Thursday, February 28, 2013

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary

Professor Emeagwali,

I almost regret my intervention here, because you know what, minds are made up about Mumia, that is the lunatic brilliance of that manipulative man. You can read stuff like this. Why Mumia is Guilty and it still doesn't matter because a lunatic fringe in the deep left sees this dude as their poster child. People make mistakes, he made a mistake as a young man, he will not admit it. I would respect him a lot more if he as much as acknowledged that he did something wrong.

A pox on all his houses. I don't really do singletons, my mind is on the thousands of beautiful brown people, children, that are hunted down, shackled and frog-marched into the prison-industrial complex. Our black intellectuals including Obama are too busy being middle class and elite to worry about that. Mumia does not rock my boat.

- Ikhide
 
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From: "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary

'Obama could care less about structural changes to the judicial system that would stop hunting down our children like prey. THAT is what we should be advocating for,
not for the wretched life of a sniveling coward.' Ikhide

Ikhide, Mumia is by no means a coward.  He is one of the most valiant fighters of the post
civil rights era. Have you listened to his speeches?

You are right about the need for structural changes in the judicial system, though..


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
www.vimeo.com<http://www.vimeo.com/>

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ikhide [xokigbo@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:04 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary

It would be a travesty of justice if anyone pardons Mumia or whatever that cowardly thug's name is. He was convicted of killing someone in uniform. He refuses to man up and accept personal responsibility. He games the system blatantly, plays the liberal left like a violin and now we have to watch a movie about him? I am sure he has free wi-fi in prison!

Here, we have African intellectuals crying up a storm about ONE man who is living in the laps of luxury in a pretend-prison for killing a police officer. They will not say a word for the hell-holes that are prisons in Black Africa (Kirikiri, Oko ita, etc). No, that is not sexy enough, let the BBC go to the slums of Makoko to film a living hell, out come their pens wailing racism - at the BBC. You can't win.

Who cares about Mumia when the prisons of America are warehouses for brown people? Thanks to clinton era discriminatory drug sentencing brown children have filled hell-holes like Angola prison, no one does anything about that. Obama could care less about structural changes to the judicial system that would stop hunting down our children like prey. THAT is what we should be advocating for, not  for the wretched life of a sniveling coward.

- Ikhide

- Ikhide

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From: Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net>
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; Funmi Tofowomo Okelola <cafeafricana1@aol.com>
Cc: leonenet <leonenet@lists.umbc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary

And watch Obama leave office without pardoning him!

http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/trailers_mumia.html



Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison and despite attempts to silence him, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, educate, provoke and inspire.
Stephen Vittoria's new feature documentary is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America's most famous political prisoner - a man whose existence tests our beliefs about freedom of expression. Through prison interviews, archival footage, and dramatic readings, and aided by a potent chorus of voices including Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman and others, this riveting film explores Mumia's life before, during and after Death Row - revealing, in the words of Angela Davis, "the most eloquent and most powerful opponent of the death penalty in the world...the 21st Century Frederick Douglass."
STEPHEN VITTORIA, Writer/Director/ Producer/Editor
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary is Stephen Vittoria's current documentary and it opens in theatres this fall. His last film, One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern won top honors at the Sarasota Film Festival as "Best Documentary Feature" and was released nationwide by First Run Features. In 1987, Vittoria wrote, directed, and edited his first film, the dramatic feature Black & White, starring Kim Delgado and Frank Vincent – a story about racism set against the backdrop of post-World War II America. In 1995, Vittoria produced, wrote, and directed Hollywood Boulevard, starring John C. McGinley, Jon Tenney, and Julianne Phillips – a dark and satirical look at the motion picture business.
In 1998, Vittoria wrote, directed, and edited the six-hour health documentary Save Your Life – The Life and Holistic Times of Dr. Richard Schulze, and then in 2005 he wrote, directed, and edited the television documentary Keeper of the Flame with journalist Linda Ellerbee and actor Wilford Brimley – a film that deals with the current ecological crisis facing American forests.
Recently, Vittoria was a producer on two feature documentaries by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney:Gonzo: The Life & Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Magic Trip. Vittoria is the founder and creative director of two Southern California production companies – Street Legal Cinema and Deep Image. One day, Steve hopes to play centerfield for the New York Yankees.  He lives in Los Angeles (under protest).

Praise for Stephen Vittoria's MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary
"Coverage of public discourse in the United States often makes it seem as if the only ideologies still in the game were the far right and the moderate everybody else. But "Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary" is proof that there are still outspoken champions of views too radicalized to qualify as left-wing: people distrustful of law enforcement, the political system, the justice system, the news media and the very notion that America is at heart the land of the free. Getting a concentrated dose of activists like Angela Davis and Dick Gregory, academics like Cornel West and Michelle Alexander, and the many other talking heads in this film is certainly a bracing change from the usual back-and-forth of the evening news." - Neil, Genzlinger, The New York Times
"Tracing the path of a brilliant journalist whose message cannot be silenced...this passionate advocacy docu should spark debate. Part of Abu-Jamal's persuasive power flows from the specificity of his analysis of black history and his ability to see the struggle for freedom in larger, nonexclusive terms. Vittoria closely follows the government's desperate efforts to silence Abu-Jamal...[and] triumphantly heralds his return to the political scene as a rallying cry for an alternate political discourse joyously shared by the film's community of interviewees." -Ronnie Scheib, Variety
"The film is part biography, part commentary... and part drama. ("Mumia") is a film that provokes and entertains." - Counterpunch
"Passionate, partisan, and persuasive!  A compelling documentary about a riveting historical figure, with a who's who of storytellers woven by Vittoria into coherent narrative, with each one playing a brilliantly cast role: their own. It retells a history that is almost unbelievable if one did not experience it firsthand." -Eric Mann, War Resister's League
"Puts a human face on its subject, for so long now just an anti-capital-punishment icon… also makes the case, COINTELPRO and beyond, that power is hardly to be trusted in America." - Michael Atkinson, Time Out NY
"Juicy, visual…Vittoria does a fine job setting the stage and dissecting racial tensions in Philadelphia." - New York Daily News
<http://criterioncast.com/reviews/joshua-reviews-long-distance-revolutionary/>"Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary is one of the early part of this year's crowning gems... And it's as great a film as we've seen now a month into 2013."
-Joshua Brunsting, Criterion Cast
"! Doesn't seek so much to clear the controversial figure's name as to showcase his intellect and longstanding defiance of 'The Establishment'." - Kam Williams, Philadelphia Sunday
"Vittoria constructs a powerful narrative of Abu-Jamal's life and career as a journalist and social critic." - Jay Cassano, Inter Press Service
"Uncompromising, disturbing…Abu-Jamal's voice has the clarity and candor of a man whose impending death emboldens him to say what is on his mind without fear of consequence." - The Boston Globe
"Vittoria tells of an exceptional black Philly kid growing up in the days when police chief Frank Rizzo was attempting to beat the civil rights movement back with 1,000 nightsticks. (The film) sets Mumia the statue aglow." -The Village Voice
"Did Abu-Jamal really kill the officer, or was he railroaded because of his activism and ties to the Black Panthers?  'Mumia' raises issues of racism in America (flashback to George Wallace) that are worthy of discussion." -V.A. Musetto, New York Post
"Tells the story of a man who expresses deep compassion and public-mindedness, despite existing in Hellish conditions." -Yolande Brener, Harlem World
"Fascinating and persuasive. Vittoria creates a context that suggests how easily innocents could be railroaded.  The result is not unlike Oliver Stone's rewrite of U.S. history."
- John Hartl, Seattle Times
"Study of the civil rights era tends to end with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  'Mumia' is fascinating because it covers the overlooked time period -- the late sixties through the seventies -- by examining race relations within the northern city of Philadelphia, a place not popularly associated with racial injustice." - Alicia Fox, Student Handouts
"Mumia" is a vital documentary." - Wolf Entertainment Guide
"Vittoria creates a tantalizing tension... (Mumia) has a prophet's insight into our nation's racial and judicial ills... he's clearly a singular intellect and writer." - Seattle Weekly


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