Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center Mumia Abu-Jamal Community Study Room Official Opening

Join the Making Worlds Cooperative as we official open the “Mumia Abu-Jamal Community Study Room” at Making Worlds.

The Study Room honors Philadelphia’s own Mumia Abu-Jamal, and his talents and insights as a journalist and revolutionary. The space offers a reference (browsing) library and a seminar table to support community forms of study and organizing. Our collection is growing and we welcome donations to the library in the spirit of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s visionary writings and teachings.

Advance registration required (free and by donation). Click here. This is an in-person event at Making Worlds Bookstore in Philadelphia. Please note our COVID-19 masking protocols.

We will screen the documentary “Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary” from 4pm to 6pm. Friends from the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home are invited to offer some updates to Mumia’s case and detail ways to join the global fight to win Mumia’s freedom at long last.

Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 40 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, provoke and inspire.

"Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary" is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America's most famous political prisoner—a man whose existence tests our beliefs about freedom of expression. Through prison interviews, archival footage, and dramatic readings, and aided by a potent chorus of voices including Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis and others, this riveting film explores Mumia's life before, during and after Death Row—revealing, in the words of Angela Davis, "the most eloquent and most powerful opponent of the death penalty in the world. . . the 21st Century Frederick Douglass."