Mumia Abu Jamal

 [col. writ. 10/19/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Look at the United States.
Really. Look at it.
From North to South; East to West; from ‘sea to shining sea’, and you’ll see the frenzy of fear.
Fear of Ebola. Fear of ISIS. Fear of ‘crime’.
Fear of — fear.
The reason?
Well, fear sells. It sells papers, attracts viewers, and pulls listeners.
The national media is a virtual fear industry.
There used to be […]

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(col. writ. 10/16/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
We have learned, recently, of the closing of the Morales-Shakur Student Center at the City College of New York. (CCNY)
What does this mean? Why now?
What we are seeing is the war against the ‘60s – a war against the Movements of that era – and a war against history itself.
For the present era of leaders want to white-wash […]

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[col. writ. 10/15/14] (C) ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 With the death of Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan shortly after his arrival from Liberia, West Africa, the Ebola crisis has burst onto millions of news screens, generating deep levels of fear and xenophobia.
To be sure, Ebola is a serious health concern, for it has a 70% mortality rate (the African term, ‘Ebola’, named for a river in Congo […]

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 [col. writ. 10/13/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 The name of Troy Davis is known to most of us, largely because of media coverage.
But the details of his epic struggle, and the denial of the courts (state and federal) to seriously hear his claims are a lot lesser known.
Now, a recent book on the case, entitled, “I Am Troy Davis”, focuses on the Davis family, and […]

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[col. writ. 10/7/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal

 
At first glance, the communities of Ferguson, in Missouri, and of Gaza, in the Israeli Occupied Territories, share virtually nothing in common.
One is situated in the richest country on earth.  The other sits on ancient lands, lands that are constantly shrinking under the Occupation.
 One is predominantly African-American; the other is populated by Palestinian Arabs.
 One is ostensibly free; the other is […]

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10/4/14,  received at 10/9 / 14
 Dear Fellow Goddard-ites, Students, Graduates, Parents, Professors:
I thank you for your kind invitation to join you in voice today.  I’ve been away from Goddard College perhaps longer than most of you have been alive.
I last walked on campus during the late 70’s.  But although it was undoubtedly quite a long time ago, it still sits in memory, and sometimes even […]

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[col. writ. 10/5/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Goddard College, which began as a seminary, has stood in the shadows of Vermont’s mountains for the better part of a century.
Its bucolic surroundings lend it the air of serenity, the cool quiet of its rural, northern cities.
It was the beginning of the 1970s when I first arrived there, a young man in his latter teens, and I was […]

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