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Mumia Interview about Zapatista Escuelita with Free Speech Radio News/FSRN

Mumia Abu-Jamal

FSRN: Mexican and international supporters of the Mayan-led Zapatista movement are returning from the indigenous villages where they spent the past week participating in an initiative known as The Escuelita, or Little School. The purpose… Full Transcript

The Wages of Solitary

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The story is quite recent, and therefore much is not known. A state prison system commissioner opens his front door and is greeted by flame and bullets. A grieving governor laments the killing of his… Full Transcript

The Man Called Robert Byrd (Version B)

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The longest serving member of the U.S. Senate would have been a title cherished by Robert Carlyle Byrd, who became, among other things, an historian. Byrd’s beginnings were from the white Southern poor, and he… Full Transcript

The Man Called Robert C. Byrd (Version A)

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, would have been a title cherished by Robert Carlyle Byrd, who became, among other things, an historian. Byrd’s beginnings were from the white Southern poor, and he… Full Transcript

Ticking Time Bombs

Mumia Abu-Jamal

For many, the very mention of bombs puts one in mind of attacks by terrorists. Although, in fact, the most well-known such attack, 9/11, wasn’t a bombing at all, but a plane hijacking used to… Full Transcript

The Politics of Rehab

Dortell Williams

 This is Dortell Williams with a prisoner’s perspective called “The Politics of Rehab.” Here we go again with the politics of rehabilitation and fear. It’s Willie Horton all over again. Willie Horton was a life… Full Transcript