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

Freedom ?

Hopefully you haven't missed this:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/28/after_40_years_in_solitary_in

Whilst Mwalimu Osagyefo Bangura would like to see Mumia breathing the
free air around Tom Paine,what about humbly beseeching Brother Obama
on behalf of Brother Jonathan Pollard?

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=5&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=16&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=Jonathan+Pollard&es_nrs=true&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Jonathan+Pollard&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43148975,d.bGE&fp=a6674baedcbf35ae&biw=1024&bih=610


On Feb 28, 5:26 am, Abdul Karim Bangura <th...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> And watch Obama leave office without pardoning him!http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/trailers_mumia.html
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> STEPHEN VITTORIA, Writer/Director/ Producer/Editor
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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>  Praise for Stephen Vittoria's MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary
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> "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
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> "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
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> "The film is part biography, part commentary... and part drama. ("Mumia") is a film that provokes and entertains." - Counterpunch
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> "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
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> "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
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> "Juicy, visual…Vittoria does a fine job setting the stage and dissecting racial tensions in Philadelphia." - New York Daily News
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> "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."
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> "! Doesn't seek so much to clear the controversial figure's name as to showcase his...
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