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COVID-19
How I’m Weathering COVID-19
Dontie Mitchell
It’s stressful because, uh, you know, trying to get in contact with family members and being worried about them is not the easiest thing in light of the phone situation, the fact that the superintendent… Full Transcript
Phone Wars Part 2
Dontie Mitchell
This past Monday night, April 27th, I was sitting on the crowded bleachers in the prison yard here at Great Meadow, waiting in the cold rain to get on the phone line, when another prisoner… Full Transcript
How I’m Weathering the Pandemic
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun. How am I weathering the pandemic? Well, alright, you know, I’ve always- I’ve been in prison since I was 17- you know, it’s like 33 years almost. So… Full Transcript
Social Distancing in Prison
Ivan Kilgore
Ivan: So this is what social distancing look like inside of prisons. As you can see in the day room of the facility I’m at, and as you can notice there’s a number of inmates… Full Transcript
On Prison Guards
Does The System Work?
On PA Supreme Court
A Message To My Supporters
Mumia Abu-Jamal
My dear brothers, sisters, comrades, friends, people, I salute all of you because, although you think I don’t, I see and sense and feel a lot of what you do and what you do is… Full Transcript
The Fight to Staying Alive
Dontie Mitchell
There are those who think I should give up my fight for UFD, and I should just accept the fact that these people who run the New York state prison system don’t want UFD to… Full Transcript
I Will Live With Dignity and Respect
Dontie Mitchell
I have this one life to live, and I tend to live it with dignity and self-respect. Yesterday, April 21st, 2020, I was released from solitary confinement and it didn’t take long for the facility… Full Transcript
Prisoners Concerned with COVID-19
Without Pain, Risk or Sacrifice, Change is impossible
Dontie Mitchell
Economics is a very powerful motive towards driving mass incarceration. A lot of people are eating off of the arrest, prosecution, and the imprisonment of people in this country. If mass incarceration wasn’t practical do… Full Transcript
Mumia Reporting In
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia: You heard that I was hospitalized. It is not true. In fact, I haven’t been up medical for about a month… Other speaker: Oh wow! Mumia: …which is rare for me because I usually… Full Transcript
Locked Up and Locked Down
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Locked up and locked down.” For nearly a month now, all prisoners in Pennsylvania state prisons, over 40,000 men and women, have been locked down. What does lockdown mean? When I was on death row,… Full Transcript
A Message to Black, Brown, and Poor People in Age of COVID-19
Dontie Mitchell
A message to Black, Hispanic, and poor people in this age of COVID-19 from Mfalme Sikivu, Executive Minister of UFD. Here we are, in 2020, still faced with the reality of racism and classism. The… Full Transcript
Press Release
Evidence In My Case
Cecil Brookins
I’m here serving for life, Cecil Brookins. Prisoner number 385514. I’m in prison at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. If you listen to my other Prison Radio broadcasts and my plan to invest $1.5 trillion to help… Full Transcript
COVID-19: Weapons of Mass Incompetence
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“COVID-19: weapon of mass incompetence.” As of this writing, Ten thousand people have died from the impacts of the coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Ten thousand! And unless I miss my guess, it ain’t over… Full Transcript
I was in the prison yard this morning, trying to get my young [] together to have a discussion about their future, when two of them were pulled away by guys from their town to… Full Transcript