Mumia Abu Jamal

[col. writ. 8/9/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal neu

There is something beautiful about seeing the young athletes at the Olympics, running, jumping, flipping and strutting.
 I’m not a big Olympics fan (a bit too much flag-waving for my taste), but the quadrennial sports event has become a virtual parade for a plethora of African-American, African and Jamaican athletes.
Little Grenada, a teardrop of an island in the Caribbean Sea, […]

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[col. writ. 8/8/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal

A lone gunman invades a space frequented by people of color.
Carnage ensues.
And hours later, we learn that the slaughterer of the Sikhs is a veteran, not just of the U.S. Army, but of right-wing, racist groups.
Days after the Sikh Massacre, we learn that Wade Michael Page killed himself rather than suffer arrest or imprisonment.
But we learn more. This massacre-maker […]

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[col. writ. 8/6/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 And here we go—again.
A man walks into a temple, a holy place, and unleashes hell.
He kills 6 people and wounds others, before his own life is taken.
The Temple is the gathering place of Sikhs, a faith founded in India some 5 centuries ago, which reveres the teachings of its Gurus (or teachers), and the writings that followed.
A holy place; […]

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[col. writ. 7/27/12 © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
From 1945 (the end of World War 11), to the present, trillions have been spent on the sick spectre of war. Millions have perished as nations have been drenched in blood. The cause? We are taught that ideology was the cause, but that is mere window-dressing; for above and beyond the war of words is the war of arms. […]

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In den USA erleiden über hunderttausend Menschen langjährige Isolationshaft (jW, 21.7.12) 

[col. writ.7/23/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal

And here we go again.

A man armed with semi-automatic weapons unleashes his pent-up rage and alienation on his fellow Americans. He kills nearly a dozen people – men, women and babies – and wounds scores of others.

It need not be said that he is American. That is presumed. And while events such as these occasionally occur in other lands (as […]

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[col. Writ. 7/8/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The greatest championship in tennis – Wimbledon – has just ended, and once more, the incredible Williams sisters – Venus and Serena – have risen to the occasion.
Serena, at 30 years old, first won a major tournament (the US Open), in 1999 – her 17th year. That she is doing so now, over a decade later, after the formidable […]

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[col. Writ. 6/17/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
Mention the name, Rodney King, and people react.
They might react in different ways, but they react. For almost no one is neutral.  His name is evocative because it ties you to one of the biggest urban rebellions in America.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of a phalanx of cops who beat King brutally –in video-tape!
When a predominantly white […]

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[col. Writ. 6/17/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal

For a brief moment in time, the name and fate of Trayvon Martin broke through the daily media fog, and touched the lives of tens of thousands of people, motivating them, mobilizing them and moving them to take direct action against the gross inaction of the State.
Youth across Florida walked out of high schools, and took to the streets. […]

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[col. Writ. 6/15/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 When Egyptians massed in Tahrir Square a year and ½ ago, denouncing the corrupt, Western-backed regime of Husni Mubarak, the West was faced with a quandary: How to retain Mubarakism without Mubarak?
After many months of parliamentary wrangling and electoral hijinks, the answer is now becoming clear. The military, with the backing of the courts, have essentially annulled parliament, and […]

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[col. Writ. 6/3/12] © ’12 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Christopher Mbewe lives in a legal nightmare.
He is a lifer, having been convicted of first degree murder of his wife’s
mother, Carol Tollan, back in Dec., 2005.
This, despite the fact that no murder weapon has ever been found, no
fingerprints, no DNA, no eyewitness ever testified seeing him at the crime
scene, no identification witnesses – nothing.
How can it be […]

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