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Sent: 9/23/2013 1:58:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Hi folks,
Here is a new commentary „America The Mad “ re mass shootings Mp3 (2:03 by Mumia Abu-Jamal. Recorded 9/20/2013
The Mp3 version has just been posted at: http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/america-mad-203-re-mass-shootings-mumia-abu-jamal 
Just posted at www.prisonradio.org
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[col. writ. 9/22/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
While the U.S. arms so-called rebels in Syria, it is replicating the efforts undertaken decades ago in Afghanistan, with the same predictable results.
These efforts of regime change, in addition to being violations of international law, are also doorways to blowback, for the madmen you unleash today, may turn on you tomorrow.
The U.S., born into a “new nation” (in Lincoln’s […]

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[col. writ. 9/19/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Here we are, once again.
It surprises no one, and seems as expected as seasonal change.
‘A massacre’  “Oh – only 12 dead? Thirteen with the shooter?’ ‘Uh-huh… Have you seen the leaves change color yet?”
We turn our minds to other things, and soon, we quietly shut the door behind us.
‘What a shame’, we mumble, as we move on.
Mental distress is […]

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[col. writ. 9/15/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
I watched the rhetorical run-up to war in Syria, with a sinking sense of fascination.
I wondered if the nation (or perhaps more aptly, the nation’s leaders), learned anything from the crippling debacle of Iraq.
Sadly, it seems not.
For, politicians love few things better than microphones, and the media, like whores, love few things better than servicing them, egging them on.
It’s […]

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[col. writ. 9/13/13 © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal 
As the U.S. embarks on its latest role as enforcer of International law (even as it avoids the United Nations), it does so from a position of profound weakness.
That’s not to say that the U.S. suffers from military weakness: far from it.
But in the realm of International law their weakness is hypocrisy; for any reader of history knows that […]

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[col. Writ. 9/11/13] ©’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
There are many men and several women, on Pennsylvania’s Death Row, but few are like ‘Shorty’.
‘Shorty’ – known to courts and counsel as James Denns –has been on Death Row for over 20 years.
For 20 long and terrible years, he has lied in a cell the size of an apartment bathroom, fighting for his freedom, his life and his very […]

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[col. writ. 9/8/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For Lorenzo ‘Cat’ Johnson, the last year, spent in prison, has been long, and torturous, for it came after almost 6 months in freedom, at home, with the woman and family he loves.
It came after the Supreme Court, in a dismissive per curlam unchallenged, unsigned opinion, reversed his order of freedom from the majority of a 3-judge panel of […]

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[col. writ. 9/6/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
On Saturday, Sept. 7th, Hip Hop Icon Chuck D of the monster rap group, Public Enemy, received an award that could not be better matched.
Chuck became the latest recipient of the Paul Robeson “Here I Stand” award, named for the trail-blazing, multi-talented, outspoken actor, singer, activist and anti-imperialist, Paul Robeson.
It couldn’t be granted to a better guy, or a […]

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[col. writ. 9/4/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Kelvin X. Morris has spent the bulk of his life on Death Row.
Today, he is free.
But, he assured me, it has been a long walk to freedom.
Convicted in 1983 of the 1980 killing of a Philadelphia store owner, he was arrested despite eyewitness testimony which identified his brother, Artie. When Artie’s wife provided an alibi, police chose Kelvin.
Kelvin’s trial […]

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[col. writ. 9/1/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
President Barack Obama, long seen as an anti-war foil to the lunacy of the belligerent George W. Bush administration, has now almost completed his morphing into Bush III.
With his war talk calling for the bombing of Syria, he has relied upon international law as the rationale, at the same time deprecating the role of the United Nations (UN).  This, […]

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[col. writ. 8/29/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Several years ago, the global human rights group, Amnesty International, issued an extraordinary appeal to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, to grant compassionate release to 72-year-old former Black Panther and political prisoner, Herman Wallace, who has recently been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, after losing some 50 pounds in less than 6 months.
Wallace is one of 2 remaining imprisoned members […]

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It is my view, after considerable reflection, that we, all of us: Black, white; male, female; gay, straight, bi or tri –; Hispanic, Pacific Islander, African born – of whatever complex human stew, dwell in Dubois Country.
Why do I say this?
Because William Edward Burghardt  DuBois, undoubtedly the premier Black scholar-activist of the 20th century, with the sheer power of his brilliance, and his advocacy, shaped […]

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[col. writ. 8/25/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
They came.  They saw. They praised.
It was far from exhilarating to see the recent 50th anniversary march of the 1963 March on Washington.  In all honesty, it was depressing. For it reminds us of the original march, which was on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a reminder of yet another dream unfulfilled.
Here, they praised political figures, […]

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[col. Writ. 8/21/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Soon, TV screens, newspaper pages and radio stations will replay, reprint and rebroadcast dark, grainy black and while film, photos and audiotape of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech – his “I Have a Dream” speech – in a hypocritical celebration of the 50 years since that fateful day in 1963, in Washington, D.C
I’m always troubled at such occasions, […]

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Mexican and international supporters of the Mayan-led Zapatista movement are returning from the indigenous villages where they spent the past week participating in an initiative known as the Escuelita, or “Little School.“ The purpose of the school was to share insights and methods about the Zapatista’s autonomous government. The Zapatistas sent special invitations to a short list of distinguished guests, among them imprisoned […]

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