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The People’s Forum NYC, Part 1
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Announcer: You’re at the People’s Forum in Manhattan. It’s organization movement central, and you are the man of the hour right now. I’m going to pass you over to Robin Spencer, Dr. Robin Spencer, who’s the… Full Transcript
On Other Prisoners Compilation
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Last of Angola Three Free.” Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola Three, walked free. Albert Woodfox has the dubious distinction of having spent 43 years in the hole—solitary confinement—in the infamous prison farm and… Full Transcript
On Politics
It is Movement Time
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s movement time. As the Trump presidency take shape, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. Disbelief meshes with despair, and some are quite frankly desolate. Dry your tears, blow your noses, and join movements… Full Transcript
Black August 2004
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was a sweaty, steaming night in August, when a group of African captives gathered in the forests of Marne Rouge, in Le Cap, San Domingue. It was August, 1791. Among these men was a… Full Transcript
“The Clinton Show”
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As the Democratic National Convention rolls out its latest episode of the long-running “The Clinton Show”. It is threatened, as are all old programs, by an audience that has grown beyond the show’s characters. Starring… Full Transcript
Maroon Prevails
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Russell Maroon Shoatz, a Black Liberation fighter since his youth, after many years of struggle, has prevailed in his action to bar the Pa. Dept. of Corrections (DOC) from ever holding him in isolation again.… Full Transcript
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
Black Lives Matter Ramps Up Civil Resistance
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Black Lives Matter Ramps Up Civil Resistance,” by Shakaboona. Over the Christmas holiday weekend, Black Lives Matter movement members protested at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, occupied the St. Paul Minneapolis airport, and occupied… 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
To Protest is a Right
Kevin Cooper
Frederick Douglass once said “It’s easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.” The same can be said for women, as they are included in this oppression that has been going… Full Transcript
Opening Conference Address by Mumia Abu-Jamal – Baltimore, MD
Mumia Abu-Jamal
What is the city but the concretized collection of both wealth and poverty? It is formed by great aggregations of wealth and predominantly peopled by those at the polar opposite of that dynamic. Baltimore, of… Full Transcript
This is a statement written by Demetrius Wallace, read by Kevin Rashid Johnson, who is coming to you from within America’s Gulag Archipelago U.S.A. Dare to struggle, dare to win. All power to the people. He… Full Transcript