Archiv vom September 2012

[col. writ. 9/23/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 What a difference a few years make.
Four years ago, the Obama presidency sent a palpable sense of relief across the country, and around the world.
I remember seeing a spontaneous eruption of joy in the streets of Pittsburgh (near SCI- Greene), as youth took to the downtown district in sheer exultation.
The only thing that came close was when the Philadelphia […]

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[col. writ. 9/21/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 The name on his death warrant is Terrance Williams, but that’s not his name.
It’s Terry Williams – and some clerk, some prosecutor perhaps, decided to make it “Terrance” —and so it is.
The man I know, Terry, didn’t even shave when he came to death row at 18 years of age.
He was a bright, enthusiastic young man who got caught […]

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