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Bandung Speech Paris France
Mumia Abu-Jamal
No parent ever mentioned Bandung to me. No teacher ever mentioned Bandung to me. No religious leader has ever mentioned Bandung to me. No one has, unless one recalls the voice of Malcolm X, the… Full Transcript
Measured Justice
Terri Harper
This piece is called “Measured Justice: a [inaudible] chaotic financial, political, and social time.” It’s becoming quite clear that justice and revenge are perfectly compatible. Justice has, over centuries, been doled out by many hands… Full Transcript
Murder Inc. The Colony He Helped Found
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Murder Incorporated Book One: Dreaming of Empire by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. “The Colony He Helped Found.” The colony he helped create did not hesitate to execute Quakers or go medieval on those considered… Full Transcript
Goodnight Kiilu
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Goodnight Kiilu.” To people in California’s north, the name Kiilu Nyasha is familiar like an aunt or another relative. To them, she was a voice of resistance heard on public radio, mostly heard on her… Full Transcript
Towards A New Jerusalem
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Towards A New Jerusalem: America as the new Israel.” “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpts: With God On Our Side
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is Mumia Abu-Jamal with an excerpt from the new book known as Murder Incorporated Book One. From chapter one. “With God On Our Side.” There was no doubt that religious fervor combined with a… Full Transcript
Murder Inc. Excerpts: Murderers of the World
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Hello. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal, and I’m giving you an excerpt from the new book Murder Incorporated written by myself and my coauthor Stephen Vittoria from chapter four, “The Murderers of the World Arrive in… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpts: The American Revolution
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Hello. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal, and I’m here to introduce you to Murder Incorporated, a new book on anti-imperial history written by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. This is volume one, and from chapter six,… Full Transcript
Murder Inc. The Latest Work
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Murder Inc. The Latest Work.” When does a book come to life? When a writer writes it or when a reader reads it? Thought such as these emerge as my latest work is released into… Full Transcript
Charles Goldblum’s Nightmare
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Charles Goldblum’s Nightmare.” In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the trial of Charles Goldblum, reportedly for the premeditated murder of George Wilhelm, was a sensation. Goldblum, a young tax attorney and part-time law professor, was the son of… Full Transcript
Omar Askia Ali
Omar Askia Ali
Hello, my name is Omar Askia Ali AKA Edward Sistrunk. Uh, my topic is the Philadelphia new DA. It is understood that a prosecutor has a higher calling than just to win. He or she… Full Transcript
Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Forum
Bryant Arroyo
“Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Forum.”While preparing for this piece, it was asked some specific questions which require more time than what I have to answer. However, I will try, within the time constraints, to address… Full Transcript
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 1936-2018
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Winnie Mandela, 1936-2018.” She was born in 1936 and named Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela. But the world would come to know this South African beauty is Winnie Mandela, the wife of African National Congress leader… Full Transcript
When Babies Rebel
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“When Babies Rebel.” They came from across the country. They assembled in almost 100 U.S. cities and in cities around the world. Who are they? Teenagers, high school students mostly. They were the survivors of… Full Transcript
Jericho Freedom Movement
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Jericho Freedom Movements.” For several centuries, black captives in America’s slave quarters used Bible stories to support their long struggle for freedom. In the long and dark night of bondage, people turned Bible stories into… Full Transcript
Prison-Based Gerrymandering
Omar Askia Ali
My name is Omar Askia Ali AKA Edward Sistrunk. I’m housed in Coal Township. My subject matter is prison-based gerrymandering. An article in the new Pittsburgh Courier, December the 2nd, quotes the Pennsylvania Secretary of… Full Transcript
The Trump Show
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Behind the stage of the Trump show.” Most news reports and commentaries on the Trump White House are delivered with air levity and condescension. Trump is projected as a bumbler, an uninformed jokester who isn’t… Full Transcript
Giving Teachers What They Want
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Giving teachers what they want.” With right-wing politicians racing to arm teachers and making schools neighborhood fortresses, one wonders whether let’s ask teachers what they want. Teachers in West Virginia will tell you what they… Full Transcript
Teachers At Arms
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Teachers at Arms.” Teaching is one of the hardest jobs in America, for they perform one of the most challenging jobs: teaching the young, and do so while being woefully underpaid. The recent Trump cartoon… Full Transcript
“American Holocaust.” In his in-depth and exhaustive work on the American Holocaust entitled A Little Matter of Genocide, author and political activist Ward Churchill distills the narrative of the embryonic American empire. In his 1782… Full Transcript