Racism and Self-Determination

Outrage pushes back bigoted Indiana law

From the minute Indiana Gov. Mike Pense passed the bigoted “Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” the law permitting businesses to discriminate…

April 6, 2015

Mass outrage over cops’ near-lynching of Black autoworker in Detroit

Detroit -- Millions of people around the United States have seen the video of the brutal beating and choking of…

April 6, 2015

Ferguson U.S.A.

Transcribed from March 5 audio column posted by prisonradio.org. With breathless news reports, the U.S. Deptartment of Justice’s Pattern and…

April 6, 2015

Why Mumia is a hero to young people

The following is a reprint of an April 16, 2008, commentary from the youth group Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST)…

April 6, 2015

Activists demand no medical execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Frackville, Pa., April 3 — Car caravans carrying over 40 people travelled from Philadelphia and New York City today to…

April 5, 2015

Political prisoner’s health scare ignites mass action

March 31 — At 1 p.m. EDT on March 30, political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal had a medical emergency, and was…

April 3, 2015

Big business media criminalizes victims of police killings

To further illustrate the widespread law-enforcement abuses in Ferguson, Mo., and throughout the United States, Jeffrey Williams, charged with the…

April 2, 2015

Gov’t report reveals extent of police shootings

The ink had barely dried on a U.S. Department of Justice report made public on March 23 citing excessive police…

April 2, 2015

Philly 10 resist cops’ racism & vilification

A police-led panel discussion in Philadelphia’s northeast area on March 19 quickly turned violent as officers brutally attacked and arrested…

April 1, 2015

Mumia Abu Jamal is hospitalized with no visitation or contact

The following is a March 30 press release from the Philadelphia International Action Center, which works with MOVE, the Campaign to…

March 30, 2015