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Revolutionary greetings, this is comrade Pitt-Peter Kamal Mukuria, currently here at Red Onion Resort. I'm calling here pertaining a commentary about the disappointing decision in the grand jury hearing about the Breonna Taylor case. So after months of, you know, protesting and waiting for a resolution on the Breonna Taylor case, a grand jury decided to indict former officer Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment. These charges stem from the shots which hit an adjacent apartment wall and not at all linked to the murder of Breonna Taylor. These charges are a class-B felony which carries a sentence ranging from one year to five years in prison. Well given that the person charged is a former police officer, these charges will most likely ended up being dropped outside the [inaudible] court's aversion program. In essence, this is yet another slap in the face and a reminder that Black lives do not matter in this country. It may be mind-boggling to most people how the grand jury reached a conclusio

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Breonna's Deathbed (2:18) Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dear outside world, my name is Christopher Trotter. I'm calling from inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Carlisle, Indiana. I would like to speak to you in regards of prisoners with violent cases being oppressed and forgotten about. While I understand the public's concern regarding prisoners with violent cases, the public is only hearing one side of the story. It seems as if prisoners with violent cases' lives do not matter or are deemed by those in power as being unable to be rehabilitated. In Indiana in the past 30 years, there has not been one bill passed giving rehabilitated violent offenders a second chance. But allowing them to die in prison. Like for instance, during the Coronavirus pandemic, there was only discussion regarding releasing non-violent offenders, while leaving offenders with violent cases to die by the Coronavirus. Which is a sentence that prisoners were not sentenced to: death. All prisoners with violent cases are not bad people. It's just that politicia

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Justice Departs (2:40) Mumia Abu-Jamal

My name is Christopher Trotter, and I'm a political prisoner held inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I came into the prison system with a four-year sentence for theft. And with just three months to go, I was involved in a prison uprising. As a result of my participation- as a result of my participation in the prison up- riot, I received a multitude of charges ranging from attempted murder, criminal confinement, and rioting. All because I came to the defense of a prisoner that was being beaten savagely by racist prison guards while he was hand-cuffed and shackled. I went to trial, which was nothing more than a political lynching. And the jury was prevented for hearing the whole truth. Ultimately, I was found guilty and sentenced to 142 years. And no one was killed in the riot! My life was basically over. It was like they had given me a slow death sentence. Then I was placed in isolation. In a windowless cell. And I spent 20 years there because of my participation in the priso

My name is Christopher Trotter. I'm calling from inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I served 20 years in solitary confinement. And I just wanted to share something with you so to give you an idea of what it's like. And I want everybody to imagine. Imagine, for 20 years of your life being entombed in a windowless cell and held up under sensory deprivation and isolation from human contact. And the only human touch you feel is the unwanted touch of prison guards. The conditions are very dehumanizing, demoralizing, and every day is a struggle just to keep your mental liberty and self-respect, which are the last two things that you have. Everywhere you go, you are- you are- you are escorted- escorted on a dog leash like an animal in a cage. This was my life in solitary confinement. How long- how long are you going to imagine that I don't exist. I'm strong, but human. They tried to turn me into a monster, and I used to ask myself, "Who's the real monster?" And I wrote this poem ca

Mumia Interview on Fête de l'Humanité (3:55) Mumia Abu-Jamal

My name's Don Brown 468895; I'm calling from Ohio. This is called "Racism and the United States Penal System." I'm sure that y'all are all aware of the racism that plagues our penal system within the United States. From the moment that we are ushered into the prison, we are segregated and either forced to join a gang or fend for ourselves, which in most cases end badly for the person that refuses to join the gang. I have renounced the gang that I used to belong to and the debt that was put on my head, and an unsuccessful attempt was made on my life for sloppily holding my insides in. And I've often wondered if there were a way to maintain or even achieve a system that renounces gang violence and all racist ideology. Since 2014, I have tried to get a [inaudible] within the institutions. We can not only educate individuals on false ideology or these bigoted beliefs, but also try to teach our studies, beliefs of superiority and/or fanaticism are wrong on every level. The realization swept over me. The reality is

My name is Christopher Trotter. I'm calling from inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I'm living under the threat of COVID-19 inside the facility. It's like waiting for the Grim Reaper to come and harvest your soul. You don't know when- you don't know when it's coming, but you know it's coming, so I find myself living in a constant state of anxiety and stress. The administration's response to COVID-19 here at the prison is to intimidate prisoners into not reporting if they may be asymptomatic or if they may actually be, uh, exposed to COVID-19. Their response is to- if you report it, everyone's quarantined, you in isolation for 14 days, and so most prisoners are fearful to report it. So right now, I'm sitting in here and it's almost like a forest waiting to catch fire. You know, there's no social distancing, there's no really good sanitary measures. And the response that I would like to see take place is to have a mandatory testing for all prisoners, mandatory testing for all

"Incarcerated People, COVID-19 Lockdown, and Mental Illness." The COVID-19 lockdown of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has transformed the state prisons into one massive solitary confinement system: a prisoncrat's dream come  true, yet a nightmare for incarcerated prisoners who are fighting to maintain their mental sanity and emotional stability. Solitary confinement is proven to cause mental illness and emotional trauma in human beings whom are social beings by nature, which makes solitary confinement the antithesis to human nature. Here in the state prisons, incarcerated people are fighting just to keep their heads above water under the COVID-19 lockdown of prisons. Incarcerated persons can be seen in a constant agitated state: very stressed, on an emotional roller coaster of mood swings, outbursts of anger, aggression, severe depression, and suicidal. Were not for the free Zoom visits, phone calls, and email to maintain communication with family and friends; were not for the yard period to socia

Inside the Inside of Lockdown America (3:31) Mumia Abu-Jamal

"The Psychological Impact of Solitary Confinement." Now I want to address the issue of the newly imposed administrative policy throughout the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. We are in a congregated administrative custody isolation mode, as far as the functioning, with respect to the COVID-19. The brain and nervous system, or the mind cannot function normally without stimulation, neither can it function normally when given too much stimulus. The brain and the nervous system must be maintained in a steady state. A healthy mind is a product of interaction between itself and other organisms. Along with reported intellectual impairment, perceptual deprivation, reports psychotic-like hallucinations, and affective change and extreme behavior, including extreme boredom, restlessness, irritability, anger, unrealistic fears, and anxiety, depression, physical complaints, and development of a childish sense of humor, exaggerated emotional reactions, and excessive irritation by small things. Note: prisoners become

My name's Don Brown, 467895; I'm calling from Ohio. This is about supermax prisons. I was in a supermax prison from 2009 to 2014. And I’d like to talk about the effects that has on people's minds. Now there's a difference between being placed in supermax for years and segregation. Segregation is short-term where supermax could be indefinite, but I could be in a supermax for any prolonged period of time, for years on end. When you're released, a person is paranoid. They get overly paranoid being around people. And I know this firsthand. And not only this is when you are in the supermax, it - you have nothing but time on your hands and that much time on your hands it- it creates animosity towards your captors, you know, and there is no way that a person could get any help while they're in there. They don't have any classes, they have- they have nothing just- just time. That's it. And during this time, people learn. They learn how to make weapons. They also learn a lot about themselves. Learn how- how much human

THE ‘POPULISM’ OF PANDEMICS[col. Writ. 9/9/20 (c) ’20 Mumia Abu-Jamal] For months now, the nation has been battered by the ravages of Covid19: the coronavirus. With millions of people infected, and over 190,000 people now dead, it now turn out that from the very start, the US President knew a great deal about Covid19. How? China’s leader, XI Jinping, told him everything - in February, 2020.For months now, President Trump called the emerging pandemic a “hoax”, and heatedly blamed China and it’s leader, for not informing Americans about the disease. He called it ‘Kung Flu’ - remember? Instead, it burned across the country like wildfire, leaving sickness and death in its wake. Not since the influenza epidemic of 1918 has the nation seen such loss of life. And it’s not over; Covid19 continues to stalk the land, causing death and destruction all over the world. Sad to say, it ain’t over - by a long shot. —(c)’19 maj  

Hey, this is comrade Pitt Peter Kamal Mukuria 1197165, currently here at Red Onion Resort. The essay is titled "Crippling Patriarchy And Eradicating Antiquated Social Norms." And I'm gonna start with a quote by Sarah Grimke. She stated that "I have no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask our brethren is that they would take their feet from our necks and permit us to stand upright on the grounds which God has designed us to occupy. To me, it is perfectly clear that whatsoever it is morally, right for men to do is also morally right for a woman to do." Yeah, a revolutionary man prides himself on being supportive of gender equity and fight patriarchy of all forms in display for women's liberation. There are many forms of patriarchy, which exist as we know that most of us oppose, but yeah, we consciously and or subconsciously engage in or perpetuate. Now on this brief essay/commentary, I'm going to present an argument which I anticipate many men, hell, even some women will disagree

"Eulogist equating Gandhi with John Lewis Insulting" by Shakaboona. Listen to family members and friends take turns eulogizing John Lewis, civil rights leader and long-time U.S. Congressmen was a historical treat until some black man during their eulogy said that John Lewis rests among the greats of Gandhi, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and some other fellow. Gandhi on par with John Lewis and the living Christ of our time, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? How could that be when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the man who was often called the greatest of Hindus, Mahatma Gandhi, hated African people and advocated an oppressive racial caste system against Black Dalit peoples of India rooted in Hindu religion. There were a couple of problems with this man's eulogy of John Lewis. For one, the speaker given the eulogy, like most people, is obviously unaware of Gandhi's history of being an anti-Black racist. Study Gandhi's 22 years among our brother and sister Africans in South Africa; read how Gandhi co

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