Don’t Let The Perfect Be The Enemy of The Good
Kenneth Hartman
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What to a Prisoner is the Fourth of July, Read by Bernadette Devlin Mcalisky
Mumia Abu-Jamal
My name is Bernadette Devlin Mcalisky. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s deep and resonant voice has been silenced and censored. I will read to you one of his illuminating commentaries written on the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s visit… Full Transcript
Butter Scores (Terrence Williams U.S. Supreme Court Reversal)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
His name is ‘Butter’, but to lawyers, judges and cops he’s known as Terrance Williams, a man who, in 2012, came within a few days to die. Williams was convicted of the 1984 homicide/robbery of… Full Transcript
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Wilbert Sanders
This is Wilbert Sanders as Jazz the Poet with “Guilty Until Proven Innocent.” As a means in protecting the innocent From criminals with bad intent, Torture chambers, in prisons, are built To confine and punish… Full Transcript
Poem about Mumia
Bryant Arroyo
Bryant Arroyo for Prison Radio, in collaboration with Robert Sanders, aka, Jazz the Poet Mumia Abu-Jamal Since the government fails to represent by employing officials with evil intent, Lives are destroyed, ripped apart, and torn.… Full Transcript
Speech to the National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Kenneth Hartman
Speech to the National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, delivered November 13, 2015 via telephone from the California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster, California. Greetings, from inside California’s prison… Full Transcript
You Will Know Them By Their Actions
Kenneth Hartman
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, It’s not the actions of our enemies that we’ll remember, it’s the silence of our friends.” While he said this in a wholly different context, the principle… Full Transcript
The Pennsylvania DOC Attempt to Assassinate Mumia Abu-Jamal
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Attempt to Assassinate Mumia Abu-Jamal,” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall Many people may question the government’s attempt to murder political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal while in prison, but such people just aren’t… Full Transcript
Centuries of Struggle Big House Prison Blues
Mumia Abu-Jamal
‘Plus ça change …’ say the French; or ‘The more things change, of course, the more they stay the same.’ That thought, with all its despair and wisdom, resonates with particular power when we look… Full Transcript
The Conversation’s Started
Kenneth Hartman
After more than 35 years, it looks like the conversation’s finally started about the cruelty and the unfairness of life without parole sentences. Academics and activists have been talking about it, but now, on August… Full Transcript
Interview With Albert Woodfox (2005)
Albert Woodfox
Albert Woodfox: My name is Albert Woodfox. My African name is [inaudible]. I’ve been housed in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola since 1971, which is approximately about 34 years. Well, basically since I was put… Full Transcript
Execution in Oklahoma
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He tossed, he turned, he moaned, he burned. Clayton Lockett, on the death gurney of Oklahoma’s DOC, spoke words, struggled and reportedly kicked his legs for 43 minutes after a toxic cocktail was administered to… Full Transcript
From Trees to Needles
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Friends, Brothers, Sisters: Ona Move! The anti-death penalty movement is an offshoot of the global human rights movement, as expressed by private associations, and later, by a variety of governments. It is noteworthy, then, for us… Full Transcript
Third World Conference Against the Death Penalty Address
Moussaoui: From Death to Slow Death
Being on Death Row (Man is Bastard 1)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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
Montreal 2004 (French)
Montreal 2004 (English)
Blackmun Bows Out Of Death Game
Mumia Abu-Jamal
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court Senior Justice, who recently announced his retirement, has finally held as a matter of constitutional law, that the death penalty as currently administered, is unconstitutional. Blackmun,… Full Transcript
23. Martin Sheen Speaks on Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is Martin Sheen. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s raw and impassioned commentaries are certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech. Listen to this incisive critic of our criminal justice system speaking… Full Transcript
