Mumia Abu Jamal

[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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[col. writ. 9/16/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Since when have you seen teachers treated like (in the words of S. Carolina congressman, James DeMint (R) “thugs”?
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) decided to fight back, after the state legislature tacked on more school days, added two hours to the school day, and stripped the union of its power to bargain over such issues.
This Chicago public school struggle […]

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[col. writ. 9/12/12 © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Several years ago, a new American president charmed the crowds in Cairo with his eloquence, his seeming earnestness, and most importantly, his person.
 This president was the first such U.S. chief executive with caramel brown skin, and his name, Barack Hussein Obama, reflected, at least in part, an Islamic and African ancestry that sent ripples of delight throughout the North […]

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 Mumia ruft zu Marsch für die Freiheit von politischen Gefangenen auf
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[col. writ. 8/22/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal neu
 Unless one is Jamaican, or raised in a household suffused with Black consciousness, it is unlikely that the name Marcus Garvey is familiar to you.
 There was a time, during the first quarter of the 20th century, when he was among the most famous men in the world.
Raised in Jamaica, Garvey was a fiery orator, a gifted writer and […]

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[col. writ. 8/17/12] © Mumia Abu-Jamal
  Several months ago, a movie was released; a science-fiction flick featuring a superhuman, fighting nasty aliens on a forbidding planet somewhere in the cosmos.
As a sci-fi fan I confess interest, but I never heard of the title character, John Carter.
(I later learned that the story was based on the lesser-known works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, known for the “Tarzan” books.)
In […]

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