{"id":56358,"date":"2012-04-26T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=56358"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:07:26","slug":"updates-from-the-prison-files-manning-and-mumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/updates-from-the-prison-files-manning-and-mumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from the prison files: Manning and Mumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"633\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cmim_ep9ao0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, attorneys for the alleged Army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning issued a new request for the military to dismiss all charges in the case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a> reported. On Tuesday, Manning attorney David Coombs said military prosecutors had committed &#8220;widespread discovery violations&#8221; that should allow Manning to walk free without prejudice. Yesterday, Colonel Denise Lind rejected Manning&#8217;s attorney claims of &#8220;prosecutorial misconduct&#8221; and set a trial date for September 21. Manning faces up to life imprisonment for allegedly leaking classified documents that ended up on the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>Also, yesterday Amy Goodman interrupted the broadcast to receive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/4\/25\/exclusive_mumia_abu_jamal_speaks_from\">a call from Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/a>, calling from the Pennsylvania prison in which he was moved into the general population &#8212; after 30 years on death row &#8212; in late 2011. Tuesday was Abu-Jamal&#8217;s 58th birthday, and protests were held at the Department of Justice calling for the Attorney General to open a probe into his case. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Supporters have long argued that racism by the trial judge and prosecutors led to Abu-Jamal\u2019s conviction for the killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal notes that during his trial a court reporter overheard the judge in his case, Judge Albert F. Sabo, say in his chambers, &#8220;I\u2019m going to help them fry the nigger.&#8221; It&#8217;s a detail that has long been ignored in his appeals over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Abu-Jamal now lives in a bigger cell than what he&#8217;s referred to as the &#8220;small dog cage&#8221; of the last three decades, but calls the life sentence &#8220;a slow death row. It\u2019s bigger in terms of the time differential, but it\u2019s slow death row, to be sure.&#8221; In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/4\/25\/exclusive_mumia_abu_jamal_and_danny\">second part of the phone call<\/a>, Abu-Jamal and Goodman speak with Danny Glover, who was in the Democracy Now! studio. They discuss Thurgood Marshall, Trayvon Martin, and the fact that the last time Abu-Jamal was able to call Goodman on the show 15 years ago, a guard ripped the phone from the wall to cut the call short.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read prior Planet Waves coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal&#8217;s case <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/mumia2.html\">here<\/a>.<\/em> <em>On Dec. 17, 2011, Eric wrote about Bradley Manning&#8217;s chart <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/bradley-manning-sagittarius-from-the-soul\/\">in this post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, attorneys for the alleged Army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning issued a new request for the military to dismiss all charges in the case, Democracy Now! reported. On Tuesday, Manning attorney David Coombs said military prosecutors had committed &#8220;widespread discovery violations&#8221; that should allow Manning to walk free without prejudice. Yesterday, Colonel Denise &#8230; <a title=\"Updates from the prison files: Manning and Mumia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/updates-from-the-prison-files-manning-and-mumia\/\" aria-label=\"More on Updates from the prison files: Manning and Mumia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}