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Occupy and Expose
President Obama 13th Amendment
Speech to the National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America And Never Will
The Power of the People
Mutope Duguma, I’m speaking on the power of the people. We, the People, have to realize that we have power in numbers, whereas we prisoners of all racial makeups, demonstrated in our peaceful protest to… Full Transcript
Immigration Policy is Mass Incarcaration
Since the re-election of President Barack Obama to the White Hose, there has been a gearing up to possibly introduce an Immigration Reform Bill to Congress for its enactment as statutory law, but what says… Full Transcript
Statistics
Centuries of Struggle Big House Prison Blues
‘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 Representative or the Represented?
Recently, a Black congresswoman from Florida revealed that white legislators from the state’s redistricting body changed her district to include the states overcrowded but under represented prisons, thereby insuring her defeat when the next election… Full Transcript
Again 50 Years Later We Are Still Here
A Message to the Black Lives Matter Movement II
On Hugo Pinell
Few of us know the name, Hugo Pinell. That’s because the last time it was in the newspapers was probably in 1971, or 1976, when he was tried as a member of the famous San… Full Transcript
Life As An Innocent Prisoner
Introduction
My name is Mumia Abu-Jamal. I’m a journalist, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and an African American. I live in the fastest-growing public housing tract in America. In 1981, I was a reporter for… Full Transcript