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John Africa on Water & Pollution (Version B)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was after the first major MOVE confrontation, August 8, 1978, when John Africa dictated the judge’s letter. Fifteen pages of outrage, not only of MOVES treatment by the government, but of corporate and state… Full Transcript
State Against People (Version B)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
There is, at the heart of American society, a profound disquiet about the overwhelming powers of government, one which waxes and wanes according to the felt needs of the time. That’s partly because, while we… Full Transcript
State Against People (Version A)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
There is, at the heart of American society, a profound disquiet about the overwhelming powers of government, one which waxes and wanes according to the felt needs of the time. That’s partly because, while we… Full Transcript
Running Backwards (Version A)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Few sciences are more complex than economics. For despite the plethora of formulas claiming to define its workings, economics remains a bedeviling mystery that confuses and confounds the best minds time and time again. That’s… Full Transcript
Masks of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It would be easy to succumb to the euphoria of the hour, easy, too easy. Despite this effluvia of euphoria, blown higher by a media that has learned its role of servitude to power all… Full Transcript
Scare Tactics
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Using individual tales of fallen 401(k)s, or of a few firings, they successfully insinuated that unless the bailout passed, you might lose your job or your 401(k) might turn to dust. They ran the banner… Full Transcript
From Deregulation to National Guarantor: In a Blink (Version B)
From Deregulation to National Guarantor: In a Blink (Version A)
Silent Riots On Wall Street
Mumia Abu-Jamal
With the fall of Lehman Brothers Holdings, a major American financial securities firm, the other shoe hits the floor. For this is but the latest in a string of failures in the wheels of fortune… Full Transcript
“The wages of deregulation.” A train races through the cool wintry air, its wheels turning on iron rails until sparks burst into flames, and in the blink of an eye, a city in western Ohio… Full Transcript