Occupy Wall Street snags coveted Mumia Abu-Jamal endorsement

Just a hunch: Mumia Abu-Jamal won’t be appearing in the next OWS commercial.

Then again these are the same folks who proudly fly Che Guevara flags at their rallies, so you never know. Maybe they really do covet the cop-killer endorsement.

In a podcast from prison, convicted murder [sic] Mumia Abu-Jamal says he’s fully supportive of the Occupy movement camped out in New York and Philadelphia.

Abu-Jamal compares the Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Philly demonstrations to the uprising in Egypt, as well as the political protests in Wisconsin.

Mumia is on death row in a western Pennsylvania prison for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, but he releases regular podcasts on a Web site called Prison Radio.

He says “the central focus of their protests is capitalism…. Especially since the economic tumble of 2008.”

“Social discontent is so wide spread it is spreading like wildfire,” he adds, comparing the support of politicians of Wall Street like “vampires at a blood bank.”

“This is people’s power, may it remain so,” he concludes.

Abu-Jamal will be heading back to court soon after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by Philadelphia’s district attorney on a ruling that tossed out Abu-Jamal’s death sentence.

Via JWF’s Twitter feed.


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