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Message to the Rosa Luxemburg Conference (2003)

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Meine freundinnen! Lang lebe John Africa! Bewegung! Ona move! [My friends! Long live John Africa! Ona Move!] Greetings to the gathering at this latest conference on the extraordinary life of Rosa Luxemburg. I thank you… Full Transcript

Dissent in Times of War

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The great writer Mark Twain, when Vice President of the Anti-Imperialist League, once said,  “I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” That was in… Full Transcript

Lessons from Rome (Version B)

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Of what worth can it be for us, at the dawn of the 21st Century, to spend our precious time in the study of ancient days? There is enough to study all about us, enough… Full Transcript

Lessons from Rome (Version A)

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Of what worth can it be for us at the dawn of the 21st century to spend our precious time in the study of ancient days? There’s enough to study all about us, enough to… Full Transcript

The Bush Blair Doctrine

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Iraq War is over. Or is it? With a spate of attacks that have cost American lives almost daily, the newly-minted general in charge of the region, Abu Zayd, has been forced to admit… Full Transcript

The Other Central Park Rapes

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Scholar-activist Angela Davis once wrote, “The ideological space for the proliferation of this racialized fear of crime has been opened by the transformation in international politics created by the fall of the European socialist countries.… Full Transcript

George W. Bush in Africa

Mumia Abu-Jamal

What in the world is George W. Bush doing in Africa? Rarely has a world leader seemed more lost, more ill at ease than the recent portrayal of the incumbent US president strolling around in… Full Transcript