Mumia Abu Jamal

(col. writ. 8/17/14) © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 For over a week, the media and millions of viewers and readers have been focused on the ever-changing events of Ferguson, Missouri, where a local teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white cop.
What has been consistent, and un-changing, has been the level of outrage among Black Ferguson residents; men and women who have resisted every […]

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(col. writ. 8/11/14) © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Once again, a Black unarmed youth has been killed by a cop.
And while the facts surrounding the shooting are presently unclear, what is clear is that a cop shot 18 year old Michael Brown 8 times.
According to at least one eyewitness, Brown was shot as he stood with his hands up in the air.
To anyone who knows American […]

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(col. writ. 8/9/14) © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 As U.S. F18s drop 500 lb. bombs on ISIS-controlled areas of Iraq, it does so, it says, to support the fleeing religious community of Yazidis.
U.S. President Barack Obama, supporting and indeed ordering the bombing, announced that this action was taken on humanitarian grounds, to “prevent a massacre” of a tiny religious minority targeted by the ISIS army for […]

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  [col. writ. 8/6/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 As guns, rockets and bombs from fighter planes, go silent, the real war begins between the apartheid state, Israel, and the embattled occupied state of Hamas, on behalf of the captives of Gaza.
This is the war of words.
How can we say that words are more real than bombs?
Because, under the pressure of Arab states, the U.S., and […]

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 [col. writ. 8/3/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
As an ineffectual Congress gives voice to howling throngs decrying the influx of Central American children, it’s helpful to learn that this is not a new feature of American immigration; but as old as the country itself.
From the time of the first European colonial settlements in North America, there was a tendency to declare these arrivals natives, while […]

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 [col. writ. 7/30/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Six years ago, when Israel launched its blitzkrieg against Gaza, it left only after some 700 Gazans: men, women and children, were dead.
This occurred under George W. Bush, with the U.S. neocon administration winking, nodding and blowing kisses of approval.
Today, under neoliberal rule, we see that something indeed has changed under President Barack Obama: It has gotten worse.
For, […]

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[col. writ. 7/29/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 For New Yorkers, the name Eddie Ellis drew admiration, respect and even some awe.
For he was a man of passion, action and brilliance, as shown by his many lives as a Black Panther, a prison lifer, and a scholar who worked as an activist among youth to turn their lives away from the dead-end of prison.
He was also a […]

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[Speech writ. 7/29/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 When we consider the historic role of journalist amond Black people, we are left with the deep conviction that, for Black people, the necessities of the time demand that activism must play a role in the performance of the profession.
It must be so, I argue, then – in our not-too-distant past – and now, in our troubled present, for […]

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[col. writ. 7/28/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 An admission: I hate writing about August 8th, 1978.
Why?
It reminds me that 8 living MOVE members are still in prison today, over 33 years after the events of August 8th, 1978.
On the one hand, MOVE men and women, are model prisoners, and should’ve been paroled years ago. On the other, if they were anyone else, they would’ve been paroled […]

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