MikeDunnAuthor , Today in Labor History April 24, 1999: The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union shut down all West Coast shipping in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal (Black Panther, journalist), who was wrongfully imprisoned and held on death row for the murder of a cop—a crime he did not commit.
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