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Bad News
When the Masks Come Off and the Riot Gear Comes Out
Mumia Featured on Democracy Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today’s show with news that a federal judge has denied a request from former Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal for a life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C. Mumia… Full Transcript
Dark Days
Running Down the Walls 2016
Don’t Let The Perfect Be The Enemy of The Good
“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
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Democracy Now!
Mumia Abu-Jamal
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We are “Breaking with Convention: War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We’re broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, broadcasting outside that… Full Transcript
Who’s Running?
Wilbert Sanders
This is “Who’s Running,” by Wilbert Saunders, also known as Jazz the Poet. Politicians are drawing massive crowds With empty promises and talking loud. Grand ideas of uplifting the economy, But actually promote modernized slavery.… Full Transcript
Beyond Bernie
Lynne Stewart Reads “Prisoners Voices Blocked and Censorship of US Prisons”
Jaan Laaman
The United States is often called the country of prisons because we are five percent of the world’s population, but the U.S. holds 25 percent of all the prisoners in the world. Recently we have… Full Transcript
Tribute to Soffiyah Elijah and Noelle Hanrahan
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Greetings, my friends at the NLG. On a move. Congratulations to all the honorees at this year’s convention. Shout out to Sister Soffiyah Elijah, a freedom fighter in the law. She laughs when I tell… Full Transcript
Voting: The Final Fig Leaf
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As elections near, voters face the choices before them with something like dread: Donald Trump: loud, bombastic, bellicose, rich as Croesus, and xenophobic; or the presumptive Democratic nominee (unless Vermont’s Bernie Sanders manages to upend… Full Transcript
Who’s the Real Frankenstein?
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Hello, revolutionary greetings. This is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, political prisoner in Indiana. Who’s the real Frankenstein? You continue to build prisons for the purpose of killing our souls and damaging our spirits and causing… Full Transcript
The U.S. Government’s Conspiracy to Destroy Black Communities
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Since the 1980s, Africans in America have known of the United States government’s criminal, genocidal conspiracy to destroy the minority Black national community through its infamous domestic War on Drugs policy against Black people, which… Full Transcript
The Free Virginia Movement
Uhuru Rowe
This is Comrade Uhuru of the Free Virginia Movement. As we inch ever so closer towards the September 9 anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion, which happened back in 1971, we, of the Free Virginia… Full Transcript
We’re the Barbarians
Kenneth Hartman
We’re the barbarians. The mainstream media rarely broadcasts something so powerful it calls into question conventional narratives. But on April 3, CBS’ 60 Minutes ran a segment about how prisoners are treated in Germany, that… Full Transcript
It Turns Out We’re the Barbarians
Kenneth Hartman
It turns out, we’re the barbarians. It’s not often the mainstream corporate media broadcasts something so powerful it shatters preconceptions and calls into question conventionally accepted narratives. But on April 3rd, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran… Full Transcript
