Mumias Columns & Prison Radio comments

[col. writ. 10/25/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
From the first arrival of Africans on the shores and islands of the Americas as captives, music, and often acapella (or without instrumentation) became the central tool of communication.
Chained together like two-legged cattle, under the fierce gaze of gun-toting guards (called ‘overseers’), working from sun-up to sun-down, only the songs of those among us kept us alive in mind […]

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[Speech/NLG: 10/21/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Greetings to Members and Delegates of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) IN San Juan, Puerto Rico for the Law for the People Convention.
As I thought about this event, I could not avoid thinking of the status of Puerto Ricans as part of the American empire.
Puerto Ricans are, of course, American citizens by birth, but what kind of citizens? By U.S. […]

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[col. writ. 10/20/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Several days ago, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Philadelphia, delivered a shocking decision in the continuing case of Lorenzo Johnson, the New Yorker recently released from 17 years in prison after the very same court found the evidence was insufficient to uphold a conviction.

Lorenzo (known by family and friends as Cat), spent just over 4 […]

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Hi Folks,

Here is a new commentary „The Walking Death“ (2:28) re Juveniles sentenced to life in prison  Mp3 by Mumia Abu-Jamal. 

 http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/walking-dead-re-juveniles-doing-life-230-mumia-abu-jamal
 

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[col. writ. 10/18/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

For most in prison, media doesn’t mean what it means to millions of media consumers.

They read the newspapers, yes; and some watch TV; but what they read and see is something far different than others, for their voices, their perspectives are often missing from the tales told therein.

Except for small newsletters, such as Graterfriends or the Leon Williams Journal, […]

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[col. writ. 10\13\13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
As the clock ticks down toward the looming debt ceiling, and the federal government shutdown, the parties stare at each other like adversaries across an abyss.

For they are at war with each other for political primacy: who will prevail?
China’s revolutionary leader, Mao
Ze-Dong, once wrote that “Politics is war without bloodshed.”
That may be so, but I, like any other war, […]

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[speech writ. 10/10/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Buenos Dias, Juan—

The subject of the radical press arises always in times of social discontent, when the acquiescence of the straight media forces people to seek alternative sources of information.

During the 1960s, millions of people, tired of the supine slavishness of the systematic press, turned to alternatives like the Berkeley Barb of California’s Bay Area, to the Phoenix of […]

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[col. writ. 10/10/13] © ’13 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 Black America (and many others across the country) during the ‘60s and ‘70s.
 If so, it failed utterly.

For Herman Wallace, former Black Panther, despite the monstrous torture he sustained of 41 years in the hole […]

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[col. writ. 10/8/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Herman Wallace, the former Black Panther and former political prisoner in the abominable Angola Prison in Louisiana, has returned to his ancestors.

Wallace, one of three men called the “Angola 3”, was freed just days ago after 41 years in the hole – one of the longest terms ever spent in solitary on earth.

He gained his freedom after a federal […]

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[col. writ.10/4/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

A young mother, her infant quietly snoozing in the back seat, drives a car down Pennsylvania Ave., in Washington, DC, where she meets a forest of barricades, and, seconds later, over half a dozen cops, pistols drawn, shouting, and pointing guns at her.

Perhaps she panics, and follows her instincts; she puts the car in reverse, rolls back a few feet, […]

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[col. writ. 9/30/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

When unpopular politicians set the stage for a government shutdown, there is a method to the madness: by hook or crook, they are the architects of austerity.

This strategy shreds any remnants of trust in the competence and ability of government, and sells the ludicrous notion that the private sector is the solution to societal problems.

These forces have prevailed in […]

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[col. writ. 9/27/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

When October 8th rolls around, people’s attorney, Lynne Stewart, will have reached her 74th year of life.

That she reaches it behind bars in one of the most backward states of the Union (Texas), is a mark of both her extraordinary work as a lawyer, and of the weakness of our Movements.
For Lynne should never have been jailed for what […]

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[col. writ. 9/23/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For the last decade, at least, we have seen the absolute attack on teachers, on their integrity, their devotion to their profession, and their supposed betrayal of their – our – children.
The attack comes from politicians, corporate media, and the greedy economic forces seeking to privatize the realm of public education.
This is not just a national problem; it is […]

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