Re: Mumia Abu-Jamal "This is a life and death situation and we need to mobilize immediately. Congestive heart failure. Unrelenting skin eruptions are causing damaged, ruptured, leathery, dry, exposed wounds. Not one spot on his body is free of dry cracked and bloody open wounds."
"No longer in an outside hospital, Mumia is back in the prison infirmary in excruciating discomfort and pain.
The message from his personal physician, Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, could not be clearer, “Freedom is the only treatment.”
Mumia requires: Treatment - Diagnosis – Liberation
We must not wait one moment, one day, one heartbeat.
We must ACT NOW to treat these conditions:
Congestive Heart Failure
Covid-19 breathing difficulties
Organ failure of the skin
Mumia is being denied diagnosis and adequate treatment for his skin condition. He is held in isolation in the prison infirmary without healing salves and ointments that he had in his cell.
He is also denied regular access to a phone or access to his tablet which provides the connection to his email. This communication is a vital lifeline.
Make no mistake, phone calls do work - last week your phone calls meant that he was whisked to the hospital for four days.
He was diagnosed and treated for congestive heart failure and they removed excess fluid in his body. Those treatments must continue to be carefully monitored.
He is now in the infirmary at SCI Mahanoy: the same infirmary where he suffered medical neglect in 2014 that
sent him into renal failure. That year his medical care required careful blood sugar monitoring and when he did not receive that, he went into a diabetic coma. Abu-Jamal vs. Wetzel, a lawsuit over those conditions, is still pending.
The Fraternal Order of Police has stated that it intends for Mumia to die alone, inside this prison. We say no.
Call, write, tweet, post and fax to demand demand “freedom, treatment, diagnosis, and access to his lawyers, doctors, and family for Mumia at SCI Mahanoy.”
PADOC
Phone number: 717-728-2573
Contact form: expressforms.pa.gov/apps/pa/cor/co…
Email address: ra-contactdoc@pa.gov,
Twitter page: @CorrectionsPA
Facebook page: @CorrectionsPA
John Wetzel, Secretary of Corrections - name Mumia Abu-Jamal and SCI Mahanoy in subject line
In addition to @DA_LarryKrasner finding and downplaying (wtf??) a letter from prosecution witness Robert Chobert asking the DA's office for his "payment" after his testimony in the 1982 trial, I need you to understand the larger context of Mumia Abu-Jamal's case:
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A year later. Delbert is dead and @DA_LarryKrasner is frothing at the mouth hoping he'll be the "progressive DA" who kills Mumia Abu-Jamal by way of medical neglect.
I remember talking to Delbert and Eddie that day and their focus was on what they could do to bring Mumia home. They were eager to hand out fliers in the street, anything. To not fight @DA_LarryKrasner and @GovernorTomWolf would be a betrayal of Delbert's unbreakable spirit.
They're trying to do Ant Smith like they did Mumia Abu-Jamal, which is target and imprison a young and outspoken Black activist who has been a community leader and organizer against police brutality and state violence. I don't know Ant as well as others, but I had (1/)
the privilege of hearing him speak and learning from his example all throughout this summer's uprisings. I'll fight for his release because I know he would (DOES) do the same for anyone in the struggle. (2/)
Support Ant's legal defense: paypal.me/phillyreal
Follow IG/@FreeAntPHL for updates
35 years ago today in 1985 the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb from a helicopter and destroyed 60+ homes, murdering 11 adults and children. The MOVE bombing is a highly touchy subject in Philly but every time I post about either of the MOVE standoffs at least one person (1/)
tells me they learned something new. If you want to understand the militarization of US police forces, and the degree to which the state can get away with mass murder, learn about MOVE. It's deeper than race alone.
Watch Jared Osder's "Let the Fire Burn".
Here's a @CornelWest speech I filmed 5 years ago today on the 30th anniversary of the bombing:
Three decades of the weapon of sound above ground.
When rage against the machine arrived on the scene, right-wing groups like PMRC feared what their music would do to young kids.
Imagine taking a 10 year old in 1996 and locking him in a windowless room with nothing but hundreds of live RATM VHS recordings. What came out of that room 10-20 years later was me. I am one of those kids. And I am better for it.
I grew up in white suburbia ashamed of my brown skin and feeling like I had no place in this society. Then I read Zack's words, studied every single one of his speeches, and saw the example he set. I found myself, my identity, my fucking voice, because of him and rage.