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Black August 2015
Jaan Laaman
Black August: August 6, August 9, Black August 2015. Hiroshima, 70 years later, and the bomb still burns. Hi, this is Jaan Laaman, your political prisoner voice coming to you from the federal prison in… Full Transcript
Missing Marilyn Buck
Inadequate Medical Treatment in the Pennsylvania Dept of Corrections
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the mid 1990s, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections privatized its free state healthcare sector by contracting with Wexford Corporation to provide for-profit healthcare to prisoners. Since then, Wexford Corporation has received about $2 billion… Full Transcript
Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism: Part 1
Mondo We Langa
I’m Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen We Langa, Mondo for short. This piece is “Clarity In Our Use of the Term Racism” is part one of a series in the Omaha Star newspaper. What is a mouse?… Full Transcript
I Can’t Breathe
Safir Chuma Asafo
This is Asafo Chuma Asafo reporting from Huntington State Prison in Pennsylvania. I can’t breathe within the solitary confinement of this police state environment. Eleven times ignored cries, until my freedom of speech went silent. I can’t… Full Transcript
Signs of the Times
Safir Chuma Asafo
This piece is called “Signs of the Times,” by Safir Chuma Asafo, reporting from Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Huntington. Beware, the beginning of the end is here. So, prepare for Tiananmen Square Everywhere, in total fear… Full Transcript
Capital
Safir Chuma Asafo
This piece is called “Capital” by Safir Chuma Asafo, reporting from Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Huntingdon. As the world turns on its axis, Spiraling backwards into a time and space Held captive by the agents of… Full Transcript
Working For Change
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dear brothers and sisters, dear members of DC 37, Local 372. Dear fellow workers. As I thought about what to say to you, a thousand thoughts flooded my mind. I wondered about your children, and… Full Transcript
Obama and MLK
Shaka Zulu
Barack Obama. Do we represent or embody the values and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? One is sworn in tomorrow as a Black president of the United States; the other died fighting against… Full Transcript
Did You Vote for This?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Wars — and more wars….. Oil spills in the ocean. Nuclear plants belching radioactive poison for miles, affecting people, animals, plants and even fungi. Teachers demonized, humiliated and punished for daring… Full Transcript
Jobless on Labor Day (Short)
Ecocide (Version B)
Ecocide (Version A)
May Day Amidst Global Mayhem
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As May approaches, the day celebrated for over a century as an emblem of workers power, (May Day), seems to have become a symbol of its fall. That’s because, s the economic system has gone… Full Transcript
G20 or More G Money (Version B)
Capital Amends Rules
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is not a day or year like any other. That’s because many nations are in the midst of economic recession and failure, and it is workers world wide who are suffering from layoffs and… Full Transcript
Wildin’ on Wall Street
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For years now, banks, investment houses and brokerage firms have engaged in a feverish dance of hustling from home-owners, using devices like ARM’s (adjustable rate mortgages), offering loans at low or no interest which balloon… Full Transcript
Bush Speaks Market Leaks
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was an extraordinary spectacle. An American president, so lame a duck that he should’ve been on crutches, shuffles to the mike in a weak attempt to shore up confidence in a market that is… Full Transcript
Hello, to everyone from New York City to Los Angeles, and all the towns and cities North and South, who are running down the walls today, Sunday, September 6. This is Jaan Laaman, and yes,… Full Transcript