Mumias Columns & Prison Radio comments

[mem. Writ. 12/18/12] ©’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal new
 Unless you lived in North Philly, in the projects east of Richard Allen, and north of Spring Garden, perhaps the name of Ruth ‘Ma’ Ballard would be unfamiliar to you.
But if you lived there; if you had the pleasure of knowing her, of seeing her smile, of hearing her sweet southern voice, you’d know that you’ve met someone special.
Children of […]

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[col. writ. 12/11/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Form every TV and radio news broadcast, the words, ‘fiscal cliff’ are being mentioned, in a tone and frequency of dread and fear.
Listeners, viewers and readers can sense the dread and faux fear, but little clarity arises from the dust.
What is the fiscal cliff?
It is a political creation – made by Congress itself, as a self- made rule to […]

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[col. writ. 12/9/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 It is possible now to live in a major American city, which boasts of a Black mayor, a Black police chief, and a Black president of a local legislative body, say, a city council, or county commission.
 That’s largely because of Black population concentrations in urban districts, and their utilization of their voting power.
 It is also possible to live in […]

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[col. writ. 12/5/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Friends, comrades, Brothas & Sistas—
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We are at a new phase of this struggle; due to your work, I am no longer on Death Row; I am on ‘slow death row.’
A new place, yes – but, more importantly, a new phase of the struggle for freedom.
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The challenge before us is not to say that which is easy to say; it […]

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[col. writ. 11/30/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Just days after U.S. made Israeli F-16’s bombed homes and buildings in Gaza, verbal bombs have been launched at the West Bank – Palestine’s other half – for daring to go to the UN to try to gain a stepping stone to statehood.
 The Palestinian political representatives from the West Bank, including former PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) head, Mahmoud Abbas, […]

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[bk. Rev. writ. 11/25/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 If Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, had done nothing else, his trilogy, beginning with his best- selling Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis, would’ve cemented his reputation as an incisive and outstanding critic of American Empire, and one who longed for the return of the U.S. Republic.
 His last work, Dismantling the Empire, (Metropolitan […]

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[col. writ. 11/23/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The elections (thank goodness!) are over, and a vast sigh of relief has engulfed millions, that the man of their choice has prevailed, and perhaps more importantly, the man they opposed – the man they feared –lost.
 As several days have passed, new questions arise, which beg answers.
 If you feel you’ve won, what have you won?
 How does your victory transform […]

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[col. writ. 11\17\12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Once again,Israelis in a rage, bombing a weaker Arab neighbor, one that would be hard pressed to face the most powerful armed force in theMiddle East.
And once again, theU.S.playing the unconvincing role of neutrality, arms and shields one side- using the dual weapons of war and words –to batter and pummel the other.
In the American mind, especially after 9/11, […]

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[col. writ. 11/9/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
  The re-election of Barack Obama means many things; many things to different constituencies.
For Republicans, it means a slap in their faces; a shock of immense dimensions.
 For Latinos, it is confirmation of their growing clout, and the perils of dissing such a community.
Ultimately, however, is the question of who should manage the empire; whose face would front the machine of […]

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[col. writ. 11/7/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 The 2012 election was a masterpiece in the role of money versus real issues in the future of the United States.
 According to some accounts, over 6 billion dollars in ad buys flushed through the media system. And while it was like Christmas in newsrooms, in radio stations and TV accounting rooms, the glut of advertising was mind-numbing.
 In truth, this […]

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[col. writ. 11/2/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 For decades, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) has been the focus of fear.
Fear because the agency, which years ago recruited heavily from the South, had people on staff that used their office to further their hatreds of Blacks in a long and bitter habit of repression and violence.
For a brief time, the Black Panther Party put a crimp into […]

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[col. writ. 10/31/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 There are times, like these, when the matchless power of nature enters our lives and renders us mute.
Hurricane Sandy did this.
“Super-Storm”; “Frankenstorm”, said clever headline hunters, but words are puny replies to the power of nature.
She smacked the East Coast, churning waters into waves of tremendous destructive power, moving man-made structures aside as easily as a child moves Lego© […]

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[col. writ.] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Sometimes, I’m shocked by the youth of some of the young men around me.
I’ve met guys who have never heard of Chuck D., Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. When I mention names like these, I can tell by their blank stares that they have absolutely no idea who these great musicians are – or were.
It’s impossible to talk […]

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