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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What I Meant to Say Was
November 04, 2007 01:53 - 3 minutes - 1.77 MBPlanning to Fail
October 27, 2007 18:58 - 2 minutes - 1.42 MBPlanning to Fail col. writ. 10/18/07 It's hard to look at American society today, and not see how everything seems to be a plan for failure. One would be hard-pressed to find a society which seems to see education as little more than a business, which only the well-to-do can begin to afford. There are a plethora of loans, even some provided by the feds, but fewer and fewer grants. When students are lucky enough to find loans, they are saddled with red oceans of debt, some to the tune of ...
Wars Without End -- Again
October 27, 2007 16:47 - 1 minute - 922 KB!Wars Without End -- Again! {speech writ. 10/14/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal Ona Move! LLJA! Thanx for your invitation for me to speak to you today! For millions of people (I among them) the Nov. 2006 elections marked a major turning point in U.S. politics -- or so we thought. The elections had one, single motivation: to end the Iraq war. Well, the elections changed majorities in Congress. But did it change U.S. policy? Nope. Before the numbers of votes could all be counted, you heard...
The Law That Promotes Punishment
October 21, 2007 01:47 - 2 minutes - 1.31 MBThe Law That Promotes Punishment (Instead of Education) [col. writ. 10/21/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal It's been 5 years since the No Child Left Behind law was put into place, and around the nation, it has left wreckage in its wake. That's because, like many such laws pushed by the paranoid right wind, what a law is called has little (or nothing) to do with what a law does. Calling it No Child Left Behind gave it the benign imagery of caring for children and their futures. It's like the ...
Iran -- Rumors of War?
October 08, 2007 02:18 - 3 minutes - 1.86 MB{col. writ. 10/7/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal There are forces in this country and in this world that are expending energy to ensure war with Iran. That's right -- Iran. Many of those forces were the same ones that suckered the nation into Iraq, with media - megaphoned fear- mongering. Iran has become the feared bogeyman of the hour; the latest in the simplistic media projection of 'bad guy.' And, just as in Iraq, the media's demonization of the leader becomes reason to destroy, attack, ...
When the Union Becomes Management
October 06, 2007 22:20 - 2 minutes - 1.05 MB{col. writ. 10/3/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal The recent contract approval by the executive committee of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors (GM) marks a turning point in relations between labor and management. It may also mark the transition between unions as a representative of workers, and management as a representative for the owners. That's because, if the UAW members agree, the union will (at least partially ) administer almost $30 billion bucks in pension funds. If the ...
Before and Beyond Jena
September 29, 2007 22:07 - 3 minutes - 1.9 MB[col. writ. 9/29/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal Until several weeks ago, the name 'Jena' was doubtless unfamiliar to millions of people in the U.S., until the demonstrations around the case of the Jena 6 brought attention to the small Louisiana town. But, before the case occurred, the name became known to hundreds (if not thousands) of young Blacks, who came to know, quite intimately, that Jena was just another word for racism, rape, violence, and humiliation. After the ravages of Hurricane K...
The World of Blackwater: Private Wars for Public Monies
September 21, 2007 23:32 - 4 minutes - 2.37 MB-undefined-
The Latest Battle in the War Against the Poor
September 20, 2007 23:31 - 3 minutes - 2.2 MB-undefined-
The Death of the Pursuit of a Dream: A House
September 20, 2007 23:29 - 3 minutes - 1.86 MB-undefined-
Pakistan: The Democracy of Boots, Bullets, and Brutality
September 15, 2007 23:28 - 4 minutes - 2.04 MB-undefined-
The 911 Moment
September 09, 2007 23:25 - 2 minutes - 1.08 MBThe 9-11 Moment [col. writ. 9/9/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal It is true that 9-11 changed everything, but not quite the way that the Bush Regime intended. It changed how many in the world perceived the U.S., for sure, but the U.S. response to 9-11 has done more to change such perceptions. As the ashes began to cool from the embers of what was once the World Trade Center, allies and enemies alike expressed solidarity with the U.S., and shed tears of sympathy. What a difference six years ma...
The Best? Federer
September 09, 2007 23:23 - 1 minute - 646 KBThe Best? Federer [col. writ. 9/9/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal Folks know that I'm a tennis fan, as evinced by my pieces on the magnificent Williams sisters, who have singularly transformed the game. But, in men's tennis, there's one name that equates to the best in the game: Swiss player Roger Federer. He played an outstanding game against 20-year old Serbian phenom, Novak Djokovic. Djokovic stunned the tennis world recently when he beat three of the top players of the game; Andy Roddick...
Fear and Hatred in the Apple
September 08, 2007 23:21 - 5 minutes - 3.03 MBMassacre?' -- 'What Massacre?' -- Haditha [col. writ. 9/6/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal The calendar has shed weeks and many months since the name, Haditha, stirred so many people in Iraq, the US, and around the world. Within days of its announcement came the horror of recognition; it reminded us all of the carnage of Vietnam's My Lai massacre, where women, babies, dogs and chickens shared the sleep of death in a tropical ditch. It differed from Vietnam only in its scope, and number, but, i...
Massacre?' -- 'What Massacre?' -- Haditha
September 08, 2007 23:20 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBMassacre?' -- 'What Massacre?' -- Haditha [col. writ. 9/6/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal The calendar has shed weeks and many months since the name, Haditha, stirred so many people in Iraq, the US, and around the world. Within days of its announcement came the horror of recognition; it reminded us all of the carnage of Vietnam's My Lai massacre, where women, babies, dogs and chickens shared the sleep of death in a tropical ditch. It differed from Vietnam only in its scope, and number, but, i...
For Kenneth Foster? No More Death Row...
September 01, 2007 23:17 - 1 minute - 872 KBFor Kenneth Foster: No More Death Row [col. writ. 9/1/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal To the state of Texas that sought to extinguish his life, his name is Kenneth Foster; to many of his friends and supporters, his name is Haramia KiNasser, an eloquent and outspoken activist. By whatever name that he may be known, he is now a past denizen of Texas Death Row, for, by a governor's order of commutation, he is on Death Row no more. That he was ever on Death Row at all is due more to a quirk of Te...
A Lesson from Vietnam
August 24, 2007 21:03 - 3 minutes - 2.24 MBA 'Lesson' From Vietnam col. writ. 8/23/07 (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaking before a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) group recently, US President George W. Bush evoked the slaughter, concentration camps, and devastation following the US pullout from Vietnam, to warn against the costs of precipitous withdrawal from the Iraq debacle. The argument boiled down to the recent conservative claim that if the US leaves Iraq now, it'll result in a societal bloodbath. There is something quite unseeml...
The Power of History: Haiti
August 20, 2007 01:52 - 3 minutes - 2.05 MBThe Power of History: (Haiti) [col. writ. 8/19/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal Recently, while speaking with a younger journalist, I made mention of several points of Haitian history, and the writer looked at me blankly. Although he was well-read, and had even traveled to Haiti, he hadn't the faintest idea of many of the historical facts to which I made reference. He simply had never read nor heard of them. As a student of history, I recommended he read the work of the late radical scholar-a...
Mumia on Uprising Radio KPFK 91.7FM LA w/ Sonali Kolhatkar
August 02, 2007 01:22 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB-undefined-