Mumia's message on immigration

"The immigration discussion masks deeper currents in american life, of those who dread the approaching dawn when those who number the nation majority are brown instead of white.

"As the government and the servile corporate media horned fear to trap the nation into the Iraq war, so now fear is once again merchandised for political gain. The perpetual fear of the foreign other, the fear of Spanish speaking people, who are called criminals for daring to cross the Rio Grande to inhabit the land stolen from their ancestors..."

Audio:

Radio essay 2:57 (mp3)
Radio essay 3:35 (mp3)

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been in prison since 1981 and on death row since 1983 for allegedly shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He is known as the "Voice of the Voiceless" for his award- winning reporting on police brutality and other social and racial epidemics that plague communities of color in Philadelphia and throughout the world. Mumia has received international support over the years in his efforts to overturn his unjust conviction.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was serving as the President of the Association of Black Journalists at the time of his arrest. He was a founding member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Panther Party as a teenager. Years later he began reporting professionally on radio stations such as NPR, and was the news director of Philadelphia station WHAT. Much of his journalism called attention to the blatant injustice and brutality he watched happen on a daily basis to MOVE, a revolutionary organization that works to protect all forms of life--human, animal, plant--and the Earth as a whole.

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