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March 4 Mumia on Democracy Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now. democracy now.org. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez, one of the world’s most well known political prisoners, Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested on this day in 1981, for the murder… Full Transcript
March For Mumia (WBAI-NY)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mimi Rosenberg: Welcome to Sprouts: Radio From the Grassroots, a weekly program that showcases radio production by independent community media. We bring you local stories to a global audience, produced at a different location each… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu Jamal One-On-One with Kalonji Changa
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Kalonji Changa. So, we are live today with good brother Mumia Abu-Jamal who has been fightin’ the good fight before many of us was born. How you feelin’ today comrade? How’s everything going’ with you?… Full Transcript
Sally O’Brien: Journalist for Justice
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sally O’Brien, a radio reporter for New York’s public radio WBAI FM, has given her final broadcast. In 1988 she began her signature show Where We Live, often co-hosted with Black Liberationist Safia Bukhari, herself… Full Transcript
Julian Assange Goes Home
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Julian Assange finally goes home. Julian Assange of the online news agency known as Wikileaks had to wonder if this day would ever come, for he faced not only the enmity of governments including, of… Full Transcript
Partial Victory For Uhuru
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The proposed political frame up of leaders and supporters of the African Peoples Socialist Party, perhaps best known as the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, has ended with a federal jury rejecting the government’s… Full Transcript
Kevin Rashid Johnson’s Medical Mistreatment
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
Hey this is comrade Pitt, Peter Kamau Mukuria, the Minister of Labor for the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party. So I want to leave a quick audio recording regarding my Comrade Rashid, who is the… Full Transcript
Love Not Phear at Luxemburg Conference 2022
Private: Mike Africa Jr.
And every year, prisoners and civilians run and exercise together to talk about how we’re going to abolish the prison system here in America. There is much resistance. There is much resistance from prisoners. Prisoners… Full Transcript
Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Maroon Free.” Black nationalist revolutionary leader Russell “Maroon” Shoatz. After 49 years in prison and now suffering from stage four cancer, Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is now resting with his family, trying to salvage his ebbing… Full Transcript
Free Ashley Diamond
Uhuru Rowe
Greetings of peace, love, solidarity, and collective resistance. This is Comrade Uhuru Rowe. Prison state number 1131545, speaking to you from the belly of the Virginia prison system on this third day of October, 2021.… Full Transcript
Julian’s Run
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Julian’s Run.” First things first, who was Julian Assange? And secondarily, why is his struggle of import to any of us? Assange, born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia in 1971, is the founder of the global… Full Transcript
Julian Assange
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Julian Assange, perhaps one of the best-known of the WikiLeaks collective, spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London until, under circumstances that remain unclear, his asylum became his detention—pending his extradition to the… Full Transcript
Political Assassination of Political Prisoners
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun. I’m an Indiana political prisoner. I am calling in from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility located in Indiana. This is “The Political Assassination of Political Prisoners: A Ongoing Murder… Full Transcript
An Evening of Freedom: Angela Davis
Angela Davis: Good evening, everyone. I don’t think I’m quite as quiet as Alice, but I certainly can’t match Pam’s fire [laughter]. It’s really wonderful to be here, and I thank Jeff for all of… Full Transcript
The People’s Forum NYC, Part 1
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Announcer: You’re at the People’s Forum in Manhattan. It’s organization movement central, and you are the man of the hour right now. I’m going to pass you over to Robin Spencer, Dr. Robin Spencer, who’s the… Full Transcript
Malcom Jenkins and Presidential Pardons
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Malcolm Jenkins Should Help Political Prisoners Get Presidential Pardons” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. Malcolm Jenkins, Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl champion, and superb social activist for Black people in America. Great article in the New York… Full Transcript
The Plight of Political Prisoners in America
Delbert Africa
“The Plight of Political Prisoners in America” by Delbert Africa. On A Move! This is Delbert Africa from Dallas Prison speaking about the plight of political prisoners here in America – especially in light of… Full Transcript
PSA
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 1992, the brilliant law professor Derrick Bell published Faces at the Bottom of the Well, a series of potent essays on the sustained efforts of America to assign the bottom of the well to… Full Transcript
Honoring Oscar Lopez Rivera
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Oscar Lopez Rivera is revered by many as a former political prisoner, hero, and freedom fighter for Puerto Rican independence and human rights. Mr. Lopez Rivera allegedly belonged to the Puerto Rican nationalist group, the… Full Transcript
Back to the resilience of captives in departments of corruption such as myself within the illegitimate Virginia Department of Corrections. You’d be surprised to know just how opposite two people can be and still agree… Full Transcript