Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commentaries recorded August 16, 1993 on death row at Huntingdon State Prison, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and on October 31, 1996 on death row at State Correctionnal Institute at Greene in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
36. South Africa
35. John Edgar Wideman Speaks
My name is John Edgar Wideman. There is a kind of glory in the struggle. I was lucky enough to be in South Africa when Mandela- the day he was released, and I heard him… Full Transcript
34. Its Not Nice To Fool With Mother Nature
You were taught that you control nature. Remember how water seems pent it and trapped till the dam breaks and crumbles and dies like its maker. To blockade life’s plan is cruel, fatal, blind, deadly… Full Transcript
33. Judi Bari Speaks
Mujah Shakir: Talk about rebellious, I’d like to bring up Judi Bari. Judi is an environmental activist with Earth First! Judi Bari: One of the things that Mumia has overcome is the incredible dehumanization as… Full Transcript
Blackmun Bows Out Of Death Game
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court Senior Justice, who recently announced his retirement, has finally held as a matter of constitutional law, that the death penalty as currently administered, is unconstitutional. Blackmun,… Full Transcript
31. Manning Marable Speaks
Sweet Roxanne
For her people, this tiny, fiery, coffee colored woman was a legend. Welfare mother, welfare activist, militant Chairwoman of the Philadelphia chapter of Welfare Rights Organization, and then with her hard work and iron will,… Full Transcript
29. Assata Shakur Speaks
28. No Laws, No Rights
A federal civil rights trial in Philadelphia charging seven former Graterford prison guards with violating the civil rights of a number of prisoners by severely beating them while they were shackled and cuffed hand and… Full Transcript
27. Justice Bruce Wright Speaks
I am Justice Bruce Wright, retired state Supreme Court justice here in New York. And all too often law has little or nothing to do with justice, and “Law and Order” is the cry heard… Full Transcript
26. De Profundis
“De Profundis”: One is amazed, and even astonished, to consider those millions who today claim spiritual lineage from a being called Christ. For if one were from outer space, and able to view life on… Full Transcript
25. Robert Meeropol Speaks
This is Robert Meeropol. I am the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, and also the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed by the government of the United States… Full Transcript
NAFTA: A Pact Made In Hell (1998)
Much has been said and written on NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. As the economy lurches into recession after recession, some are selling NAFTA as the be all, end all, a solution to… Full Transcript
23. Martin Sheen Speaks
Seeds of Wisdom
“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
Juan Gonzalez Speaks
Noelle Hanrahan: Juan Gonzalez was a member of the Young Lords. In the 1980s, as a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, he worked the same streets and stories as Mumia Abu-Jamal. He was his… Full Transcript
May 13 Remembered Part 2
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
19. Ramona Africa Speaks
18. Acting Like Life’s A Ballgame
Read by Willam Kunstler When I hear politicians bellow about getting rough on crime and barking out, “Three strikes, you’re out!” several images come to mind. I think of how quickly the tune changes when… Full Transcript
17. William Kunstler Introduction
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
16. Mother Loss
Relatively tall, mountainous cheek bones, dimples like donuts and skin the color of Indian corn. She left life in the South for what was then the promised land up North. Although she lived, loved, raised… Full Transcript
15. Alice Walker Speaks
14. The Rap Thing
13. Dr. Joycelyn Elders – Speaks
Howard Zinn Speaks
This is Howard Zinn. Slavery is back. In fact, it was never abolished. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, except in prison. At the current rate of incarceration, by the… Full Transcript
Death Penalty: The Poor’s Perogative
That’s what capital punishment really means. “Those that ain’t got the capital gets the punishment,” is the old saying. Once again, we see the inherent truths that lie in the proverbs of the poor. That… Full Transcript
When Ineffective Means Effective
In a case known as Strickland v. Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court drastically narrowed the range of challenges to the effectiveness and competence of counsel at criminal trials. The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution… Full Transcript
9. Sister Helen Prejean – Speaks
8. True African American History
7. Ronald Hampton – Speaks
6. Media is Mirage
5. Cornel West – Speak
This is Cornel West. Will we ever listen to and learn from our bloodstained prophets? After over 15 years of nightmarish jail conditions, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s soul is not only intact, but still flourishing, just as… Full Transcript
South Africa, the beautiful yet haunted land of racist repression most vile, has marched past its Western neighbor the United States. As its highest court, the 11 member Constitutional Court, found the death penalty as… Full Transcript