Writing on the wall : selected prison writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal /
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Author / Creator: | Abu-Jamal, Mumia. |
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Uniform title: | Works. Selections |
Imprint: | San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2015. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | City Lights Books open media series City Lights Books open media series. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588310 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction by Johanna Fernández; 1. Christmas in a Cage; 2. Court of Law or Hall of Oppression?; 3. Different Sides of the Same System; 4. Long Live John Africa; 5. 900 Years for Surviving; 6. The Mother's Day Massacre; 7. The Power of Truth; 8. Christmas in a Cage II; 9. The Philadelphia Negro Revisited; 10. Birth of a Rebel; 11. Community Service for a Contra Colonel; 12. C'mon In, the Water's Fine; 13. Ronald Reagan Fiddled While the Poor Froze; 14. Blues for Huey; 15. Opposing Anti-Arab Racism; 16. Rodney King.
- 17. Never Again18. Legal Outlaws: Bobby's Battle for Justice September; 19. Gangsters in Blue; 20. Voting for Your Own Repression; 21. Welfare Reform or War on Women?; 22. The State of Pennsylvania Has Every Intention of Killing Me; 23. The Passing of Kunstler: People's Lawyer; 24. Fugitive From Justice, Veronica Jones; 25. When a Child Is Not a Child; 26. More than Police Brutality; 27. The Death Machine; 28. What Amadou Diallo Really Means; 29. The Damning of Dissent; 30. The Life and Freedom of Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham); 31. Texas: The Death State; 32. The Real "Constitutional Crisis."
- 33. Many Trails of Tears34. Message to the World Congress Against the Death Penalty Strasbourg, France; 35. The Real Meaning of Genoa; 36. Land; 37. Imperial Pique in Durban; 38. 9-11 ... Why?; 39. When News Isn't News; 40. War on the Waterfront; 41. The Cuban 5 and "Homeland Security"; 42. Analysis of Empire; 43. Who's "Wilding" Who?; 44. Governor Ryan's Song; 45. Black Farmers, Still Fighting; 46. To Be Young, Gifted and ... Nina Simone; 47. Sons of Malcolm; 48. Soldiers of Misfortune; 49. Black August; 50. Forty Years in the Wilderness; 51. The Ill-Advised Iraq Adventure.
- 52. Democracy, Dictatorships and Empire53. "Flawed Intelligence"; 54. In the Shadow of Brown; 55. Who "We" Are; 56. "True American Values"; 57. Another Ronald Reagan, Another America; 58. America: Independent?; 59. What Would Thomas Paine Think?; 60. Voting for Yesteryear: Alabama Dreamin'; 61. When the Prison Goes International; 62. Lynne Stewart Speaks; 63. Whitewashing White Crimes; 64. Supreme Court Justice Calls System "Broken"; 65. Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin and Jo Ann Robinson; 66. What Kids Are Really Learning in School; 67. The Ongoing War Against Workers: The TWU Strike.
- 68. FBI Surveillance69. GM and the Global War Against Workers; 70. Silence of the Lambs; 71. Before Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib-the Black Panthers; 72. Katrina: One Year Later; 73. No Safe Age; 74. Decolonization: The Influence of Africa and Latin America on the Black Freedom Movement; 75. President or Priest?; 76. 1967: Year of Fire, Year of Rage; 77. The Latest Battle in the War Against the Poor; 78. The Perils of Black Political Power; 79. Beating Back Batson; 80. The Time For Troy Davis Is Now; 81. Welfare for the Rich; 82. Israel; 83. From Frantz Fanon to Africa With Love.