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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
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
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
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
Servant For Life
Cecil Brookins
I’m your server for life. My name is Cecil Brookins, prisoner number EX5514. I’m in prison at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Evidence proves I’m-I’m a factually, actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all love, glory,… 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
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