Mumia Abu-Jamal: What’s up, brother?
Speaker 1: Holding it down, bro.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: What’s happening?
Speaker 1: Not much, not much. We got three minutes left. I’m wondering, we’re trying to put out a couple albums together with Native Youth Movement Warriors Society. Wondering if you can give me a couple sound bites.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: About?
Speaker 1: Get the word out.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Big up’s to Maya. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal. How’s that?
Speaker 1: That’s good.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: War club, ride or die. Red revolution and Black revolution against racist America. Still rumbling, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal. How’s that? Native Youth Movement, the descendants of the Seminoles, of Red Cloud. Still rumbling for freedom in a land of unfreedom, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Speaker 1: Hey, bro, we got some other warriors here. They’re gonna talk to you.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: All right, bro.
Speaker 2: Mumia, our prayers are with you. You know–
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Thank you, sister.
Speaker 2: Our prayers are with the earth and …
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Thank you, sister.
Speaker 2: We, you know our spirit, the resistance, you know, like it will live on. And you know, sending our love and our prayers with you.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Thank you, sister.
Speaker 2: Okay, I am gonna pass on…
Facility Automated voice: You have one minute left to talk.
Nick: Hello, Mumia?
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Yes, sir.
Nick: It is an honor to talk to you and to speak with you.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: And you.
Nick: It is an honor. My name is Nick.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Nick?
Nick: Yes.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Okay, brother
Nick: Hey.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: You sound like you’re rolling with a good crew.
Nick: Yes, yes, yes. Native Youth Movement.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: That’s, hey, man. That’s, it’s good to hear.
Nick: I’m an Aztec dancer, and when I dance, I don’t dance with shoes, and I dance on concrete for hours, and I bleed.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Wow.
Nick: So that’s my offering, a little piece of me that I give back to the creator and to life and for this cause. So here’s another, here’s another sister, right here.
Facility Automated voice: You have 15 seconds left to talk.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Hello, sister.
Sochi: Hey.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: How are you?
Sochi: Good. My name is Sochi and I’m , I’m 16 years old, and I’m part of the Native Youth Movement. I just wanted to send out our prayers for you and stay strong in your spirits. Always free, brother.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.