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As Long As I Live To Love
Raymond White
It’s crazy how certain types of human calamity are right now being set right in front of us. Knowing that someday we as living beings will be put back down to the low surface of… Full Transcript
“If I Must Die” Palestine Poet Refaat Alareer Presente
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rafeef Ziadah – “We Teach Life, Sir” “SI DEBO MORIR”. POETA PALESTINO REFAAT ALAREER ¡PRESENTE! En Español (English translation below) Por Mumia Abu-Jamal En las primeras décadas del Siglo XX, miles de mujeres y hombres Negros… Full Transcript
A Prayer
Izell Robinson
This is Minnesota inmate #210006, an innocent man confined within the quadrilaterals of systemic injustice fighting to be heard. I only want you, the listeners, to hear me. I’m endeavoring yet again to be heard.… Full Transcript
Fasting and Prayer
Marsha Byrd
Hi, my name is Marsha Byrd, and my inmate number is 1258690. I’m here in Las Vegas, a private women’s prison, and I’m here for a DUI that went bad. And I took a deal… Full Transcript
Sitting In A Cell..
Robert Neibler
My name is Robert Neibler, 399870. Baraga Correctional Facility, 13924 Wadaga Road, Baraga, MI 49908. Sitting in a cell block somewhere in Northern Michigan is a man screaming, “They took my child” at a volume… Full Transcript
The Road
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Now artistic expression and writing has become a therapy, allowing me an outlet to analyze, explore, and motivate change in my online life today. I want to… Full Transcript
Margaret Kenny: Broken Trust
Heather Jarvis
Hello my name is Heather Jarvis. I’m calling from the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio. I sat down with Margaret Kenny, and it was probably the hardest of the interviews thus far. Her… Full Transcript
Heather Koon: Fate In The Hand of Strangers
Heather Jarvis
My name is Heather Jarvis, and I’m calling from the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio. I sat down with Heather Koon on a brisk morning by the bars crossed on the window. Inevitably,… Full Transcript
Change is Coming
Omar Askia Ali
In this Pennsylvania state prison system, there is an estimation of 5,000 people sentenced to prison. Most of those were men and women are African Americans. The balance of the 5,000 are poor whites and… Full Transcript
Decarcerate Us Pt. 3
James Ward
This is James Ward from Toledo Correctional Institution in Ohio. I’m making this speech concerning my project I’m tryna develop called Decarcerate Us, but that I’m really needing help. It’s been a while since I… Full Transcript
Struggle To Be
Spoon Jackson
“Struggle To Be.” I don’t want to give loneliness freelance to do its thing, but ultimately, sometimes it happens anyway. So long it has been since my body has been where it wanted to go.… Full Transcript
Brokenness, but I’m Still Winning the War
Edward Pinkney
The title is brokenness, but I’m still winning the war. I read the book, Bryan Stevenson’s book, Just Mercy. And the story seems very similar to mine. I would like to quote you from his… Full Transcript
Beyond Bernie
Time
Voting for Your Pain
Mumia Abu-Jamal
An election is occurring tonight. It’s a primary, one of dozens to come. It matters not where — or, for the most part, even who. Elections are public expressions of emotion, as in ‘who do… 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
What is PREP?
Dortell Williams
California prisoners love PREP. You know why? Because PREP offers faith and hope. PREP stands for Partnership For Re-Entry Program. What PREP does is to offer rehabiltative correspondence lessons to prisoners thristy for self-help and… Full Transcript
Again 50 Years Later We Are Still Here
Shaka Zulu
Again, 50 years later, we are still here. We want to first say Panther love to all of you attending the 50th anniversary of the founding of the original Black Panther Party in 1966. Many of… Full Transcript
Madiba Nelson Mandela
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On December 5, 2003, former political prisoner and former South African President Nelson Mandela—affectionately referred to as “Madiba” (Father) by the South African people—has made his transition to the other side to be with our… Full Transcript
Hope for most of us stretches millions and millions of miles away. We become trapped inside a closed cell of fear and guilt, a bitter solitude. Hope is that thing where you can picture it’s… Full Transcript