Mumia Abu Jamal

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[col. writ. 9/28/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 The stark and moving images arising from the violence, repression and resistance of Ferguson, Missouri, continue to percolate throughout national and global consciousness.
If, as the old saying goes, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, the thousands of images radiating from Ferguson must be worth millions of words.
And those words are damning; “state terror” turns its fearful face […]

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When the ISIS group cracked the news several weeks ago, it stunned millions of Americans who wondered, “Where did this come from?”
The media, performing their function of servant to the corporate state, just as they did in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003, simply distributed audio from the Pentagon and politicians.
Few went deeper.
One had to search hard to find the truth – […]

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(col. writ. 9/24/14) © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal,
 It is fascinating to watch US presidents, as they call names and promise destruction, especially so soon after the flood of disasters that have been waged throughout the Middle East.
Iraq is a social, economic, political, environmental and spiritual basket-case. Libya is little better.
Both are horrific examples of US interventions that have plunged both societies into deadly hell-scapes, places […]

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[col. writ. 9/21/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Thanks to the corporate media, Ferguson, Missouri, has been all but forgotten.
Other sensationalist fare now fills the air, with empty fluff about missing white women, snuff videos and other mindlessness to further inflame public fear.
But to thousands and thousands of young Black people, Ferguson is as close as teeth are to the tongue.
They witnessed, with their own eyes, […]

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[col. writ. 9/20/14] ©’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
When Barack Hussein Obama was first elected US President, a sense of mad elation swept through areas that were once regarded as Third World; Africa, because of his blood ties; and the Middle East, because of the faith tradition of his father.
For them, Obama’s elevation to the highest office in the land seemed to signify a change of epic […]

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[col. writ. 9/16/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 For millions of people, during the election of 2008, Barack Hussein Obama emerged as the ‘peace candidate’ (if only in the imagination), the urbane, educated, cool alternative; indeed, the antidote to the bumbling bellicosity of George W. Bush.
A term and a half later and Bush looks surprisingly refreshing in the rear-view mirror.
For Obama, the 4th U.S. President to be […]

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[col. writ. 9/12/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Brothers! Sisters! Supporters and Family of Imam Jamil Al-Amin – Peace to you All!
As salaam alaikum!
My mission tonight, given to me by Sis. Pam Africa, will be simple. I call it facing facts.
Is it a fact that many of these men were subjected to torture and base humiliations?
Is it a fact that those who committed these acts of torture […]

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