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Police Corruption (Man is Bastard 7)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles. In city after city, we find case after case of not only police corruption, but vicious police violence. Young people are beaten, women are assaulted, people who are taught to believe… Full Transcript
Who is Not on Death Row (Man is Bastard 12)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I speak from Pennsylvania’s death row, a bright, shining, highly mechanized hell. In this place, a dark temple to fear, an altar of political ambition, death is a campaign poster, a stepping stone to public… Full Transcript
Failed System (Man is Bastard 4)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The muted public response to the mass murder of MOVE members has set the stage for acceptable state violence against radicals, against Blacks, and against all those deemed socially unacceptable. In the 60s and 70s,… Full Transcript
Statement (Man is Bastard 10)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Speaker 1:When Nigerian environmental and native rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged on trumped-up murder charges, the Nigerian government and Shell Oil were condemned all over the world as outlaws. Now we are the outlaws… Full Transcript
Alignment (Man is Bastard 13)
Allen Ginsberg – The Freedom to Write (Man is Bastard 9)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is Allen Ginsberg speaking. The promise of death is not enough. The state of Pennsylvania wants to shut out Mumia Abu-Jamal’s voice and enforce his silence. For 15 years, Mumia has been fighting not… Full Transcript
Being on Death Row (Man is Bastard 1)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Imagine. Imagine living, eating, sleeping, relieving oneself, daydreaming, weeping, but mostly waiting in the room the size of your bathroom. Now imagine doing all those things, but mostly waiting for the rest of your life.… Full Transcript
Philadelphia Eminent Domain (Man is Bastard 3)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She sits in utter stillness, her coffee-brown features as if set in obsidian, as if a mask. Barely perceptible, the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by rage.… Full Transcript
August History (Man is Bastard 6)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political prisoners, for people. He showed the love, the strength, the revolutionary fervor that’s characteristic of any soldier for the people. He inspired prisoners, whom I later… Full Transcript
Diversity on the Airwaves (Man is Bastard 8)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Taxpayer Supported National Public Radio was scheduled to start running commentaries by a convicted killer on death row. The commentator was to be Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the cold-blooded murder of Philadelphia police… Full Transcript
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