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Locking Down
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Locking Down the Constitution.” It happened on the last Wednesday of August 2018. Around 8:30 p.m., the PA system announced a lockdown at the prison, apparently a response to a recent spate of staff sicknesses… Full Transcript
The Fall of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Imagine living in almost any country in the world, except the United States. Imagine looking at news accounts reporting on the Ul.S presidency for the last 2 years. Imagine what millions of people think of… Full Transcript
Prison Voters
Charles Karim Diggs
Okay, the obsession with struggling year after year, asking for justice and equality, has caused many African-Americans and others away from the voting polls. They see no use. They hear the same talk, same issues.… Full Transcript
America Addicted to Trauma
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m at Graterford prison in Pennsylvania. And the name of my, uh, essay is “America Addicted to Trauma, Cncompromising Violence, and Abuse.” In 1968, and before a pattern of… Full Transcript
Saving Mona
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She is known by one name. Say the name, Ramona, and all know of whom you speak. Ramona Africa, of course. She, like the singer Madonna, is known by one name. But she isn’t an… Full Transcript
Reality Winner American Hero
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“The imprisonment of Reality Winner, a real American hero from national security state to police state,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. Her name is Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman, and a commended Air Force veteran… Full Transcript
Prisoners ID Data Leak
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Pennsylvania Department of Corrections hacked for incarcerated persons ID data,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, a state agency that’s all about maintaining security, was hacked for incarcerated persons’ and DOC personnel’s… Full Transcript
Bipartisan Hell
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In much of public discourse today, one hears the call for “bi-partisanship”, as in the nations two corporate political parties, working together to ‘get things done’.’One hears this mostly from corporate media elites, or intellectuals,… Full Transcript
Man Power
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has been over a generation since the US Senate hearings on the sexual harassment charges of a law professor, Anita Hill, against then-judge, now Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas.A lot has changed since then.Or… Full Transcript
The New World
Charles Karim Diggs
“The New World.” My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m calling from Pennsylvania, from the new prison called Phoenix. A European escaped from Europe because of oppression, tyrants, and religious persecution. They also suffered economic… Full Transcript
Aretha 1942-2018
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Aretha 1942-2018.” With one unmistakable name, a musical legend was born: Aretha. Born on March 25th, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, raised in Detroit, daughter of the famous gospel preacher Reverend Cecil L. Franklin, she was… Full Transcript
Is Administration of Justice Fair in America?
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs, and I’m at Graterford state prison. What we call it now- it’s a new jail we have called Phoenix. They just completed it, and we will have been transferred… Full Transcript
August 8th 40 Years of Resistance
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“August 8th, 40 years of resistance.” It seems incredible, but it’s been 40 years, 40 years, since the police assault on the MOVE house in West Philly, 40 years, 40 years since Rizzo’s cops fired… Full Transcript
Message from Mexico’s Indigenous Mountains
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Message from Mexico’s indigenous mountains.” This is an old story, not only because it occurred over a decade and a half ago, around 2003, but because it involves descendants of an ancient people, the indigenous… Full Transcript
Foreword to Follow the Money
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Follow the Money evoked in me an odd mixture of feelings: fascination, indignation, awe, and rage. I learned a good deal from it and met people, amazing people, who I had never heard of. I’ve… Full Transcript
August 8th
Prison and Slavery
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
This is Kevin Rashid Johnson. It’s been some years since I’ve been able to communicate through Prison Radio on account of a series of transfers between various states’ prison systems. From Virginia to Oregon, to… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpt: Slavery and Capitalism
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This sadistic cycle worked like a charm for the booming economies of Europe and later America. For instance, prior to the U.S. Civil War, one crop, slave-grown cotton, provided more than 50% of all American… Full Transcript
Fall of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Fall of Empire.” Imagine living in almost any country in the world except the United States. Imagine looking at news accounts, reporting on the U.S. presidency for the last two years. Imagine what millions of… Full Transcript
This is Kevin Rashid Johnson. Strikes supporters set up occupied camp outside Florida prisons. Allies, comrades, and supporters of striking prisoners across the U.S. have set up an occupied camp outside of prison work camp… Full Transcript