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Another Forum to Express Injustice
Khalil Bennet
On April 28, 2015, two prison guards and a sergeant brutally assaulted a Black prisoner. The immediate response was awry within seconds. Five guards were seriously injured, and many more were physically hurt. Roughly two… Full Transcript
19 Years of Torture and Counting
Lorenzo Cat Johnson
When I was illiterate to corruption in our judicial system, I believed that malicious prosecutions of innocent people only existed in movies and fiction books. That was until a crooked cop would change my life… Full Transcript
Execution in Oklahoma
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He tossed, he turned, he moaned, he burned. Clayton Lockett, on the death gurney of Oklahoma’s DOC, spoke words, struggled and reportedly kicked his legs for 43 minutes after a toxic cocktail was administered to… Full Transcript
The World’s Warden
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Some of us think of the issue of mass incarceration as a state problem, a national problem, or even a legal problem. The immense growth of the prison industrial complex is all of these things… Full Transcript
Herman Wallace: Revolutionary
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The long and tortured life of Herman Wallace, of the famed Angola 3, was meant to terrorize us, to stifle the resistance that flamed throughout the Black nation and many others across the country during… Full Transcript
Bombs Over Damascus
Mumia Abu-Jamal
President Barack Obama, long seen as an antiwar foil to the lunacy of the belligerent George W. Bush administration, has now almost completed his morphing into Bush three. With his war talk calling for the… Full Transcript
Solitary Confinement
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Solitary confinement, especially for extended terms, is quite literally soul death; for the state’s way of killing without killing. I’ve seen men mutilate themselves, cut their necks, their throats, all because the mind-killing boredom drove… 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
COINTELPROs Then and Now
Before Guantanamo, Was The Black Panthers (Version B)
Before Guantanamo, Was The Black Panthers (Version A)
Secret Imperial Prisons
Condoleezza’s Law (Version B)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
On a recent whirlwind tour of Europe, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addressed the hot button topic that has had the Europeans in an international tizzy; the transport and torture of U.S. captives on… Full Transcript
Condoleezza’s Law (Version A)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
On a recent whirlwind tour of Europe, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addressed the hot button topic that has had the Europeans in an international tizzy; the transport and torture of U.S. captives on… Full Transcript
The American Psychology Association recently issued a scathing report of the collusion between members of their organization and government torturers as a part of the War on Terror, begun under the second Bush administration. The… Full Transcript