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Love and Economics
Charles Karim Diggs
Charles Karim Diggs. I’m in Graterford, Pennsylvania, Graterford State Correctional Institution. Um, my topic for this evening is “Love and Economics.” Wealth should help more than the wealthy. Riches should enrich the community. Success should… Full Transcript
Fight Toxic Prisons Full Speech
Bryant Arroyo
Speech for the Fight Toxic Prisons 2017 National Convergence Conference. Hello there, environmentalists ecologists, bioneers, blue gold rainforest protectors, movers, shakers, GMO opponents, green tech innovators, indigenous leaders, social-environmental justice activists gathered here today. I… Full Transcript
The Coming
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The coming. The time has come. No longer need economic leaders choose political puppets to do their legislative bidding. Today, they simply buy bribe or lie their way into political power. The late Eldridge Cleaver,… Full Transcript
Bend the Bars Address
Bryant Arroyo
Dear environmentalists, ecologists, bioneers, blue-gold/rain forest protectors, movers, shakers, GMO opponents, green tech innovaters, indigenous leaders, social justice activists, and jail-house environmentalists gathered here today, as one. I want to thank you for your magnanimous… Full Transcript
Add One Million American Jobs by Abolishing Prison Corporations
The Trump Party
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s months from the conventions, but if today is any indicator, the results are all but guaranteed. No matter the results of the election, the impact in the Republican Party is clear. After years of… Full Transcript
Flint: Crimes of Capital
Mumia Abu-Jamal
From the beginning of human communal time, people built cities adjacent to rivers, for water, fresh water, was the source of life. Cairo (and before it grew into Cairo, Fustat), relied on the Nile; London… Full Transcript
Free Reverend Pinkney
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Reverend Edward Pinkney is the kind of preacher that Martin Luther King would have admired. Rather than build a mansion and live like a prince, Pinkney has, for years, advocated for his community, fighting for… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
Occupy and Expose
Boorish and Boring
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Watching political debates is not my thing. First of all, they’re hardly really debates; they are, more often than not, a series of sound-bites; often, of promises that both speakers and listeners know won’t be… Full Transcript
Centuries of Struggle Big House Prison Blues
Mumia Abu-Jamal
‘Plus ça change …’ say the French; or ‘The more things change, of course, the more they stay the same.’ That thought, with all its despair and wisdom, resonates with particular power when we look… Full Transcript
“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