
Arrested in 1981, he was convicted of the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death after a trial widely criticised for serious procedural flaws and systemic racial bias. In 2001, a federal court overturned his death sentence due to irregularities in the sentencing process, and in 2011 prosecutors formally abandoned their pursuit of execution.
Abu-Jamal remains imprisoned under a life sentence without parole, despite ongoing calls from human rights groups for a new and fair trial. Amnesty International concluded that his trial failed to meet international standards of fairness, citing the exclusion of Black jurors, hostility from the presiding judge, and politically charged rhetoric used to secure the death sentence. For decades, Abu-Jamal has recorded political commentaries from prison through Prison Radio, challenging official narratives from the so-called War on Drugs to US foreign interventions.
His references to journalist Gary Webb and CIA involvement in drug trafficking point to the Iran-Contra scandal, where US officials secretly sold weapons to Iran and used the money to fund Contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Later investigations exposed allegations that individuals linked to the Contras trafficked cocaine into US cities, devastating Black and working-class communities. Today, global attention has returned to Venezuela, where the US has illegally assaulted the country and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro under the false pretext of fighting narco-terrorism. Donald Trump has openly stated his desire to control Venezuela’s oil reserves, threatened its allies, dismissed international law, and revived the Monroe Doctrine to justify renewed US dominance across the Americas.
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