Mumia Abu-Jamal’s message to Occupy Wall Street

Dictated to Johanna Fernandez while in Administrative Custody at SCI
Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa., Dec. 15.

My Friends of OWS,

My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it its strength.

You are the central movement of the hour. You’re raising questions that are in the hearts of millions. Your motto, “We are the 99%,” has been heard, heeded and responded to by millions. You can be certain that the 1% have heard you clearest of all.

Your work, however, is just beginning. You must deepen, strengthen and further your work until it truly reaches the 99%, almost all of us — workers, Black folk, Latinos and Latinas, LGBTs, immigrants, Asians, artists — all of us. For we are integral parts of the 99%. I salute you and hope fervently that you will grow beyond number.

Though I speak to you today by proxy, I’m confident that you will hear my voice soon.

Love, fun and music,
Mumia Abu-Jamal