We must move for what we want, not for what we think the system can produce, because the system is the problem, not the solution to the problem
Mumia Abu Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an acclaimed American journalist and author who has been writing from Death Row for more than twenty-five years.
Mumia was sentenced to death after a trial that was so flagrantly racist that Amnesty International dedicated an entire report to describing how the trial "failed to meet minimum international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings." The complete report is posted here on the Amnesty website.
Mumia is author of many books, including Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners vs. The USA, forthcoming from City Lights Books.
Perspective. How to look at the world. How to interpret it. How to understand why things are the way they are. That’s the real value of history
He was born in Harlem Hospital, New York, August 2nd, 1924; oddly enough, the same year that my mother was born in…
We must understand that the state is a hate crime against the poor, the oppressed, Black folks, and Latinas, etc.
In Michigan’s prisons, there ain’t a single prisoner who committed a more vicious crime than the Governor of that state
‘Plus ça change …’ say the French; or ‘The more things change, of course, the more they stay the same.’ That thought,…
As slavery funded and built America, the underlying principle was the devaluation, exploitation, and oppression of Black life
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has signed into law a bill that critics say tramples the free speech rights of prisoners
Help be the change you’re seeking to make
Meiner freunden; Wie geht's? I recently did a thought experiment of Rosa Luxemburg and gave her a role in advising the young activists.…
