Archiv vom April 2014

[col. writ. 4/29/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 As May Day rolls around in the year 2014, there is little reason to celebrate.
 May Day, historically a holiday for workers, today finds workers under siege like seldom seen before. Under the reign of the corporatist media, the very word ‘union’ has become a curse word.
Unemployment; underemployment; poor wages; and an uncertain political struggle for even a modest, minimalist […]

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[col. writ. 4/28/14] ©’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 A billionaire basketball owner blurts out words in anger to his girlfriend about her suspected dalliances with Black athletes, and the world goes wild.
 It becomes Top Story on the national newsfeed, and, surprisingly, even the story of the downed jet in Malaysia takes second fiddle.
 Similarly, the nation’s highest court rules that states may use referendums to strike down affirmative action […]

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[col. writ. 4/27/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 In every capital, in city halls, in the offices of police chiefs, in courts common and supreme, dark faces sit, bearing titles of apparent power.
 Their presence suggests the rise of an abandoned class, the bright and shining avatars of progress.
 Any yet, as this image unfolds, how can it coexist amidst the dire and desperate straits of millions in Black […]

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