Mumia Abu Jamal

It is my view, after considerable reflection, that we, all of us: Black, white; male, female; gay, straight, bi or tri –; Hispanic, Pacific Islander, African born – of whatever complex human stew, dwell in Dubois Country.
Why do I say this?
Because William Edward Burghardt  DuBois, undoubtedly the premier Black scholar-activist of the 20th century, with the sheer power of his brilliance, and his advocacy, shaped […]

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[col. writ. 8/25/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
They came.  They saw. They praised.
It was far from exhilarating to see the recent 50th anniversary march of the 1963 March on Washington.  In all honesty, it was depressing. For it reminds us of the original march, which was on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a reminder of yet another dream unfulfilled.
Here, they praised political figures, […]

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[col. Writ. 8/21/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Soon, TV screens, newspaper pages and radio stations will replay, reprint and rebroadcast dark, grainy black and while film, photos and audiotape of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech – his “I Have a Dream” speech – in a hypocritical celebration of the 50 years since that fateful day in 1963, in Washington, D.C
I’m always troubled at such occasions, […]

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Mexican and international supporters of the Mayan-led Zapatista movement are returning from the indigenous villages where they spent the past week participating in an initiative known as the Escuelita, or “Little School.“ The purpose of the school was to share insights and methods about the Zapatista’s autonomous government. The Zapatistas sent special invitations to a short list of distinguished guests, among them imprisoned […]

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http://fsrn.org/audio/mumia-abu-jamal-anniversary-zapatista-movement-chiapas-a-legacy-education-freedom-and-struggle  
http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/mumia-interview-fsrn-about-zapatista-escuelita-353-8-16-2013
SPANISH TRANSLATION:
Mumia Abu-Jamal sobre el aniversario del movimiento zapatista en Chiapas: un legado de educación, libertad y lucha
http://fsrn.org/audio/mumia-abu-jamal-anniversary-zapatista-movement-chiapas-a-legacy-education-freedom-and-struggle
http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/mumia-interview-fsrn-about-zapatista-escuelita-353-8-16-2013
16 de agosto de 2013
Audio grabado por Noelle Hanrahan. http://www.prisonradio.org/
Traducción Amig@s de Mumia de México
 
 

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[col. Writ. 8/16/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Once again, power is in the hands of the Egyptian military; and once again, the military has distinguished itself by its brutal ruthlessness against Egyptian citizens.
They, the armed mainstay of the now fallen dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, have never accepted nor adjusted to the political rise of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now we see the hand of their awful vengeance.
According to […]

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[col. Writ. 8/20/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Brothas! –Sistas!  Ona Move!  All Power to the People!
Thank you for sharing some of your precious time with me.
I can’t think of Father Paul Washington and the Church of the Advocate without thinking of freedom, justice, and equality.
Many years ago, I think it was 1968 (It may’ve been 1966), the Black Power Conference was held there. A gathering of […]

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[col. writ. 8/8/13] (c) ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
If the media is any measure of the mood of the masses, then the sound and fury of the Trayvon Martin case is over.
In place of the rage of protest is now silence, and ‘the Beast’ (the media), moves on.  In search of new prey. A missing white female?  A windfall from the state lottery? An Obama-Putin dust-up?
Cool.
The rage […]

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[col. writ. 8/4/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For well over a decade, since the events of 9/11, the group Al Qaeda has performed quite a service for the West and its Imperialist ambitions.
Since then, the Mid-East has been hurled into hell, and Iraq has joined Afghanistan as places to flee from, to get away from as quickly as humanly possible.
No one can dare to honestly say […]

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[col. writ. 7/31/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The mania that followed the release of a flood of military papers, videos and consular communications by U.S. Army Private and Intelligence officer, Bradley Manning, hasn’t been seen since the height of the anti-communist scares of the 1950’s.
Bradley Manning, recently convicted of a plethora of charges before a military judge, faces over a century in prison, for, among other […]

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[col. writ. 7/25/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
It is tempting to view the nation’s first Black president, after 5 years in power, as George W. Obama.
Former president, G.W. Bush, was the very essence of neo-conservatism; quick to war, averse to peace, a holiday for the rich, a nightmare for the poor.
President Obama, the essence of neoliberalism, has echoed Bush’s martial spirit, and has been the benefactor […]

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