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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With Leaders Like These
August 22, 2011 18:46 - 2 minutes - 1.59 MBWhat 'Jobs' Really Means
August 22, 2011 18:39 - 1 minute - 1.18 MBLondon Afire
August 15, 2011 16:11 - 1 minute - 1.18 MBA Grand Bargain... For Surrender
August 08, 2011 17:25 - 2 minutes - 1.61 MBMubarak In The Dock
August 05, 2011 02:31 - 1 minute - 1.05 MBNational Debts
August 05, 2011 02:30 - 2 minutes - 1.65 MBAgainst Japan's Nuclear Dangers
July 28, 2011 01:47 - 13 minutes - 15.6 MBAmy Winehouse: 1983-2011
July 26, 2011 01:31 - 1 minute - 888 KBDying For Sunlight (Pelican Bay Hunger Strike)
July 18, 2011 13:08 - 1 minute - 1.34 MBWhen Media Is Master
July 18, 2011 13:05 - 2 minutes - 1.63 MBThe Media And The Medea Complex
July 11, 2011 00:50 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBTeachers: On The Frontlines Of Class War
July 09, 2011 02:05 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBGood Night, Afghanistan
June 30, 2011 00:50 - 3 minutes - 1.9 MBDrugs And Taxes
June 20, 2011 01:42 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MBWars And Revolutions
June 20, 2011 01:38 - 3 minutes - 2.14 MBMad In The Middle East
June 14, 2011 15:10 - 3 minutes - 2.41 MBGeronimo, Born Elmer G. Pratt, Returns To His Ancestors
June 06, 2011 14:19 - 2 minutes - 1.7 MBGil Scott Heron: Radical Poet 1949-2011
June 03, 2011 00:48 - 1 minute - 1.18 MBNeo-Neocolonialism?
June 03, 2011 00:47 - 2 minutes - 1.73 MBAmerican Corrections
May 23, 2011 03:07 - 2 minutes - 1.37 MBEchoes Of Empire
May 23, 2011 03:04 - 2 minutes - 1.78 MBThe Spoils Of War
May 16, 2011 14:12 - 1 minute - 1.28 MBFrom Kent To Kal-El
May 16, 2011 14:09 - 2 minutes - 1.6 MBThe Lesson From The Osama Hit
May 11, 2011 20:34 - 2 minutes - 1.63 MBWhat Osama's Killing Means
May 05, 2011 00:25 - 2 minutes - 1.63 MBThe Fate Of Kings
May 02, 2011 17:05 - 2 minutes - 1.58 MBThe Method Of Their Madness
April 25, 2011 23:37 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MBManning's Malcolm... And Ours
April 22, 2011 03:06 - 3 minutes - 2.38 MBMessage For Anti-War Rallies
April 13, 2011 13:17 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBThe War That Never Ended
April 13, 2011 13:17 - 2 minutes - 1.58 MBDid You Vote For This?
April 07, 2011 02:58 - 1 minute - 1.25 MBReading Fanon
April 07, 2011 02:56 - 8 minutes - 6.09 MBFanon's action is within the context of post-war marked by the ideological struggle between the Western bloc led by the United States and the socialist bloc led by the Soviet Union. The division is clear between the capitalist and the socialist bloc, a third world emerging in the years 1950-1960: it is the third world that also claimed his place in international relations and its share in the wealth sharing the planet. Third World states for the first time its political existence in 1955 at t...
The Enemies We Don't Know
March 31, 2011 01:03 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBAnd Like That, Blink, A New War
March 22, 2011 00:31 - 1 minute - 1.18 MBTwo Panthers Die
March 22, 2011 00:28 - 2 minutes - 1.54 MBJapanese Winter
March 15, 2011 13:09 - 1 minute - 1.12 MBTeachers Baaad
March 12, 2011 16:47 - 1.7 MBMessage to Jack Heyman Retirement Celebration 2/25/11
March 07, 2011 03:41 - 59 seconds - 693 KBLong Live John Africa! On a Move! Greetings to all assembled in honor of Jack Heyman, the longtime ILWU organizer and organizer for a half dozen other causes besides. Jack represents the best of the labor tradition, one not bounded by national borders or the other lines we create to keep us corralled into spaces approved by the state. I think the last time I saw him on the tube he was in London before about a million people protesting maybe the stupidest war in generations -- Iraq. Jack know...
What The Arab Rebellions Mean
March 07, 2011 03:37 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MBBombing His Own People?
March 07, 2011 03:33 - 2 minutes - 2.01 MBRevolutions To Come
February 28, 2011 03:16 - 2 minutes - 1.76 MBCracks In The Empire
February 21, 2011 03:58 - 2 minutes - 1.44 MBEgypt: A Good Beginning
February 16, 2011 15:17 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MBCointelpros Then And Now
February 16, 2011 15:16 - 4 minutes - 3.17 MBThe Set Up Or The Sell Out
February 12, 2011 21:28 - 2 minutes - 1.92 MBAllies Of Empire?
February 05, 2011 02:35 - 2 minutes - 1.71 MBMumia's Address To The Rosa Luxemburg Conference
February 03, 2011 00:46 - 4 minutes - 3.21 MBThe Rosa Luxemburg Conference took place on January 8, 2011 in Berlin. The main slogan was: "Learning how we have to fight". It is part of a quote by Rosa Luxemburg in her book about the Russian Revolution. The whole quote: "Amidst history, amidst the development, amidst the struggle, we learn how we have to fight."
The Wikileaks Effect
February 03, 2011 00:44 - 1 minute - 1.34 MBWhen Puppets Fall?
February 03, 2011 00:43 - 2 minutes - 1.71 MBJay-Z: The Roots Of Rap
January 28, 2011 00:47 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MBFor a rapper to write a book, a straight-ahead prose text, is unusual. For they think in rhymes, couplets, metaphors and beats. When books do appear, they are often those dreadful 'as told to' pieces, less written than dictated, more hustle than work of art or deep thought. Jay-Z has produced the former. An MC of almost legendary skills and reputation in the rap world, his work traditionally mines the urban streets for tales of hustling, of survival, and often, wild parties. They can mim...