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Electing Enemies

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The U.S. Presidential elections are over a year from now, but if you relied on national media accounts, you’d think that they were all but imminent. But this isn’t the elections; it’s like an obstacle… Full Transcript

Save Kerry Shakaboona Marshall PSA

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall: Hello. My name is Shakaboona. At 17 years old, I was sentenced to life without parole in the Pennsylvania State Prison system. Thus far, I have served 28 years in prison. I… Full Transcript

You Will Know Them By Their Actions

Kenneth Hartman

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, It’s not the actions of our enemies that we’ll remember, it’s the silence of our friends.” While he said this in a wholly different context, the principle… Full Transcript

Justice or Else

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Justice or Else: Direct Action and Economic Withdrawal by Shakaboona. On October the 10th, 2015, African American, Latino and Latina, and Indigenous peoples gather over one million strong in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C.,… Full Transcript

Mumia’s Message to the Movement

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Statement to supporters. Hey, on the move y’all. I know that you’ve heard about my situation, and I can’t thank y’all enough for your messages of love and support. Thanks to your love, I’m healing… Full Transcript

Where Was You?

Khalfani Malik Khaldun

Where was you? Hugo Yogi Pinell’s life mattered. This is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, who met this comrade 15 years ago. He represented the best of all existing revolutionary formations in these gulag prison plantations… Full Transcript

Statistics

Edward Pinkney

Reverend Edward Pinkney from Benton Harbor, Michigan, now located in Marquette, Michigan penitentiary, Michigan Branch Prison, just across Lake Superior from Canada. Hundreds of years ago, our nation put these considered less than human in… Full Transcript

Interview With Reverend Pinkney About His Transfer

Edward Pinkney

Noelle Hanrahan: So, Reverend Pinkney, tell me, why were you transferred? Reverend Pinkney: I believe that the Department of Corrections got a call from Berrien County Prosecutor Mike Sepic, or even the judge, to transfer… Full Transcript

The Nightmare of Remembering

Kenneth Hartman

I come to the semi consciousness of dreaming, only occasionally, and even then, I recall only snippets and fragments. They’re all connected though. It’s always dark. There are corridors running through buildings with barred windows… 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

Mumia’s Condition & His Reaction to DOC Lies and Stonewalling

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Noelle Hanrahan:  Ready?  Mumia Abu-Jamal: Go ahead.  Noelle Hanrahan: Are you receiving hydrocortisone creams for your skin condition?  Mumia Abu-Jamal: Getting hydrocortisone cream, but I was instructed by the nurse at Geisinger to use it only on… Full Transcript

The Representative or the Represented?

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Recently, a Black congresswoman from Florida revealed that white legislators from the state’s redistricting body changed her district to include the states overcrowded but under represented prisons, thereby insuring her defeat when the next election… Full Transcript

What Are They Hiding?

Kenneth Hartman

What are they hiding? There’s been a lot of talk recently about outfitting the police with body cameras, an idea made possible by advances in technology, and by the failure of the police to advance… Full Transcript