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Solidarity
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Solidarity. The word has been spoken for the better part of a century, at least. Like many words of such ancient vintage, what it means today may vary from what it meant at the dawn… Full Transcript
The Children of Perdition
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Montgomery v. Louisiana (which made its previous Miller v. Alabama ruling (regarding life terms for juveniles retroactive), shined a harsh light on the systems which utilized… Full Transcript
Judicial Fury
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Montgomery v. Louisiana decision, ruled that its earlier 2012 ruling in the Miller v. Alabama case, (limiting life sentences when it came to juvenile defendants) was indeed retroactive… Full Transcript
A Radical Revolution of Values
Occupy and Expose
President Obama 13th Amendment
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
Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America And Never Will
Asar Imhotep Amen
Troy Thomas, Lancaster, California. “Black Lives Have Never Mattered in the United States of America and Never Will: A Modern Day Slave’s Perspective.” Sometimes different people can independently arrive at the same conclusion. I didn’t… Full Transcript
The Power of the People
Mutope Duguma
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
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
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
Edward Pinkney
Reverend Edward Pinkney from Benton Harbor, Michigan, now located in Marquette, Michigan penitentiary, Michigan Branch Prison, just across Lake Superior from Canada. Hundreds of years ago, our nation put these considered less than human in… 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
The Representative or the Represented?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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
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
A Message to the Black Lives Matter Movement II
Shaka Zulu
A message to the Black Lives Matter movement. The racist power structure, in a desperate move of deceit, co-option and dollar repression have unleashed a kindle of Black misleaders trained in the art of selloutism.… Full Transcript
On Hugo Pinell
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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
History & Our Connection To It: Part 1
Ra Atem Hotep
This is Part 1 of “History & Our Connection To It.” History is defined as a tale, a story, a chronological record of significant events as affecting a nation or an institution, often including an… Full Transcript
America’s Punishment Addiction
Kenneth Hartman
The broader public got a look at the uglier side of their heroes in blue when those sworn to protect and serve showed up in Ferguson in armored personnel carriers, dressed out in full combat… Full Transcript
Sundiata Acoli on the 30th Anniversary of MOVE bombing
Sundiata Acoli
Greetings. This is Sundiata Acoli sending the MOVE 9 solidarity greetings in their 30 year struggle against their unjust incarceration. Not only MOVE 9, but too many other people of color, other poor and progressive… Full Transcript
Bill Clinton, perhaps the best raw political animal of his generation, said a mouthful recently, especially when he confronted activists from the ubiquitous Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. There, the primary political architect of the… Full Transcript