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Action Alert: Mumia Abu-Jamal |
 Rally to Free Mumia & all political prisoners Saturday 25 April 12-1.30pm Brixton Tube
Called by Free Mumia Abu Jamal Campaign
email: free2mumia.co.uk Take action now – demand that the Department of Corrections permit Mumia to have a diabetes specialist of his choosing:
Call:
SCI Mahanoy
Christopher Opppman
John Wetzel |
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No execution by medical neglect Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Support the urgent demand that Mumia see a medical specialist of his choice |
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Mumia Abu Jamal, internationally known activist, political prisoner and award winning journalist, is being put in danger by medical neglect and other abuse by Pennsylvania's prison system. On 30 March, Mumia suffered a life-threatening medical emergency and had to be rushed to hospital. After being held incommunicado for about 24 hours, family members were permitted to visit. Wadiya Jamal, Mumia's wife, sent an Open Letter on 5 April about his medical condition. He was transported back to the prison infirmary despite not ever seeing a diabetes specialist and without a diagnosis of the cause of his diabetic shock, or a treatment plan. Doctors and the prison know that inadequate or delayed treatment of diabetes can be deadly. A National Day of Action for Mumia was called last Friday 10 April with protests around the USA to press for urgent medical treatment. Mumia has been imprisoned for more than 33 years, 30 of them in solitary confinement on Pennsylvania’s death row. He was wrongly convicted for killing a police officer in 1982, despite evidence of his innocence. He has been fighting for his life and for others in prison as a jailhouse lawyer ever since. Mumia’s latest broadcast Of Punks, Predators & Pigs is here. Please also support Marylin Zuniga, the 3rd grade teacher in New Jersey suspended last week for sending get-well letters to Mumia written by children in her class! Circulate the solidarity letter drafted by Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal. See "Marylin Zuniga Solidarity” on www.emajonline.com for more information. For more information see: Free Mumia, the Move organization, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home and Mumia’s Facebook. |
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Circulated by: Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike & Payday men’s network |
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