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Children Of The Corn
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When we think of politicians, we too often see them as great, even mighty figures, seemingly larger than life.That’s because of how the media projects them -and far too often, protects them.But in times like… Full Transcript
After One Hundred Thousand
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“After One Hundred Thousand.” What happens when the counter strikes one hundred thousand? Nothing. One hundred thousand Americans dead. That means for all intents and purposes, nothing much. So does the counter stop counting? Or… Full Transcript
When All Things Changed
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The crisis created by the coronavirus has revealed, with amazing speed, how vulnerable the United States, and indeed nations around the world, is to something that the human eye cannot see. In a matter of… Full Transcript
COVID-19 Response Questionaire
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
I am Reginald S. Lewis. The watchful eyes of the prison officials behind the mass oppression discourages us from talking to each other, and so a free exchange of communication is severely obstructed. After one… Full Transcript
Disaster After Disaster
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Disaster After Disaster.” In a matter of weeks, the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 has claimed the lives of over 75,000 people, the highest death rate in the world now in the United States of… 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
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
The Greatest Day
Cecil Brookins
Hello. I’m here serving for life. Cecil Brookins, prison number EX5514, enslaved at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Numerous factual evidence proves I’m a factually actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all of the world’s problems… Full Transcript
Things Fall Apart
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Things Fall Apart.” The great African writer Chinua Achebe, I believe, wrote a novel of the ravages of colonialism, which bore the title, Things Fall Apart. He borrowed the title from the famed Irish poet… Full Transcript
Big Trouble in Big China
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Big trouble in big China.” The novel coronavirus has brought the world’s second biggest economy to a virtual standstill. That’s because China is the workhouse of the west where cars, computers, iPhones, clothes, and a… Full Transcript
For months now, the nation has been battered by the ravages of COVID-19: the Coronavirus. With millions of people infected, and over 190,000 people now dead, it now turn out that from the very start,… Full Transcript