Archiv vom Oktober 2012

[col. writ. 10/2/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 In theUnited States, teachers are criticized, called bad names, and occasionally, they have their pensions threatened.
That’s bad enough, but in Mexico, an elementary school teacher who also was a community organizer in the indigenous community of El Bosque in Chiapas, was framed in the killing of 8 cops, and faces 60 years in prison.
His name is Alberto Patishtán, affectionately […]

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[Speech writ. 95/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
Brothers and Sisters! Mis Hermanos y Hermanas! Comrades!
Thank you all for coming together here.
You may think that you know something about solitary, but you don’t. You may have a loved one in prison who has experienced it, and told you about it.
But still I say, you don’t know it.
You know the word; but between word and the reality, a […]

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