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Biden Redux
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s been about four years since the last presidential election, and here we are embedded in a media-fed controversy that borders on the ridiculous. I speak here of the spectacle of Joe Biden’s misfires of… Full Transcript
What A Difference A Debate Makes
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Joseph Biden’s recent performance at the nationally televised debates with former U.S. President Donald Trump left many TV viewers stunned and in a state of shock, for Biden seemed befuddled, out of his element, and… Full Transcript
Trump Dump
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Trump DumpBy Mumia Abu-JamalThere are times when events happen that are so stunning, so unexpected,that they blow us away. This is such a time.The jury verdict against former President Donald J. Trump of guilty on… Full Transcript
Punished For Protesting
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Across the nation, as students raise their hands and voices in protest against what U. S. President Joseph Biden has called “indiscriminate bombing of Gazan civilians,” they’re also facing punishments and repression by colleges and… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With CUNY Students at Free Palestine Encampment (April 26th 9:41 PM)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Brothers, sisters, comrades, friends. I greet you from the American system of mass incarceration. What we are involved in right now, I think, is something called mass education, and City College and Columbia and Emory… Full Transcript
Iyaluua Ferguson, 91 Years of Life, Love, and Struggle
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Iyaluua Ferguson, 91 Years of Life, Love, and StruggleThe long-term activist and educator Iyaluua Ferguson, wife of former political prisoner HermanFerguson, is finally reached her rest.Born Constance Josephine Swan on June 28, 1932, in Brooklyn,… Full Transcript
Pam Africa Health Update On Mumia
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Noelle Hanrahan: My name is Noelle Hanrahan. I’m a lawyer, investigator, and I work with Prison Radio, and I’m here with Pam Africa for the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal. Pam,… Full Transcript
Occupation’s Wake
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As we examine, study, and analyze the events in Gaza and Israel today, we learn of the lengths taken by the occupation as it dominates the land space of Gaza in the Palestinian territories. Occupation… Full Transcript
Sekou Odinga: Soldier for Black Freedom Transitions
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sekou Odinga, soldier for Black freedom, transitions. His name was Sekou Odinga, a lifelong soldier for Black liberation. When there arose of Black freedom movement. He never hesitated to join in and add his life’s… Full Transcript
For Bob Wells, Presente
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For Bob Wells, ¡Presente! For Bob Wells, a life lived long was a life lived well, for he wore many hats, organizer, anti-racist activist, supporter and worker with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in Chicago,… Full Transcript
“If I Must Die” Palestine Poet Refaat Alareer Presente
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rafeef Ziadah – “We Teach Life, Sir” “SI DEBO MORIR”. POETA PALESTINO REFAAT ALAREER PRESENTE En Español Por Mumia Abu-Jamal En las primeras décadas del Siglo XX, miles de mujeres y hombres Negros huyendo del… Full Transcript
The Quest For Abolition
Mumia Abu-Jamal
How do we arrive at this place we call abolition? What are the roads to such a destination? We arrive from the almost-lost lessons of history, shaped by generations of ancestors who struggled their whole… Full Transcript
Remembering MOVE on Film
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Remembering MOVE on film and in life. How do we remember MOVE? Well, it depends on how we met them, or first learned about them. By that I mean, what form of media did you… Full Transcript
No Place For Old Men
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Quite recently during the hight of the ravaging Covid-19 crisis an American health care agency announced a series of projects and programs designed to ease human suffering and indeed to advocate for the abolition of… Full Transcript
Wars Against Black History
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Wars against Black history. And now we see, perhaps in the first time in modern days, states like Florida waging war against Black history by passing laws against what teachers can teach, and, perhaps more… Full Transcript
Dr. Mutulu Shakur Presente
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dr. Mutulu Shakur Presente. His name was Mutulu Shakur. Dr. Mutulu Shakur. A lifetime freedom fighter for Black people for most of his life. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, as Jeral Wayne Williams on August 8,… Full Transcript
Death Row: Then and Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Death Row: Then and Now. It is a daunting task to describe death row. That peculiarly American institution of ultimate excellence, where men, women, were sent to rot, to sit, to die. In the beginning,… Full Transcript
Greetings to the UN Delegation
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Greetings to the UN delegation. Initially, I wish to thank the members of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, who prepared and filed an amicus brief in my case. And, of… Full Transcript
Judging Injustice
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Several weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision, as rare as it i was remarkable. It overturned a decision by the PA Supreme Court, strongly rebuked that court’s former chief justice, and issued… Full Transcript
What happens in our minds when something quite unusual happens, like when an assassination attempt occurs? I don’t know, but invariably my mind turns to a movie such as the Danny Trejo film Machete, where… Full Transcript