New York state governor, Andrew M Cuomo, gave a press conference on Monday, March 30th. In which he discussed the need for New Yorkers to practice social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is… Full Transcript
Hello. I’m here serving for life. Cecil Brookins, prison number EX5514, enslaved at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Numerous factual evidence proves I’m a factually actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all of the world’s problems… Full Transcript
I’m your server for life. My name is Cecil Brookins, prisoner number EX5514. I’m in prison at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Evidence proves I’m-I’m a factually, actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all love, glory,… Full Transcript
How’s everybody doing? My name is Aquiles. I ended up calling a few Mondays ago in regards to immigration reform. Now, I just wanted to add a little bit more context to what I was… Full Transcript
“Things Fall Apart.” The great African writer Chinua Achebe, I believe, wrote a novel of the ravages of colonialism, which bore the title, Things Fall Apart. He borrowed the title from the famed Irish poet… Full Transcript
My name is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun. I’m an Indiana political prisoner. I am calling in from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility located in Indiana. This is “The Political Assassination of Political Prisoners: A Ongoing Murder… Full Transcript
I want to make something abundantly clear about solitary confinement, to why I was placed in here. I said before and I say now, again, that solitary confinement is torture and negatively impacts the mental… Full Transcript
“Farewell, Rafael.” His name was Rafael Cancel Miranda and most, I fear, hear the name but know it not. That is regrettable, but we hope afterwards that will no longer be the case. He was… Full Transcript
“Big trouble in big China.” The novel coronavirus has brought the world’s second biggest economy to a virtual standstill. That’s because China is the workhouse of the west where cars, computers, iPhones, clothes, and a… Full Transcript
My new message to No New Jails. I did a previous commentary about the organization called No New Jails, NYC, which is a grassroots campaign committed to closing Rikers Island. Now, without building new jails… Full Transcript
Several years ago, I read a masterful and remarkable book titled Hammer and Hoe by the acclaimed historian Robin Kelley. It’s a fascinating history of black workers in the 1930s working in Alabama who tried… Full Transcript
“Chuck Africa Goes Home.” For over 40 years. Chuckie Africa of the famed MOVE Nine, veterans of the MOVE confrontation of August 8th, 1978, has been imprisoned in state joints across Pennsylvania, serving what is… Full Transcript
“Trump in Triumph.” New Romes rise. I’ve written for several weeks of the Senate’s so-called trial of president Trump. I’ve predicted the downside of an impeachment proceeding that doesn’t end in removal, for such a… Full Transcript
Violence and hypocrisy: as American as apple pie. I was watching the house of managers giving their closing arguments during the impeachment trial. I couldn’t help but sit and wonder about how corrupt our political… Full Transcript
The truth and nothing but the truth. In an article in the Philadelphia Tribune, page nine eight, one ten twenty entitled: Tyler Perry Hides From Conviction Integrity Program. The reporters, Pamela Kirkman and Michelle Copper,… Full Transcript
Good evening. This is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun calling in from Wabash Valley correctional Facility in Indiana. From the [depths/death] of Indiana political prisoner Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, press release 2020. After spending 20 straight… Full Transcript
Boom! That’s the sound of a hydraulic cherry picker smashing through the side of a house. A house filled with men, women, children, and animals. (Imitates automatic rifle gunshot sounds.) Gunshots firing. Hundreds of rounds… Full Transcript
“Australia: The Fire This Time.” Tongues of fire lick the trees of New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, like a beggar at a feast. Red flowers of flame jump across the nation, eating… Full Transcript
“Senate Trial.” Question: when is the trial not a trial? Answer: when it’s the Senate trial. After days of opening remarks and statements from the so-called trial of the president of the United States, the… Full Transcript
“Sister Marpessa, A Griot Passes.” In African traditional societies, the griot was one who held in memory the history of the tribe, its kings, its wars, its great events that mark it as a community,… Full Transcript
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