Mumia, Inc. (Third In A Long-Running Series)

 

Got this from International Concerned Family & Friends…… 

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Mumia’s got a podcast! Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Radio Essays are available as a podcast. 

Subscribe at the website at http://mumiapodcast.libsyn.com/ or on iTunes
and get mp3s of each commentary as it hits the airwaves.  Here Mumia’s analysis, commentary, insight, wisdom and call to action, info the mainstream airwaves will never give you.

also check out:

The Mumia Store – tshirts, cards, gifts and more…
http://www.cafepress.com/mumia .

Free Mumia Abu Jamal:
A blog with the latest information on the case of activist journalist and death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
http://freemumianow.blogspot.com/ .

The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
Questions and comments may be sent to claude@freedomarchives.org

Fifteen Years Later During Sweeps/Black History Month, CNN Discovers Excesses In HipHop :)

 

The usual CNN simplicity. I’m glad that Zahn was open enough, at least, to include voices like Roland Martin, Chuck D, Michael Eric Dyson, Tim Wise, Keith Boykin, Byron Hurt, etc.

I don’t think it’s nitpicking to say that it would have been better if the author-talking-head roster had included some bonifide hiphop feminists.

It also could have included a comment from Paul Porter (although Roland, to his credit, kept trying to go in that direction), but perhaps that would have cut too close to home. (Perhaps folks like Paul have to write books and/or produce documentaries to get in the national-broadcast guest booker “mix.” Sad reality.)

The show’s online if you missed it—AND WANT TO PAY FOR IT. Hmmm…….. CNN’s not exploiting Blaxploitation during Black History Month, is it?  🙂

A Journalistic Truth, Now 40 Years Away From Newark And Detroit

“WORD ON JOURNALISM–Friday, Feb. 16, 2007

On journalistic activism:

I’m an activist, and I’ll tell you why. If every citizen had to go through what we went through as reporters, going out and covering poor people, black people, murders, strikes, all that Dickensian underside of American life, they would become biased toward activism.”
    –John Chancellor, TV newsman, 1996 (1927-1996)

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TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM is a free “service” sent to the 1,500 or so misguided  subscribers around the planet. If you have recovered, send “unsubscribe.” Or if you want to afflict someone else, send me the email address and watch the fun begin. (Disclaimer: I just quote ’em; I don’t necessarily endorse ’em. In theory, all contain at least a kernel of insight.) Responses and rebuttals welcome.

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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff
Utah State University

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” –Tom Stoppard, playwright
 

A New Film, "The Shape Of Water"

From Kalamu.

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“Kum-Kum Bhavnani has made a film about hope and about courage–with women are in the act of creating a more just planet.”
– Susan Sarandon, Academy Award Winner 

“The world is a place fighting for change. Kum-Kum Bhavnani’s ‘The Shape of Water’ reminds us how to hope.”
– Jeff Zimbalist, Director, “Favela Rising”

“There is another globalization at work and that is the globalization of citizens connecting to each other.”
– Vandana Shiva, “The Shape of Water”

Filmed over four years on three continents, THE SHAPE OF WATER (70 minutes, February 2006:) is an inspirational testament to grassroots activism.

SHAPE skilfully interweaves the stories of women such as Khady (Senegal), Oraiza (Brazil), Bilkusben (India), Dona Antonia (Brazil), Gila (Jerusalem) and Vandana Shiva (India) — seeking to end oppressive
social, political, and economic practices in remote corners of the world.

The women are abandoning female genital mutilation, tapping for rubber to protect the rainforest, protecting the biodiversity of the planet and opposing military occupation. THE SHAPE OF WATER offers a unique view of the realities and visions of the women through their passion to create a more just world.

The film works very well in classes that discuss
globalization and development, women’s issues
and struggles, and the daily life of women in Latin America, Africa, Asia and in the Middle East. The film allows the abstract and pervasive issue of globalisation to become comprehensible in human terms, and on a local scale.

Class discussion topics could include the various impacts of globalization (on the rainforest, the wisdom of large dams, biodiversity in agricultural practices) and how and why people are moved to make changes in their lives.

I have also used the film to make links between plastic surgery in the US and FGM in other parts of the world.

Narrated by Susan Sarandon, the documentary has already won several awards — Best Feature Documentary (Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, Brooklyn), Best Director, Documentary (San Francisco Women’s Film Festival),
and World Cinema Award (DC Independent Film Festival) amongst others. It has also screened around the United States and in Trinidad, Rome, Barcelona, Durban, Vancouver, the UK and Ankara.

THE SHAPE OF WATER is now available for individual and institutional purchase from http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/.
If you are interested in knowing more, please do go to the website where you can see a three-minute trailer of the film.

Best wishes,

Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Producer/Director
http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/

Did You Know………..

 Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

…..that “Stokely Speaks” has just been republished?

Got this email from TheBlackList.

I added the sentence about finding the group of the Web because the organization’s website was not yet ready at the time of the email.

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“Stokely Speaks” Is Republished! 

We hope this email finds you in the best of health and spirits.

Permit us a moment of your time to inform you that, on February 1, 2007, Lawrence Hill Publishers, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, officially launched the republication of “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power Back To Pan-Africanism.”

As you are perhaps aware, “Stokely Speaks” was originally published by Random House in 1971. It demonstrates and summarizes, through 15 of Kwame Ture’s speeches, his ideological and organizational history, growth and development from 1965 to 1971. It serves, to some extent, as a history of the People and his generation, and their movements and organizations, especially the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party, two organizations that Kwame worked for and helped build, during those six seminal years. It also serves as a record of some of his contributions and impact.

Mumia Abu-Jamal has written the New Foreword to “Stokely Speaks.” His honesty and integrity, humility and dignity is extremely refreshing and expected. His mind and pen are razor sharp and free, even though his body remains chained behind prison walls. Kwame’s family, co-workers and supporters will be forever grateful to him, and to Pam Afrika who introduced us to him, for making their contribution towards our 35-year effort to republish this classic. Bob Brown has written the Preface to the 2007 Edition.

We launch, through this email, a worldwide campaign to make “Stokely Speaks” required reading in high schools, colleges, workplaces, churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, prisons, discussion/study groups, and meetings in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the World.

We hope that you will write and publish a review, (please forward us a copy), promote “Stokley Speaks” on talk radio and by word-of-mouth, organize discussion/study groups and meetings, books launch parties, etc.

We also hope that you will help us find translators and publishers in Traditional African and other languages.

Surely you will agree, even if you disagree with Kwame, that this is a worthwhile effort!

Permit us also to inform you that the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, which is based in Conakry, Guinea, takes the occasion of the republication of “Stokely Speaks” to launch a two-year and worldwide ideological offensive, recruitment and networking drive and campaign.

The A-APRP (GC) will, with your moral, material and financial help,

(1) Introduce Kwame Ture, and his work, study and struggle, to a new generation of progressive and revolutionary students and youth;

(2) Revitalize existing members and supporters of the A-APRP (GC), and recruit new ones; and

(3) Renew old alliances, and build new ones, with progressive and revolutionary forces, movements, organizations and governments in every
corner of Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World.

TO PARAPHRASE KWAME TURE, WE WILL ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, RECRUIT, RECRUIT, RECRUIT, AND BUILD THE A-APRP(GC), LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!

We hope that you will help us continue and expand Kwame’s and our almost five decades of work, study and struggle, by “any and all means necessary,” and by any and all means that you can.

You can help by inviting Bob Brown, and other A-APRP(GC) organizers, to your country, city, community, campus, workplace, church, mosque, temple, synagogue, prison, discussion/study group, or meeting. The theme of Bob’s  presentation is “From Black Power Back To Pan-Africanism.” Bob will offer information that you have never heard before, and a perspective that you will regret not having heard first hand. He will speak, directly, honestly and militantly, to a new generation of progressive and revolutionary students and youth in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World. He will call them to service and action, and offer them a mass, revolutionary, Pan-African and International  program of work, study and struggle.

Who knows? We might find dozens, perhaps hundreds or thousands, of new Kwame Ture’s among our daughters and sons, grand- daughters and grand sons, poised and ready to make their contribution to, and impact on Africa and the World. All they need is your and our encouragement, enablement, and empowerment!

For more information on how you can:

(1) Make a DONATION towards continuing and expanding Kwame’s and our Work, Study and Struggle,

(2) INVITE A-APRP (GC) Organizers, speakers and cultural artists to your country, city, community, campus, workplace, church, mosque, temple, synagogue, or prison,

(3) Become a MEMBER of the A-APRP (GC),

(4) Become a SUPPORTER of the A-APRP (GC),

(5) Renew or build an ALLIANCE with the A-APRP (GC),

please contact the A-ARP (GC) by finding us on the Web.

Thank you in advance for any and all assistance that you might give!