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Herman Wallace, Revolutionary

by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio
This is a new radio essay by Mumia Abu-Jamal, released today to coincide with Herman Wallace's memorial service in New Orleans today.
Below is an earlier essay written by Mumia, immediately following Herman's release.

http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/hermans-relief-and-then-there-was-one-228-mumia-abu-jamal


HERMAN’S RELIEF: And Now There is One

[col. writ. 10/2/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Herman Wallace, one of the longest held political prisoners in the world, and a member of the Angola 3, is on the streets today after a federal court granted his habeas corpus and vacated his bogus conviction.

Herman, 72 years old, now becomes the second of the Angola 3 to have their wrongful convictions reversed, paving the way for Albert Woodfox, who remains under the claws of the State.

The Angola 3 have spent more time in solitary confinement than almost any men in America – over 41 years, after the 3, then young men, were charged with murder to cover up the real reason for their draconian banishment to this hole for life: what Louisiana officials termed “Black Pantherism”.

Despite the fact that no reliable evidence exists to support the murder charge, there is abundant evidence to prove that the Angola 3 – Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox – were targeted by Louisiana for being revolutionaries; for being members of the Black Panther Party – and for being bold enough, courageous enough, to organize a branch of the Black Panther Party in the very bowels of Angola State Penitentiary, back in the 1970s!

The late L.A. BPP Deputy Minister of Defense, Geronimo Ji-Jaga [Pratt] once called them the most courageous Panthers of them all, for daring to organize in the heart of Angola, a former slave plantation.

For their political beliefs and affiliations, they were consigned to a living death in Angola’s hole – for over 40 years.

Herman’s win is bittersweet, as it comes the very year that the 72-year old was diagnosed with liver cancer.

Terminal liver cancer.

What kind of system damns 3 innocent men to decades in dungeons?

The kind we live in.

Herman’s on his way home. Albert remains behind, waiting.

--©’13maj
§Herman Wallace Fighting For His Release
by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio
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§Herman, April, 2013
by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio
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