Category Archives: Artists

April 24th / Occupy the Justice Department protests in Washington, DC: Photos and Videos

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

  Click on link below for: Real News coverage including video of both the rally outside the Department of Justice and civil disobedience at the White House.   RT News coverage: Embedded video version: Click on link below for: RT … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: Mumia Abu-Jamal and Danny Glover Speak for First Time Ever on Democracy Now!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Actor and activist Danny Glover speaks to prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal for the first time after supporting him for more than two decades. “I just want to tell you — and I’m really emotional because I didn’t expect to hear your … Continue reading →

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Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012)

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century”, and was … Continue reading →

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From Cell to Screen: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal — Part I

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

By Alex Simon from Huffington Post Mumia Abu-Jamal“Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind’s movie-making machine, evoking distant … Continue reading →

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New Poem For Mumia by Alice Walker

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Occupying Mumia’s Cell Occupying Mumia’s Cell Copyright©2011 by Alice Walker   I Sing of Mumia brilliant and strong and of the captivity that few black men escape if they are as free as he has become.   What a teacher … Continue reading →

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