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On PA Supreme Court (1:26) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Does The System Work? (1:25) Mumia Abu-Jamal

On Prison Guards (4:21) Mumia Abu-Jamal

There are those who think I should give up my fight for UFD, and I should just accept the fact that these people who run the New York state prison system don't want UFD to operate within their institution. But no one seems to think to ask why these prison officials are so adamant to resist my efforts. It gets really frustrating that people who I think stand for prison reform and prison abolition are so quick to give up the fight and to convince me to give it up as well.I'm doing nothing wrong for exercising my first amendment rights, which exist to protect citizens against tyranny by always guaranteeing us the ability to speak truth to power and to organize against oppression. I need all of you to understand something.These prisons are graduating young prisoners deeper into violent and criminal behaviors. And someday, most of them will be released back into the community. They don't know how to thrive in mainstream society, and mainstream society often doesn't accept them. This means a life of crime or medioc

Shaka Natambu in San Quentin prison on Death Row. Prisoners concerned with COVID-19.  How will it reach the population? Not if but when it will spread through the cell blocks. Having seen how the flu virus hit us, 19 is a whole different monster. How do you fight the unknown fifteen in prison? Yeah right!Wearing masks, washing hands, cleaning daily, and it doesn't seem like that's enough to slow down this beast of a virus. An airborne virus in the cell blocks. Ventilation is not perfect. When they pepper-spray someone close by or down in the way, pepper spray gets all of us, even with fans on high blowing it out. On Thursday the 16th, they gave us hand sanitizer and then our masks on the 20th.Alarms went off. My mind keeps time asking itself ... Who else tested positive? Prisoner or guard? Was this the beginning? How will they react? No phones, no showers, no canteens, no water, or all the above? How does people stay safe in unsafe environments? Quarantine.Inmates will try to hide their sickness because quara

I have this one life to live, and I tend to live it with dignity and self-respect. Yesterday, April 21st, 2020, I was released from solitary confinement and it didn't take long for the facility administration to target me. I was moved to D block, 4 gallery, 24 cell. It’s seriously just after the 11 o'clock count cleared, my cell gate opened. Second I'm being led out to get the mattress, pillow, sheets, and the blanket, as well as my stored property, I go downstairs to the D block desk officer.I was told cell hall wants me, so I report to cell hall. Cell hall tells me I have to go to the small visitor's room, so I go there. When I arrived at the small visitors room, I see the three honor block prisoners who are our reps for the Inmate Liaison Committee known as the ILC. Just before my unlawful placement in solitary confinement, I was the A block ILC rep and the only rep in the larger general population. Thus the reason general population prisoners called me the voice of the people. Whatever the case, Captain F

Reporting on COVID-19 (4:06) Dennis McKeithan

There's a crisis brewing here at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York that keeps spilling over into violence. And it has to do with how badly mismanaged this prison is. Before I was unjustly placed into solitary confinement I was a member of the ILC here, which stands for the Inmate Liaison Committee. The ILC represents the prison population for our regular, monthly meetings with the facility administration. I became the A block ILC rep after A block prisoners voted me into that position in a landslide.In fact, I was the only ILC rep in general population. The other three guys were on the block, which has minimal contact with the larger general population blocks. The number one issue I hear over and over again is the lack of phones in the prison yard. There are only 35 phones out there and they continuously go out of service.On any given day down about 200 to 300, prisoners in the yard vying over about 30 available phones, and many of these prisoners are gang members or are part of some cl

Let me start over blessing and peace and blessings on all those who are listening. I hope you are all well and healthy, practicing social distancing during this time. Amen. My name is Tiegon Nichols, T I E V O N. Last name is spelled N I C H O L S. My DOC number is 229462, I am 23 years old and I'm currently at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, which is five and a half hours away from home.I've been held here for approximately eight years. When I was 15 years old, I was let into adult courts and given 50 years. As a YA, or a youth incarcerated as an adult, you are extremely limited to resources. There are no kinds of contact with any adult offenders. This really hinders any progress with legal proceedings.On top of that, there are no programs offered inside Wabash Valley for juveniles, besides the GED and MRT.  MRT stands for Moral Reconation Therapy. Within six months, I succeeded in acquiring those programs and leaving them out either. It was even more difficult for me because I didn't have correspondenc

Economics is a very powerful motive towards driving mass incarceration. A lot of people are eating off of the arrest, prosecution, and the imprisonment of people in this country. If mass incarceration wasn't practical do you think America would have the highest number of people in prison per capita of any other industrialized nation?What I find astonishing is that many who fight against mass incarceration seem not to account for the economic motives behind it when they formulate their strategies to address it. These beautiful people who embrace prison abolition have good intention, but I don't think many of them have a clue what it will take to effectively go up against the prison industrial complex and those who have a lock 'em up mentality. I intimately know the harm the system of mass incarceration causes. I am in solitary confinement for defying it's reactionary policies. Now some of the young prisoners I was helping in general population are slowly falling back under the sway of the corrupt and negative

Mumia Reporting In (3:58) Mumia Abu-Jamal

A Message to Prison Abolitionist, Reformist, And DOC (9:32) Dontie Mitchell

Locked Up and Locked Down (2:38) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Shelter and Solidarity Conference (17:52) Kevin Rashid Johnson

Remorse, Dignity, and Freedom (3:41) Dontie Mitchell

A message to Black, Hispanic, and poor people in this age of COVID-19 from Mfalme Sikivu, Executive Minister of UFD. Here we are, in 2020, still faced with the reality of racism and classism. The greatest and richest nation on earth can't even protect all of its citizens equally. Why is it that every facet of life in America, that my black, Hispanic, and poor brothers and sisters always fare the worst? The coronavirus came along and once again revealed the truth. America isn't fair to everyone. Black, Hispanic and poor people are the majority of those dying from the coronavirus. Why?. We all know why. It's because of institutional racism, social injustice, and economic inequality in this country. It isn't going to change until we organize for wealth and power. All these damn politicians and policy pundants all talk about how to things need to change. It's always the same old talk when a crisis or some sensational incident happens. Once it's happened, it's back to business as usual. Rich white people get riche

COVID-19: Weapons of Mass Incompetence (2:00) Mumia Abu-Jamal

I'm here serving for life, Cecil Brookins.  Prisoner number 385514. I'm in prison at  SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. If you listen to my other Prison Radio broadcasts and my plan to invest $1.5 trillion to help 7.8 billion people that participate to help us change and save the world you've been wondering who I am, if we can do it, will our infinity plan work, am I telling the truth, and why do I say the evidence prove I'm a factually, actually, innocent, lawfully convicted political prisoner. I'm obsessed with keeping my word, telling the truth and proving it with evidence, documenting everything, putting it on display for the world to see.In 1996, I started reporting Ghafoor, Talib at number 5 police station in  Pittsburgh for corruption. Records shows the same cop kept repeatedly falsely arresting me and charging me. When they wrongfully convicted me and sentenced me to go to state prison in about June, 2000, when I produced evidence of widespread government corruption, they told me to pack and go home.I'm relie

New York state governor, Andrew M Cuomo, gave a press conference on Monday, March 30th. In which he discussed the need for New Yorkers to practice social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is effecting our state the worst. Governor Cuomo called social isolation unnatural saying he knows how hard it is for people to self isolate and not being able to hug your loved ones. While he was expressing those sentiments I couldn't help, but think of the irony because I'm currently being held illegally in solitary confinement in retaliation  for filing a civil rights lawsuit to challenge the disapproval of my UFD organization, which I use to positively organize, motivate, inspire, and educate young prisoners, and to steer them away from gangs, drugs and violence.I'm being kept in the hot, dirty, metal, box-like cell 24 hours a day with little property for fighting for the right to help young prisoners change and better themselves. Now, I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a

I want to make something abundantly clear about solitary confinement, to why I was placed in here. I said before and I say now, again, that solitary confinement is torture and negatively impacts the mental health of those of us in it. Last night and this morning I had to endure listening to two young prisoners gate bang for hours and late last night, they spent 30 minutes banging so violently on each others cell walls that even my cell walls were rumbling.They kept us all up last night. One guy is admittedly a paranoid schizophrenic who believes that others are coming into his cell at night to molest him. Let's call him young boy Schizo. The other guy is bipolar hyper aggressive and short tempered. Let's call him young boy Angry. The whole conflict started because young boy Angry got offended that young boy Schizo thought he was one of the people sneaking into young boy’s cell at night.Young boy Angry just couldn't let it go and started talking angrily to himself about young boy Schizo who hears what he is sa