Mumias Columns & Prison Radio comments

[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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[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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