Noelle Hanrahan: Juan Gonzalez was a member of the Young Lords. In the 1980s, as a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, he worked the same streets and stories as Mumia Abu-Jamal. He was his… Full Transcript
It has been eight years now since the massacre; eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue; eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole 11 human lives; eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
Noelle Hanrahan: Ramona Africa is the Minister of Information for the MOVE organization [applause]. Ramona Africa: On the MOVE, and long live John Africa [applause]! Mumia is in prison on death row because he refused… Full Transcript
Read by Willam Kunstler When I hear politicians bellow about getting rough on crime and barking out, “Three strikes, you’re out!” several images come to mind. I think of how quickly the tune changes when… Full Transcript
Emcee: William Kunstler is a longtime civil rights activist. He has long been active in First Amendment and civil rights cases. William Kunstler: Before I read my portion, I just want to indicate a couple… Full Transcript
Relatively tall, mountainous cheek bones, dimples like donuts and skin the color of Indian corn. She left life in the South for what was then the promised land up North. Although she lived, loved, raised… Full Transcript
I’m Alice Walker. As Mumia himself says, I’m Alice Walker. As Mumia himself says, the choice, as every choice, is yours.To fight for freedom or engagement, liberty or slavery, life or death. Spread the word… Full Transcript
[Singing] You remind me of my jeep, I wanna wax you baby. You remind me of my bank account, I wanna spend you babe. That’s from “You Remind Me of Something,” by R. Kelly. The… Full Transcript
This is Dr. Joycelyn Elders. Listen to an incisive critic of our criminal justice system speaking from the depths of prison. Tune in to hear this rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we… Full Transcript
That’s what capital punishment really means. “Those that ain’t got the capital gets the punishment,” is the old saying. Once again, we see the inherent truths that lie in the proverbs of the poor. That… Full Transcript
This is Howard Zinn. Slavery is back. In fact, it was never abolished. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, except in prison. At the current rate of incarceration, by the… Full Transcript
In a case known as Strickland v. Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court drastically narrowed the range of challenges to the effectiveness and competence of counsel at criminal trials. The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution… Full Transcript
I am Sister Helen Prejean. I wrote the book Dead Man Walking. For me, Mumia is a dramatic example of how the criminal justice system can be brought to bear on someone who is African-American,… Full Transcript
A lifetime may pass without an individual having been personally addressed by government. For millions, government is a remote venture, conducted by quasi-representatives in their name, with their silence oftentimes taken as acquiescence. Never is… Full Transcript
This is Ronald Hampton. I’m a 23-year veteran retired police officer and Executive Director of the National Black Police Association. Mumia’s voice threatens the smooth and orderly function of both state-sanctioned murder and modern slavery.… Full Transcript
American mass media is a marvel of technology. It is whiz-bang, sparkle-glitter, and satellite wizardry. It is a master plan of methods to communicate in a pauper’s worth of substance. With such technology, how are… Full Transcript
This is Cornel West. Will we ever listen to and learn from our bloodstained prophets? After over 15 years of nightmarish jail conditions, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s soul is not only intact, but still flourishing, just as… Full Transcript
In every phase and facet of national life, there’s a war being waged on America’s poor. In social policy, poor mothers are targeted for criminal sanctions for acts, if committed by mothers of higher economic… Full Transcript
My name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. I’m a journalist, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and an African-American. I live in the fastest growing public housing tract in America. In 1981, I was a reporter for… Full Transcript
To Edith L. and William H., two Southern souls, one dimpled, high cheek-boned, the color and aroma of sweet potatoes; the other short, muscular, coffee-color, sans cream, embodiment of gruff love, auraed by cigar-smoke. Fillies,… Full Transcript
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