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
A Sierra Leonean refugee named Oury Jalloh burned to death in Cell No. 5 in the city of Dessau, Germany.The Date: January 7, 2005Police at the station have called it a simple case of suicide.His… Full Transcript
In a post-police brutality time, the United States boldly admits the brutal torture tactics placed upon so called terrorists via the hands of the CIA. This seems to be more and more of a slap… Full Transcript
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
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: 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
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? 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
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
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
Question: When is a child not a child? Answer: When it’s a Black child. That question and answer came to me when I heard that the police killing of 12 – year- old Tamir Rice… Full Transcript
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
To the young, the life of the elderly is as distant as another country. To the healthy, illness happens to other people. It takes time and change to teach us that all of us are… Full Transcript
‘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
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
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? 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
