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When Good People Do Nothing, Tyranny Reigns
Dontie Mitchell
When good people do nothing, tyranny reigns. Let us analyze why people are looting and rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s death. It’s because people lose respect for law when the very people responsible… Full Transcript
George Floyd: What Do You Expect To Happen
Dontie Mitchell
George Floyd and state power: what do you expect to happen? The death of George Floyd is on a long list of unarmed black people murdered by the police. His death is sad and tragic.… Full Transcript
On George Floyd
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
This is a report by Dennis Solo McKeithan, DB2253 at SCI Phoenix. Today, while watching the news and seeing George in Minneapolis murdered by the police sitting on his neck, it was reminiscent of so… Full Transcript
December in Chicago
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“December in Chicago.” It was an early morning in December, 1969. When a joint FBI-Chicago Police crew raided an apartment building ostensibly for weapons charges. In fact, they came to kill Fred Hampton, Chairman of… Full Transcript
Quality of Moral Character
Dontie Mitchell
“The quality of moral character.” Today, September 4th, 2019, I was singled out of line on the way to morning chow by Sergeant Reynolds who is the grievance sergeant who screens prisoner complaints submitted to… Full Transcript
Stressing Out But Still In The Fight
Dontie Mitchell
“Stressing Out But Still In The Fight.” I told you all in my last commentary how Corrections Sergeant Reynolds here at Great Meadow singled me out of line, orders me into the Sergeant’s Bunker and… Full Transcript
When The Oppressed Support The Oppressed
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“When the oppressed support the oppressed.” In recent weeks, prominent black leaders have been labeled quite unjustly with a tag of anti-Semitism. The best known is perhaps the iconic radical figure Dr. Angela Yvonne Davis… Full Transcript
Linking Movements
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Linking Movements and Daring to Be Free” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. What does the Black Lives Matter, immigration movement, J20 protesters, Poor People’s Campaign, and Occupy movement have in common? Their commonality is that the… Full Transcript
The New World
Charles Karim Diggs
“The New World.” My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m calling from Pennsylvania, from the new prison called Phoenix. A European escaped from Europe because of oppression, tyrants, and religious persecution. They also suffered economic… Full Transcript
Is Administration of Justice Fair in America?
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs, and I’m at Graterford state prison. What we call it now- it’s a new jail we have called Phoenix. They just completed it, and we will have been transferred… Full Transcript
A House is Not a Home
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee-brown features, as if set an 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
American Jewish Lobbies’ Chickens Come Home to Roost
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“American Jewish lobbies’ chickens come home to roost,” by Shakaboona. During the presidential election campaign of 2016, Donald Trump often rhetorically asked African-Americans what do you have to lose in casting a vote for him.… Full Transcript
Law & Liberation
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Law and Liberation.” From the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement now comes the rise of Law for Black Lives, a collective of lawyers, law students, jailhouse lawyers, and other legal workers in support… Full Transcript
United Snakes of America
DN Interview Amy Goodman
The Policy of Death
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has happened again. And again. And again. And again. And again. A cop arrives on a scene. An order is barked (or oinked) And, in a flash, a person is dead. More than likely,… Full Transcript
Donald Trump: Genius or Idiot?
Oh Baltimore Blues
Make America White Again
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The 2016 Republican National Convention, under the ponderous pressure of Donald Trump, was, in many ways, an escape back in time – to the 1950s, and ‘60s – an era when Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon,… Full Transcript
Institutional violence in America is a manifestation of America’s ideology. It’s become not just a part of American culture but the defining characteristic. In America, might makes right, therefore those who are in power get… Full Transcript