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  • This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood.–Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette

    Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP

    Originally published: San Francisco Bay View on May 21, 2021 by Jamal Journal interviewing Mark Lewis Taylor (more by San Francisco Bay View)  | (Posted May 27, 2021)

    An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal.

  • David Gilbert’s fame, already widespread due to his own accomplishments, grew last year when his son, Chesa Boudin, ran for and won the office of San Francisco district attorney. Chesa emphasized during his campaign that he had grown up visiting his parents in prison and learning the cruelty of imprisonment to prisoners and their families. When Chesa tweeted this photo last August, he wrote: “Flashback to 1985 on one of countless prison visits to my dad. In this one, I’m rocking the homemade Rosa Parks t-shirt! Her legacy is a testament to the fact that racial justice will never be achieved unless we have the courage to rock the boat.”

    Free David Gilbert: It’s that time of year again, Clemency 2020

    Originally published: San Francisco Bay View on October 25, 2020 by Jerome Wright (more by San Francisco Bay View)  |

    David Gilbert, now 76, is in Shawangunk Correctional Facility in his 40th year of a life sentence. In the interests of justice, mercy and the good of society, he and countless others deserve to be released.

  • Mumia Abu-Jamal

    ‘Mumia Abu-Jamal is just one step away from freedom,’ says Maureen Faulkner

    Originally published: San Francisco Bay View on November 12, 2019 by Noelle Hanrahan (more by San Francisco Bay View)  | (Posted Nov 22, 2019)

    Join all of us. It is time to move this forward towards justice and freedom and bring Mumia home.

  • FROM SLAVE TO CRIMINAL WITH ONE AMENDMENT

    ‘13th’ and the culture of surplus punishment

    Originally published: San Francisco Bay View on July 13, 2017 (more by San Francisco Bay View)  |

    In one amendment, we have taken the land of the free to the land where 1 of 4 people are shackled and held as a slave.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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