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[col. writ. 1\10\14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The name, Amiri Baraka, has been known to me since my teens, when I was a member of the Black Panther Party.
 His name was often linked with that of Dr. Maulana Karenga (credited with founding Kwanzaa) of the LA based US Organization, which began as competition with the LA Black Panthers for influence in Black LA, and devolved […]

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[col. writ. 1/19/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal

His name is on millions of lips, in dozens of countries.
His image, youthful, strong and handsome, radiates from thousands of walls, in Black communities across the country – and beyond.
 His voice, confident, learned, softly couched in the accents and rhythms of the South, and is instantly recognized, as among the finest orators of the 20th century.
I write, of course, […]

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[col. writ. 1/17/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 When an American President announces a speech on his intelligence agencies, eyes and ears tune in.
That’s especially since the (Edward) Snowden revelations, of NSA (National Security Agency) dishes receiving billions – billions! – of bits of information from Americans, foreigners – everybody.
 But that President, smart, smooth as Chinese silk, handsome, took the mike to try to calm the storm, […]

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Rodman leads a team that includes former NBA All-Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson, and Vin Baker. Craig Hodges, Doug Christie and Charles D. Smith are on the team, as well. They will play against a top North Korean Senior National team on Wednesday, marking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday.
Rodman is the highest profile American to meet Kim since the leader inherited power […]

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[col. writ. 1/8/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 On April 10, 2012, a raid began at the Pennsylvania prison at Dallas.  The raid was the targeting of men who filed complaints with the Human Rights Coalition and in federal courts.
 Several of the men, some of whom did file such complaints, anticipating violence against them, used their bed sheets to seal their cells, and refused to come out, […]

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Lynne has been granted compassionate release and is on her way home!
Stewart vertrat von 1994 an den blinden Kleriker Umar Abd ar-Rahman, der 1995 wegen aufrührerischer Verschwörung (seditious conspiracy) und Terrorismus zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt wurde. Da durch den Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act die Verschwiegenheitspflicht für Rechtsanwälte in Terrorprozessen aufgehoben wurde, konnte von Geheimdienstseite die Kommunikation zwischen Anwalt und Mandanten abgehört werden. Durch den […]

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[Speech writ. 1/3/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal

We meet today in the vast shadow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that is fitting for much like his contemporary, Min. Malcolm X, he had the capacity to grow beyond his social, cultural, religious and even class programming.
 But before we go deep, it is fitting that we thank Dr Tanisha Ford and Dr Hakima Abbas, […]

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http://sfbayview.com/2014/other-brothers-in-angola/

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[col. writ. 12/29/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 For weeks, since the transition of Dr. Nelson R. Mandela, I have wanted to craft some words about Winnie Madilizela-Mandela (b. Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela), the second wife of Nelson.
 Although her role has been downplayed in the present corporate press, this is an abuse of history, for, were it not for her long and stalwart struggle to keep Nelson’s name […]

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http://www.jungewelt.de/2013/12-28/031.php

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[col. writ. 12/23/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Recently, workers in national restaurant chains held minimum wage protests across the country in something like 100 cities. They were immediately set upon by the corporate media, their attack dogs snarling for their masters, and nipping at their heels for daring to demand a living wage.

For many people, it was a revelation, for workers in most restaurants are un-unionized, […]

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 Long before the name, Edward Snowden became known, the National Security Agency (NSA) was involved in warrantless wiretapping and eavesdropping on people all around the world; and yes, even Americans.
 This was known and done repeatedly before Barack Obama assumed the presidency, and at the highest levels of government.
 In the 2008 book, The Shadow Factory, by national security reporter James Bamford, he tells how the […]

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[col. writ. 12/18/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

An Indian diplomat, Dr. Devyani Khobragede, charged with filing false employment records for her housekeeper, is arrested, hauled into a U.S. Marshal’s office, strip-searched and subsequently released.

In India, the event raises quite a ruckus, and Indian nationalists express outrage, amid calls for diplomatic retaliation against the Americans.

In reminds us of the imprisonment and perp walk of French politician (and […]

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 [col.writ. 12/14/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal

 Once again, a child goes to school, armed to kill, with no expectation to return home – ever.
 It happened again in Colorado. That’s right, Colorado, where the Columbine School Massacre left 15 bodies on the floor in 1999.
 A teenager bum-rushes the school, reportedly aiming for a teacher.  The teacher, forewarned, splits the scene. A frustrated teen blasts a fellow […]

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