April 24
The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia journalist whom many believed was on death row because he was an outspoken African-American - 1999
And this:
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April 24, 1999 - The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union halted shipping on the West Coast of the United States in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia journalist whom many believed was on death row because he was an outspoken African-American. For more on Mumia, see
http://www.freemumia.org/ and
http://www.labournet.net/docks2/9905/mumia1.htmLabor history found here:
http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here:
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_04_24_2010