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Babies In Chains
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Babies In Chains.” They’re beautiful babies when you see photos of those tikes: bright-eyed, curious, little bundles of endless energy—except their energies thrown into metallic American cages called detention centers, separated from their parents by… Full Transcript
How Long
Charles Karim Diggs
Okay, good evening. My name is Charles Kareem Diggs. I’m calling from Pennsylvania, uh, state prison, a Phoenix, and the title of my essay this evening is “How Long?”What did Dr. Martin Luther King mean… Full Transcript
UFD
Dontie Mitchell
Hello. My name is Dontie S. Mitchell reporting from Great Meadow Correctional Facility. I’m the founder of UFD, which stands for the Ujamaa Fraternal Dynasty. UFD is a mutual self-improvement fraternity that I use as… Full Transcript
Chimenti … Settled?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Chimenti … Settled?” Salvator Chimenti, a Pennsylvania state prisoner who is the named plaintiff in a civil rights suit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections—the other two plaintiffs are David Maldonado and Daniel Leyva—is suing… Full Transcript
Your Word Should Be Your Bond
Omar Askia Ali
“Your word should be your bond.” Whatever happens to a person’s word being [inaudible]? It has been a shift in our culture and one’s word [inaudible]. We share experiences with people for years, but when… Full Transcript
Howard Keylor
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Happy 93rd birthday to Howard Keylor. Dear brother, sisters, comrades, and friends of ILWU Local 10, on on the MOVE. I join you all in celebrating the remarkable life and struggle of ILWU’s longest living… Full Transcript
Why White Supremacy Means White Male Supremacy
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Why white supremacy means white male supremacy.” When Donald Trump lamented at the loss of one of his employees’ career, a bomb of females protest erupted, for he not surprisingly ignored the suffering of his… Full Transcript
Lost City Magazine
War Against the Poor and Workers
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“War against the poor and workers.” It is an era of imperial freefall, and in support, the government is openly attacking Latino immigrants from Guatemala and Honduras, lobbing tear gas canisters at moms and babies.… Full Transcript
The Rise That Couldn’t Be
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The rise that couldn’t be.” In 1952, a political scientist named Richard Hofstadter published a book that would become a classic, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. In the preface, former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower… Full Transcript
Big Man Howard
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Big Man Howard.” His name was Elbert Howard, but few people called him that. Through his friends and comrades in the Black Panther Party, he was Big Man, because he really was a big man,… Full Transcript
Freedom
Somewhere in Your Lifetime
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m calling from Pennsylvania state prison, SCI Phoenix. The name of my essay is “Somewhere in Your Lifetime.” America has experienced the African-American president, our first. Our parents used… Full Transcript
President Chaos
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“President Chaos.” This country is a complex place. This world is a complex world. To govern such a place, indeed such an empire, takes wisdom, insight, and knowledge from the finest minds. And even then,… Full Transcript
You Know Too Much So No
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“You Know Too Much, So No.” Mike is a young man in prison who uses his as time studying so that when he leaves he’ll have something to contribute to his family and his community.… Full Transcript
Polls
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Polls.” If we believe the polls on November the 6th, a political earthquake summing, reporters are almost breathless with tales of blue waves and transformation from one party to another. But if such prediction seems… Full Transcript
Hello. My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. I am calling from Indiana Department of Corrections at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. In September of this year, September 6, the Indiana Department… Full Transcript