UPDATE:
Yesterday morning, March 30, Mumia Abu-Jamal was rushed to the hospital
after passing out at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Mahanoy. He
was admitted to the Schuylkill Medical Center with a blood sugar level
of 779. Today, he received visits from his wife, Wadiya, and his
brother, Keith Cook. Mumia's blood sugar had dropped to 333 as of a
couple hours ago. This is still elevated and at an unhealthy level.
Mumia
does not have a history of diabetes, but had been experiencing a series
of symptoms that should have alerted medical staff at the prison to the
onset of the disease. Instead, he was not given comprehensive
diagnostic treatment and a medical crisis emerged that could have
resulted in his slipping into a diabetic coma or worse.
Family
and friends are not leaving Pottsville. Mumia is not out of danger and
we will remain vigilant and mobilized. The state keeps trying to kill
Mumia - spied on by the FBI since he was 15, shot in the chest and
severely beaten on December 9, 1981, framed for a killing he did not
commit and put on death row, held in solitary confinement under threat
of execution for 30 years, and now denied competent, basic medical care.
He is alive because the movement has fought like hell to make it so.
The government of the united states of apartheid can never be trusted to
protect the rights or respect the lives of Black people or those held
in prison. Never forgive, never forget. Stay alert and ready to act.
Free Mumia
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