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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
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
There is a Storm a’Comin’
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Hello. My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. I am calling from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, a prison located in southern Indiana. I am presenting one of my personal pieces, “There… Full Transcript
Women’s March
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Let’s face it. President Trump’s entire presidential election campaign was so mysogynistic, sexist, anti-choice, and anti-women’s rights, that women of America had no other option but to fight back against what can only be called… Full Transcript
Mumia’s Note in Support of Prison Radio
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I call tonight to just state that we have to understand that this is a new stage in history. That’s why we need Abolitionists Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and Prison Radio. You ever think… Full Transcript
Please Sign My Change.org Petition
Christopher “Naeem” Trotter
My name is Christopher Trotter. I’m 54 years old. I’m serving 142 years for participating in a prison riot in 1985 at the Indiana State Reformatory in which no one was killed. You can go… Full Transcript
White Supremacist Controlling the White House
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
America is facing dire straits ahead. Donald J. Trump is now President-Elect, the Republicans have won the majority in the House and Senate, the majority of Governors are Republicans, Trump’s Cabinet positions are being filled… Full Transcript
Class War Gone Wild
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Class war gone wild. One way of looking at American politics is through the lens of class, an area that is generally regarded as impolite, a subject that good people don’t discuss. It’s because it’s… 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
The Art of Political Activism
Note We Want Freedom #5
Message in French for A la fête de l’Humanité
Message in English for A la fête de l’Humanité
Black August 2004
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was a sweaty, steaming night in August, when a group of African captives gathered in the forests of Marne Rouge, in Le Cap, San Domingue. It was August, 1791. Among these men was a… Full Transcript
Black August 2003
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black August has many markers throughout the long history of resistance in the Americas. There are more than we could ever recount here. But here are a few that are important and undeniable events that… Full Transcript
From In Here
Kenneth Hartman
Sometimes, after 36 years imprisoned, the view from in here is shrouded in mists of confusion and despair. Violence and death, repression and resistance, and the growing recognition there are fundamental issues still unresolved after… Full Transcript
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