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Hello. I'm here serving for life. Cecil Brookins, prison number EX5514, enslaved at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Numerous factual evidence proves I'm a factually actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all of the world's problems that we're having right now, and they say that we'll be going into a depression, if this continues on for the next two, three months. This is the greatest day in human existence, conscience, equality, equity, history, and progress, where we can assist our world sisterhoods controlling majority. Sisters united with over four billion strong, beautiful, unconditionally loving, highly intelligent, and active sisters of all ages. God's gifted hands, they carry, birth, nurture and rock babies and civilization, s ince the beginning of time to eternity.To fulfill their purpose in life, they mature faster, they have more college degrees and businesses, and take care of and help more people than anybody. This tag team of women and kids enlisted me to volunteer, to help the

Regards to Immigration Reform (7:22) Achilles Serpa

Realities of COVID-19 (5:49) Dennis "Solo" McKeithan

Things Fall Apart (2:04) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Noelle Discusses COVID-19 on Rising Up with Sonali (23:26) Noelle Hanrahan

Additional Memo on COVID-19 (1:54) Dennis "Solo" McKeithan

Political Assassination of Political Prisoners (7:14) Khalfani Malik Khaldun

I'm your server for life. My name is Cecil Brookins, prisoner number EX5514. I'm in prison at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Evidence proves I'm-I'm a factually, actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all love, glory, praise, and thanks for our creator and for making all of you and creation. I love you all more than life itself. Without you I cease to exist. As do we all. I and we invoke our creator to hold us instantly amendable in this life and the next for our actions and in-actions causing dire and catastrophic world conditions and suffering. Unless we do the right thing to correct it.In honor and spirit of our martyrs [inaudible], greatest leaders of all time. Still motivating movements for one hundred years later, our alumni, former and wrongfully convicted prisoners: Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, dr. Martin Luther King. Our world human union of women, men, youth, and child prisoners want you to know we stand with you and through your pain. With love, we m

Coronavirus (4:35) Dennis "Solo" McKeithan

I just want to, how to say, hello to the world. My name is Achilles Serpa. I'm 25 years old and I-I just want to bring an awareness to the immigration reform pack that I see that is very-very necessary in legislation on the federal level. Now, I think the, uh, on the scene. I mean, overlooked, the problem with immigration reform nowadays, is they're not considering that people who came over here under the age of 17 and adapted, and also adopted the high crime culture assimilated in the U.S. My whole issue with this is that there's no underlying factor or mitigating factors  that support these kids who — go through this type of lifestyle and adopt this lifestyle and ultimately commit crimes from disenfranchised neighborhoods or low income cities. Now, under the 14th amendment act, we are a protected class being a minority. Also along with Black and Brown people, and women, immigrants are also considered a protected class under the 14th amendment.I just want to raise awareness to the fact that because we're a p

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 gangbang 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 his 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 saying. Ne

Farewell Rafael (1:54) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Our constitution guarantees every United States citizen, a fair and impartial trial, effective assistance of counsel, equal protection and due process of the law. However, these guarantees are about the size of your wallet. Without money, you'll likely do prison time. Mass incarceration means just that. Nonetheless, I believe this may be the best time in the United States history for making the playing field level. In 2012, the outgoing Mississippi governor Haley Barbour expressed this sentiment of fairness by pardoning 200 prisoners, 14 of which were convicted of murder, and four were life sentence prisoners.He said they had been rehabilitated, so he released them. That is the way the system is supposed to work. We have to demand that all of our elected officials show this kind of fairness in all of [this/the] aspects of life. The day of the fox is over. My name is Omar Askia Ali, aka Edward Sistrunk.(Sound of a cell door closing.) These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio. 

Yeah, he, he threatened me. He totally flipped out. The police didn't arrest them. They just tell them not to beat the hell out of me in front of them, but right there he violated the protection order and they didn't do anything. They let him come in the house and get a few things and then drive away. They waited outside with me, so they didn't even score them in the house, but I was outside. I don't think that I was that stupid to be in the house. The cops are outside me and him in the house. No bad. And then he violated her all that weekend. Saturday he was threatening and calling and threatening and calling.And I called the police. They were in my kitchen with me. He called about 10 times, cause he kept driving by, he saw the police at my house. He saw the cop cards, like make them go to the F away. I'm going to, you know, make them go the F away. Now I'm like, he's calling. I think I put the cop on the phone with him one time, you know. Yeah. They, um, he, they even talked to him. They didn't do anything.

Noelle: So, thanks Betty, and thanks Ralph for letting me talk about Lynne. This is Noelle Hanrahan, and I just have incredibly fond memories of Lynne and the fact that she was such a righteous political compass. Like when I needed to figure out something or think about a political struggle, if I would talk to Lynne about it, I could get this amazing, electric, defining information.I was really welcome. She didn't pull punches, and I really appreciated that about her. She said what she thought, she did what she thought was right no matter what, and as many people have said tonight, with incredible courage. I also really liked Lynne 'cause she was super funny. She cooked a lot and she cooked really well.There's this je ne sais quoi about life. Like she just had a real sense of enjoyment of life and that came through in every single thing she did. This one time, one of the first times I met her, I had her reading a piece by William O. Douglas that was about when night comes into darkness, and she was reading it

Big Trouble in Big China (1:36) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Delbert Walks (3:01) Mumia Abu-Jamal

My new message to No New Jails. I did a previous commentary about the organization called No New Jails, NYC, which is a grassroots campaign committed to closing Rikers Island. Now, without building new jails and rerouting the $11 billion it would cost to construct four new jails in New York city towards community services and needs.When I first commented on No New Jails, the only thing I knew about them is how it's disrupted a New York city event during a presentation by the mayor's office of criminal justice. I was like, here we go again, another protest move with no real vision or plans for the future. I'm happy to say I was wrong.I had begun reading No New Jails' New York's guide to building community care and safety by closing Rikers with No New Jails. So far, I'm very impressed. The plan: it's practical and strategic. My only critique regards the bailout initiative, but I will address that in another commentary. Here, I want to discuss the overall aim of No New Jails' plan. It's quite ingenious and power

The Struggle of UC Grad Students (2:21) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Chuck Africa Goes Home (1:37) Mumia Abu-Jamal