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What Kind of Democracy is This? (version A)
Assata Shakur (Man is Bastard 2 – Long Version)
I’m Assata Shakur. The first time I heard a tape of one of Mumia’s radio broadcasts, it was the first time I fully understood why the United States government was so intent on putting him… Full Transcript
Family (Man is Bastard 5)
It has been over three decades since I last looked into his face, but I find him now, sometimes hidden in the glimpse of a mirror. He was short of stature, shorter than I at… Full Transcript
Assata Shakur – Depth of Our Courage (Man is Bastard 11)
I’m Assata Shakur. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a husband, father, grandfather, and African-American, lives in the fastest-growing public housing tract in America. For over 15 years, he has been a resident of Pennsylvania’s death row. Whether Mumia Abu-Jamal’s voice will reach… Full Transcript
Subterfuge (Man is Bastard 16)
Infiltrator (Man is Bastard 14)
Fusing Skull and Anvil (Man is Bastard 15)
Police Corruption (Man is Bastard 7)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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