Mumia Abu-Jamal: "The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth"

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DemocracyNow.org - In a rare live interview, Mumia Abu-Jamal calls into Democracy Now! as the new film, "Long Distance Revolutionary," about his life premieres in New York City this weekend. After 29 years on death row, he is now being held in general population at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution -- Mahanoy. "How free are we today, for those who claim to be non-prisoners? Your computers are being read by others in government. Your letters and phone calls are being intercepted," says Mumia Abu-Jamal. "We live now in a national security state, where the United States is fast becoming one of the biggest open-air prisons on Earth. We can speak about freedom, and the United States has a long and distinguished history of talking about freedom, but have we sampled freedom? I think the answer should be very clear: We have not." In 1982, Mumia was sentenced to die for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has always maintained his innocence and is perhaps America's most famous political prisoner. In 2011, an appeals court upheld his conviction, but also vacated his death sentence it found jurors were given confusing instructions.
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@patriciadowney7884 8 лет назад

Mumia--may the forces of positive winds of freedom reach you. I remember a very sad time in my life, walking through City Hall in Philadelphia going to a non-job and humming Marble Halls while you were on trial back then. I still had the sadly romantic notion that my song would reach the hearts of those who wrongly accused you. I am a woman from Ireland and I feel that you did not get a fair trial. I hummed Marble Halls to give you spirit but I don't think you needed that. You had enough strength to get through it on your own. I hope that very soon you will get the justice you deserve.

@bealtainecottage 11 лет назад

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a strong, articulate man with immense integrity. I look forward to seeing this film. More power to Mumia!

@jdmitr209 10 лет назад

I look up too you mumia abu jamal fighting for your rights!

@MrRizla1 9 лет назад

freedom for this man.

@bobnagel6449 8 лет назад

He should get out, but only in a pine box.

@jahguide1122 5 лет назад

@@bobnagel6449 fuck you

@miaa7097 5 лет назад

@@bobnagel6449 you are bitter man. He didnt do it. He didn't get fair trail.

@bobnagel6449 5 лет назад

@@miaa7097 Mumia got a better deal than Officer Faulkner.

@jaym.9275 3 года назад

@@miaa7097 he did it

@rodk691 10 лет назад

FACT: Per capita, the U.S. has the largest prison population.

@googoogaga4812 10 лет назад

per capita and in fact, The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes - from writing bad checks to using drugs - that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations. Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences. The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London. China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. (That number excludes hundreds of thousands of people held in administrative detention, most of them in China's extrajudicial system of re-education through labor, which often singles out political activists who have not committed crimes.) San Marino, with a population of about 30,000, is at the end of the long list of 218 countries compiled by the center. It has a single prisoner. The United States comes in first, too, on a more meaningful list from the prison studies center, the one ranked in order of the incarceration rates. It has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. (If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up.) The only other major industrialized nation that even comes close is Russia, with 627 prisoners for every 100,000 people. The others have much lower rates. England's rate is 151; Germany's is 88; and Japan's is 63. The median among all nations is about 125, roughly a sixth of the American rate.

@daftwod 3 года назад

He killed a man.

@aliceinwonder8978 Год назад

@@daftwod he was attacked by corrupt police who were targeting black activists

@daftwod Год назад

@@aliceinwonder8978 Good.

@NoBody-gx2yk 5 месяцев назад

I hear you brother. Loud and clear 💜

@veeseee128 9 лет назад

With this voice I was expecting to hear WELCOME TO THE QUIET STORM IM YOUR HOST MUMIA SMOOTH GROOVES JAMAL.

@pathofmodernwarrior8470 5 лет назад

Your comments have been read you will be remembered

@giniolamy 9 лет назад

Free my brother Mumia Abu Jamal

@mariahrocks22 11 лет назад

Wow what they did to him was cruel, unjust, and just sick ! Falsely accusing a man of killing a police officer, that's horrible. He is going to spend the rest of his life in jail, but thank goodness he didnt let his confinement stop him from speaking. Free Mumia !

@TuPaLShAkHaN 11 лет назад

God Bless this man he's suffered a lot for defending himself at a time when racism and corruption was strife in police force in the 80s

@yankeerojas9725 10 лет назад

sounds like a cool laid back type of guy.

@crackinthesky 10 лет назад

In a CAGE FOR LIFE, awesome

@originalman4494 5 лет назад

Long live Mumia

@liveryt3506 10 лет назад

FREE THIS BROTHER!

@corvettekid1969 10 лет назад

No, FRY this brother. He's a cop-killing piece of garbage.

@liveryt3506 10 лет назад

I love how ppl grow nuts because they are on the internet. Funny shit to me. Free all political prisoners Uhuru! Keep talking shit on RU-vid, coward asses

@StinkMonkee 10 лет назад

WHY??

@ISMEY 9 лет назад

liveryt Yeah I have nuts when I had to tell my family i no longer believe in god.

@liveryt3506 9 лет назад

ISMEY That was a big step towards your liberation. Hope you also told them the reason behind the God concept, or at least tried to.

@mrsrectalbane 11 лет назад

As long as one man is in prison we are all imprisoned. Peace and blessings to Mumi and all our wonderful brothers and sisters behind bars. I myself am a person who has been labeled as a"felon" for most of my life for a non violent crime of association. This man is a hero to me and to the entire American population struck with injustice

@Tel934 4 года назад

This man should not still be in prison. Free Mumia!

@supreme9362 4 года назад

LIBERTAD PARA MUMIA ABU-JAMAL✊🏼✊🏿✊🏼✊🏿🇵🇷

@foleyboy9467 10 лет назад

FREE DIS MAN NOW

@orrin2002 11 лет назад

If life was that simple... a fair trial in the US is rare at the best of times.

@ntg128 11 лет назад

After listening to Mumia, it makes you want to go out and slap every brother in the face and say WAKE UP! Mumia, you are the struggle, keep the faith! Message to lost stupid ass brothers out there, study this mans story! This brings tears to my eyes.

@brianpomeroy9624 9 месяцев назад

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a cold-blooded cop killer who is where he belongs. Shame on you for making this man a hero!

@halejimmy80 11 лет назад

It bothers me that whenever a black person speaks proper english, some say .. "Oh, he's so articulate!" Mr. Jamal is a journalist, of course he is articulate.

@jasetriplett 11 лет назад

please write or video share your experiences. those stories need to be told.

@badazzmaro 8 лет назад

really creepy how he says to the officers wife, that the murder of her husband was only the beginning, and she should join them. women can be pretty fucked up, who knows, maybe she gets wet thinking about him, some kind of fucked up primal turn on, if a guy can kill a woman's man then he is seen as more desirable. it happens, and it's sad.

@oceanisler 8 лет назад

your first statement was accurate, that last bit was absolutely disgusting, she did none of that. He made the statement.

@MrJaccTrippa 11 лет назад

FREE MUMIA

@michaelwhalen2442 3 месяца назад

Hey, Wesley. Did Officer Faulkner say anything just before you shot him?

@muhammad17115 7 месяцев назад

One of you best interviews 🥲✌️

@234BJ1 9 лет назад

informative vid

@malikshabazz1749 3 года назад

Free Mumia! Free Move! Free Kwame Kilpatrick FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS OF WAR!

@davidgassem 10 лет назад

Venceremos...

@fighting3209 5 лет назад

free Mumia

@zacharyromania5284 3 года назад

Free people til we equal.

@TuPaLShAkHaN 11 лет назад

Democracy now is amazing

@blairbushproject 4 года назад

B4 isolate itself it was always outbreaks. They love the continental divide.

@johnpetzold3578 10 лет назад

It's fun how racism comes to the same discussion as liberal vs conservative. Both sides screaming at each other how wrong they are and how a victim they are of the other side. Discrimination is all around. From black to white. Positive discrimination and negative discrimination, but both terrible discrimination.

@koolworldorder44 4 года назад

John Petzold only one side has held the power to affect ppls lives based on their fear/hatred. Everything that happens afterwards is a result of white supremacy. If u end that, there wouldn’t be much tension at all

@pathofmodernwarrior8470 5 лет назад

While this man is intellectual and what he says is true about politics no one will ever truly know what took place the night he committed a crime. what I can offer is this deep down as humans we know killing for any reason is wrong but we still do it. we all do blacks white americans non americans christians muslims, rich people poor people governments it is the order of human life. we focus political parties and color and region but we forget we are all trying to do the same things Eat provide shelter educate our children find some happiness and then we die when we all understand that we are all trying to do the same things no matter what we believe then we can change this is a simplistic answer but thats the beauty in peace and why it is so hard to accomplish It is such a simple thing to not hurt each other but the complexity of the blessing we have received which is the human mind is what makes this difficult. All that is happening around the world is we are finding new ways to establish survival of the fittest. So please do what you can to be happy please help[ another human need understand that the power to change the world doesnt have to come from some revolution people keep speaking this but dont understand all revolutions in history have required blood shed. This is unnecessary the same person who says we are oppressed and blames the government will see a homeless man on the street and not even give them change. Everyone wants this uprising but the uprising is with in you to find peace in this world while you are here no matter the circumstance always do the right thing Its ironic the one thing we all have in common which is death we fear it so much that we dont even realize it makes us all equal no one can live forever

@kennethjackson924 10 лет назад

Someday... Someday soon.

@kennethjackson924 10 лет назад

I'd rather take a flight.

@melbedewy 3 года назад

Wise words from the 2024 running mate of Kamu Harris.

@dreadfulspiller8766 3 года назад

So everyone in prison is innocent?

@dipsetniggah 11 лет назад

you think you're so bold for saying that word which you love to say so much.

@TheEvilWarlordZarcotimas 11 лет назад

free yourself

@jahvyoncasley-el6776 Год назад

JC 215 🇺🇸 I feel 🤔 he should be trail in Philadelphia not 🚫 in a different state because it happened in Philadelphia Pennsylvania I feel 🤔 they have different law ⚖️✌️I feel 🤔 they are cheating because they in a different state

@RachelDerGolem 11 лет назад

FRY MUMIA!!!!

@RachelDerGolem 11 лет назад

Mr. Jamal could move to any country he wanted, except that little, "I murdered a cop" problem.

@MagicKirin 11 лет назад

Why do so many glorify a man who was convicted in a fair trial of murdering a police officer? How many of you even care about the man he murdered?

@TMH43252 11 лет назад

Your life must be sad to the point where you had to take time out your day to look for a video which is clearly going to have a predominately black audience and make a negative comment. Its o.k. cause we know what your scared of "The feeling of feeling emotions inferior".

@TheEvilWarlordZarcotimas 11 лет назад

You're a macho man. You only want to free Mumia because it's a bandwagon you want to be seen riding. Flex your muscles more.

@MagicKirin 11 лет назад

I hav eresearch he had a fair trial read the wifes book than come back

@queen-fc8qk 6 лет назад

watt's up to the og Willie nation dpdgc silky way city owww trust nobody

@donmoss2299 Год назад

The cover up

@robertrichard6107 4 года назад

Zinntastic

@Beast1588 11 лет назад

@badazzmaro 8 лет назад

oh I guess this guy is just such a great guy and perfect representative for democracy.

@JamesBrown-mw8ym 2 года назад

And I guess trump is a great representative for democracy. Perhaps he is lying, stealing, being weak and feckless

@octoberdays2434 9 лет назад

Oooo. this person shot another person in the back ,then shot the same person in the forehead . Ooooo ..

@gorgghalkhani2835 10 лет назад

Take a look at its racial demographics and you can understand why. The ones who claim to be victims work real hard to nurture the hate thats directed at them.

@RachelDerGolem 11 лет назад

RIP, DANIEL FAULKNER, 1955-1981

@simonerenee.6113 4 года назад

Got his ass turned to a pack

@MagicKirin 11 лет назад

A fair trial happens most of the time. Abu Jamal; deserved to ber executed. I wish it would be brodcast live

@jordanjeezy3712 8 лет назад

shouT out to these fake stories! 3122//2231!

@frankburns8871 10 лет назад

Wow, he can actually speak like a human being, and his IQ might even be in the triple digits (barely). Therefore, he's a "political prisoner." Piece of shit is just lucky they commuted his death sentence.

@daftwod 3 года назад

And this is why witches were burned.

@johnnyjr6292 8 лет назад

Let's remember the slain police officer and his family.

@johnnyjr6292 8 лет назад

With all due respect, I believe that it's already been done.

@johnnyjr6292 8 лет назад

😃😃😃😂😒

@leecaine1149 6 лет назад

Prince Jaren fuck 12

@raginwaterz2948 11 лет назад

@juanjeremy2012 10 лет назад

if you walk down the street, you dont need to worry about mumia doing anything to you. you DO need to wiorry about violent cops

@JamesBrown-mw8ym 2 года назад

So true!

@patrickmugambi1176 6 лет назад

FREE MUMIA

@epmcgill8301 6 лет назад

We're decades past guilt or innocence concerning Mumia. What matters most is there is, was and will always be doubt in this matter. As such, per the law, he should've been acquitted. And as such he should be released.

@jamalbethea1965 6 лет назад

there's gonna come a time when we will stop talkin

@lifeofbyrd 10 лет назад

mumia innocent i say free him

@queniliboutell8864 6 лет назад

NO way

@MrTiagoTnT 4 года назад

Says who?

@jordanmosley7077 9 лет назад

The racist trolls on this video is real.

@MrTiagoTnT 4 года назад

The asskissers for murderers as well.

@lifeofbyrd 10 лет назад

free mumia NOW

@MrRickywallace 10 лет назад

Burn him!

@BRAINSBEAUTY206 10 лет назад

Richard Wallace Well, you are definitely not a *BRAVEHEART*..lol

@jahguide1122 5 лет назад

@@MrRickywallace fuck off

@kentamitchell 4 года назад

He has now done 38 years and he'll get out...with a tag on his toe!

@jimihendrixx11 10 лет назад

REAL REVOLUTIONARY!!! ALL POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE!!!

@DC-sz6tk 9 лет назад

Powerful brother...sad to say he`s never coming home. To much of a threat to the powers that be. Free the mind!

@DC-sz6tk 9 лет назад

One less racist cop on the streets!

@Kostly 8 лет назад

+Stock Market Guru Your name says it all. A person that cares only for his own welfare while neglecting your own, absent humanity for your fellow human being. It's YOU who is the piece of shit.

@DrunkBastard 8 лет назад

+stephen k You are saying he has no humanity, while defending a racist murderer.

@yusufabdullah5008 8 лет назад

+Drunk Bastard He didn't murder anyone bitch

@istishhadi 11 лет назад

Everytime I listen to this man speaking from prison, I feel like I am in prison with him. What has happened to Mumia is unjust and against humanity and nothing in this world/life will take away the years and the struggles he's been faced with for over 30 years. Long live the FREE SOUL!

@jeremiahwoods8200 2 года назад

Well said Free 👑Mumia now sometimes I wish they would just break him out like they did 👑 Assatta Shakur

@thierrydavid1651 8 лет назад

Muia Abu Jamal est innocent... Mumia Abu Jamal is innocent...

@gmx1100 6 лет назад

He's guilty.

@jahguide1122 5 лет назад

@@gmx1100 fuck you

@MrTiagoTnT 4 года назад

Says who?

@MrTiagoTnT 4 года назад

@@jahguide1122 Fuck you too dipshit! He should fucking fry!

@brblack0 11 лет назад

Another amazing interview! Thanks Amy. Mumia Abu-Jamal is right. We need to rise up and raise hell.

@josephbriggs7067 6 лет назад

Free Mumia

@sandymoon4159 3 года назад

Mumia has served enough time for a crime he did not commit free our brother

@MariaTorres-jw3gz 6 лет назад

Blessings to Mumia.

@KaylaH-m8v 11 часов назад

Go down in history as a nation of good, not a despotic, demonic, destructive power.

@KaylaH-m8v 11 часов назад

He said many truths...

@KaylaH-m8v 11 часов назад

Godspeed

@bealtainecottage 11 лет назад

A great interview...I feel humbled listening to this great man.

@lifeofbyrd 11 лет назад

you are a strong man mumia.

@DRu9 10 лет назад

Gee it's shocking he was canned as a broadcaster what with this amazingly interesting commentary. Oh my god. Zzzzzzz. Mumia Aburing. What no comment on the help his brother William "I Ain't Got Nothing To Do With It" Cook? Thanks, bro. What better eyewitness than a drunken lout driving the wrong way.

@juanjeremy2012 10 лет назад

damiel faulkner shot himself. mumia tried to stop him, but faulkner was too determined to shoot himself. mumia is a hero who needs to be released

@gorrillat.o.4183 Год назад

This is insane that this man is in jail for life and I almost got the death penalty for something he did not do clearly the bullets didn't match just let you know what type of system we're living in where men are in jail who are innocent hopefully I pray the system gets better and more just because it makes our great country look ignorant in that aspect.

@SoulEmpressions 7 лет назад

you RUN in POETRY but you RULE in PROSE...

@blawom Год назад

He needs to be freed and paid.

@RPSanAnto 11 лет назад

I dont know if he killed an officer or not. I do know however the truth he talks of the industrial prison complex, an broke social system, and receding freedoms here in America. I've seen it and experienced a portion of it.

@kendallsynthetic 11 лет назад

his words are REAL LISTEN TO JAMAL CUZ HE KNOWS ALL!!!!

@allanmcinnes4765 Год назад

Mumia has a physical and spiritual strength...it goes deep, way deep. An inspirational man who refuses to be silenced by our all powerful masters.

@sonnyking1435 Год назад

My God keep you strong my brother. We are all in this together. I would love to join.

@trollgod7565 3 года назад

He’s always crying. Guilty as hell.

@estringer21 11 лет назад

lol no wonder obama was elected.

@josephslotnick4516 5 лет назад

Raise hell? What does that mean??

@mustangdrew 11 лет назад

Why don't they ask him if he killed Daniel Faulkner? Cause he did and should rot in hell!

@MercurialStatic 11 лет назад

Raise Hell.

@mushroomcloud1 10 лет назад

RIP Daniel Faulkner.....I am sorry liberal guilt has prevented justice from being done for your murder. In spite of the fact that court after court has looked at the evidence in your case. The conviction of your killer has been upheld. You gave your life as a sheepdog to protect the people from the animals. You are the hero, not the vermin that murdered you. To the people who defend this killer...I pray you never have to go through what you have put Daniel Faulkner's family through.