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“Hunger for War”: Death Row Political Prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal Condemns U.S. War Plans

StorySeptember 27, 2002
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Recorded in prison on Friday, September 20th, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal reads his latest commentary from death row.

Mumia is an award-winning journalist who chronicles the human condition. He has been on death row in Pennsylvania for twenty years. His 1982 murder trial and subsequent conviction has aroused considerable controversy and criticism for alleged constitutional violations and other improprieties In spite of his two decades of imprisonment on death row, Abu-Jamal has fought for his freedom and for his profession. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

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