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Power To Control
Faluch Bigsby
Hello people, how are you? I want to talk about power and control today. Criminal and addicted thinking patterns have to do with our desire to control others in situations. Most criminal thinkers often think… Full Transcript
End of Hunger Strike
Darren Stanley (KnowledgeBorn GodAllah)
Hey, this Knowledge Born God Allah, come calling from Solano State Prison. I’m a true hustler, universal [unclear]. You know what I mean? Y’all I want y’all to understand that I am truly a Five… Full Transcript
Miranda Rights
Kenjuan Congo Jr.
My inmate number is ND7568. The title of this piece is, “Miranda Rights.” I am Kenjuan Congo Jr., calling from a prison camp behind enemy lines. The United States Supreme Court ruled that police officers… Full Transcript
Children Of The Corn
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When we think of politicians, we too often see them as great, even mighty figures, seemingly larger than life.That’s because of how the media projects them -and far too often, protects them.But in times like… Full Transcript
But What Is Justice?
Dontie Mitchell
I just got finished watching the TV show We The People. This particular episode moved me deeply because it dealt with the question of bail and redemption. Rodney was being held on a 100,000 dollar… Full Transcript
Misdirections
Spoon Jackson
Misdirections. People wonder why He tends to the plants like He does. Touching them. Them touching him. People wonder why He sits looking at the sky, tending to the birds. The bird sang to Him… Full Transcript
Fight Power With Power
Dontie Mitchell
“Fight Power With Power.” I’ve been watching the BET series Finding Justice, and it brought up a recurrent theme in my mind about the lack of true Black power. How is it that Black people… Full Transcript
Terry Daum
Dontie Mitchell
In 1997, Terry Daum was convicted after a trial, of three commercial robberies in Staten Island. The evidence against him consisted of testimony from one eyewitness for each robbery. In 2014, Terry discovered the police… Full Transcript
Unlawfully Incarcerated
Stevie Stevenson
My name is Stevie J. Stevenson, K16324. And the title of this piece is “Unlawfully Incarcerated.” I’m from Los Angeles, California. I’ve been down for the past 28 years. In 2012, I filed what is… Full Transcript
Control
Charles Karim Diggs
The name of my essay is “Control,” by Charles Kareem Diggs of Phoenix Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. After a careful review of history, you sense a feeling that the millions of lives were lost senselessly. The… Full Transcript
American Slavery Excerpt from Murder Inc.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is an excerpt from the book Murder Incorporated, Dreaming of Empire, Book One, by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Philosophizing disgrace. Throughout mankind’s history, the same elite mindset that terrorizes with slavery terrorizes with… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpt: Slavery
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Lets now hear from a spokesman for the Tennessee Tea Party. This group attempted to remove references of American slavery and the fact that the vast majority of the country’s founders were longstanding slaveowners from… Full Transcript
At the Axis of Language and Philosophy
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“At The Axis of Language and Philosophy.” Saussure examines the field of linguistics by separating two controlling facets they’re in: speech and language. Speech, he argues, is at every moment an existing institution which is… Full Transcript
It is Movement Time
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It’s movement time. As the Trump presidency take shape, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. Disbelief meshes with despair, and some are quite frankly desolate. Dry your tears, blow your noses, and join movements… Full Transcript
What If The Prison System Is All Wrong
United Snakes of America
The Politics of Challenge = The Politics of Change
Cetewayo Freed from the Hole
Mumia Abu-Jamal
On the white card above his cell door, the name Arthur Johnson is typed, followed by his prison number. Johnson has been held in solitary confinement in half a dozen PA prisons, since 1979, late… Full Transcript
What’s really behind the war that’s happening on our TV screens and on our devices? In a word, it’s money. When you think about what happened in Venezuela, think not of the kidnapping of the… Full Transcript