May 13 Remembered Part 2
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has been eight years now since the massacre; eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue; eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole 11 human lives; eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
17. William Kunstler Introduction
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Emcee: William Kunstler is a longtime civil rights activist. He has long been active in First Amendment and civil rights cases. William Kunstler: Before I read my portion, I just want to indicate a couple… Full Transcript
May 13
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has been eight years now since the massacre, eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue, eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole eleven human lives, eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
Black August
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political prisoners, for people. He showed the love, the strength, the revolutionary fervor that’s characteristic of any soldier for the people. He inspired prisoners… Full Transcript
Justice Stolen From Star Chamber
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“That justice is a blind Goddess, is a thing to which we Blacks are wise. Her bandage hides two festering sores that once perhaps were eyes.” Poem called “Justice” by Langston Hughes. Elmer Geronimo Pratt… Full Transcript
With Malice Towards Many
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The brutal police bludgeoning of Black Detroit father Malice Green has illustrated the battle lines of the so called “War on Drugs” could more accurately be drawn around a war on Blacks. Published reports surfacing… Full Transcript
Absence of Power
Mumia Abu-Jamal
A woman working to feed the homeless gets involved in a confrontation with transit cops down on a major metropolitan subway. She’s accosted, manhandled, thrown to the ground, and held under restraint. Another woman has… Full Transcript
Black March To Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Every day in America, the trek continues, a Black march to death row. In Pennsylvania, where Afro-Americans constitute 9% of the population, well over 60% of its death row inhabitants are Black. Across the nation,… Full Transcript
LA Outlaw
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The federal trial of four Los Angeles cops, forced by the public orgy of rebellion and rage, which rocked the city a year before in response to acquittal stemming from the brutal Rodney King beating,… Full Transcript
A House is Not A Home
Mumia Abu-Jamal
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee brown features, as if set in obsidian, as if a mask, barely perceptible; the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by… Full Transcript
Live From Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal
1 Live From Death Row, Part 1 A lifetime may pass without an individual having been personally addressed by government. For millions, government is a remote venture conducted by quasi representatives in their name, with… Full Transcript
Judi Bari: Revolutionary Ecology
AMERICA’S SECRET POLICE: FBI COINTELPRO in the 1990s (This report was written by Noelle Hanrahan in association with the Redwood Summer Justice Project, which pursues Judi Bari’s and Darryl Cherney’s civil rights case against the… Full Transcript
“30 to 100 years, no more! Free move now! Open up the door!,” a marchers chant. To hear news accounts their numbers weren’t impressive, with less than 50 marchers participating in a May 13, 1993… Full Transcript