A deeply compassionate feeling and understanding of his fellow and sister internees. Not just a rant against his own incarceration but a psychic approximation of internment in the reader. And it is only after trying in a rational, linear way to read the book and bursting out or breaking down after 2 or 3 chapters that I began to understand just what Mumia had wrought here.

Each one a new, yet old and always somehow familiar abuse.

It is a tool, it can be perused, a chapter read in several minutes. Live from Death Row is a blinding, numbing series of repetitive abuses, presented in a language so accessible that this book should be found in every anti-racist household. supporter, and revolutionary, sentencing him to be killed by the state. Needless to say, a kangaroo court convicted this ex-Black Panther, M.O.V.E. Sabo was so blatant that the district attorney had to recommend restraint. His trial judge, Sabo, is Pennsylvania's hanging judge, specializing in People of Color. Mumia himself was shot in the stomach and the cop died after being shot under murky circumstances. The cop was beating his brother on the curb. Mumia Abu-Jamal, past president of the Philadelphia Black Journalists Association, was framed for the death of a white cop whom he came upon one night.

Concentration camps in an archipelago of gulags, a disproportionate number of whose prisoners are Afrikan-Americans, Latino/as, and other working class People of Color. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Voice of the Voiceless, is one of over a million internees in such camps, in Mumia's case, a death camp. Live from Death Row is a finely honed weapon which keeps Mumia alive in the depths of the concentration camp known as Huntingdon Gulag. His spoken commentaries on National Public Radio would have been awesome. Causing the visceral reaction of this reader is, it would seem, a core aspect of Mumia Abu-Jamal's arsenal of rhetoric. My eyes fill with tears of fury and rage and my stomach twists in a knot of recognition, though the comparison of my own overnight stays in jail may seem impertinent. Graterford, Marion, Pelican Bay, Camp Hell-Hellholes all. Paper, $20 + $3 shipping from Equal Justice, USA, P.O. Reviewed by Johann Moore, Grassroot Queers, New York City Greens S/R 10: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live from Death Row (review) Synthesis/Regeneration 10 (Spring 1996)

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