FREE MUMIA!!

Rev Comrade Rowley in Melbourne

The Indigeneous Social Justice Association Melbourne held a public Speak Out Saturday April 10 at Old Melbourne city square cnr Swanston & Collins St to call for the release of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia a former Black Panther, black revolutionary and a journalist has been held a political prisoner since 1982 on Pensylvania's death row for revolutionary activities for disenfranchised people including being the 'Voice of the voiceless.' Wrongly accused, Mumia has for the past 28 years trial and all the way through to appeals to higher courts, has been tainted by racism, anti- radical bias and been violated of constitutional rights. Police and witnesses throughout the trial gave perjured evidence and Mumia has had no fair trial to date. "We demand that Mumia be freed immediately," said Peter Murray of the Freedom Socialist Party. "They detained Mumia because they see Mumia as a threat to the US state because he is a revolutionary." "This Speak Out is part of a big proud movement to free Mumia,"told Alison Thorne of Radical Women. "We need to keep building the movement to free all political prisoners. We need to keep getting their stories out so everyone can be part of that fight to free Mumia, free them all." The speak out was jointly also organised by Anarchist Black Cross, Anarchist Communist Group and Freedom Socialist Party. The Indigenous Social Justice Association also pledged solidarity to free Lex Watton and all other political prisoners.