The Fox News cable channel crew has discovered a new all-purpose Black boogey-man to rile latent racial animosity in America: Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally acclaimed death row journalist. Abu-Jamal is now a regular reference in the weapons of mass deception arsenal employed by Fox and its friends to demonize their enemies de jour.
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Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the Diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, “is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us.”
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“Jailhouse Lawyers, we are learning, are often people of extraordinary firmness who fight for a law that rarely fights for them.” “Unity is feared … isolation is favored.” – from “Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.” by politically condemned death row prisoner, journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal
“This landmark legislation (Prison Litigation Reform Act) will help bring relief to a civil justice system overburdened by frivolous prisoner lawsuits. Jailhouse lawyers with nothing else to do are tying our courts in knots with an endless flood of frivolous litigation.” – Sen. Orrin Hatch, former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
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“As the social order continues, it devises other ideals of social danger, among them women. In the United States today, there are more than 90,000 women in prisons. Of that number, over 80 percent are mothers, who have left more than 167,000 children behind, living in a tenuous freedom.” – Mumia Abu Jamal, “Jailhouse Lawyers”
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What was amazing about the hearing Monday was the prosecution’s admission that it didn’t have enough evidence to convict these men. As attorney Daro Inouye said of Jalil Muntaqim, who pled no contest to the prosecution’s charge of conspiracy, his client picked up a loaded grenade to save his brothers, his friends, his fellow defendants, and he didn’t plead guilty. That language did not pass his lips.
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revolutionaries,
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Walter Turner,
Wole Soyinka,
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On a windy April 24th, hundreds gathered into Humanist Hall on the periphery of downtown Oakland to celebrate the 55th birthday of Mumia Abu Jamal, a former Black Panther who has been a political prisoner for the last 28 years, as well as celebrate the release of his newest book, “Jailhouse Lawyers,” published by City Lights (www.citylights.com).
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Lynne Stewart,
Minister of Information JR,
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Mumia Abu Jamal,
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Noelle Hanrahan,
Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B,
Oscar Grant,
Prison Radio,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
Ralph Poynter,
Richard Brown,
San Francisco 8,
Tiny of Poor News Network,
Tony Serra,
Zapitistas' Subcommandante Marcos
Happy Birthday, Mumia Abu Jamal! On Wanda’s Picks Radio, we are celebrating Mumia Abu Jamal’s birthday and his new book, “Jailhouse Lawyers,” with an introduction by Angela Davis.
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Lee Scratch Perry,
Liberation Dance,
Linda Evans,
Mary L. Booker,
McCoy Tyner Trio,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE),
Queen Mother Rev. Diama Clark,
Robert King,
Tiny,
Wanda Sabir
It’s the party of parties! Celebrate Mumia’s birthday and the release of his new book, “Jailhouse Lawyers,” this Friday, 4/24, 6:30pm, Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland, with keynote speaker prison abolitionist Prof. Angela Davis, Min. of Info. JR, Mistah F.A.B., Chela Simone, Kiilu Nyasha, Tiny of Poor, Molotov Mouths, Adimu of Hairdoo and many more.
Angela Davis called for a new movement to abolish what she called “the prison-industrial complex” in the U.S., which has become the largest jailer in the world. “Racism is directly responsible for the fact that the U.S. has become the great incarcerator.”
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Many TV channels broadcast live the entire funeral for four Oakland police officers killed March 21, news anchors calling them “heroes” and “angels.” Police funerals are intended to legitimize past and future police violence and tell the public to shut up. The spineless left complies – no mention of Oscar Grant … or Lovelle Mixon.
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East Oakland,
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myth of the Black rapist,
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Officer Ervin Romans,
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Oscar Grant,
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prison industry businessmen,
racial profiling,
rape accusations,
Reynete Mixon,
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Sen. Barbara Boxer,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
surgical termination,
Three Strikes,
Uhuru House
Dressed in black leotards, Jetaun Maxwell, dancer-choreographer, has a red ribbon, a strip of cloth representing the blood, the noose and rein society places on girls who seek freedom. – from Wanda’s review of “Invisible Womb”
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Ajuana Black,
Andrew Currier,
Angela Davis,
Angela Wellman,
Avotcja,
Barbara Bloom,
Benjamin Todd Jealous,
Bill Crossman,
Black Panther Party,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brenda Schuman-Post,
C Kelly Wright,
Charles Burnett,
City Lights Books in association,
Craig Marker,
Dante James,
David Boyce,
Destiny Muhammad,
Diane Reeves,
Dr. Siri Brown,
Dwight Huntsman,
E.W. Wainwright,
Ed Mead,
Eddie Gale,
Elayne Jones,
Faye Carol's Trio,
Habib Koité and Bamada,
Halili Knox,
Howard Wiley,
Hugh Masekela,
India Cooke,
Isaac Hayes,
Ise Lyfe,
James Kass,
Janet Cooke,
Jetaun Maxwell,
Joe Hodge,
Joshua Redman Trio,
JR,
Karla Betancourt,
Kathleen Battle,
Kiilu Nyasha,
Larry Yang,
Laurie Schoeman,
Lawrence Ellis,
Len Wood,
Lewis Jordan,
Lila Downs,
Lynne Stewart,
Marcus Shelby,
Marjane Satrapi,
McCoy Tyner,
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Michelle E. Jordan,
Mr. B,
Neil Bernstein,
Paul Robeson,
Prison Radio,
Rhonda Benin,
Rigo 23,
Russell Simmons,
Ryan Nicole Peters,
Sandi Poindexter,
Sandy Poindexter,
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Tiny of Poor News Network,
Tracey Scott Wilson,
Valerie Mih,
Vincent Paronnaud,
Will Nichols,
Willie Brown,
Willie Mays,
Youth Speaks
Be sure to listen to the archived Wanda’s Picks Radio for Feb. 11, when the guests are Cynthia McKinney in the first hour and Guy Patrice Lumumba and Lisa F. Jackson, director of the film, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” in the second. Extraordinary radio! Superb mix of arts and politics!
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Desley Brooks,
Donald Lacy,
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Harry Bridges,
Hosea L. Simmons,
Huey P. Newton,
ILWU Local 10,
Isaura Oliveira,
Jack Hirschman,
L. Peter Callendar,
Laura Morache,
Lloyd Roberson II,
Local Hire Ordinance,
Maafa or Black Holocaust,
Martina Davis-Correia,
Muadi Mukenge,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Ntozake Shange,
Oakland Community School,
Paul Robeson,
Pierre Labossiere,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
Rev. Cecil Williams,
Richard Brown,
Rickey Vincent,
Robert R. Bryan,
Sean Vaughn Scott,
Tayo Aluko,
The Lumpen,
Tony Spires,
Troy Davis,
Wanda Sabir
Mayor Dellums decided to look to law enforcement as a model for healing the community in 2007. Today, we are still at war, our youth the casualties of this war.
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Arthur Monroe,
Black youth,
Chauncey Bailey,
Fania Davis,
Geoffrey Pete,
Greg Hodge,
Joyce Gordon,
Laney College,
Mark Cary,
Marvin X,
Mayor Ron Dellums,
Michael Greer,
Oscar Grant III,
Tarika Lewis,
Tracie Cooper,
Wanda Sabir
Schwarzenegger’s excuse for murdering Tookie: “But the inclusion of George Jackson on this list defies reason and is a significant indicator that Williams is not reformed and that he still sees violence and lawlessness as a legitimate means to address societal problems.”
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Boots Riley of the Coup,
Dhoruba Al-Mujahid,
Donnalissa Fisher,
George Jackson,
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt,
Gov. Schwarzenneger,
James Baldwin,
John Africa,
Leonard Peltier,
Malcolm X,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Nelson Mandela,
Ramona Africa,
San Quentin,
Stanley Tookie Williams,
Sundiata Tate
“Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. In Virginia, before the end of slavery, there was only one crime for which a white person could be executed. But there were 66 crimes for which a slave could be executed.” – Sis. Angela Davis, 2003
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Angela Davis,
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Gregory (Ajamu) Resnover,
lethal injection,
Marpessa Kupendua,
Martina Correia,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Shaka Sankofa,
state-sanctioned murder,
Troy Davis,
Ziyon Yisrayah
At the Women’s Building on June 24 are Kimma Walker (left) and her daughter, Terrain Dandridge of the New Jersey 4, who had just been released from prison in New York the day before the event. Dr. Angela Davis (right) smiles as she reads a letter of support written to the NJ4 with other allies [...]
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Chenese Loyal,
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Dyke March,
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Khamysha Coates,
Kimma Walker,
Lania Daniels,
LGBQT,
New Jersey 4,
Patreese Johnson,
Quandra Chaffers,
racism,
Renata Hill,
Terrain Dandridge,
Venice Brown,
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