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Abolition Is Possible
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
This is comrade Pitt, um, this commentary titled “Abolition is Possible.” So Juneteenth is upon us: the day that the news finally reached the slaves in the Deep South long as the Union had won… Full Transcript
Romaine Chip Fitzgerald Returns To His Ancestors
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Romaine Chip Fitzgerald returns to his ancestors.” The name Romaine Chip Fitzgerald is perhaps not widely known except for his supporters. In his wild youth decades ago, he was a teenage member of the LA… Full Transcript
Significance Of Taking Direct Action
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
Hey, uh, this is comrade Pitt, Peter Kamau Mukuria, calling you from Red Onion State Prison. Um, so this piece right here, this commentary is regarding the, uh, uh, the IWW/IWOC, um, and, uh, it’s… Full Transcript
UCSC Prison Narrative with Mumia
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Interviewer: I’m honored to have this opportunity to ask you this question, and nd this question stems from your book, Jailhouse Lawyers, and in the book you, I quote, you wrote about how we often… Full Transcript
Howard Keylor
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Happy 93rd birthday to Howard Keylor. Dear brother, sisters, comrades, and friends of ILWU Local 10, on on the MOVE. I join you all in celebrating the remarkable life and struggle of ILWU’s longest living… Full Transcript
Linking Movements
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Linking Movements and Daring to Be Free” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. What does the Black Lives Matter, immigration movement, J20 protesters, Poor People’s Campaign, and Occupy movement have in common? Their commonality is that the… Full Transcript
Ramona Fights for Life
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Ramona Fights for Life.” As many people now know, Ramona Africa has been ailing of late, perhaps the result of her time in the MOVE house, Osage Avenue, after police dropped the deadly bomb on… 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
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
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
A Beginning
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“A Beginning.” It has begun. Today marks the second day since I began the treatment regimen of direct-acting antiviral drugs, or DAADs, designed to eliminate Hepatitis C from my system. You, the people, made this… Full Transcript
Delbert Africa: MOVE Member
Mumia Abu-Jamal
His name is Delbert Africa, a well-known member of the MOVE organization of Philadelphia. But if you’re in your twenties or thirties or even your forties, you may be forgiven if you don’t know the… Full Transcript
“Glen Ford, black griot and journalist remembered.” For readers and listeners across America and around the world, the name Glen Ford was not a strange one, for they read and heard the voice of a… Full Transcript