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Leonard Leaves Prison
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Just a few hours ago Leonard Peltier left the U.S. prison cell, what Indigenous people call the Iron House, and began the long trek home to North Dakota, where he was busted in 1975. His… Full Transcript
Mexico’s Non Candidate
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In Mexico, the existing political structure is a dizzying patchwork of corruption. Government is sometimes indistinguishable from the notorious drug cartels (if you think this is mere rhetoric, consider the recent massacre of students in… Full Transcript
Dennis Banks
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, two names emerged from the Native American and Indigenous community that stood for resistance to white repression and assaults on Native life: Russell Means and Dennis Banks. They… Full Transcript
Mr. Kaepernick, You Are My Hero
Black August 2003
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black August has many markers throughout the long history of resistance in the Americas. There are more than we could ever recount here. But here are a few that are important and undeniable events that… Full Transcript
Freedom and Med Care for Leonard Peltier
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped… Full Transcript
Black August 2015
Jaan Laaman
Black August: August 6, August 9, Black August 2015. Hiroshima, 70 years later, and the bomb still burns. Hi, this is Jaan Laaman, your political prisoner voice coming to you from the federal prison in… Full Transcript
Hey, everybody, this is Running River here. I just need to voice my concern on this Alligator Alcatraz thing. I’m sitting in my cell up here, FCI Fayette, and I’m watching the news. And as… Full Transcript