Firth to promote film about death row inmate

Actor Colin Firth will address a crowd of poverty and green campaigners today in the UK after a screening of his new political film.

In 'Prison My Whole Life', co-produced by Firth, will be shown at a rally in east London billed as “the largest British event to confront the global economic crisis.”

The film is about death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther and radical journalist.

Firth’s talk on it will be part of an all-day programme of speeches at Rich Mix arts centre.

Other speakers on the bill include human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, activist comedian Mark Thomas, ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg.

Topics to be covered during the day include activism, multinationals’ abuse and Palestine.