Taken from a May 27 audio column at prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. The word “Guantánamo” has become a watchword for the world. It is a temple of stated terror, of Imperial fear and American hypocrisy. Since 2002, it has been transformed from a U.S. naval base [...]
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Big brother?
From a June 6 audio column at prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. New item: According to London’s The Guardian, U.S. intelligence agencies have reviewed telephone records of some 121 million Americans. Imagine if such news emerged during the height of the Bush presidency? The outcry would [...]
Richie Havens
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal May 17, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Taken from a May 1 audio column at prisonradio.org With a voice that seemed equal parts grit and sand, Richie Havens was an original. Although known to the industry and deejays as a folk singer, anyone who listened to him — both that magical voice and his frenetic guitar playing — knew instantly that he [...]
Beyond Central Park
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal May 12, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Taken from an April 18 audio column on prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. The riveting documentary, “Central Park Five,” was an explosive example of what scholar Michelle Alexander has termed, “The New Jim Crow” (the title of her recent book), but, upon reflection, we find that it [...]
The Lessons of Temple U.
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal May 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Taken from a April 18, 2013, column at prisonradio.org. The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the governance of its highly-prized African-American Studies Department is not about academic freedom, nor about departmental regulations and proper protocol — although it has been couched in such terms. It’s about something far more fundamental. It’s [...]
Palestine prison
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal May 1, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Taken from an April 10 audio column at prisonradio.org. Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. It is one of the ironies of history that the descendants of the beleaguered Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, subjected to the bitter hatreds and repression of the Nazis, have established an entire sea of the [...]
Martin: In memory and in life
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal April 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The April 8 online edition of the Huffington Post printed a statement prepared by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal for a commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Below, we have reprinted the statement and the introduction that the Huffington Post provided for it. For the original context, go [...]
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal April 5, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Taken from a March 27 audio column from prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. The brilliant light of a Nigerian masterwriter has gone out, and the world is poorer for it. Chinua Achebe — whose stunning novel, “Things Fall Apart,” opened the doorway to the voices of traditional, ancestral [...]
Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz transferred
Taken from a March 20 audio column from prisonradio.org. To read more on the case of political prisoner, Russell Shoatz, go to russellmaroonshoats.wordpress.com. If my prison source is correct, Black liberation fighter, imprisoned intellectual, historian and now book author, Russell “Maroon” Shoatz, has been transferred from the dungeons of SCI Greene — and he is [...]
‘Vampire’ holiday: The passing of Chávez
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal March 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Transcribed from a March 8, 2013, audio column at prisonradio.org. The writer is a political prisoner housed at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has brought out the malicious and carnal glee of the corporate press, who report breathlessly, not only on his mortal passing, but an end [...]
