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DVD: In Prison My Whole Life Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested the day William Francome was born. William is now 25 years old. Mumia is still on Death Row. Features Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky Steve Earl. MORE INFO |
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Jailhouse Lawyers by Mumia Abu-Jamal "This is the story of law learned," writes Abu-Jamal, "not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America ..." MORE INFO |
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Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier In this remarkable memoir, Leonard Peltier invites us into his world inside Leavenworth, where he had been wrongfully imprisoned for over twenty years. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain provides access to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his own suffering and the insights it has borne him.
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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal provides the world with an important history of the founding of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party in his new book We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party.
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Soledad Brother the Prison Letters of George Jackson "The power of George Jackson's personal story remains painfully relevant to our nation today, with its persistent racism, its hellish prisons, its unjust judicial system, and the poles of wealth and poverty that are at the root of all of that. I hope the younger generation, black and white, will read Soledad Brother." - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
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Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five Introduced by Alice Walker, with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon, this book includes excerpts from diaries, letters from and to children, wives and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage," providing a glimpse of how ordinary families strive to maintain connections in extraordinary circumstances.
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State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin Are the cops our friends, with just a "few bad apples" or are they part of a system of repression to maintain the status quo? This book answers the question of "why we can't just all get along!"
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Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal "They want me to die alone—silently." —Mumia Abu-JamalLive from Death Row is a collection of Mumia's prison writings—an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. MORE INFO |
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Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising Four hundred seven prisoners took over a portion of a prison in Lucasville, Ohio, for 11 days in April 1993. Today, anti-death penalty activists in Ohio are still fighting to win justice for the "Lucasville 5." This is their story, a story of solidarity and pride.
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California "A magnificent analysis of the political economy of superincarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons." —Mike Davis author of City of Quartz and Dead Cities MORE INFO |
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Rebel Lives: Sacco & Vanzetti edited by John Davis Italian immigrants and anarchists framed by the state and executed for murder in Boston during the Red Scare of the 1920’s. An illuminating example of how immigrants, anarchists and communists were the “terrorists” of yesteryear ... MORE INFO |
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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur, long projected by the media and the state. MORE INFO |
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DVD: Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt? This excellent and professional film contains new footage not included in the original 1996 HBO special. Journalist, writer, death-row inmate and political prisoner. From behind the walls, Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks for the first time in "Mumia: A case for reasonable doubt?"
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DVD: Framing an Execution - The Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal Danny Glover narrates this critique of the ABC 20/20 coverage of the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. DVD MORE INFO |
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DVD: Mission Against Terror A documentary by Bernie Dwyer & Roberto Ruiz Rebo This award-winning documentary tells the story of the "Cuban 5" who were imprisoned in the U.S. for trying to stop acts of terrorism against their homeland, Cuba. Show this film to your neighbors, friends, union, clubs and organizations. Free the Five! MORE INFO |
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DVD: The Jena 6 Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal As stated by narrator, Mumia Abu-Jamal: This is not the story of the lynching noose. It is the story of the DA's pen. MORE INFO |
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six by nine foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. This is his story.
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DVD: The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. MORE INFO |
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CD: On the Move—Sounds Inspired by Mumia Abu-Jamal A beautiful and inspiring collection of words and music to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners! Two CD set. MORE INFO |
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Liberation Lit “What’s Lib Lit? – Library, map, lens, scalpel, compost, chisel, textbook, excavation: voices, images, wrestling, contradicting, confirming, the matter of resistant art and practice.”—Adrienne Rich MORE INFO |