Mumia on the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Targeted For Political Activism
Mumia Interviewed About Marijuana on Kiss the Sky Radio
Running Down the Walls 2016
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
Mondo Mourned
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He was born David Rice, and in his youth, he joined an offshoot of the Black Panther Party, a decision that would change his life’s trajectory. For, when he and another young man, Edward Poindexter,… Full Transcript
Last of the Angola Three: Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Several days ago, Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola 3, walked free. Albert Woodfox has the dubious distinction of having spent 43 years in the Hole — solitary confinement– in the infamous prison farm… Full Transcript
They Came in the Morning
Brief Thoughts on Antonin Scalia, Presidential Nominations and Republican Obstructionism
The MOVE Sisters: Freedom Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s a fact that the U.S. is an Ahistorical society. If we go more than 20 minutes down time’s road, most Americans will have forgotten all; in a few weeks; a month? Forget it. Americans… Full Transcript
Free Reverend Pinkney
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Reverend Edward Pinkney is the kind of preacher that Martin Luther King would have admired. Rather than build a mansion and live like a prince, Pinkney has, for years, advocated for his community, fighting for… Full Transcript
Holiday Message PDC
The PA DOC Asssassination Attempt
Madiba Nelson Mandela
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On December 5, 2003, former political prisoner and former South African President Nelson Mandela—affectionately referred to as “Madiba” (Father) by the South African people—has made his transition to the other side to be with our… Full Transcript
Running Down The Walls 2015
Jaan Laaman
Hello, to everyone from New York City to Los Angeles, and all the towns and cities North and South, who are running down the walls today, Sunday, September 6. This is Jaan Laaman, and yes,… Full Transcript
Black August 2015
Jaan Laaman
Black August: August 6, August 9, Black August 2015. Hiroshima, 70 years later, and the bomb still burns. Hi, this is Jaan Laaman, your political prisoner voice coming to you from the federal prison in… Full Transcript
The Spirit of Resistance, Struggle, and Death
Jaan Laaman
“Some Reflections on Comrades: The Spirit of Resistance, Struggle and Death.” This is Jaan Laaman, your political prisoner voice and editor of 4struggle Magazine. 2015 is almost a month old, and my overall outlook has been… Full Transcript
MOVE Commemoration
Sundiata Acoli
This is Sundiata Acoli from FCI Cumberland, Maryland, speaking on the May 13th MOVE commemoration activity. May 13th. Eleven MOVE family members, five of them children, the rest, women and men, who were savagely murdered, slaughtered,… Full Transcript
Voices of the Forgotten Political Prisoners
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
I am the voice of the forgotten political prisoners. I have lived in a windowless torture chamber 24 hours a day for the last 20 years in solitary confinement. The prison cracks think I am out… Full Transcript
Stanford Alternative Spring Break Students Speak With Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Christian Bailey: Hi, Mumia. My name is Christian Bailey. We’re a group of college students. We’re mostly in our 20s. Our generation missed a lot of the context of political imprisonments of the 70s and… Full Transcript
