Free_Mumia

Free Mumia On Sunday, November 16, hundreds of people filled the University of California, Berkeley, campus to attend workshops, lectures, and discussions regarding the much disputed case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and prepared to show their support and enlist themselves for the cause of petitioning to government to grant Mumia another trial—a fairer one. The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (formerly Wesley Cook) is far from simple, as explained by Riva Enteen, Program Director of the National Lawyers Guild in the lecture titled “The Trashing of the Constitution and the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.” Mumia was an aspiring Pennsylvania-based journalist who sought to expose police brutality directed at minority communities and people. A former member of the Black Panthers (until the group was dissolved), Mumia worked as both a newspaper and radio reporter, publicizing disruptive information about the violence that the minorities suffer at the hands of the law enforcement officers who are supposed to be there to protect them. However, by exposing this hypocritical and controversial state of affairs, Mumia was quickly being blacklisted by those same policemen. Mumia, who for financial reasons had to work as a taxi driver at night, subsequently began to be harassed by police officers. Beginning with veiled threats and mumia, case, police, being, enteen, abu-jamal, yet, rights, people, one, civil, another, united, states, prisoner, political, mumia’s, man, liberties, having, government, fired, denied, defense, death, constitution, witness, while, view, victims, trial, taken, stated, serve, scene, riva