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Champagne Song Reads Rebecca Morgan’s “K(no)w
Champagne Song
This is Champagne Song from solitary confinement. Please visit prairielanddefendants.com. This poem is “No,” by Rebecca Morgan, my friend and co-defendant. Please write them a letter. K(no)w What does it mean to always have a… Full Transcript
Letter to the Movement
Jakhi Isaiah
It has been one month since the NYPD and the U.S. government came after me, accusing me of setting fire to police vehicles belonging to the 83rd precinct in Brooklyn. According to them, $800,000 worth… Full Transcript
Palestine Amid Imperial Colonial War
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia was participating in a conference entitled “From Partition to Solidarity” held on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025 at the behest of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. Mumia Abu-Jamal: I greet you all, especially sister Rabab, who invited… Full Transcript
Wonder & Resistance: Troops in the Streets
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When we think of moments such as these, you know, troops in the street, armed, you know, standing around, looking at citizens with grimaces on their faces under their masks, I actually think of Kent… Full Transcript
Frantz Fanon, 100 Years
Mumia Abu-Jamal
We have lived and seen the passing of a century. The life of Frantz Fanon, also known as Omar in his Algerian life. This remarkable intellectual, this truly world-changing figure, this man of many personalities… Full Transcript
Still Standing
Faluch Bigsby
Hello. How are y’all doing out there? This is Faluch Bigsby, the author of God Uses Gangsters. I’m still standing. I want to talk to you guys about God and how God can make everything… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks at Birthday Celebration
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Hey, hey, hey! Mumia Abu-Jamal: Hey, hey, hey! [cheers and applause from the crowd. Mumia laughing.] Mumia Abu-Jamal: Hey. How you all doing? Unidentified speaker: Happy Birthday, Mumia! Mumia Abu-Jamal: How you all doing?… Full Transcript
“If I Must Die” Palestine Poet Refaat Alareer Presente
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rafeef Ziadah – “We Teach Life, Sir” “SI DEBO MORIR”. POETA PALESTINO REFAAT ALAREER ¡PRESENTE! En Español (English translation below) Por Mumia Abu-Jamal En las primeras décadas del Siglo XX, miles de mujeres y hombres Negros… Full Transcript
Hunger Strike Announcement on Voices From the Frontline
Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar)
Intro Music (Nina Simome): Here comes the sun, little darling. Here comes the sun. I say, it’s all right. It’s all right. Julian Lamb: Good morning, Voices listeners. You’re at 90.7 FM KPFK. This is Julian… Full Transcript
Black August
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
This is Comrade Pitt, Peter Kamau Mukuria, over in Red Onion State Prison in the state of Virginia. This commentary is titled “Black August,” commemorating the life and work of George Jackson—long live the dragon.… Full Transcript
Standing Rock
Spoon Jackson
Standing Rock. Bitter powers, government run, you are not going to shake me. You are not going to break me. What you do won’t make me. I stand with the birth of the land. I… Full Transcript
An Evening of Freedom: Straight Out Scribes
The voices you hear reciting this work are those of Dr. V. S. Chochezi and Staajabu, of Straight Out Scribes. Moderator: (Audience applauding and cheering) Let’s give a welcome to Straight Out Scribes. Dr V.… Full Transcript
An Evening of Freedom: Alice Walker
Alice Walker: (Applause) I grew up in Georgia, and you kind of had to be active to get out of there, at the time. Anyway, I’m so happy to see you. It’s really wonderful to… Full Transcript
Alice Walker Speaks
Alice Walker: (Applause) I grew up in Georgia, and you kind of had to be active to get out of there, at the time. Anyway, I’m so happy to see you. It’s really wonderful to… 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
Message from Mexico’s Indigenous Mountains
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Message from Mexico’s indigenous mountains.” This is an old story, not only because it occurred over a decade and a half ago, around 2003, but because it involves descendants of an ancient people, the indigenous… Full Transcript
Dennis Banks
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, two names emerged from the Native American and Indigenous community that stood for resistance to white repression and assaults on Native life: Russell Means and Dennis Banks. They… Full Transcript
Message for Lynne Stewart Event
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Long live John Africa. On the MOVE, y’all. I greet you all from slow death row. We join you today in memory of Lynne Stewart Esq., a people’s lawyer in the finest tradition of that… Full Transcript
Educated in Hell, The Imprisonment of Lorenzo Cat Johnson
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Educated in Hell: The Imprisonment of Lorenzo Cat Johnson.” He was barely 20 when he was in prison by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, sent to prison on a trumped-up murder charge, sentenced to life on… Full Transcript
To my friends Mike Stark, Kenny Collins, Stanley Howard, Marlene Martin, and Elisabeth T., part of Live After Death Row. I always look to the ancestors, the old ones who came before us, who lived… Full Transcript