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Ramona Africa on MOVE
Ramona Africa: The MOVE organization is a revolutionary organization, and our interpretation of revolution is not this system’s interpretation of revolution. When MOVE speaks of revolution, we’re speaking about freedom and equality for all life,… Full Transcript
1967: Year of Fire, Year of Rage
Mumia Abu-Jamal
1967, in that brief recitation of time, we find history’s echo of an era of rebellion, resistance, fear, and hope. It was emblematic of what we’ve come to call “the long hot summer,” for in… Full Transcript
The Beating of Black Lawyers (Version B)
The Beating of Black Lawyers (Version A)
Jamming Up Janet Africa
Call Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals – Gwen
Death in Cell #5
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Sierra Leonean refugee named Oury Jalloh burned to death in Cell No. 5 in the city of Dessau, Germany. The date: January 7, 2005 Police at the station have called it… Full Transcript
Who Protects Whom?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A woman is stopped for a traffic violation. She tearfully explains that she is pregnant, she is bleeding, and she begs — at least a dozen times — to be taken to the hospital. She… Full Transcript
The Milwaukee Maulers
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The case of three Milwaukee, Wisconsin ex-cops has ended in a verdict of acquittal. The case stems from the brutal beating of a young Black man, Frank Jude, who ventured to the home of one… Full Transcript
Baby Killers In Black and Blue (Version A)
Baby Killers In Black and Blue (Version B)
Police Corruption (Man is Bastard 7)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles. In city after city, we find case after case of not only police corruption, but vicious police violence. Young people are beaten, women are assaulted, people who are taught to believe… Full Transcript
9. Police Shooting
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Speaker 1 No I’m just talking about, like, what happened tonight. Speaker 2 I turned the corner. Here’s the police standing with a big ol’ stick. And he had it drawn back as though like,… Full Transcript
May 13
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has been eight years now since the massacre, eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue, eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole eleven human lives, eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
LA Outlaw
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The federal trial of four Los Angeles cops, forced by the public orgy of rebellion and rage, which rocked the city a year before in response to acquittal stemming from the brutal Rodney King beating,… Full Transcript
A House is Not A Home
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee brown features, as if set in obsidian, as if a mask, barely perceptible; the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by… Full Transcript
When a 23-year old Latino was stopped for what police called, “a routine pedestrian stop” no one imagined the tragedy that would ensue from this seemingly innocuous encounter. According to a police spokesperson, the young… Full Transcript