Mumia Abu Jamal

Writing on the Wall

Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Herausgeber: Fernandez, Johanna

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Produktbeschreibung

Mumia Abu-Jamal's essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society.

Produktdetails

• City Lights Open Media
• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 333
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 139mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780872866751
• ISBN-10: 0872866750
• Artikelnr.: 40699220

Autorenporträt

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms, which address prison life from a critical and spiritual perspective. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists (Philadelphia chapter). That same year he was arrested for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982, in a process that has been described as an epic miscarriage of justice. After spending more than 28 years on death row, in 2011 his death sentence was vacated when the Supreme Court allowed to stand the decisions of four federal judges who had earlier declared his death sentence unconstitutional. He is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In spite of his three-decade-long imprisonment, most of which was spent in solitary confinement on Death Row, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. From prison he has written seven books and thousands of radio commentaries. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills. His books have sold more than 100,000 copies and have been translated into seven languages. JOHANNA FERNÁNDEZ is a former Fulbright Scholar to Jordan and Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College of the City University of New York where she teaches 20th Century US history and African American History. She is author of the forthcoming When the World Was Their Stage: A History of the Young Lords Party, 19681976 (Princeton University Press). Fernandez is the writer and producer of the film, Justice on Trial: the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and she is featured in the critically acclaimed documentary about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary. Her writings have been published internationally, from Al Jazeera to the Huffington Post. She gives interviews often and has appeared in a diverse range of print, radio, online and televised media including Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, the Fox News shows Hannity and Megyn Kelley, Al Jazeera and The New York Times . She is a coordinator of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home. CORNEL WEST is a scholar, philosopher, activist and author of over a dozen books including his bestseller, Race Matters. He appears frequently in the media, and has appeared on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show.

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Contents Foreword by Cornel West Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal WRITING ON THE WALL 1. SEPTEMBER 14 STATEMENT ON SOLIDARITY 2. ATTICA: 41 YEARS LATER 3. THE REAL JOHN CARTER 4. TRAYVON AND THE WAR AGAINST US 5. DEATH PENALTY DIES IN CONNECTICUT 6. MEMORIES FOR MAROON 7. SOULS ON ICE 8. FOR A REVOLUTIONARY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 9. THE OCCUPATION 10. EGYPT: A GOOD BEGINNING 11. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF LABOR 12. UNION BUSTING: RIO TINTO STYLE 13. A YEAR IN: MORE SAME THAN CHANGE 14. WARS TO COME 15. GHOSTS OF VIETNAM 16. LABOR DAY BLUES 17. THE OTHER INAUGURATION CELEBRATION 18. WITH JUDGES LIKE THESE 19. THE FORGOTTEN MARTIN LUTHER KING 20. IMPERIAL POWER AND COUNTERPOWER 21. FALSE FREEDOM 22. SOCIALISM, FOR SOME 23. TIME FOR TROY IS NOW 24. FROM DEREGULATION TO NATIONAL GUARANTOR: IN A BLINK! 25. BEATING BACK BATSON 26. ITEMS OFF THE TABLE 27. THE PERILS OF BLACK POLITICAL POWER 28. BUSINESS SENSE 29. SOFT DICTACTORSHIP AND THE MISRULE OF LAW 30. THE LATEST BATTLE IN THE WAR AGAINST THE POOR 31. 1967
YEAR OF FIRE, YEAR OF RAGE 32. DEAD SOLDIERS AND DEAD DREAMS 33. PRESIDENT OR PRIEST 34. WHEN WAR CRIMES AIN
T CRIMES 35. NO SAFE AGE 36. KATRINA: A YEAR LATER 37. BEFORE GUANTANAMO, OR ABU GHRAIB, WAS THE BLACK PANTHERS 38.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
39. GM AND THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST WORKERS 40. THE EMPIRE OF FEAR 41. ONGOING WAR AGAINST WORKERS: THE TWU STRIKE 42. THE FORGOTTEN ONES: KATRINA 43. OF PRESIDENTS AND PRINCES 44. WHAT KIDS ARE REALLY LEARNING IN SCHOOL 45. SONS OF MALCOLM 46. VENEZUELA AFTER THE REFERENDUM 47. OTHER MOTHERS, OTHER MOVEMENTS 48. KATRINA
S RAGE 49. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CALLS SYSTEM
BROKEN
50. INHERITING AN IMPERIAL NIGHTMARE 51. THE NEO-LIBERAL WAR AGAINST THE FILIPINO PEOPLE 52. THE DEATH OF PENSIONS? 53. WHITEWASHING WAR CRIMES 54. LYNNE STEWART SPEAKS 55. WHY IT AIN
T ABOUT DEMOCRACY
HAITI 56. VOTING FOR YESTERYEAR: ALABAMA DREAMIN' 57. LECTURES ON HUMAN RIGHTS 58. WHAT KIND OF
DEMOCRACY
IS THIS? 59. VIETNAM RISES AGAIN 60. HOW BUSH MAY LOSE, OR WIN 61.
TRUE AMERICAN VALUES
62. ANOTHER STOLEN DEMOCRACY? 63. AMERICA: INDEPENDENT? 64. ANOTHER REAGAN - ANOTHER AMERICA 65. WHO
WE
ARE 66. IN THE SHADOW OF BROWN 67.
FLAWED INTELLIGENCE?
68. STATE OF DISUNION
AGAIN 69. DEMOCRACY, DICTATORSHIPS & EMPIRE 70.
FOR YOUR OWN GOOD?
71. THE OTHER WAR 72. WHY BEING ANTI-WAR MEANS BEING ANTI-IMPERIALIST 73. 40 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS 74. SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE 75. UNCOUNTED DEAD 76. ANALYSIS OF EMPIRE 77.
LOTTISM-WITHOUT LOTT
78. STILL FIGHTING DOWN ON THE FARM 79. WHO'S 'WILDING' WHO? 80. GOV. RYAN'S SONG 81. THE CUBAN 5 & 'HOMELAND SECURITYDRUG WAR 82. ANOTHER SEPTEMBER 11TH - OTHER MEMORIES 83. WAR ON THE WATERFRONT 84. WHEN NEWS ISN'T NEWS 85. IMPERIAL PIQUE IN DURBAN 86. WHOSE PEACE? 87. THE REAL MEANING OF GENOA 88. THE BIPARTISAN BETRAYAL 89. WHOSE PARTY? WHOSE INTERESTS? 90. MANY TRAILS OF TEARS 91. THE REAL
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
92. MORE THAN POLICE BRUTALITY 93. WHAT DIALLO REALLY MEANS 94. THE DEATH MACHINE 95. THE DAMNING OF DISSENT 96. TEXAS: THE DEATH STATE 97. LIFE AND FREEDOM SHAKA SANKOFA (GARY GRAHAM) 98. MUMIA SALUTES IMF PROTESTERS 99. STATEMENT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 100. ON EDWARD SNOWDEN