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Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Broadcasts

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been a resident of Pennsylvania’s death row for twenty-five years. Writing from his solitary confinement cell his essays have reached a worldwide audience. His books "Live From Death Row", "Death Blossoms", "All Things Censored", “Faith of Our Fathers” and the recently released “We Want Freedom” have sold over 150,000 copies and been translated into nine languages. His 1982-murder trial and subsequent conviction have been the subject of great debate.

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Index of Mumia Abu-Jamal's Recorded Essays
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Dispatches From Death Row © MAJ/Prison Radio 2007/08

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12/24/08	Eartha Kitt
12/21/08	Inheriting an Empire
12/20/08	JR of POCC Interviews Mumia
12/19/08	Somalia Woes of peril of Intervention
12/15/08	Deregulation Nation
12/13/08	Politics of the Present
12/07/08	Message to PDC Holiday Event for Class War Prisoners
12/07/08	False Freedom
12/07/08	Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
12/06/08	Dec. 6th Philladelphia Rally Mumia Message: 28yrs a Quest for Freedom
12/03/08	A Secret Recession?
11/29/08	More Money for Masters None for You
11/25/08	Blames the Takers Not the Makers
11/25/08	Masks of Empire
11/19/08	Miriam Makeba The Great Speech to CT Colleges Labor Exchange Salutation
11/15/08	Bailing Out My Boys
11/12/08	African Views on U.S. Elections When the Dragons Come Home
11/05/08	JR of POCC Interview with Mumia re the Election
11/05/08	A Day of Days
11/05/08	The Meaning of Victory
10/25/08	Free the Atenco 14 Socialism for Some
10/22/08	Clash of Titans GM Chrysler Merger Time for Troy Davis is Now
10/20/08	Of Bubbles and Busts Debating Without Debating
10/8/08	Behind the Money Crash Markets On Fire Jericho at Ten
10/4/08	Scare Tactics
10/1/08	The Fall of the House of Capital A Time for Union Power (the case of Harrison & Ruffin ILWU)
9/24/08	The Fear Bomb Again Empire on E
9/20/08	From Deregulation to National Gaurantor: In a Blink Jury of Peers (for Critical Resistance as well as radio play)
9/16/08	Silent Riots on Wall Street
9/11/08	Obama & The Bubba Vote
9/6/08	Beating Back Batson (Batson v. Kentucky U.S. Supreme Court 1986)
9/4/08	Items off the Table: (Presidental Speeches and the Economy)
9/3/08	Power to the Peaceful: 10th Anniversary Message
8/31/08	The McCain Gambit: The Politics of Gender
8/27/08	The Nomination Fear The Engine of Politics
8/25/08	Obama Biden Change? Not so Much
8/20/08	68 Then and Now (DNC and democratic protests)
8/18/08	Pakistani Democracy and Ours
8/16/08	The Foreign Policy of Fools
8/13/08	A New Russia: A New Reality
8/10/08	Goddard Commencement Speech
8/9/08	The Perils of Black Political Power "oooooh Sorry about that Slavery Thing"
8/8/09	Obama Abroad Apollonia Jordan interviews Mumia Abu-Jamal
8/3/08	MAJ Comment on 3rd Circuit Ruling August 8th The Struggle for the Safe Return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine: Haitian Human Rights Activist
7/23/08	Beyond Politics
7/21/08	Of Terrorist List and Listers
7/20/08	Business Sense
7/16/08	The Outsiders Road Within
7/09/08	One Empire, Unchanged
7/03/08	The Boah They Called "Bus Head"
7/02/08	Paragons of Democracy?
6/29/08	Saving Bankers While Home Owners Fall
6/27/08	Nadar: "He Can't be Too Black"
6/22/08	The Crimes of Kings
6/19/08	Hollow Victory
6/13/08	Block Report Radio: Boots interviews Mumia Abu-Jamal
6/13/08	Real Road Rage
6/10/08	Hillary's Homecoming
6/7/08	Is Obama's Victory Ours?
6/5/08	M1 of POCC & Dead Prez Interviews Mumia Abu-Jamal
6/1/08	When Votes Matter and When They Didn't Rejecting the Church Pew, for the Alter of Power
5-28-08	Blues for Bill Tilley
5/24/08	When the State Attacks
5/22/08	When Empire Fade
5/17/08	The Politics of Ignorance and Fear
5/15/08	A Congress That is More Than a Rubber Stamp
5/11/08	Kiilu Nyasha Birthday Message Thoughts on Africa (for Elombe Brath)
5/9/08	Philadelphia: The City of Brotherly Thugs
5/5/08	The Politics of Denounciation Whose Uncle is Really Crazy re Wright and Obama
5/3/08	Globalization and its Discontents The Black Panther Party: The Reign of Youth
5/1/08	ILWU Strikes for Peace West Coast Port Shutdown 5/01/08
4/25/08	Sean Bell's 2nd Slaying
4/21/08	Pennsylvania The Keystone State?
4/17/08	None Kissing Cousins Food Wars
4/13/08	Symbols versus Substance
4/8/08	Chairman Fred Hampton Jr & JR of POCC Exclusive Interview w/ Mumia re recent ruling
4/5/08	Changeless Change: The Law of Politics When Courts Go Wrong
4/3/08	What Post-Racial America?
3/28/08	When International Law Ain't Law
3/27/08	Of Crazy Uncles and Kings Beyond Spitzer: The Abyss of Business
3/22/08	Of Power and Empire
3/20/08	Why the War Will Not Soon End
3/16/08	The Politician and the Preacher Five Years of Hell - for ANSWER's anti-war protest
3/15/08	Whore Nation
3/12/08	Law Maker = Law Breaker: The Spitzer Drama
3/8/08	Parole Time for the MOVE 9
3/5/08	Nafta Democrats
3/2/08	Prisonhouse of Nations
3/1/08	Reporters or Imperial Scribes
2/28/08	Paul, the Magnificent!
2/26/08	Cash Culture
2/23/08	'W' in Africa, Part II
2/22/08	Support Professor Griff
2/19/08	Fidel's Resignation
2/16/08	The Black Vote: Lessons from History
2/15/08	The Costs of Crime War Myths
2/13/08	If It's African It's Tribal re Kenya
2/10/08	Media Trips
2/9/08	Frederick Douglass: The Freedom of Some or the Freedom of All
2/8/08	Between Rap and Reggae
2/6/08	Brave New World
2/5/08	The Politics to Come
2/2/08	Message to Fighters for Freedom Event
1/30/08	Message to Activism Right There Conference UCBerkeley
1/27/08	The Radical Alternative
1/27/08	Project Niggerization (about South Carolina)
1/25/08	With a Brutha' like This...
1/24/08	The Corporate Elections
1/20/08	The Economics of Gangsters
1/18/08	Praying with the Devil
1/17/08	It Ain't the Voting That Counts, It's the Counting
1/13/08	The Madness Called Home, Kenya
1/11/08	America's Martin and Martin's America
1/10/08	The Oops Factor
1/6/08	Killing 'em Softly
1/2/08	Crimes of State
	Victoria-Lynd

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