Act now to save Mumia's eyesight & to demand his release !

Nieuws, gepost door: nn op 19/06/2019 06:03:30

Wanneer: 19/06/2019 - 14:10

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL & ALL WRONGLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE MUST BE FREE NOW !


ACT NOW TO SAVE MUMIA’S EYESIGHT AND TO DEMAND HIS RELEASE!

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, PA Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, SCI Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa A. Delbalso, Dr. Courtney P Rodgers
Mumia’s vision has rapidly deteriorated. It has been confirmed that Mumia currently suffers conditions that seriously threaten his eyesight. These include glaucoma, a vitreous detachment and cataracts in both eyes. This threat seriously jeopardizes his life and well-being, as well as his journalistic profession.

An outside eye doctor is recommending surgical procedures to remove the cataracts on both eyes, but SCI-Mahanoy Doctor Courtney Rodgers is delaying scheduling the needed examinations and surgeries with Mumia's outside ophthalmologist. Rodgers works for Correct Care Solutions, a notorious for-profit prison and immigration detention medical company that, according to the Project on Government Oversight, has been sued at least 1,395 times with complaints alleging a range of charges, including wrongful death, malpractice and inadequate healthcare.
Meanwhile Mumia faces increasing nerve damage to his eyes. He is unable to read or do other things requiring normal vision. This delay echoes the years of delays Mumia experienced getting treatment for hepatitis C. By the time the DOC was finally forced by Federal Court to treat Mumia with the Hep C cure, it was too late to prevent cirrhosis of the liver.
African Americans are 1.5 times more likely to develop cataracts than the general population and five times more likely to develop related blindness.
Not only is his overall health deteriorating as he is threatened by permanent blindness, his failure now to receive the immediate attention he requires is cruel and unusual punishment, especially as an innocent man who has been unjustly incarcerated for almost four decades.
Furthermore, considering his multiple ailments and the threat of blindness, we demand that Pennsylvania officials allow a real and humane “compassionate release” now, not the “fake compassionate release” of transfers from prison to care facilities that Pennsylvania will only grant when a prisoner is within a year of dying. Mumia’s family, friends and supporters are ready now to provide the healthcare Mumia requires if he were home.
Mumia is not alone in enduring these cruel and unusual assaults on the health of those ageing and ill behind prison walls. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, over 130,000 of U.S. prisoners are elderly, a 400% increase between 1993 and 2013. Mumia himself has noted the significant number of those confined at his own prison who suffer similar life-threatening illnesses that require immediate attention. Across the nation elderly prisoners experience a torturous journey toward the end of their lives without any “compassionate release.” Once again, as we fight for Mumia’s right to treatment and for his release, we fight for the freedom of all the imprisoned from mass incarceration’s cruel and unusual conditions.
Mumia Abu-Jamal should receive cataract surgery immediately!
Mumia should be released now not only because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison but also because he is an innocent man!
TAKE ACTION
1. Sign the petition
2. Call: Dr Courtney P Rodgers - 570-773-2150 and SCI Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa A. Delbalso - (570) 773-2158
Tell them to approve Mumia’s cataract surgery immediately.
3. Call: PA Gov. Tom Wolf - 717-787-2500; PA DOC Secretary John Wetzel - 717.728.2573; Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner - 215-686-8000
Tell them to release Mumia Abu-Jamal NOW because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison and also because he is an innocent man!

Petition by

Mobilization for Mumia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, PA Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, SCI Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa A. Delbalso, Dr. Courtney P Rodgers
From: [Your Name]
Mumia’s vision has rapidly deteriorated. It has been confirmed that Mumia currently suffers conditions that seriously threaten his eyesight. These include glaucoma, a vitreous detachment and cataracts in both eyes. This threat seriously jeopardizes his life and well-being, as well as his journalistic profession.
An outside eye doctor is recommending surgical procedures to remove the cataracts on both eyes, but SCI-Mahanoy Doctor Courtney Rodgers is delaying scheduling the needed examinations and surgeries with Mumia's outside ophthalmologist.
Meanwhile Mumia faces increasing nerve damage to his eyes. He is unable to read or do other things requiring normal vision. This delay echoes the years of delays Mumia experienced getting treatment for Hepatitis C. By the time the DOC was finally forced by Federal Court to treat Mumia with the Hep C cure, it was too late to prevent cirrhosis of the liver.
African Americans are 1.5 times more likely to develop cataracts than the general population and five times more likely to develop related blindness.
Not only is his overall health deteriorating as he is threatened by permanent blindness, the failure now to receive the immediate attention he requires is cruel and unusual punishment, especially as an innocent man who has been unjustly incarcerated for almost four decades.
We urge Mumia’s prison doctors to schedule the cataract surgery immediately.
Furthermore, considering his multiple ailments and the threat of blindness, we demand that Pennsylvania officials allow a real and humane “compassionate release” now, not the “fake compassionate release” of transfers from prison to care facilities that Pennsylvania will only grant when a prisoner is within a year of dying. Mumia’s family, friends and supporters are ready now to provide the healthcare Mumia requires if he were home.
Mumia should be released now not only because he can receive better healthcare outside of prison, but also because he is an innocent man!

www.bringmumiahome.com
www.freemumia.com
mumia on facebook

or write a letter to the governor who is responsible:
GOVERNOR TOM WOLF
508 MAIN CAPITOL BUILDING
HARRISBURG, PA 17120
U.S.A.



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ACT NOW TO SAVE MUMIA’S EYESIGHT AND TO DEMAND HIS RELEASE!
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/emergency-appeal-for-mumias-health



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Dear Friends at Free Mumia Amdsterdam,
Let me share with you Mumia Abu-Jamal's own words describing his and others blindness.

Date Received 6/23/2019 01:22 PM

"Hullo, Noelle; I hope someone answers the call!*

Now, cataracts: Do you know what cataracts are? Imagine you're wearing a very dark pair of sunglasses; Now smear the lenses with thick swabs of Vaseline. That's cataracts--from the inside. But it doesn't end, for there is no pair of glasses to remove.

It's... your eyes. They don't work anymore like they used to.

There's a man here, an "Old Head" who is functionally blind (although he has some vision in one eye). One of his eyes is as blue as a robin's egg, but it's dead. He has no vision in it. Imagine that; a Black man with a blue eye! That's what prison eye care can get you! alla best, maj♪"

*Mumia was speaking of the prison radio telephone, but he may as well have been talking about taking action and demanding treatment tinyurl.com/mumiaeyes.

Prison medical Officials from Correct Care Solutions are telling Mumia that the scheduling is out of their control.

Blindness. A blindness that surgery can immediately and effectively eliminate. Isn't there is a moral, if not legal imperative to provide treatment to every single person suffering with this condition: treatable blindness?

Take a moment to demand that Mumia be treated immediately with vision restoring surgery.

On June 3rd, Mumia notes "My vision is quite bad. For the last few weeks, I've not been able to read the paper. Cat. surg. is, I'm told, months away. Last wk., the outside eye Dr. recommended it."

Listen to Mumia's commentary Passing of a Healer. on the passing in early June of Dr. Patricia Bath. An world renown ophthalmologist who patented the technique for laser surgery for cataracts. Her motivation was to prevent blindness in the African American community. She was the first African American woman to get a medical patent.

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