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Guidance & Naima
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
This is Sheik Bilal Abdul-Salaam Bey at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, KS. This is a poem called “Guidance,” using my revolutionary poetry name TRIP, also known as True Revolutionary In Power. I came… Full Transcript
On Juneteenth
Christopher “Naeem” Trotter
This is Chris Trotter, live from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility inside the belly of the beast. And, um, I feel good today. Uh, we’re celebrating Juneteenth, uh it’s the federal holiday, uh, and it marks… Full Transcript
Born On The Move
Boom! That’s the sound of a hydraulic cherry picker smashing through the side of a house. A house filled with men, women, children, and animals. (Imitates automatic rifle gunshot sounds.) Gunshots firing. Hundreds of rounds… Full Transcript
Linking Movements
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Linking Movements and Daring to Be Free” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. What does the Black Lives Matter, immigration movement, J20 protesters, Poor People’s Campaign, and Occupy movement have in common? Their commonality is that the… Full Transcript
Bandung Speech Paris France
Mumia Abu-Jamal
No parent ever mentioned Bandung to me. No teacher ever mentioned Bandung to me. No religious leader has ever mentioned Bandung to me. No one has, unless one recalls the voice of Malcolm X, the… Full Transcript
Murder Inc Excerpts: The American Revolution
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Hello. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal, and I’m here to introduce you to Murder Incorporated, a new book on anti-imperial history written by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. This is volume one, and from chapter six,… Full Transcript
Thank You Sisters!
Youth In The Streets
Mumia Abu-Jamal
On a MOVE. Before you begin, let me ask the question: have you ever looked at children at play? First, you observe their total concentration with an intensity that is all-consuming. Second, you notice their… Full Transcript
Call to Action Iman Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
“The magic of black music.” As the deaths of two musicians recently demonstrates, black music is an art form that radiates freedom, and that radiation flows around the world. The death of Sharon Jones, lead… Full Transcript
El Comadante Fidel Castro, Presidente
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, the iconic revolutionary leader, beloved by many and hated by few, has passed away Friday (11-25-2016) at the ripe old age of 90 in his homeland of Cuba. The news… 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
Fidel 1926-2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fidel Castro, 1926 to 2016. Viva Fidel. Fidel Castro, father of the 1959 Cuban revolution, has died after 90 years of a life of rebellion and resistance. That this bold revolutionary figure lived as long… Full Transcript
The Art of Political Activism
Weber’s Spirit and the Spirit of Revolution
Interview with Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Message in French for A la fête de l’Humanité
Message in English for A la fête de l’Humanité
Running Down the Walls 2016
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
The Wisdom of Frantz Fanon. His name was Frantz Fanon, born in Martinique, in the West Indies, 1925. At the time of his death 36 years later, his words would inspire freedom movements around the… Full Transcript