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A Growing Disregard
Safir Chuma Asafo
This is Safir Chuma Asafo reporting from Huntington State Prison in Pennsylvania. There is a growing disregard for freedom of speech, for dissenting voices here in America, but especially so for Pennsylvania state prisoners, as… Full Transcript
I Can’t Breathe
Safir Chuma Asafo
This is Asafo Chuma Asafo reporting from Huntington State Prison in Pennsylvania. I can’t breathe within the solitary confinement of this police state environment. Eleven times ignored cries, until my freedom of speech went silent. I can’t… Full Transcript
The Trouble With Prison
Kenneth Hartman
The Trouble with Prison. Plato’s allegory of the cave describes how the limited perceptions of men leave them measuring the world with only the distorted reflections of reality. The trouble with prison, as it is… Full Transcript
Death for a Cigarette
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The name Eric Garner is now enshrined in the grim annals of history.It joins Mike Brown, Ramarley Graham, Alan Blueford, Dontre Hamilton, Tamir Rice, and thousands of others, who were murdered by those their taxes… Full Transcript
Reflections on The Reintroduction of Common Dreams
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Long live John Africa. On first read of the materials related to the FOP [Fraternal Order of Police]/Fox News’s attack on the Oakland School District’s website, “Urban Dreams’, containing teacher created lesson plans on social justice… Full Transcript
The Hurricane
Kevin Cooper
The Hurricane by Kevin Cooper. Back in 2004 the state of California planned to torture and to murder me in cold blood, to execute me. Mr. Rupert “Hurricane” Carter, upon a request from my attorneys… Full Transcript
U.S. Department of Justice Downplays Institutional Racism at Shelby County Juvenile Court
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“United States Department of Justice Downplays Institutional Racism at Shelby County Juvenile Court” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. The Department of Justice conducted a five year investigation on the juvenile court of Memphis and Shelby County,… Full Transcript
When Children Are The Enemy
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I’ve been watching for days now as media reports display the growing hatreds at the arrival of Central American children across the Mexican border. American voices crackle with bile as they begin to drum beat… Full Transcript
Slave of the State
Asar Akili Kamau Heru
This piece is entitled “Slave of the State.” [The] 13th Amendment the United States Constitution, Article One, reads as follows: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime where of the… Full Transcript
Capital
Safir Chuma Asafo
This piece is called “Capital” by Safir Chuma Asafo, reporting from Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Huntingdon. As the world turns on its axis, Spiraling backwards into a time and space Held captive by the agents of… Full Transcript
Interview with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox (2002)
Albert Woodfox
Noelle Hanrahan: Prison Radio conducted these rare and exclusive interviews with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three by phone from the Closed Cell Restriction Unit and the Camp J punishment unit at… Full Transcript
The Latest Outrage
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The recent trial of 47-year-old computer tech Michael Dunn, for the killing of teenager Jordan Davis and attempted murder of three other Black youth, is a fitting reminder of the real state of Black people… Full Transcript
A Greeting From Jaan Laaman to the Boston Community Church
Jaan Laaman
Hello, Boston. Let me send warm greetings and a revolutionary salute to all of you, activists, interested people, former political prisoners, comrades and friends, gathered here in Boston in Copley Square this evening. It’s been a… Full Transcript
Moratorium
Kevin Cooper
by Kevin Cooper. I am a poor African American, innocent man on death row in America. These are three very important matters that the United States Supreme Court doesn’t acknowledge when it comes to the… Full Transcript
Justifiable American Homicide
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. Justifiable American homicide, illegal lynching and murder of Black youth and the value of life in the Black ghetto cities all across America, in the… Full Transcript
Dennis
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, the world may seem to be at war with him, but it is not, for the media is hardly the world, and the world is hardly the media. It… Full Transcript
Color Blindness
Kevin Cooper
“Color Blindness,”by Kevin Cooper. Despite what certain people say and what many people actually believe, we do not live in a post racial society. This is especially true within America’s criminal justice system. What we… Full Transcript
To The Young Activists
Mumia Abu-Jamal
To my dear young brothers and sisters on the MOVE. As you listen in two cities, at the Asian Art Center in Philadelphia and [unclear] College in New York. Perhaps some of you feel powerless,… Full Transcript
Health For the People
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I propose to offer another perspective. What is public community health? I suggest it is the state whereby a collective of persons have a balanced, non antagonistic relationship with other human beings, the natural environment… Full Transcript
When we look at the America which seized land from Mexico and practically destroyed the American Indians, we charged genocide. There’s almost an endless list of those others, but they are all adds up to… Full Transcript