Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Essays
951 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsMumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been a resident of Pennsylvania's death row for twenty-five years. Writing from his solitary confinement cell his essays have reached a worldwide audience. His books "Live From Death Row", "Death Blossoms", "All Things Censored", "Faith of Our Fathers" and "We Want Freedom" have sold over 150,000 copies and been translated into nine languages. His 1982-murder trial and subsequent conviction have been the subject of great debate. Major issues in the trial have led to a worldwide campaign to gain Mumia a new trial and, ultimately, to gain his freedom.
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Paying The Costs: SF8
February 07, 2010 17:46 - 2 minutes - 1.53 MBAs the once front page story of the San Francisco 8 case winds down, bills are becoming due. The San Francisco 8 refers to 8 former members of the Black Panther Party, charged with involvement in a 1971 homicide. There is little doubt now that the case was initiated more for political reasons than legal ones. The San Francisco District Attorney's office thought so little of the case that it declined to prosecute. California's attorney general opted to try it instead. Almost from ...
Howard Zinn, Master Historian
January 28, 2010 23:43 - 1 minute - 1.36 MBIt should surprise no one when a man, nearly 90, dies. It is as natural as moonlight, as regular as a rainbow after a summer shower. And yet, the passing of Howard Zinn surprises. He was a few months shy of 90, true, but he was still a bright eyed and brilliant lecturer, whose sense of humor gave a wondrous sparkle to his speeches and humanized his writing. He is perhaps best known for his masterwork, A People's History of the United States; 1492 - Present, (Harper Collins, 1980/2003. whi...
Haiti's Suffering
January 26, 2010 03:06 - 3 minutes - 2.23 MBHaiti on Our Minds
January 18, 2010 02:19 - 3 minutes - 2.72 MBMore Bad Intel
January 11, 2010 00:12 - 3 minutes - 2.33 MBFrom How to Why
January 04, 2010 00:44 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBObama Post Imperial?
December 27, 2009 16:26 - 2 minutes - 1.42 MBThe Limits of Our Politics
December 21, 2009 01:51 - 2 minutes - 1.39 MBJust War? or Just War
December 18, 2009 02:18 - 2 minutes - 1.81 MBWealth Care
December 18, 2009 01:50 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBSolidarity Statement for 12-12-09, Oakland Event
December 13, 2009 03:01 - 1 minute - 756 KBMumia Interview by Noelle Hanrahan on 29th Anniversary
December 09, 2009 03:03 - 6 minutes - 4.15 MBWars to Come
December 08, 2009 02:21 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBGhosts of Vietnam
November 30, 2009 01:30 - 2 minutes - 1.8 MBBabies Behind Bars
November 30, 2009 01:29 - 2 minutes - 1.75 MBChildren of the Torn
November 29, 2009 19:17 - 2 minutes - 1.76 MBSeveral months ago, a commentary was written on the children of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where judges sold their very freedom for private profit. Two prominent county judges (Messrs. Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan) allegedly made millions of dollars by sending kids to a private facility (Pa Child Care) in which they had a financial interest, as opposed to state institutions from which they would've received nothing. How could such a thing happen? How could it have happened f...
Colony Still?
November 16, 2009 02:43 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBCarnage at Fort Hood Texas
November 08, 2009 18:06 - 2 minutes - 1.75 MBThe Pendulum Effect
November 01, 2009 22:19 - 2 minutes - 1.43 MBThe Good Occupation?
October 27, 2009 01:49 - 2 minutes - 1.66 MBObama Nobel Laureate
October 10, 2009 01:46 - 2 minutes - 1.71 MBThe Afghanistan Trap
October 10, 2009 01:45 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBBetween Acorns and Blackwater
October 06, 2009 14:40 - 3 minutes - 2.07 MBG20 Speech
September 22, 2009 15:56 - 1 minute - 791 KB"For the Children...."
September 19, 2009 15:59 - 2 minutes - 1.72 MBThe next time I hear a politician promise to do something 'for the children', I may heave. If one thing is clear in this nation, it is that children are hated. Oh -- we don't use that word to describe our relationships with them, but if we honestly examine those interactions we find that it would be difficult to describe in ways other than 'hate.' For the last several months, I've been reading, studying and thinking about the nation's public school system. I've read classics in the f...
Circle of Sameness
September 14, 2009 20:27 - 3 minutes - 2.28 MBExporting Democracy
September 14, 2009 00:22 - 2 minutes - 1.81 MBLabor Day's Blues
September 05, 2009 18:48 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBThe Health Care that Equals 'I Don't Care'
September 04, 2009 19:14 - 3 minutes - 2.19 MBJune's Jump Away
September 03, 2009 18:47 - 1 minute - 1.26 MBBetween the Government and the People
August 29, 2009 17:28 - 2 minutes - 4.11 MBAs democratic forces mobilize in response to the suspicions resulting from the recent Iranian presidential election, they are meeting repression from a government that is fueled by the twin forces of paranoia and theocracy. The Iranian government is paranoid not because they are crazy, but because many remember the U.S. and British supported coup that led to the installment of the dictatorship of the Shah in 1953, and also more recent support for the Iraqis (during the time of Saddam ...
G20 or GMoney
August 17, 2009 21:59 - 3 minutes - 4.16 MBSkip Nadra and the Philadelphia Grand Jury
August 17, 2009 21:57 - 3 minutes - 4.58 MBRogue States
August 09, 2009 12:11 - 2 minutes - 4.03 MBBeyond a Beer With the Boys
August 03, 2009 01:37 - 3 minutes - 4.38 MBIf the arrest, humiliation and resultant brouhaha over the case of Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates has taught us anything, it is that we still dwell in separate worlds -- ones which rarely meet. And while some wags have rushed to tell us that the case shows us the continuous clash of class, I beg to differ. If anything, it shows us just the opposite. When it comes to Black people, of whatever wealth, status, class or prominence, the normal rules don't apply. Indeed, Blacks are the e...
Tribute to Reggie Bryant
July 27, 2009 15:37 - 1 minute - 1.98 MBRepression of the Repressed
July 27, 2009 02:23 - 3 minutes - 5 MBSF Eight No More
July 24, 2009 03:26 - 2 minutes - 3.07 MBNada for Gaza: The McKinney Israel Trip
July 21, 2009 03:24 - 2 minutes - 3.5 MBSonia Sotomayor's Stroll to the Supremes
July 21, 2009 03:23 - 1 minute - 2.74 MBMichael the Meal
July 06, 2009 00:28 - 1 minute - 2.19 MBMichael A Man of Contraditions
July 06, 2009 00:26 - 2 minutes - 3.22 MBMichael Jackson Master Entertainer
June 26, 2009 23:27 - 2 minutes - 3.42 MBA Revolution Within A Revolution
June 21, 2009 23:23 - 3 minutes - 4.48 MBAs the repression of the state comes down on those protesting against the recent elections, voices -- especially from the West -- are all but predicting the imminent fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They compare it to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when forces arrayed against the dictatorial rule of the Shah, a key U.S. ally, brought down the House of Pahlavi. Is this the same as that? To answer that question requires far more than emotion. It requires study, insight and c...
Stateless State of Palestine
June 21, 2009 23:18 - 3 minutes - 4.5 MBThe presidential election of Barack Obama has so electrified the world, that expectations have swept past reality into the realm of the silly. Some of this is surely driven by the corporate media, which no longer covers the news, but engages in what might be called 'pre-news', as it tends to predict what will (or may) happen, the better to not be scooped by competitors. And as news makes its hard turn to opinion, it sometimes builds up Obama as a world leader, in ways that are simply unr...