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You Know Too Much So No
“You Know Too Much, So No.” Mike is a young man in prison who uses his as time studying so that when he leaves he’ll have something to contribute to his family and his community.… Full Transcript
Prison Rebellion And The Struggle Against Mass Incarceration
“Prison rebellions and the struggle against mass incarceration.” You wouldn’t know it from corporate media, but a struggle is going on across the nation against mass incarceration. Prisoners are waging hunger strikes and other collective… Full Transcript
Linking Movements
“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
Goode Street
“Goode Street.” Just a few days ago, a street in West Philadelphia was renamed W. Wilson Goode Senior Way. Members of Philadelphia City Council approved the change months ago in honor of the city’s first… Full Transcript
A Force For Change
My name is Omar Askia Ali AKA Edward Sistrunk. On topic is “A Force For Change.” There is a book out by Norman Carter Jr., a former Philadelphia police officer, entitled “The Long Blue Wall.”… Full Transcript
The DOC Goes Cuckoo
“The DOC Goes Cuckoo.” It began with a 10-day lockdown, almost 50,000 men and women held in 24-hour solitary confinement for almost two weeks in their cell. Why? Ostensibly because of several dozen staffers who… Full Transcript
Prison Health in an Unhealthy Place
“Prison health in an unhealthy place.” It is at first blush somewhat odd to expect healthcare in a place where essentially no one really cares about you. Prisons are the slums of the state, for… Full Transcript
Prisoners ID Data Leak
“Pennsylvania Department of Corrections hacked for incarcerated persons ID data,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, a state agency that’s all about maintaining security, was hacked for incarcerated persons’ and DOC personnel’s… Full Transcript
August 8th 40 Years of Resistance
“August 8th, 40 years of resistance.” It seems incredible, but it’s been 40 years, 40 years, since the police assault on the MOVE house in West Philly, 40 years, 40 years since Rizzo’s cops fired… Full Transcript
Donald, King After All
“Donald, King After All.” In a formerly secret letter to the Office of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, counsel for the U.S. president argued that he, President Trump, had the inherent power to, if need be,… Full Transcript
Charles Goldblum’s Nightmare
“Charles Goldblum’s Nightmare.” In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the trial of Charles Goldblum, reportedly for the premeditated murder of George Wilhelm, was a sensation. Goldblum, a young tax attorney and part-time law professor, was the son of… Full Transcript
Omar Askia Ali
Hello, my name is Omar Askia Ali AKA Edward Sistrunk. Uh, my topic is the Philadelphia new DA. It is understood that a prosecutor has a higher calling than just to win. He or she… Full Transcript
When Babies Rebel
“When Babies Rebel.” They came from across the country. They assembled in almost 100 U.S. cities and in cities around the world. Who are they? Teenagers, high school students mostly. They were the survivors of… Full Transcript
Giving Teachers What They Want
“Giving teachers what they want.” With right-wing politicians racing to arm teachers and making schools neighborhood fortresses, one wonders whether let’s ask teachers what they want. Teachers in West Virginia will tell you what they… Full Transcript
Teachers At Arms
“Teachers at Arms.” Teaching is one of the hardest jobs in America, for they perform one of the most challenging jobs: teaching the young, and do so while being woefully underpaid. The recent Trump cartoon… Full Transcript
Yale Environmental Forum
“Yale Environmental Forum Speech.” First and foremost, allow me to say what an honor and a privilege it is to have been invited to address you on the topic of grave concern to us all.… Full Transcript
A Bright Shining Hell
“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
A House is Not a Home
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
The Magnificent 7
“The magnificent seven.” They are a cross-section of American men, black, white, Greek, and Italian. Seven men, seven guards at a county jail in Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania. Seven man who collectively face 37 counts of… Full Transcript
“President Chaos.” This country is a complex place. This world is a complex world. To govern such a place, indeed such an empire, takes wisdom, insight, and knowledge from the finest minds. And even then,… Full Transcript